Strange Tales from EDO

William D Fleming

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs
• In Strange Tales from Edo , William Fleming paints a sweeping picture of Japan's engagement with Chinese fiction in the early modern period (1600-1868... Lees meer

Hong Kong Takes Flight

John D Wong

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs
• Commercial aviation took shape in Hong Kong as the city developed into a powerful economy. Rather than accepting air travel as an inevitability in the... Lees meer

A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese

Paul Rouzer

• Paperback | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 276
• Forty lessons designed to introduce beginning students to the basic patterns and structures of Classical Chinese are taken from a number of pre-Han an... Lees meer

Computers, Inc.

Marie Anchordoguy

• Hardcover | Harvard East Asian Monographs
• This account of efforts to build a domestic Japanese computer industry is enlivened with quotations from industrial leaders commenting on the stages t... Lees meer

American Multinationals and Japan

Mark Mason

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 154
• This pioneering study of United States direct investment in Japan will interest academic specialists, business managers, and government policymakers i... Lees meer

Vietnam

• Paperback | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs
• In the late 1980s, most of the world still associated Vietnam with resistance and war, hardship, refugees, and a mismanaged planned economy. During th... Lees meer

Orthodox Passions

Maram Epstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 425
• In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, Maram Epstein identifies filial piety as the dominant expression of love in Qing dynasty texts. At a t... Lees meer

The Home Base of American China Missions, 1880-1920

Valentin H. Rabe

• Hardcover | Harvard East Asian Monographs
• During the closing decades of the nineteenth century, approximately two dozen Protestant mission societies expanded their operations with unprecedente... Lees meer

Building a Nation at War

J Megan Greene

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs
• Building a Nation at War argues that the Chinese Nationalist government's retreat inland during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), its consequent need... Lees meer

Gendering Modern Japanese History

• Paperback | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 251
• In the past quarter-century, gender has emerged as a lively area of inquiry for historians and other scholars, and gender analysis has suggested impor... Lees meer

Betting on the Civil Service Examinations

En Li

• Paperback | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs
• Weixing , or "surname guessing," was a highly organized lottery practice in China wherein money was bet on the surnames of which candidates would pass... Lees meer

Economic Planning and Organization in Mainland China

Kuo-chun Chao

• Paperback | Harvard East Asian Monographs
• This is the second volume expanding Agrarian Policies of Mainland China: A Documentary Study, 1949-1956. It presents key documents emanating from Peki... Lees meer

The Tokyo War Crimes Trial

Yuma Totani

• Paperback | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 299
• This book assesses the historical significance of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)--commonly called the Tokyo trial--estab... Lees meer

Rural Industrialization in China

Jon Sigurdson

• Hardcover | Harvard East Asian Monographs
• Small-scale industries in rural areas in China are today an essential element of regional development programs. This monograph analyzes two main devel... Lees meer

Meanings of Antiquity

Matthieu Felt

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs
• Meanings of Antiquity is the first dedicated study of how the oldest Japanese myths, recorded in the eighth-century texts Kojiki and Nihon shoki , cha... Lees meer

Confluence and Conflict

Brian Hurley

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs
• Writers and intellectuals in modern Japan have long forged dialogues across the boundaries separating the spheres of literature and thought. This book... Lees meer

Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Painting

Juliane Noth

• Paperback | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs
• Chinese ink painters of the Republican period (1911-1949) creatively engaged with a range of art forms in addition to ink, such as oil painting, drawi... Lees meer

Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine

Maura Dykstra

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs
• Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine investigates the administrative revolution of China's eighteenth-century Qing state. It begins in the mid-sevente... Lees meer

Japan's Imperial House in the Postwar Era, 1945-2019

Kenneth J Ruoff

• Paperback | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 432
• With the ascension of a new emperor and the dawn of the Reiwa Era, Kenneth J. Ruoff has expanded upon and updated The People's Emperor, his study of t... Lees meer

The Missionary Mind and American East Asia Policy, 1911-1915

James Reed

• Hardcover | Harvard East Asian Monographs
• At a telling moment in the development of American East Asia policy, the dream of a Christian China fired the imagination of the public, influenced op... Lees meer

Legal Lessons

Jennifer Altehenger

• Hardcover | Harvard East Asian Monographs
• Legal Lessons examines how China's party-state attempted to motivate ordinary citizens to learn laws during the Mao period. Archival records, advice m... Lees meer

Japanese Cultural Policy Toward China, 1918-1931

See Heng Teow

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 175
• Most existing scholarship on Japan's cultural policy toward modern China reflects the paradigm of cultural imperialism. In contrast, this study demons... Lees meer

Politics and Policy in Traditional Korea

James B. Palais

• Paperback | Harvard East Asian Monographs
• Palais theorizes in his important book on Korea that the remarkable longevity of the Yi dynasty (1392-1910) was related to the difficulties the countr... Lees meer

Normalization of U.S.-China Relations

• Hardcover | Harvard East Asian Monographs
• Relations between China and the United States have been of central importance to both countries over the past half-century, as well as to all states a... Lees meer