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Good Wife, Wise Mother
Educating Han Taiwanese Girls under Japanese Rule
Traces Japan's efforts to modernize Taiwan through gendered educational practices
In Good Wife, Wise Mother, female education and citizenship serve as a lens through which to examine Taiwan’s uniqueness as a colonial crossroads between Chinese and...
ISBN: 9780295752648
more detailsTranspacific, Undisciplined
Remaps the scope and methods of the transpacific approach
Antinuclear coalitions centering Native survivance from Okinawa to the Dakotas to Micronesia, refugee figures and automated empathy in virtual reality, cross-strait erotic intimacy in Taiwanese teahouses, art...
ISBN: 9780295752754
more detailsThe Xi Jinping Effect
Assesses the broad impact of China's influential leader
The Xi Jinping Effect explores the relationship between the People's Republic of China's current "paramount leader"—arguably the most powerful figure since Mao Zedong (1893–1976)—and multiple areas of political...
ISBN: 9780295752815
more detailsMumbai on Two Wheels
Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility
Mumbai is not commonly seen as a bike-friendly city because of its dense traffic and the absence of bicycle lanes. Yet the city supports rapidly expanding and eclectic bicycle communities. Exploring how people bike and...
ISBN: 9780295752693
more detailsThe Dong World and Imperial China’s Southwest Silk Road
Trade, Security, and State Formation
Brings a borderlands perspective to the history of China
From the eighth to thirteenth centuries along China’s rugged southern periphery, trade in tribute articles and an interregional horse market thrived. These ties dramatically affected imperial China’s...
ISBN: 9780295752792
more detailsChina's Camel Country
Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier
In recent years China has positioned itself as a champion of state-led resource conservation and sustainable development as it seeks to combat negative ecological effects of rapid economic growth and to adapt to climate change....
ISBN: 9780295752433
more detailsGames and Play in Chinese and Sinophone Cultures
From ancient gameboards to Honor of Kings, games as cultural agents
Games as global and connected phenomena have been examined in the rising scholarly field of game studies, but relatively little has been published on the...
ISBN: 9780295752402
more detailsFrom Forest Farm to Sawmill
Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State
Socialist China’s state forestry and timber industries employed men as state workers and women as family dependents and collective workers who, beginning in the 1950s, turned rural land into urban-industrial space. These features make forestry...
ISBN: 9780295752679
more detailsGlorious Qing
Decorative Arts in China, 1644-1911
A guided tour through centuries of exquisitely crafted objects
With over 250 color illustrations, this companion volume to Claudia Brown's Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644–1911 covers an array of superbly crafted objects of art produced...
ISBN: 9780295751917
more detailsLate Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea
Examines how primary social ties fueled economic growth
South Korea's rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebǒl (family-owned business conglomerates) that controlled vast swaths of the nation's economy. Leader Park Chung Hee's sense of...
ISBN: 9780295752273
more detailsTaiwan Lives
A Social and Political History
Stories of migration, displacement, democratization, and transformation
From a cradle of Austronesian expansion to the dynamic economic powerhouse and successful democracy it is today, Taiwan is layered in colonial histories. In Taiwan Lives, Niki J. P....
ISBN: 9780295752167
more detailsCold War Deceptions
The Asia Foundation and the CIA
Investigates how the CIA tried to influence scholars and governments
During the early Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency created dozens of funding fronts to support work that aligned with CIA goals, from clandestine operations and...
ISBN: 9780295752242
more detailsSeeds of Control
Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea
Conservation as a tool of colonialism in early twentieth-century Korea
Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905–1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula’s extensive mountains and forests....
ISBN: 9780295752860
more detailsFir and Empire
The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China
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Restores China’s place in forest history
The disappearance of China’s naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country’s history, one often blamed on imperial demand for...
ISBN: 9780295752877
more detailsTai Herbalism
Around the globe, an age-old truth persists: "To annihilate my culture and identity, you must first destroy my language and writing." Whether through deliberate political policies or sheer neglect, minority communities teeter on the precipice...ISBN: 9786162152054
more detailsResisting the Nuclear
Art and Activism across the Pacific
A transpacific tour of nuclear humanities
From uranium mines on the Navajo Nation to craters caused by nuclear testing on the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, the production and deployment of nuclear weapon technologies have disproportionately harmed...
ISBN: 9780295752341
more detailsThe Empire Looks South
Chinese Perceptions of Cambodia before and during the Kingdom of Angkor
The most famous firsthand account of the Kingdom of Angkor was left by the imperial Chinese envoy Zhou Daguan. But Zhou's was not the only portrait of Angkor and the kingdoms that came before it....
ISBN: 9786162151965
more detailsIsland X
Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism
Illuminates a Cold War transpacific drama played out across US campuses
Island X delves into the compelling political lives of Taiwanese migrants who came to the United States as students from the 1960s through the 1980s....
ISBN: 9780295752051
more detailsLife and Afterlife in Ancient China
An epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombs
The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the...
ISBN: 9780295752365
more detailsVietnam
Asia's Rising Star
Is Vietnam the world's next Tiger Economy? Can it grow like Taiwan and South Korea did when they were Tiger Economies in the 1980s and '90s? Brook Taylor and Sam Korsmoe bring together more than...
ISBN: 9786162152016
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