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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 detailsNordic Utopia?
African Americans in the Twentieth Century
Features the experiences of African American artists in Nordic Europe
During the twentieth century, Black Americans visited and lived in Nordic countries, performing, studying, working, and seeking adventure, love, freedom to explore sexuality, and distance from...
ISBN: 9798987929346
more detailsRising Tides and Tailwinds
The Story of the Port of Seattle
ISBN: 9781933245713
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 detailsAlaska Native Resilience
Voices from World War II
Alaska Native elders remember wartime invasion, relocation, and land reclamation
The US government justified its World War II occupation of Alaska as a defense against Japan’s invasion of the Aleutian Islands, but it equally served to...
ISBN: 9780295752525
more detailsOregon's Others
Gender, Civil Liberties, and the Surveillance State in the Early Twentieth Century
In the era of the First World War and its aftermath, the quest to identify, restrict, and punish internal enemy “others,” combined with eugenic thinking, severely curtailed civil liberties for many people in Oregon and...
ISBN: 9780295752587
more detailsCleaning Up the Bomb Factory
Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest
Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio town’s restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyard
In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio’s outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold...
ISBN: 9780295752556
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 detailsA Will to Serve
Stories of Patience, Persistence, and Friends Made Along the Way
The autobiography of an indefatigable visionary and citizen activist
Jim Ellis was one of the most influential and impactful civic leaders of Seattle's and Washington's recent history. Though he never sought elected office, his vision and...
ISBN: 9781933245706
more detailsBotany of Empire
Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism
An accessible foray into botany’s origins and how we can transform its future
Colonial ambitions spawned imperial attitudes, theories, and practices that remain entrenched within botany and across the life sciences. Banu Subramaniam draws on fields...
ISBN: 9780295752464
more detailsPreoccupied
Indigenizing the Museum
interrogates the colonial underpinnings of museums
Published on the occasion of the “Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum” initiative at the Baltimore Museum of Art, this book centers Native artist voices and challenges collective understandings of Native peoples’...
ISBN: 9780912298023
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 detailsQueer World Making
Contemporary Middle Eastern Diasporic Art
An abundantly illustrated look at how queerness is performed within artistic practice
Premodern archives from the Middle East show rich and diverse homoerotic worlds that were disrupted by the colonial imposition of Western models of sexuality....
ISBN: 9780295752297
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
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