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  • Siting Postcoloniality

    Critical Perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere

    Modifié par Pheng Cheah, Caroline S. Hau ...
    Collections series Sinotheory
    The contributors to Siting Postcoloniality reevaluate the notion of the postcolonial by focusing on the Sinosphere—the region of East and Southeast Asia that has been significantly shaped by relations with China throughout history. Pointing out that the history of imperialism in China and Southeast Asia is longer and more complex than Euro-American imperialism, the contributors complicate the ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

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  • A Bitter Revolution : China's struggle with the modern world

    China's Struggle with the Modern World

    par Rana Mitter ...
    Collections series Making of the Modern World
    China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world. Mitter takes us through the resulting social turmoil and political promise, the devastating war ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Modern China: A Very Short Introduction

    par Rana Mitter ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    China today is never out of the news: from human rights controversies and the continued legacy of Tiananmen Square, to global coverage of the Beijing Olympics, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities, heir to an ancient civilization that is still trying to find a modern identity. This Very Short ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • Asia as Method

    Toward Deimperialization

    par Kuan-Hsing Chen ...
    Centering his analysis in the dynamic forces of modern East Asian history, Kuan-Hsing Chen recasts cultural studies as a politically urgent global endeavor. He argues that the intellectual and subjective work of decolonization begun across East Asia after the Second World War was stalled by the cold war. At the same time, the work of deimperialization became impossible to imagine in imperial ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Sinicization and the Rise of China

    Civilizational Processes Beyond East and West

    Modifié par Peter J. Katzenstein ...
    China’s rise and processes of Sinicization suggest that recombination of new and old elements rather than a total rupture with or return to the past is China’s likely future. In both space and time, civilizational politics offers the broadest social context. It is of particular salience in China. Reification of civilizations into simple categories such as East and West is widespread in everyday ... En savoir plus

    $71.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture

    Modifié par Kam Louie ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    At the start of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. Understanding its culture is more important than ever before for western audiences, but for many, China remains a mysterious and exotic country. This Companion explains key aspects of modern Chinese culture without assuming prior knowledge of China or the Chinese language. The volume acknowledges the ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • Dangerous Women

    Gender and Korean Nationalism

    Modifié par Elaine H. Kim, Chungmoo Choi ...
    Dangerous Women addresses the themes of Korean nationalism and gender construction, as well as various issues related to the colonialization and decolonialization of the Korean nation. The contributors explore the troubled category of "woman," placing it in the specific context of a marginalized and colonized nation. But Korean women are not merely configured here as metaphors for an emasculated ... En savoir plus

    $94.99 CAD

  • Kazakhstan - Ethnicity, Language and Power

    par Bhavna Dave ...
    Collections series Central Asian Studies
    Kazakhstan is emerging as the most dynamic economic and political actor in Central Asia. It is the second largest country of the former Soviet Union, after the Russian Federation, and has rich natural resources, particularly oil, which is being exploited through massive US investment. Kazakhstan has an impressive record of economic growth under the leadership of President Nursultan Nazarbaev, and ... En savoir plus

    $114.99 CAD

  • Sovereignty and Authenticity

    Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern

    par Prasenjit Duara ...
    Collections series State & Society in East Asia
    In this powerful and provocative book, Prasenjit Duara uses the case of Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in northeast China from 1932-1945, to explore how such antinomies as imperialism and nationalism, modernity and tradition, and governmentality and exploitation interacted in the post-World War I period. His study of Manchukuo, which had a population of 40 million and was three times the ... En savoir plus

    $61.99 CAD

  • Discovering History in China

    American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past

    par Paul Cohen ...
    Collections series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    Since its first publication, Paul A. Cohen's Discovering History in China has occupied a singular place in American China scholarship. Translated into three East Asian languages, the volume has become essential to the study of China from the early nineteenth century to today.Cohen critiques the work of leading postwar scholars and is especially adamant about not reading China through the lens of ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • Cold War Reckonings

    Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization

    par Jini Kim Watson ...
    Honorable Mention, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language AssociationHonorable Mention, René Wellek Prize, American Comparative Literature AssociationHow did the Cold War shape culture and political power in decolonizing countries and give rise to authoritarian regimes in the so-called free world? Cold War Reckonings tells a new story about the Cold War and the global shift from colonialism ... En savoir plus

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  • The Social Construction of Man, the State and War

    Identity, Conflict, and Violence in Former Yugoslavia

    par Franke Wilmer ...
    The Social Construction of Man, the State, and War is the fist book on conflict in the former Yugoslavia to look seriously at the issue of ethnic identity, rather than treating it as a given, an unquestionable variable. Combining detailed analysis with a close reading of historical narratives, documentary evidence, and first-hand interviews conducted in the former Yugoslavia, Wilmer sheds new ... En savoir plus

    $90.68 CAD