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Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-Conformist Volume 99: The Films of Suzuki Seijun by Peter A. Yacavone
RRP: $47.67Booksplease Price: $45.07In the late 1950s, Suzuki Seijun was an unknown, anxious low-ranking film director churning out so-called program pictures for Japan's most successful movie studio, Nikkatsu. In the early 1960s, he met with modest success in directing popular movies... -
A Sociology of Hikikomori: Experiences of Isolation, Family-Dependency, and Social Policy in Contemporary Japan by Teppei Sekimizu 9781666900941
Booksplease Price: $111.49Hikikomori, which literally means "withdrawal," is considered an increasingly prevalent form of social isolation in Japanese society. This issue has been attracting worldwide attention for two decades and is now recognized as a problem for the youth as... -
Chinese Theories of Literary Creation: A Historical and Critical Introduction by Zong-qi Cai 9781478026990
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.43This supplement to volume 20 of Prism is the first installment of a four-part project, with roughly concurrent publication in Chinese and English. The works in this project, which include Chinese monographs by Prism's editor Zong-qi Cai, cover Chinese... -
The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court by Yael Rice
RRP: $90.30Booksplease Price: $76.76Sheds light on the art and artists that gave material form to Mughal imperial visionOver the course of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Mughal court painters evolved from illustrators of manuscripts and albums to active mediators of... -
Being Korean, Becoming Japanese?: Nationhood, Citizenship, and Resistance in Japan Hwaji Shin 9780824898427
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53In Japan the number of "Special Permanent Residents"-most of whom are of Korean descent, the so-called "Zainichi"-is declining according to government statistics. Does this mean Koreans living in Japan are becoming Japanese? This volume presents a... -
Pure and True: The Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China's Hui Muslims by David R. Stroup 9780295749839
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.29What are the boundaries of Hui identity?The Chinese Communist Party points to the Hui-China's largest Muslim ethnic group-as a model ethnic minority and touts its harmonious relations with the group as an example of the Party's great success in ethnic... -
Peoples Of The Greater Mekong: The Ethnic Minorities by Jim Goodman
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.69This book tells the story of the Mekong River, from its source in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to its delta in southern Vietnam, and the geographical changes in its environment on its journey to the sea. It mainly focuses on the many ethnic minorities... -
Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China by Travis S. K. Kong 9781478019862
Booksplease Price: $33.49In Sexuality and the Rise of China Travis S. K. Kong examines the changing meanings of same-sex identities, communities, and cultures for young Chinese gay men in contemporary Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China. Drawing on ninety life stories, Kong's... -
Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable by Iftikhar Dadi
RRP: $45.09Booksplease Price: $42.43A pioneering analysis of exemplary feature filmsCommercial cinema has been among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization in South Asia. So argues Iftikhar Dadi in his provocative examination of cinema produced between 1956 and... -
Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Ran Zwigenberg 9780226826769
Booksplease Price: $36.83How researchers understood the atomic bomb's effects on the human psyche before the recognition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In 1945, researchers on a mission to Hiroshima with the United States Strategic Bombing Survey canvassed survivors of the... -
Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity: Chinese Women in Literature, Art, and Film by Cheryl C. D. Hughes 9781438492155
Booksplease Price: $89.80Examines literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of Chinese women, across centuries and continents.Crossing Borders and Confounding Identity advances our understanding of the diversity of Chinese women's experiences and achievements, from the Han... -
A Volatile Picture: War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka by Vindhya Buthpitiya 9780295754444
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Coming Death, The: Traces of Mortality across East Asia by Richard F. Calichman 9781438487298
Booksplease Price: $89.80Explores questions of death and mortality in several key texts of East Asian literature and cinema.The Coming Death explores the question of death and mortality in several key texts of East Asian literature and cinema. By exposing the specific fields of... -
Contemporary Korean Culture from the Edge: Transgression, Innovation, and Intimacy by Jooyeon Rhee 9781666965544
Booksplease Price: $133.45This book is for any reader seeking to understand and engage with contemporary South Korean culture. Inspired by the term “edge”, which in Korean refers to attitudes and ideas that are new, gripping and transgressive, each chapter provides a new... -
Memoirs of Phạm Duy, a Vietnamese Musician in a Turbulent Century: Coming of Age in the North (1921-1945) by Eric Henry 9781501785214
RRP: $149.64Booksplease Price: $118.94Memoirs of Phạm Duy, A Vietnamese Musician in a Turbulent Century tells the story of the triumphs, scandals, and adventures of Vietnam's most prolific songwriter. Born in 1921, Phạm Duy came of age during colonial rule, joined the anti-French resistance,... -
An Intimate Journey: Finding Myself Amongst the Sama-Bajau by Waka Aoyama 9781925608205
RRP: $45.09Booksplease Price: $40.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925608205Author Waka AoyamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific PressPublisher Kyoto University Press and Trans... -
State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan: The Public Man in Crisis by Andrew E. Barshay 9780520337756
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $49.24This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
Education in Tokugawa Japan by R. P. Dore 9780520321618
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $49.24Education in Tokugawa Japan by R. P. Dore offers the first comprehensive English-language account of how a society often remembered for its rigid hierarchy laid the foundations of modern Japan's remarkably high levels of literacy and learning. Drawing on... -
Echoes of Wisdom: Chinese and ASEAN Proverbs Across Cultures by Yue Feng 9781487812973
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $28.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487812973Author Yue FengFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Royal Collins Publishing CompanyPublisher Royal Collins Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Transpacific Nonencounters: Racial Disconnects Across Twentieth-Century Japan and Mexico by Andrea Mendoza 9781478038627
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.24In Transpacific Nonencounters, Andrea Mendoza works across the seemingly unconnected histories of race and nation in modern Mexico and Japan, showing the commonalities in the way race figures in their state and social formations through a method Mendoza... -
Transpacific Nonencounters: Racial Disconnects Across Twentieth-Century Japan and Mexico by Andrea Mendoza 9781478033738
RRP: $107.07Booksplease Price: $86.34In Transpacific Nonencounters, Andrea Mendoza works across the seemingly unconnected histories of race and nation in modern Mexico and Japan, showing the commonalities in the way race figures in their state and social formations through a method Mendoza... -
An Unlikely Trajectory: Literary and Cultural Leftism in Taiwan by Pei-yin Lin 9798855806281
RRP: $130.94Booksplease Price: $123.39Examines various case studies to provide a multifaceted understanding of Taiwan's literary and cultural leftism, emphasizing its transnational, diverse, and highly malleable nature.An Unlikely Trajectory addresses a significant gap by foregrounding the... -
Being Korean, Becoming Japanese?: Nationhood, Citizenship, and Resistance in Japan by Hwaji Shin 9780824896140
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $60.95In Japan the number of "Special Permanent Residents"-most of whom are of Korean descent, the so-called "Zainichi"-is declining according to government statistics. Does this mean Koreans living in Japan are becoming Japanese? This volume presents a... -
Experience Japan by Yoshie Matsumoto 9784816366802
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $31.11Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Omiyage: Japanese Miscellaneous Goods and Souvenirs by Yoshie Matsumoto 9784816377624
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $26.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784816377624Author Yoshie MatsumotoPage Count 160Imprint Natsumesha Co., Ltd.Publisher Natsumesha Co., Ltd.Weight(grams) 132g -
The Road Taken: China’s Incorporation Process into the Capitalist World System and Its Capitalist Transition by Sung Hee Ru 9798855803068
RRP: $39.35Booksplease Price: $38.89Traces China's transformations with a focus on China's incorporation process in the nineteenth century, which help to grasp the historical origins of China's capitalism.As Europe's colonial powers reached China in the nineteenth century, they became so... -
Drawing the Sea Near: Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa by C. Anne Claus 9781517906610
RRP: $112.23Booksplease Price: $90.78How Japanese coastal residents and transnational conservationists collaborated to foster relationships between humans and sea life Drawing the Sea Near opens a new window to our understanding of transnational conservation by investigating projects in... -
Education in Tokugawa Japan by R. P. Dore 9780520364516
Booksplease Price: $81.64Education in Tokugawa Japan by R. P. Dore offers the first comprehensive English-language account of how a society often remembered for its rigid hierarchy laid the foundations of modern Japan's remarkably high levels of literacy and learning. Drawing on... -
Cambodia's Swinging Sixties: Architecture, the Arts, and a Lost Society by Stephen Simmons 9786162152160
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $46.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786162152160Author Stephen SimmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Silkworm BooksPublisher Silkworm Books -
Creationism in a South Korean Culture: Science, Religion, and the Struggle against Evolution by Hyung Wook Park 9781032757155
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $53.39Park investigates the unexpected success of early Korean creationists, who were mostly scientists, and argues that creationism is not a product of the lack of intelligence or proper scientific education but a consequence of more profound social... -
Southward Bound: Examining the Regional Policies of Taiwan and South Korea by Nurliana Kamaruddin 9781032692432
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $53.39This book looks at the regional policies of two ‘middle powers’ in the Indo-Pacific region, Taiwan and South Korea, and provides critical reflections on the ways both have sought to broaden their options for strategic manoeuvres with their southern... -
Sedition: Macaulay to Modi by Rijul Singh Uppal 9781032768960
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $53.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032768960Author Rijul Singh UppalFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint RoutledgePublisher Routledge -
Accumulation and Dispossession: Communal Land in Northeast India by Asok Kumar Ray 9781032752273
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $53.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032752273Author Asok Kumar RayFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint RoutledgePublisher Routledge -
The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era by Emily H. C. Chua 9780472055951
RRP: $27.03Booksplease Price: $26.81China's news sector is a place where newsmakers, advertising executives, company bosses, and Party officials engage one another in contingent and evolving arrangements that run from cooperation and collaboration to manipulation and betrayal. Drawing on... -
Internet and Gender in Kazakhstan: A Decolonial Feminist Perspective on Women’s Roles in the Digital Age by Jasmin Dall’Agnola 9781032744674
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $53.39Internet and Gender in Kazakhstan offers an empirically rich and theoretically compelling analysis of how the Internet is influencing societal attitudes towards women’s roles and agency in Kazakhstan.Equipped with intimate perspectives from the wider... -
Oriental, Black, and White: The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater by Josephine Lee 9781469669625
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.28In this book, Josephine Lee looks at the intertwined racial representations of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American theater. In minstrelsy, melodrama, vaudeville, and musicals, both white and African American performers enacted blackface... -
China's Bri in Southeast Asia: Concepts and Methodologies by Decha Tangseefa 9781920850517
RRP: $103.14Booksplease Price: $87.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920850517Author Decha TangseefaFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Trans Pacific PressPublisher Trans Pacific Press -
Ennin's Travels in T'ang China by Edwin O Reischauer 9781621386544
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621386544Author Edwin O ReischauerFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Cultures of the Hindukush After Jettmar: A Bibliography by Alberto M Cacopardo 9781778252204
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781778252204Author Alberto M CacopardoFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Orchid PressPublisher Orchid PressWeight(grams) 404g -
A Nikkei Harvest: Reviewing the Japanese American Historical Experience and Its Legacy by Arthur A Hansen 9798988410607
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988410607Author Arthur A HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Nichi Bei FoundationPublisher Nichi Bei FoundationWeight(grams) 395g