New Books in East Asian Studies
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Christopher Lupke (trans.), "A History of Taiwa...
Ye Shitao was a Taiwanese public intellectual who rose to prominence in the second half of the twentieth century....
88 min
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Alan Chong, "Critical Reflections on China’s Be...
The book is about much more than the material aspects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative....
53 min
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C. Chan and F. de Londras, "China’s National Se...
Cora Chan and Fiona de Londras bring together a host of internationally renowned authors who question whether a national security law will challenge Hong Kong’s rule of law, and the liberal ideals safeguarded in its legal system...
69 min
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John W. Traphagan, "Cosmopolitan Rurality, Depo...
Traphagan presents a series of deeply contextualized ethnographies of small-business entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial ecosystem of contemporary rural Japan...
102 min
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Chris Fenton, "Feeding the Dragon: Inside the T...
For seventeen years, Chris Fenton served as the president of DMG Entertainment Motion Picture Group, a multi-billion-dollar global media company headquartered in Beijing...
47 min
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Takeshi Morisato, "Faith and Reason in Continen...
Considering the examples of Christianity and Buddhism, Morisato focuses on finding the solution to the problem of philosophy of religion through comparative examinations of Tanabe’s metanoetics and Desmond’s metaxology...
50 min
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Sam van Schaik, "Buddhist Magic: Divination, He...
As far back as we can see in the historical record, Buddhist monks and nuns have offered services including healing, divination, rain making, aggressive magic, and love magic to local clients..,,
45 min
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Karl Gerth, "Unending Capitalism: How Consumeri...
Gerth details how the state created brands, promoted and advertised particular products, set up department stores, and facilitated the promotion of certain luxury consumer products in the Mao era....
80 min
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Lorenz M. Lüthi, "Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle E...
What was the Cold War that shook world politics for the second half of the twentieth century?
85 min
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Joshua Esler, "Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chine...
Esler sheds light on this recent development in Sino-Tibetan Buddhism that is gaining increasing momentum in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan...
59 min
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Brian R. Dott, "The Chile Pepper in China: A Cu...
Chinese culture and the chile pepper have been intertwined for centuries. Yet, this was not always the case...
78 min
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James Carter, "Champions Day: The End of Old Sh...
Shanghai’s status as a bustling, international place both now and in the past hardly needs much introduction, although the centrality of horse racing to the earlier incarnation of the city’s cosmopolitanism is less known...
61 min
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Brian Eyler, "Last Days of the Mighty Mekong" (...
Eyler documents the huge disruption, both to the Mekong’s ecosystem and to the lives of the people who depend on it, caused by rampant dam construction, tourism development, pollution, not to mention climate change...
50 min
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Zuraidah Ibrahim, "Rebel City: Hong Kong's Year...
In June of 2019, a proposed amendment to Hong Kong’s Fugitive Offenders Ordinance, sparked widespread protests across the region...
42 min
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Ann-elise Lewallen, "The Fabric of Indigeneity:...
Combining ethnographic fieldwork in contemporary Ainu communities and organizations with museum and archival research, Dr. Lewallen shows how Ainu women engage in the “self-craft” of identities and cultural viability through clothwork...
72 min
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Sean Roberts, "The War on the Uyghurs: China’s ...
Who are the Uyghurs? Sean Roberts explains...
65 min
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Steven Heine, "Readings of Dōgen's 'Treasury of...
Heine gives us a comprehensive introduction to this essential Zen text, offering a textual, historical, literary, and philosophical examination of Dōgen’s treatise...
53 min
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Sören Urbansky, "Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A ...
The fact that the vast border between China and Russia is often overlooked goes hand-in-hand with a lack of understanding of the ordinary citizens in these much-discussed places, who often lose out to larger-than-life figures like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping...
73 min