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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian In Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization (Hardcover)

Between 1949 and 1997 Hong Kong transformed from a struggling British colonial outpost into a global financial capital. Made in Hong Kong delivers a new narrative of this metamorphosis revealing Hong Kong both as a critical engine in the expansion... more

Pre-Owned Imperial Japan at Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empire s 2 600th Anniversary (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University) Paperback

9780801479786. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 256. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white Illustrations color. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia... more

Pre-Owned Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea 1953-1961 (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University) Hardcover

9780231185301. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 280. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 280 p. Contains: Illustrations. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia Un. In search of national unity and state... more

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian In Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet (Paperback)

In 1995 the People s Republic of China resurrected a Qing-era law mandating that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks be identified by drawing lots from a golden urn. The Chinese Communist Party hoped to limit the ability of the... more

Pre-Owned The North Korean Revolution 1945-1950 (Paperback) 0801489148 9780801489143

9780801489143. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 288. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Contains: Unspecified Maps. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia Un. North Korea despite a... more

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia Un: Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier (Paperback)

In The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier Benno Weiner provides the first in-depth study of an ethnic minority region during the first decade of the People s Republic of China: the Amdo region in the Sino-Tibetan borderland. Employing... more

Pre-Owned Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan Egypt and the Global History of Aesthetic Education (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University) Paperback

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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian In Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan (Hardcover)

In Beyond the Metropolis Louise Young looks at the emergence of urbanism in the interwar period a global moment when the material and ideological structures that constitute the city took their characteristic modern shape. In Japan as elsewhere... more

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia Un: Imperial Eclipse (Hardcover)

The Pacific War narrative of Japan s defeat that was established after 1945 started with the attack on Pearl Harbor detailed the U.S. island-hopping campaigns across the Western Pacific and culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki... more

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute: Reconstructing Bodies : Biomedicine Health and Nation-Building in South Korea Since 1945 (Hardcover)

This book tracks the development of biomedicine in South Korea following liberation from Japan in 1945 covering the transition from Japanese imperial models of practice to an approximation of American and international models of health. more

Pre-Owned The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University) Paperback

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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia Un: The North Korean Revolution 1945-1950 (Paperback)

North Korea despite a shattered economy and a populace suffering from widespread hunger has outlived repeated forecasts of its imminent demise. Charles K. Armstrong contends that a major source of North Korea s strength and resiliency as well as of... more

Asia-Pacific: Culture Politics and Society: Kingdom of Beauty : Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan (Paperback)

A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University Kingdom of Beauty shows that the discovery of mingei (folk art) by Japanese intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s was central to the complex process by which Japan became both a... more

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian In Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader (Paperback)

This book is especially important now with Kim Il Sung s death the ending of the nuclear crisis between North Korea and the United States and the obscured emergence of a successor regime ostensibly headed by Kim Il Jong Sung s son. Suh s book... more

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia Un: Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies (Hardcover)

By the end of World War II hundreds of thousands of young men in the Japanese colonies in particular Taiwan and Korea had expressed their loyalty to the empire by volunteering to join the army. Why and how did so many colonial youth become... more

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian In The Merchants of Zigong (Hardcover)

At the periphery of the Chinese empire a group of innovative entrepreneurs built companies that dominated the Chinese salt trade and created thousands of jobs in the Sichuan region. From its dramatic expansion in the early nineteenth century to its... more

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia Un: The Fascist Effect (Paperback)

In The Fascist Effect Reto Hofmann uncovers the ideological links that tied Japan to Italy drawing on extensive materials from Japanese and Italian archives to shed light on the formation of fascist history and practice in Japan and beyond. Moving... more

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia Un: Resurrecting Nagasaki (Paperback)

In Resurrecting Nagasaki Chad R. Diehl explores the genesis of narratives surrounding the atomic bombing of August 9 1945 by following the individuals and groups who contributed to the shaping of Nagasaki City s postwar identity. Municipal officials... more

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute: The Invention of Madness : State Society and the Insane in Modern China (Hardcover)

Throughout most of history in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century however psychiatric ideas and institutions began to... more

Pre-Owned Idly Scribbling Rhymers: Poetry Print and Community in Nineteenth-Century Japan Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University Hardcover Robert Tuck

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Pre-Owned Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University) 9780231151931 Paperback

9780231151931. Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 296. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 296 p. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia Un. Since its first publication Paul A. Cohen s Discovering History... more

Pre-Owned Electrified Voices: How the Telephone Phonograph and Radio Shaped Modern Japan 1868-1945 (Pre-Owned Hardcover 9780231187121) by Kerim Yasar

9780231187121. Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 304. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 304 p. Contains: Illustrations. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia Un. Long before karaoke s ubiquity and the rise of... more

Pre-Owned When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea (Hardcover 9780231165181) by Professor Janet Poole

9780231165181. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 304. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 304 p. Contains: Unspecified. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia Un. Taking a panoramic view of Korea s... more

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia Un: Japan s Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power (Paperback)

From its creation in the early twentieth century policymakers used the discourse of international law to legitimate Japan s empire. Although the Japanese state aggrandizers reliance on this discourse did not create the imperial nation Japan would... more

Studies in Jewish History Unwelcome Strangers: East European Jews in Imperial Germany (Paperback)

When East European Jews migrated westward in ever larger numbers between 1870 and 1914 both German government officials and the leaders of German Jewry were confronted by a series of new challenges. What policies did government leaders devise to... more

Signs of Devotion: The Cult of St. Æthelthryth in Medieval England 695-1615 (Paperback)

This is the first longitudinal study of an Anglo-Saxon cult from its inception in the late seventh century through the Reformation. It examines the production and reception of texts that supported the cult of Æthelthryth an East Anglian princess... more

Cambridge Middle East Studies A Most Masculine State Book 43 (Hardcover)

Women in Saudi Arabia are often described as either victims of patriarchal religion and society or successful survivors of discrimination imposed on them by others. Madawi Al-Rasheed s new book goes beyond these conventional tropes to probe the... more

Pre-Owned A Middle East Studies Handbook 9780295961385 /

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An American cruiser in the East; travels and studies in the Far East; the Aleutian Islands Behring s Sea; Eastern Siberia Japan Korea China Formosa Hong Kong and the Philippine Islands (1898)

Leatherbound edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1898 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are... more

The Year of Decision 1846 (Paperback)

Over forty years after the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark s expedition this year marks the point at which men and women from the east began to travel westward and populate the land near the Pacific. Bernardo DeVoto s fascinating study of... more

The peoples and politics of the Far East : travels and studies in the British French Spanish and Portuguese colonies Siberia China Japan Korea Siam and Malaya / by Henry Nor

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Empires of the Far East : a study of Japan and of her colonial possesions ; of China and Manchuria and of the political questions of eastern Asia and the Pacific / by Lancelot Lawton. Volume 2 (1912)

Leatherbound edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1912 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern History The International History of East Asia 1900-1968: Trade Ideology and the Quest for Order (Paperback)

This book provides a broad account of the international history of East Asia from 1900 to 1968 - a subject that is essential to any understanding of the modern epoch. Whereas much of the scholarship on this subject has focused purely on the... more

Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics Classless Politics: Islamist Movements the Left and Authoritarian Legacies in Egypt (Paperback)

Since the 1970s the Egyptian state has embarked on a far-reaching and destabilizing project of economic liberalization reneging on its commitments to social welfare. Despite widespread socioeconomic grievances stemming from these policies class... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East European Studies: The Russian State and Russian Energy Companies 1992-2018 (Paperback)

The Russian State and Russian Energy Companies analyses the development of relations between the state and five major energy companies and how this shaped Russia s foreign policy in the post-Soviet region. The book argues that the development of... more

Empires of the Far East : a study of Japan and of her colonial possessions of China and Manchuria and of the political questions of eastern Asia and the Pacific 1912 [Leather Bound]

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The peoples and politics of the Far East : travels and studies in the British French Spanish and Portuguese colonies Siberia China Japan Korea Siam and Malaya Volume 1 1895

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Seminar Studies Jewish Women in the Medieval World: 500-1500 CE (Paperback)

Jewish Women in the Medieval World offers a thematic overview of the lived experiences of Jewish women in both Europe and the Middle East from 500 to 1500 CE a group often ignored in general surveys on both medieval Jewish life and medieval women.... more