Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion

Donald Keene

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• Yoshimasa may have been the worst shogun ever to rule Japan. He was a failure as a soldier, incompetent at dealing with state business, and dominated ... Lees meer

The Winter Sun Shines in

Donald Keene

• Paperback | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• Rather than resist the vast social and cultural changes sweeping Japan in the nineteenth century, the poet Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) instead incorpora... Lees meer

The Merchant's Tale

Simon Partner

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• In April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chūemon left his old life behind. Chūemon, a well-off farmer in his home village, departed for the new port cit... Lees meer

The Japanese and the War

Michael Lucken

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• Memories of World War II exert a powerful influence over Japan's culture and society. In The Japanese and the War , Michael Lucken details how World W... Lees meer

Lhasa

Robert Barnett

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• There are many Lhasas. One is a grid of uniform boulevards lined with plush hotels, all-night bars, and blue-glass-fronted offices. Another is a warre... Lees meer

Global Easts

Jie-Hyun Lim

• Paperback | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• South Korean historian Jie-Hyun Lim, raised under an anticommunist dictatorship, turned to Marxian thought to explain his country's development, even ... Lees meer

The World Turned Upside Down

Pierre Fran Souyri

• Paperback | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• In the late twelfth century, Japanese people called the transitional period in which they were living the "age of warriors." Feudal clans fought civil... Lees meer

Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon

Michael Bourdaghs

• Paperback | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• From the beginning of the American Occupation in 1945 to the post-bubble period of the early 1990s, popular music provided Japanese listeners with a m... Lees meer

The Merchant's Tale

Simon Partner

• Paperback | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• In April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chūemon left his old life behind. Chūemon, a well-off farmer in his home village, departed for the new port cit... Lees meer

Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion

Donald Keene

• Paperback | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• Yoshimasa may have been the worst shogun ever to rule Japan. He was a failure as a soldier, incompetent at dealing with state business, and dominated ... Lees meer

Comfort Women

Yoshiaki Yoshimi

• Paperback | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• Available for the first time in English, this is the definitive account of the practice of sexual slavery the Japanese military perpetrated during Wor... Lees meer

Sōseki

John Nathan

• Paperback | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916) was the father of the modern novel in Japan, chronicling the plight of bourgeois characters caught between familiar modes o... Lees meer

So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish

Donald Keene

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• The attack on Pearl Harbor, which precipitated the Greater East Asia War and its initial triumphs, aroused pride and a host of other emotions among th... Lees meer

Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts

Michael Lucken

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• The idea that Japanese art is produced through rote copy and imitation is an eighteenth-century colonial construct, with roots in Romantic ideals of o... Lees meer

Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy

Phyllis Birnbaum

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• Aisin Gioro Xianyu (1907-1948) was the fourteenth daughter of a Manchu prince and a legendary figure in China's bloody struggle with Japan. After the ... Lees meer

Frog in the Well

Donald Keene

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• Frog in the Well is a vivid and revealing account of Watanabe Kazan, one of the most important intellectuals of the late Tokugawa period. From his imp... Lees meer

The Modern Murasaki

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• The first anthology of its kind, The Modern Murasaki brings the vibrancy and rich imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-lang... Lees meer

The Winter Sun Shines in

Donald Keene

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• Rather than resist the vast social and cultural changes sweeping Japan in the nineteenth century, the poet Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) instead incorpora... Lees meer

Global Easts

Jie-Hyun Lim

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• South Korean historian Jie-Hyun Lim, raised under an anticommunist dictatorship, turned to Marxian thought to explain his country's development, even ... Lees meer

Uneven Moments

Harry Harootunian

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• Few scholars have done more than Harry Harootunian to shape the study of modern Japan. Incorporating Marxist critical perspectives on history and theo... Lees meer

The Modern Murasaki

• Paperback | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• The first anthology of its kind, The Modern Murasaki brings the vibrancy and rich imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-lang... Lees meer

Lhasa

Robert Barnett

• Paperback | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• There are many Lhasas. One is a grid of uniform boulevards lined with plush hotels, all-night bars, and blue-glass-fronted offices. Another is a warre... Lees meer

Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon

Michael Bourdaghs

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• From the beginning of the American Occupation in 1945 to the post-bubble period of the early 1990s, popular music provided Japanese listeners with a m... Lees meer

The World Turned Upside Down

Pierre Fran Souyri

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• In the late twelfth century, Japanese people called the transitional period in which they were living the "age of warriors." Feudal clans fought civil... Lees meer