Asian Studies

In 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...

Hikikomori, 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...

This 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...

Sheds 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...

In 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...

What 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...

This 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...

In 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...

A 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...

How 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...

Examines 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...

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Explores 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...

This 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 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,...

Apologies 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...

This 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 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...

Apologies 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)...

In 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...

In 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...

Examines 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...

In 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...

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Apologies 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

Traces 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...

How 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 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...

Apologies 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

Park 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...

This 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032768960Author Rijul Singh UppalFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint RoutledgePublisher Routledge

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032752273Author Asok Kumar RayFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint RoutledgePublisher Routledge

China'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 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...

In 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Apologies 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