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  • - Nambara Shigeru and the Asia-Pacific War
    von Nambara Shigeru
    158,00 €

    One of Japan's most important intellectuals, Nambara Shigeru defended Tokyo Imperial University against its rightist critics and opposed Japan's war. His poetic diary (1936-1945), published only after the war, documents his profound disaffection. In 1945 Nambara became president of Tokyo University and was an eloquent and ardent spokesman for academic freedom. In this first English-language collection of his key work, historian and translator Richard H. Minear introduces Nambara's career and thinking before presenting translations of the most important of Nambara's essays, poems, and speeches. A courageous but lonely voice of conscience, Nambara is one of the few mid-century Japanese to whom we can turn for inspiration during that dark period in world history.

  • von Bret Hinsch
    56,00 - 156,00 €

  • von Bret Hinsch
    54,00 - 157,00 €

  • - The Autobiography of Barefoot Gen
    von Nakazawa Keiji
    50,00 €

  • von Bret Hinsch
    56,00 - 164,00 €

    This pioneering book provides a comprehensive survey of ancient Chinese women's history, covering thousands of years from the Neolithic era to China's unification in 221 BCE. For each period-Neolithic, Shang, Western Zhou, and Eastern Zhou-Hinsch explores aspects of female life such as marriage, family life, politics, ritual, and religious roles.

  • von Bret Hinsch
    56,00 €

    This important study provides the only comprehensive survey of Chinese women during the early medieval period of disunion known as the Six Dynasties, which lasted from the fall of the Eastern Han dynasty in AD 220 to the reunification of China by the Sui dynasty in AD 581.

  • - Portrait of an Assassin
    von Brian Daizen Victoria
    55,00 €

    This book explores the profound influence of Zen Buddhist-linked terrorism in modern Japan. Brian Victoria follows a band of Zen Buddhist-trained adherents who ardently believed in their mission to carry out political assassinations in the 1930s, facilitating Japan's transformation into a totalitarian state and setting the stage for Pearl Harbor.

  • von Bret Hinsch
    165,00 €

    This important study provides the only comprehensive survey of Chinese women during the early medieval period of disunion known as the Six Dynasties, which lasted from the fall of the Eastern Han dynasty in AD 220 to the reunification of China by the Sui dynasty in AD 581.

  • - The Underside of Modern Japan
    von Mikiso Hane
    71,00 €

    Now updated with a substantive new introduction, this compelling social history uses diaries, memoirs, fiction, trial testimony, personal recollections, and eyewitness accounts to weave a fascinating tale of what ordinary Japanese endured throughout their country's era of booming economic growth.

  • - A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery under the Japanese Military
    von Maria Rosa Henson
    52,00 - 126,00 €

    In 1943, 15-year-old Maria Rosa Henson was taken by Japanese soldiers occupying the Philippines and forced into prostitution as a "comfort woman." Now with a new introduction and foreword that assess the ongoing controversy over comfort women, her powerful memoir will be essential reading for all those concerned with violence against women.

  • von Bret Hinsch
    75,00 - 165,00 €

    This clear and accessible text provides a comprehensive survey of women's history in China from the Neolithic period through the Qing Dynasty (10,200 BC-1911 AD).

  • - Voices of Working-Class Japan
    von Tatsuichi Horikiri
    59,00 - 142,00 €

    This compelling social history tells the stories of ordinary people in modern Japan. Tatsuichi Horikiri spent a lifetime searching out old items of clothing and oral accounts to shed light on those who used these items. He illuminates not only the often desperate lives of these people but also their hopes, aspirations, and human values.

  • - Nineteen Years in South Korea's Gulag
    von Suh Sung
    67,00 €

    This is the memoir of a South Korean dissident who was unjustly accused of spying for the North Koreans and jailed for 19 years as a political prisoner. It traces Suh Sung's experiences as a Korean citizen of Japan before his incarceration, his time in prison, and his subsequent release.

  • - Contemporary Chinese Fiction on Love and Sex between Women, Collected Stories
    von Patricia Sieber
    66,00 €

    These stories introduce an emerging generation of women writers, including Chen Ran, Bikwan Wong and Chen Xue. By presenting fiction from the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the collection deliberately maps the literary contours of same-sex intimacy in cultural rather than purely political terms.

  • - The Changing Face of Chinese Journalism
    von Judy Polumbaum
    64,00 €

    This lively book explores changes in contemporary China through the compelling personal accounts of young Chinese journalists. Through a series of engaging oral histories, Judy Polumbaum puts a human face on vital issues of freedom of expression and information that will chart China's future.

  • - Everyday Voices of Japanese Women
    von Masako Itoh
    64,00 - 162,00 €

  • - Japanese War Crimes in World War II
    von Yuki Tanaka
    71,00 - 145,00 €

    Now in a significant new edition, this landmark book documents little-known wartime Japanese atrocities during World War II, including cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments.

  • - Tokyo during World War II: Writings of Takeyama Michio
     
    163,00 €

    Contains essays offering a look at the history of Japan during the Asia-Pacific War. This book provides an intimate account of the scars of war. It also includes personal anecdotes.

  • - Shadows from Japan's Cold War
    von Tessa Morris-Suzuki
    76,00 - 180,00 €

    Through travels that range from Geneva to Pyongyang, this book takes readers on an odyssey through one of the most extraordinary forgotten tragedies of the Cold War the return of over 90,000 people, most of them ethnic Koreans, from Japan to North Korea from 1959 onward.

  • von Matthew Allen
    87,00 €

    This historical ethnography draws attention to the range of cultural and social practices that exist within contemporary Okinawa. The narrative problematizes both the location of identity and the processes involved in negotiating identities within Okinawa.

  • - Inside the Chinese Student Uprising of 1989
    von Philip J. Cunningham
    71,00 - 72,00 €

  • - Daughters and Mothers in Urban China
    von Harriet Evans
    75,00 - 175,00 €

    Discusses mother-daughter relationships in urban China. This book reflects on how women make sense of the shifts in practices and representations of gender that frame their lives, and how their self-identification as mothers and daughters contributes to the redefinition of those practices.

  • von Bret Hinsch
    71,00 €

  • - Behind Bars and Backstage during China's Revolution and Reform
    von Ying Ruocheng & Claire Conceison
    75,00 €

    Voices Carry is the riveting autobiography of one of China's most prominent citizens of the twentieth century. Beginning with his imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution, Ying Ruocheng's narrative takes us through unexpectedly amusing adventures durin

  • - Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge, and the United Nations in Cambodia
    von Benny Widyono
    75,00 €

    Recounts the tale of a career UN official caught in the turmoil of international and domestic politics swirling around Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge.

  • - Responsibility, Reciprocity, and Resistance
    von Hok Bun Ku
    88,00 €

    Exploring sensitive issues often hidden to outsiders, this engaging study traces the transformation of Ku Village during the first tumultuous decade of reform.

  • - A Dalit Autobiography
    von Gail Omvedt, Vasant Moon & Eleanor Zelliot
    67,00 €

    'In this English translation, Moon's story is usefully framed by apparatus necessary to bring its message to even those taking their first look at South Asian culture...The result is an easy to digest short-course on what it means to be a Dalit, in the words of one notable Dalit.'-Journal of Asian Studies

  • - Life-Worlds of Taipei Women Entrepreneurs
    von Scott Simon
    71,00 €

    An exploration of the experiences of women entrepreneurs amidst the contradictions of a free-wheeling commercial culture set within the patriarchal constraints of contemporary Taiwan. The book focuses on the voices and perspectives of the women themselves.

  • von Mark McLelland
    91,00 €

    Combines ethnography in the gay and lesbian communities, and the use of historical sources such as journals and documents. This volume examines issues of gay life in the Japanese fifteen year/Pacific War, addresses lesbian and gay issues, examines the interface of queer society with the US occupation, and the international community.

  • - The Story of a Minamata Fisherman
    von Keibo Oiwa
    72,00 €

    In this oral history, Ogata Masato, fisherman and Minamata disease sufferer, tells of the devastation of methyl mercury poisoning and the impact of industrial pollution on his own life, on his extended family and on the fishing culture in Minamata Bay, Japan.

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