New Books in East Asian Studies
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1026
Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz, "Asian Place, Filipin...
Aboitiz reconnects the Philippine Revolution to the histories of Southeast and East Asia through an innovative consideration of its transnational political setting and regional intellectual foundations....
57 min
1027
Rana Mitter, "China's Good War: How World War I...
Mitter traces this transformation in the Chinese interpretations of the war from one marked by humiliation to one that celebrates victory...
59 min
1028
Vince Cable, "China: Engage!--Avoid The New Col...
Anyone doing business with China will have been shocked by the speed with which political and economic relations with Western, and some other, countries...
59 min
1029
Eyck Freymann, "One Belt One Road: Chinese Powe...
Freymann explores the nature, function, and purposes of OBOR...
61 min
1030
Covell F. Meyskens, "Mao's Third Front: The Mil...
The Third Front received more government investment than any other developmental initiative of the Mao era, and yet this huge industrial war machine, which saw the mobilization of fifteen million people, was not officially acknowledged for over a decade and a half...
87 min
1031
Paul Jankowski, "All Against All: The Long Wint...
Jankowski provides a wide-angled account of a critical period of world history, the interwar years, in which the world transitioned from postwar to the prewar and saw the disintegration of collective security and international institutions created after the First World War....
47 min
1032
Xiaowei Wang, "Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Oth...
Wang explores how rural China is not just adapting the technology used around the world, but innovating on it...
34 min
1033
Elizabeth Son, "Embodied Reckonings: 'Comfort W...
In a bustling city-center of Seoul, women in yellow vests protesting over the “final” resettlement between the Japanese and Korean governments every Wednesday is an iconic sight, testifying to the strength and resilience of the “comfort women” movement...
42 min
1034
Sebastian Strangio, "In the Dragon's Shadow: So...
Strangio carefully dissects the People’s Republic of China’s complicated relationships with its southern neighbors....
108 min
1035
David Tobin, "Securing China's Northwest Fronti...
Tobin makes a vital contribution to our understanding of the PRC state-building and narrative-creation efforts which justify projects like the region’s vast network of detention camps....
60 min
1036
David Chai, "Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothi...
Chai offers a radical rereading of the Daoist classic Zhuangzi by bringing to light the role of nothingness in grounding the cosmological and metaphysical aspects of its thought...
71 min
1037
Aubrey Menard, "Young Mongols: Forging Democrac...
Mongolia is sometimes seen as one of the few examples of a successful youth-led revolution, where a 1990 movement forced the Soviet-appointed Politburo to resign....
40 min
1038
Michael C. Davis, "Making Hong Kong China: The ...
It is difficult to understand the pace or extent of the changes in Hong Kong since the protests began in June 2019...
81 min
1039
Charlotte Eubanks, "The Art of Persistence: Aka...
Eubanks examines the relations between art and politics in transwar Japan, exploring these via a microhistory of the artist, memoirist, and activist Akamatsu Toshiko (also known as Maruki Toshi, 1912–2000)....
83 min
1040
Southeast Asian Performance, Ethnic Identity an...
From glove puppets of Chinese origin and Hakka religious processions, to wartime political theatre and contemporary choirs and dance groups, the diverse performance practices of ethnic Chinese communities throughout Southeast Asia highlight the complexity of minority self-representation...
25 min
1041
Amy Stanley, "Stranger in the Shogun's City: A ...
Stanley Tsuneno’s life, from growing up in a rural community through her escape to the city of Edo, where she lives in the final decades of the Tokugawa Shogunate....
38 min
1042
Anne Gerritsen, "The City of Blue and White: Ch...
We think of blue and white porcelain as the ultimate global commodity: throughout East and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean including the African coasts, the Americas and Europe, consumers desired Chinese porcelains.,,.
65 min
1043
Stephen H. Whiteman, "Where Dragon Veins Meet: ...
In 1702, the second emperor of the Qing dynasty ordered construction of a new summer palace in Rehe (now Chengde, Hebei) to support his annual tours north among the court’s Inner Mongolian allies....
82 min
1044
Tobias Harris, "The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and ...
Readers will witness Abe’s gradual rise through the ranks of the Liberal Democratic Party and his complex relationships with leading figures in both Japanese and US political circles...
69 min
1045
Sujung Kim, "Shinra Myojin and Buddhist Network...
Kim offers a fascinating study of the transcultural underpinnings of Medieval East Asian Buddhist traditions with an emphasis on Shinra Myōjin, a deity integral to the institutional development of the Medieval Japanese Tendai faction, the Jimon...
81 min
1046
Suma Ikeuchi, "Jesus Loves Japan: Return Migrat...
In 1990, the Japanese government introduced the Nikkei-jin (Japanese descendant) visa and since then it has attracted more than 190,000 Nikkei Brazilian nationals to Japan...
76 min
1047
Thomas S. Mullaney, "The Chinese Deathscape: Gr...
"The Chinese Deathscape" is published as part of Stanford University Press’ digital project series which aims to confer the same level of academic credibility on digital projects as academic print books receive...
65 min
1048
Minjeong Kim, "Elusive Belonging: Marriage Immi...
Through in-depth interviews with thirty-five Filipinas, twenty-five Korean husbands, and eight Korean community members, Kim explores emotional citizenship created between couples, in-law families, as well as the transnational network of Filipina migrants...
55 min
1049
Li Zhang, "Anxious China: Inner Revolution and ...
Zhang offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how an unfolding “inner revolution” is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, sociality, and the mode of governing in post-socialist times...
73 min
1050
Frank Jacob, "Japanese War Crimes during World ...
When you mention Japanese War crimes in World War Two, you’ll often get different responses from different generations...
62 min