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Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots

Author : Jacob Eyferth
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684174872
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots written by Jacob Eyferth and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book charts the vicissitudes of a rural community of papermakers in Sichuan. The process of transforming bamboo into paper involves production-related and social skills, as well as the everyday skills that allowed these papermakers to survive in an era of tumultuous change. The Chinese revolution—understood as a series of interconnected political, social, and technological transformations—was, Jacob Eyferth argues, as much about the redistribution of skill, knowledge, and technical control as it was about the redistribution of land and political power.The larger context for this study is the “rural–urban divide”: the institutional, social, and economic cleavages that separate rural people from urbanites. This book traces the changes in the distribution of knowledge that led to a massive transfer of technical control from villages to cities, from primary producers to managerial elites, and from women to men. It asks how a vision of rural people as unskilled has affected their place in the body politic and contributed to their disenfranchisement. By viewing skill as a contested resource, subject to distribution struggles, it addresses the issue of how revolution, state-making, and marketization have changed rural China."

Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots

Author : Jacob Eyferth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots written by Jacob Eyferth and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots

Author : Jan Jacob Karl Eyferth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots written by Jan Jacob Karl Eyferth and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gender Struggles

Author : Christopher Gerteis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674035690
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Gender Struggles written by Christopher Gerteis and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Women and Unions in Occupied Japan -- The Erotic and the Vulgar -- Wage Struggles and Struggle Politics -- Teachers and Coal Wives -- Family Unions -- Federation Wives -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.

Working with Paper

Author : Carla Bittel
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822986809
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Working with Paper written by Carla Bittel and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-06-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working with Paper builds on a growing interest in the materials of science by exploring the gendered uses and meanings of paper tools and technologies, considering how notions of gender impacted paper practices and in turn how paper may have structured knowledge about gender. Through a series of dynamic investigations covering Europe and North America and spanning the early modern period to the twentieth century, this volume breaks new ground by examining material histories of paper and the gendered worlds that made them. Contributors explore diverse uses of paper—from healing to phrenological analysis to model making to data processing—which often occurred in highly gendered, yet seemingly divergent spaces, such as laboratories and kitchens, court rooms and boutiques, ladies’ chambers and artisanal workshops, foundling houses and colonial hospitals, and college gymnasiums and state office buildings. Together, they reveal how notions of masculinity and femininity became embedded in and expressed through the materials of daily life. Working with Paper uncovers the intricate negotiations of power and difference underlying epistemic practices, forging a material history of knowledge in which quotidian and scholarly practices are intimately linked.

Knowing the Amorous Man

Author : Jamie L. Newhard
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684175305
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Knowing the Amorous Man written by Jamie L. Newhard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari) is traditionally identified as one of the most important Japanese literary texts of the Heian period (794–1185). Since its enshrinement in the classical literary canon as early as the eleventh century, the work has also been the object of intensive study and extensive commentary. Its idiosyncratic form—125 loosely connected episodes recounting the life and loves of an anonymous courtier—and mysterious authorship have provoked centuries of explication.Jamie Newhard’s study skillfully combines primary-source research with a theoretically framed analysis, exploring commentaries from the medieval period into the early twentieth century, and situating the text’s critical reception within an evolving historical and social context. By giving a more comprehensive picture of the social networks and scholastic institutions within which literary scholarship developed and circulated, Newhard identifies the ideological, methodological, and literary issues that shaped the commentators’ agendas as the audience for classical literature expanded beyond aristocratic circles to include other social groups. Her approach illuminates how exegesis of Tales of Ise ultimately reflects shifting historical and social assessments that construct, transform, and transmit the literary and cultural value of the work over time."

Writing Technology in Meiji Japan

Author : Seth Jacobowitz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684175623
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Writing Technology in Meiji Japan written by Seth Jacobowitz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Technology in Meiji Japan boldly rethinks the origins of modern Japanese language, literature, and visual culture from the perspective of media history. Drawing upon methodological insights by Friedrich Kittler and extensive archival research, Seth Jacobowitz investigates a range of epistemic transformations in the Meiji era (1868–1912), from the rise of communication networks such as telegraph and post to debates over national language and script reform. He documents the changing discursive practices and conceptual constellations that reshaped the verbal, visual, and literary regimes from the Tokugawa era. These changes culminate in the discovery of a new vernacular literary style from the shorthand transcriptions of theatrical storytelling (rakugo) that was subsequently championed by major writers such as Masaoka Shiki and Natsume Sōseki as the basis for a new mode of transparently objective, “transcriptive” realism. The birth of modern Japanese literature is thus located not only in shorthand alone, but within the emergent, multimedia channels that were arriving from the West. This book represents the first systematic study of the ways in which media and inscriptive technologies available in Japan at its threshold of modernization in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century shaped and brought into being modern Japanese literature.

Gender in Modern East Asia

Author : Barbara Molony
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429973446
Total Pages : 845 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Gender in Modern East Asia written by Barbara Molony and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender in Modern East Asia explores the history of women and gender in China, Korea, and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present. This unique volume treats the three countries separately within each time period while also placing them in global and regional contexts. Its transnational and integrated approach connects the cultural, economic, and social developments in East Asia to what is happening across the wider world. The text focuses specifically on the dynamic histories of sexuality; gender ideology, discourse, and legal construction; marriage and the family; and the gendering of work, society, culture, and power. Important themes and topics woven through the text include Confucianism, writing and language, the role of the state in gender construction, nationalism, sexuality and prostitution, New Women and Modern Girls, feminisms, "comfort" women, and imperialism. Accessibly written and comprehensive, Gender in Modern East Asia is a much-needed contribution to the study of the region.

Remains of the Everyday

Author : Joshua Goldstein
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520299817
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Remains of the Everyday written by Joshua Goldstein and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remains of the Everyday traces the changing material culture and industrial ecology of China through the lens of recycling. Over the last century, waste recovery and secondhand goods markets have been integral to Beijing’s economic functioning and cultural identity, and acts of recycling have figured centrally in the ideological imagination of modernity and citizenship. On the one hand, the Chinese state has repeatedly promoted acts of voluntary recycling as exemplary of conscientious citizenship. On the other, informal recycling networks—from the night soil carriers of the Republican era to the collectors of plastic and cardboard in Beijing’s neighborhoods today—have been represented as undisciplined, polluting, and technologically primitive due to the municipal government’s failure to control them. The result, Joshua Goldstein argues, is the repeatedly re-inscribed exclusion of waste workers from formations of modern urban citizenship as well as the intrinsic liminality of recycling itself as an economic process.

Modern Erasures

Author : Pierre Fuller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316515729
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Modern Erasures written by Pierre Fuller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the acts of epistemic violence behind China's revolutionary transformation from a semi-colonized republic to Communist state over the twentieth century.

Knowing Manchuria

Author : Ruth Rogaski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226818802
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Knowing Manchuria written by Ruth Rogaski and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making sense of nature in one of the world’s most contested borderlands. According to Chinese government reports, hundreds of plague-infected rodents fell from the skies over Gannan county on an April night in 1952. Chinese scientists determined that these flying voles were not native to the region, but were vectors of germ warfare, dispatched over the border by agents of imperialism. Mastery of biology had become a way to claim political mastery over a remote frontier. Beginning with this bizarre incident from the Korean War, Knowing Manchuria places the creation of knowledge about nature at the center of our understanding of a little-known but historically important Asian landscape. At the intersection of China, Russia, Korea, and Mongolia, Manchuria is known as a site of war and environmental extremes, where projects of political control intersected with projects designed to make sense of Manchuria’s multiple environments. Covering more than 500,000 square miles, Manchuria’s landscapes include temperate rainforests, deserts, prairies, cultivated plains, wetlands, and Siberian taiga. With analysis spanning the seventeenth century to the present day, Ruth Rogaski reveals how an array of historical actors—Chinese poets, Manchu shamans, Russian botanists, Korean mathematicians, Japanese bacteriologists, American paleontologists, and indigenous hunters—made sense of the Manchurian frontier. She uncovers how natural knowledge, and thus the nature of Manchuria itself, changed over time, from a sacred “land where the dragon arose” to a global epicenter of contagious disease; from a tragic “wasteland” to an abundant granary that nurtured the hope of a nation.

The Tokyo War Crimes Trial

Author : Yuma Totani
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684174732
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book The Tokyo War Crimes Trial written by Yuma Totani and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book assesses the historical significance of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)—commonly called the Tokyo trial—established as the eastern counterpart of the Nuremberg trial in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Through extensive research in Japanese, American, Australian, and Indian archives, Yuma Totani taps into a large body of previously underexamined sources to explore some of the central misunderstandings and historiographical distortions that have persisted to the present day. Foregrounding these voluminous records, Totani disputes the notion that the trial was an exercise in “victors’ justice” in which the legal process was egregiously compromised for political and ideological reasons; rather, the author details the achievements of the Allied prosecution teams in documenting war crimes and establishing the responsibility of the accused parties to show how the IMTFE represented a sound application of the legal principles established at Nuremberg. This study deepens our knowledge of the historical intricacies surrounding the Tokyo trial and advances our understanding of the Japanese conduct of war and occupation during World War II, the range of postwar debates on war guilt, and the relevance of the IMTFE to the continuing development of international humanitarian law."

Sovereignty at the Edge

Author : Cathryn H. Clayton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674035454
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Sovereignty at the Edge written by Cathryn H. Clayton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Sort-of Sovereignties -- Outlaw Tales -- The Nonexistent Macanese -- Educating Locals -- Culture in Ruins -- The Rubbish Heap of History -- Outlawed Tales -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary of Cantonese Characters -- Works Cited -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.

The Proletarian Wave

Author : Sunyoung Park
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684175496
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book The Proletarian Wave written by Sunyoung Park and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Socialist doctrines had an important influence on Korean writers and intellectuals of the early twentieth century. From the 1910s through the 1940s, a veritable wave of anarchist, Marxist, nationalist, and feminist leftist groups swept the cultural scene with differing agendas as well as shared demands for equality and social justice. In The Proletarian Wave, Sunyoung Park reconstructs the complex mosaic of colonial leftist culture by focusing on literature as its most fertile and enduring expression. The book combines a general overview of the literary left with the intellectual portraits of four writers whose works exemplify the stylistic range and colonial inflection of socialist culture in a rapidly modernizing Korea. Bridging Marxist theory and postcolonial studies, Park confronts Western preconceptions about third-world socialist cultures while interrogating modern cultural history from a post-Cold War global perspective. The Proletarian Wave provides the first historical account in English of the complex interrelations of literature and socialist ideology in colonial Korea. It details the origins, development, and influence of a movement that has shaped twentieth-century Korean politics and aesthetics alike through an analysis that simultaneously engages some of the most debated and pressing issues of literary historiography, Marxist criticism, and postcolonial cultural studies."

Toward a History Beyond Borders

Author : Daqing Yang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684175143
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Toward a History Beyond Borders written by Daqing Yang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume brings to English-language readers the results of an important long-term project of historians from China and Japan addressing contentious issues in their shared modern histories. Originally published simultaneously in Chinese and Japanese in 2006, the thirteen essays in this collection focus renewed attention on a set of political and historiographical controversies that have steered and stymied Sino-Japanese relations from the mid-nineteenth century through World War II to the present. These in-depth contributions explore a range of themes, from prewar diplomatic relations and conflicts, to wartime collaboration and atrocity, to postwar commemorations and textbook debates—all while grappling with the core issue of how history has been researched, written, taught, and understood in both countries. In the context of a wider trend toward cross-national dialogues over historical issues, this volume can be read as both a progress report and a case study of the effort to overcome contentious problems of history in East Asia."

Unending Capitalism

Author : Karl Gerth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521868467
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Unending Capitalism written by Karl Gerth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative account, Karl Gerth argues that consumerism rather than communism explains the history of China since 1949.

The Undiscovered Country

Author : Melek Ortabasi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684175380
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book The Undiscovered Country written by Melek Ortabasi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Yanagita Kunio (1875–1962) was a public intellectual who played a pivotal role in shaping modern Japan’s cultural identity. A self-taught folk scholar and elite bureaucrat, he promoted folk studies in Japan. So extensive was his role that he has been compared with the fabled Grimm Brothers of Germany and the great British folklorist James G. Frazer (1854–1941), author of The Golden Bough. This monograph is only the second book-length English-language examination of Yanagita, and it is the first analysis that moves beyond a biographical account of his pioneering work in folk studies. An eccentric but insightful critic of Japan’s rush to modernize, Yanagita offers a compelling array of rebuttals to mainstream social and political trends in his carefully crafted writings. Through a close reading of Yanagita’s interdisciplinary texts, which comment on a wide range of key cultural issues that characterized the first half of Japan’s twentieth century, Melek Ortabasi seeks to reevaluate the historical significance of his work. Ortabasi’s inquiry simultaneously exposes, discursively, some of the fundamental assumptions we embrace about modernity and national identity in Japan and elsewhere."