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  • Spirit Power

    Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century

    par Heonik Kwon, Jun Hwan Park ...
    Collections series Thinking from Elsewhere
    Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encounter with American missionary power from the late nineteenth century, and the long political struggles against the country’s indigenous popular religious heritage during the colonial and postcolonial eras. The book brings an anthropology of religion into ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

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  • From the Soil

    The Foundations of Chinese Society

    par Xiaotong Fei ...
    This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil describes the contrasting organizational principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the essential ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Religious Question in Modern China

    par Vincent Goossaert, David A. Palmer ...
    Recent events—from strife in Tibet and the rapid growth of Christianity in China to the spectacular expansion of Chinese Buddhist organizations around the globe—vividly demonstrate that one cannot understand the modern Chinese world without attending closely to the question of religion. The Religious Question in Modern China highlights parallels and contrasts between historical events, political ... En savoir plus

    $37.39 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

  • Masculinities in Chinese History

    par Bret Hinsch ...
    Collections series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    Masculinities in Chinese History is the first historical survey of the many ways men have acted, thought, and behaved throughout China’s long past. Bret Hinsch introduces readers to the basic characteristics of historical Chinese masculinity while highlighting the dynamic changes in male identity over the centuries. He covers the full span of Chinese history, from the Zhou dynasty in distant ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 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

  • Demystifying China

    New Understandings of Chinese History

    Modifié par Naomi Standen ...
    For westerners, China’s history is often reduced to a choice between timeless Confucian ideals or incomprehensible barbarisms such as footbinding or mass slaughter, fueled by generalizations such as “China has five thousand years of history,” “China was a Confucian society,” “Chinese women were victims,” “China is a communist country,” and many more. But China is now too globally important to ... En savoir plus

    $45.99 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

  • The Modern Spirit of Asia

    The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India

    par Peter van der Veer ...
    A comparative look at religion and spirituality in postcolonial China and IndiaThe Modern Spirit of Asia challenges the notion that modernity in China and India are derivative imitations of the West, arguing that these societies have transformed their ancient traditions in unique and distinctive ways. Peter van der Veer begins with nineteenth-century imperial history, exploring how Western ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Sinophone Studies

    A Critical Reader

    Modifié par Shu-mei Shih, Chien-hsin Tsai, Brian Bernards ...
    Collections series Global Chinese Culture
    This definitive anthology casts Sinophone studies as the study of Sinitic-language cultures born of colonial and postcolonial influences. Essays by such authors as Rey Chow, Ha Jin, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Ien Ang, Wei-ming Tu, and David Wang address debates concerning the nature of Chineseness while introducing readers to essential readings in Tibetan, Malaysian, Taiwanese, French, Caribbean, and ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD

  • Anthropology and Colonialism in Asia

    Comparative and Historical Colonialism

    par Jan van Bremen, Akitoshi Shimizu ...
    Collections series Anthropology of Asia
    For a time it was almost a cliche to say that anthropology was a handmaiden of colonialism - by which was usually meant 'Western' colonialism. And this insinuation was assumed to somehow weaken the theoretical claims of anthropology and its fieldwork achievements. What this collection demonstrates is that colonialism was not only a Western phenomenon, but 'Eastern' as well. And that Japanese or ... En savoir plus

    $94.99 CAD