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  1. Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands : Kalimpong as a “Contact Zone"
    Author: Viehbeck, Markus
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP), Heidelberg

    This collaborative study investigates the hill station of Kalimpong and the larger Eastern Himalayan borderlands as a paradigmatic case of a “contact zone.” In the colonial and early post-colonial era, this space enabled a variety of encounters:... more

     

    This collaborative study investigates the hill station of Kalimpong and the larger Eastern Himalayan borderlands as a paradigmatic case of a “contact zone.” In the colonial and early post-colonial era, this space enabled a variety of encounters: between (British) India, Tibet, and China, but also Nepal and Bhutan; between Christian mission and Himalayan religions; between global flows of money and information and local markets and practices. Using a plethora of local and global historical sources, the contributing essays follow the pathways of people from diverse cultural backgrounds and investigate the new forms of knowledge and practice that resulted from their encounters and their shifting power relations. The volume provides not only a nuanced historiography of Kalimpong and its adjacent areas, but also a conceptual model for studying transcultural processes in borderland spaces and their colonial and post-colonial dynamics.

     
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    ISBN: 9783946054573; 9783946054580; 9783946054566
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    Subjects: Asian history; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: kalimpong; transkulturality; himalayas; Buddhism; Darjeeling; India; Lepcha people; Tibet; Tibetan people
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (360 p.)
  2. Studies in Historical Documents from Nepal and India
    Author: Cubelic, Simon; Michaels, Axel; Zotter, Astrid
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP), Heidelberg

    study of religion|indology|anthropology|history|tibetology more

     

    study of religion|indology|anthropology|history|tibetology

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783946054719; 9783946054702
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    Subjects: Asian history; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: study of religion; indology; anthropology; history; tibetology; Nepal
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (538 p.)
  3. Bild und Schrift auf 'magischen' Artefakten
    Contributor: Kiyanrad, Sarah (Publisher); Theis, Christoffer (Publisher); Willer, Laura (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany

    The series Material Text Cultures is the publication organ of the Collaborative Research Center 933 of the same name at Heidelberg University, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The series publishes collections and monographs dedicated... more

     

    The series Material Text Cultures is the publication organ of the Collaborative Research Center 933 of the same name at Heidelberg University, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The series publishes collections and monographs dedicated to the Collaborative Research Center’s main focus of research – that is, the materiality and presence of writing in non-typographic societies.

     
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    Contributor: Kiyanrad, Sarah (Publisher); Theis, Christoffer (Publisher); Willer, Laura (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110604337; 9783110601626
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    Subjects: Classical texts; Asian history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500; Ancient religions & mythologies
    Other subjects: Writing; non-typographic societies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (267 p.)
  4. Anti-Japan
    Author: Ching, Leo T. S.
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham, NC

    Although the Japanese empire rapidly dissolved following the end of World War II, the memories, mourning, and trauma of the nation's imperial exploits continue to haunt Korea, China, and Taiwan. In Anti-Japan Leo T. S. Ching traces the complex... more

     

    Although the Japanese empire rapidly dissolved following the end of World War II, the memories, mourning, and trauma of the nation's imperial exploits continue to haunt Korea, China, and Taiwan. In Anti-Japan Leo T. S. Ching traces the complex dynamics that shape persisting negative attitudes toward Japan throughout East Asia. Drawing on a mix of literature, film, testimonies, and popular culture, Ching shows how anti-Japanism stems from the failed efforts at decolonization and reconciliation, the Cold War and the ongoing U.S. military presence, and shifting geopolitical and economic conditions in the region. At the same time, pro-Japan sentiments in Taiwan reveal a Taiwanese desire to recoup that which was lost after the Japanese empire fell. Anti-Japanism, Ching contends, is less about Japan itself than it is about the real and imagined relationships between it and China, Korea, and Taiwan. Advocating for forms of healing that do not depend on state-based diplomacy, Ching suggests that reconciliation requires that Japan acknowledge and take responsibility for its imperial history.

     
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    ISBN: 9781478003359; 9781478001881
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    Subjects: Asian history; Cultural studies
    Other subjects: anti-Japanism; pro-Japanism; sentimentality; reconciliation; intimacy
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (176 p.)
  5. Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon
    Author: Harms, Erik
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Oakland, California

    Luxury and Rubble is the tale of two cities in Ho Chi Minh City. It is the story of two planned, mixed-use residential and commercial developments that are changing the face of Vietnam’s largest city. Since the early 1990s, such developments have... more

     

    Luxury and Rubble is the tale of two cities in Ho Chi Minh City. It is the story of two planned, mixed-use residential and commercial developments that are changing the face of Vietnam’s largest city. Since the early 1990s, such developments have been steadily reorganizing urban landscapes across the country. For many Vietnamese, they are a symbol of the country’s emergence into global modernity and of post-socialist economic reforms. However, they are also sites of great contestation, sparking land disputes and controversies over how to compensate evicted residents. In this penetrating ethnography, Erik Harms vividly portrays the human costs of urban reorganization as he explores the complex and sometimes contradictory experiences of individuals grappling with the forces of privatization in a socialist country.

     
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  6. Parameters of Disavowal : Colonial Representation in South Korean Cinema
    Author: Jinsoo, An
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Oakland

    The colonial experience of the early twentieth century shaped Korea’s culture and identity, leaving a troubling past that was subtly reconstructed in South Korean postcolonial cinema. Relating postcolonial discourses to a reading of Manchurian action... more

     

    The colonial experience of the early twentieth century shaped Korea’s culture and identity, leaving a troubling past that was subtly reconstructed in South Korean postcolonial cinema. Relating postcolonial discourses to a reading of Manchurian action films, kisaeng and gangster films, and revenge horror films, Parameters of Disavowal shows how filmmakers reworked, recontextualized, and erased ideas and symbols of colonial power. In particular, Jinsoo An examines how South Korean films privileged certain sites, such as the kisaeng house and the Manchurian frontier, generating unique meanings that challenged the domination of the colonial power, and how horror films indirectly explored both the continuing trauma of colonial violence and lingering emotional ties to the colonial order. Espousing the ideology of nationalism while responding to a new Cold War order that positioned Japan and South Korea as political and economic allies, postcolonial cinema formulated distinctive ways of seeing and imagining the colonial past.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780520295308
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    Subjects: Films, cinema; History; Asian history; Media studies
    Other subjects: Korean cinema; colonialism; postcolonial culture; film genre; historical film; space in film; national identity; Cold War; Japan; Kisaeng; South Korea
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (204 p.)
  7. A Proximate Remove : Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji (Edition 1)
    Author: Jackson, Reginald
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  University of California Press

    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How might queer theory transform our interpretations of medieval Japanese... more

     

    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

     

    How might queer theory transform our interpretations of medieval Japanese literature and how might this literature reorient the assumptions, priorities, and critical practices of queer theory? Through a close reading of The Tale of Genji, an eleventh-century text that depicts the lifestyles of aristocrats during the Heian period, A Proximate Remove explores this question by mapping the destabilizing aesthetic, affective, and phenomenological dimensions of experiencing intimacy and loss. The spatiotemporal fissures Reginald Jackson calls "proximate removes" suspend belief in prevailing structures. Beyond issues of sexuality, Genji queers in its reluctance to romanticize or reproduce a flawed social order. An understanding of this hesitation enhances how we engage with premodern texts and how we question contemporary disciplinary stances.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Gay & Lesbian studies; Asian history; Literature: history & criticism
    Other subjects: Social Science; LGBTQ+ Studies; History; Asia; Japan; Literary Criticism; Asian; Japanese
  8. The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity : A Cultural Genealogy of Sinhala Nationalism
    Author: Rambukwella, Harshana
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  UCL Press

    What is the role of cultural authenticity in the making of nations? Much scholarly and popular commentary on nationalism dismisses authenticity as a romantic fantasy or, worse, a deliberately constructed mythology used for political manipulation. The... more

     

    What is the role of cultural authenticity in the making of nations? Much scholarly and popular commentary on nationalism dismisses authenticity as a romantic fantasy or, worse, a deliberately constructed mythology used for political manipulation. The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity places authenticity at the heart of Sinhala nationalism in late nineteenth and twentieth-century Sri Lanka. It argues that the passion for the ‘real’ or the ‘authentic’ has played a significant role in shaping nationalist thinking and argues for an empathetic yet critical engagement with the idea of authenticity.

     
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    ISBN: 9781787351288
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    Subjects: Literature & literary studies; History; Regional & national history; Asian history; Nationalism
    Other subjects: Authenticity; Decolonisation; Nationalism; Sinhala; Buddhism; Dharmapala; Sri Lanka
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (176 p.)
  9. Parameters of Disavowal (Volume 1.0)
    Author: Jinsoo, An
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  University of California Press

    The colonial experience of the early twentieth century shaped Korea’s culture and identity, leaving a troubling past that was subtly reconstructed in South Korean postcolonial cinema. Relating postcolonial discourses to a reading of Manchurian action... more

     

    The colonial experience of the early twentieth century shaped Korea’s culture and identity, leaving a troubling past that was subtly reconstructed in South Korean postcolonial cinema. Relating postcolonial discourses to a reading of Manchurian action films, kisaeng and gangster films, and revenge horror films, Parameters of Disavowal shows how filmmakers reworked, recontextualized, and erased ideas and symbols of colonial power. In particular, Jinsoo An examines how South Korean films privileged certain sites, such as the kisaeng house and the Manchurian frontier, generating unique meanings that challenged the domination of the colonial power, and how horror films indirectly explored both the continuing trauma of colonial violence and lingering emotional ties to the colonial order. Espousing the ideology of nationalism while responding to a new Cold War order that positioned Japan and South Korea as political and economic allies, postcolonial cinema formulated distinctive ways of seeing and imagining the colonial past.

     
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    Language: English
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    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Humanities; Asian history; Film, TV & radio
    Other subjects: History; General; History; Asia; General; Performing Arts; Film; General
  10. The Saburo Hasegawa Reader
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  University of California Press

    Published on the occasion of the 2019 exhibition “Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan,” The Saburo Hasegawa Reader encompasses a selection of writings by the Japanese artist, theorist, essayist, teacher, and curator... more

     

    Published on the occasion of the 2019 exhibition “Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan,” The Saburo Hasegawa Reader encompasses a selection of writings by the Japanese artist, theorist, essayist, teacher, and curator Saburo Hasegawa (1908–1957), translated into English for the first time. Credited with introducing abstract art to Japan in the 1930s, Hasegawa also became influential as a lecturer on Japan and its aesthetic and philosophical traditions in New York and San Francisco before his premature death in 1957. A memorial volume, initiated by the Oakland Art Museum but left unpublished since the 1950s, as well as interviews from students at California College of Arts and Crafts, helps to establish Hasegawa as a thoughtful bridge between East and West and an engaging and thoughtful interpreter of classical and contemporary sources.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780520970922
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    Subjects: The arts: general issues; Asian history
    Other subjects: Art; General; History; Asia; General
  11. Cold War Cosmopolitanism : Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema
    Author: Klein, Christina
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Oakland

    "Han Hyung-mo was a major figure within South Korea’s Golden Age cinema. The director of Madame Freedom (1956), the most famous film of the 1950s, Han made popular films that explored women’s relationship to modernity. He was also a master stylist... more

     

    "Han Hyung-mo was a major figure within South Korea’s Golden Age cinema. The director of Madame Freedom (1956), the most famous film of the 1950s, Han made popular films that explored women’s relationship to modernity. He was also a master stylist who introduced technological innovations and fresh ideas about film form and genre into Korean cinema. This book offers a transnational cultural history of Han’s films, one that foregrounds questions of gender and style.

    Han’s films embody a period style that Klein calls “Cold War cosmopolitanism.” The waging of the Cold War enmeshed South Korea within a network of ties to the Free World. Fostered by political leaders like Syngman Rhee, American institutions such as the US military and the Asia Foundation, and ordinary Koreans, these networks created channels through which material resources, liberal ideas, and cultural texts flowed into and out of Korea. Han and other cultural producers tapped into these networks to create new forms of commercial culture that meshed local concerns with foreign trends.

    Combining extensive archival research and in-depth analyses of individual films, Cold War Cosmopolitanism offers a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on the waging of the cultural Cold War in Asia."

     
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    ISBN: 9780520296503
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    Subjects: Films, cinema; Asian history; Media studies
    Other subjects: Cultural Cold War; Asia; Korea; Cosmopolitanism; Period style; 1950s; Women; Han Hyung-mo; Golden Age; Film
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (321 p.)
  12. Language, Nation, Race : Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) (Edition 1)
    Author: Ueda, Atsuko
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  University of California Press

    A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Language, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when a “national language” (kokugo) was produced to... more

     

    A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

     

    Language, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when a “national language” (kokugo) was produced to standardize Japanese. Faced with the threat of Western colonialism, Meiji intellectuals proposed various reforms to standardize the Japanese language in order to quickly educate the illiterate masses. This book liberates these language reforms from the predetermined category of the “nation,” for such a notion had yet to exist as a clear telos to which the reforms aspired. Atsuko Ueda draws on, while critically intervening in, the vast scholarship of language reform that engaged with numerous works of postcolonial and cultural studies. She examines the first two decades of the Meiji period, with specific focus on the issue of race, contending that no analysis of imperialism or nationalism is possible without it.

     
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  13. Popular Music in Southeast Asia
    Author: Barentdregt, Bart; Keppy, Peter; Nordholt, Henk Schulte
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

    From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book presents a cultural history of... more

     

    From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book presents a cultural history of modern Southeast Asia from the vantage point of popular music, considering not just singers and musicians but their fans as well, showing how the music was intrinsically bound up with modern life and the societal changes that came with it. Reaching new audiences across national borders, popular music of the period helped push social change, and at times served as a medium for expressions of social or political discontent.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789048534555; 9789462984035
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    Subjects: Music; Light orchestral & big band music; World music; Asian history
    Other subjects: Society & culture: general; Politics & government
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (84 p.)
  14. Subjective Lives and Economic Transformations in Mongolia : Life in the Gap
    Author: Empson, Rebecca M.
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  UCL Press, London

    Almost 10 years ago the mineral-rich country of Mongolia experienced very rapid economic growth, fuelled by China’s need for coal and copper. New subjects, buildings, and businesses flourished, and future dreams were imagined and hoped for. This... more

     

    Almost 10 years ago the mineral-rich country of Mongolia experienced very rapid economic growth, fuelled by China’s need for coal and copper. New subjects, buildings, and businesses flourished, and future dreams were imagined and hoped for. This period of growth is, however, now over. Mongolia is instead facing high levels of public and private debt, conflicts over land and sovereignty, and a changed political climate that threatens its fragile democratic institutions. Subjective Lives and Economic Transformations in Mongolia details this complex story through the intimate lives of five women. Building on long-term friendships, which span over 20 years, Rebecca documents their personal journeys in an ever-shifting landscape. She reveals how these women use experiences of living a ‘life in the gap’ to survive the hard reality between desired outcomes and their actual daily lives. In doing so, she offers a completely different picture from that presented by economists and statisticians of what it is like to live in this fluctuating extractive economy.

     
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  15. The Saburo Hasegawa Reader
    Contributor: Johnson, Mark Dean (Publisher); Hart, Dakin (Publisher)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Oakland

    Published on the occasion of the 2019 exhibition “Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan,” The Saburo Hasegawa Reader encompasses a selection of writings by the Japanese artist, theorist, essayist, teacher, and curator... more

     

    Published on the occasion of the 2019 exhibition “Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan,” The Saburo Hasegawa Reader encompasses a selection of writings by the Japanese artist, theorist, essayist, teacher, and curator Saburo Hasegawa (1908–1957), translated into English for the first time. Credited with introducing abstract art to Japan in the 1930s, Hasegawa also became influential as a lecturer on Japan and its aesthetic and philosophical traditions in New York and San Francisco before his premature death in 1957. A memorial volume, initiated by the Oakland Art Museum but left unpublished since the 1950s, as well as interviews from students at California College of Arts and Crafts, helps to establish Hasegawa as a thoughtful bridge between East and West and an engaging and thoughtful interpreter of classical and contemporary sources.

     
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    Contributor: Johnson, Mark Dean (Publisher); Hart, Dakin (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780520298996
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    Subjects: The arts; Asian history
    Other subjects: Saburo Hasegawa; Isamu Noguchi; Japan; United States; New York; San Francisco; abstract art; transnationalism
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (208 p.)
  16. Writing Self, Writing Empire : Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary
    Author: Kinra, Rajeev
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  University of California Press

    Writing Self, Writing Empire examines the life, career, and writings of the Mughal state secretary, or munshi, Chandar Bhan Brahman (d. ca. 1670), one of the great Indo-Persian poets and prose stylists of early modern South Asia. Chandar Bhan’s life... more

     

    Writing Self, Writing Empire examines the life, career, and writings of the Mughal state secretary, or munshi, Chandar Bhan Brahman (d. ca. 1670), one of the great Indo-Persian poets and prose stylists of early modern South Asia. Chandar Bhan’s life spanned the reigns of four emperors: Akbar (1556–1605), Jahangir (1605–1627), Shah Jahan (1628–1658), and Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir (1658–1707), the last of the “Great Mughals” whose courts dominated the culture and politics of the subcontinent at the height of the empire’s power, territorial reach, and global influence. Chandar Bhan was a high-caste Hindu who worked for a series of Muslim monarchs and other officials, forming powerful friendships along the way; his experience bears vivid testimony to the pluralistic atmosphere of the Mughal court, particularly during the reign of Shah Jahan, the celebrated builder of the Taj Mahal. But his widely circulated and emulated works also touch on a range of topics central to our understanding of the court’s literary, mystical, administrative, and ethical cultures, while his letters and autobiographical writings provide tantalizing examples of early modern Indo-Persian modes of self-fashioning. Chandar Bhan’s oeuvre is a valuable window onto a crucial, though surprisingly neglected, period of Mughal cultural and political history. “Adds significant depth to our understanding of the intellectual and cultural atmosphere of the Mughal court at its height.” -RICHARD M. EATON, author of A Social History of the Deccan, 1300–1761 “The fullest study so far of the understudied phenomenon of Hindu writers of Persian. Through the prism of Chandar Bhan’s writings, Rajeev Kinra presents a holistic treatment of the cultural concerns of the Mughal empire’s Hindu ‘men of the pen.’” -NILE GREEN, author of Making Space: Sufis and Settlers in Early Modern India RAJEEV KINRA is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Northwestern University.

     
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    Subjects: Biography: general; Poetry; Asian history
    Other subjects: Biography & Autobiography; General; Poetry; Asian; General; History; Asia; India & South Asia
  17. Fighting for a Living
    Contributor: Zürcher, Erik-Jan (Publisher)
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

    Fighting for a Living investigates the circumstances that have produced starkly different systems of recruiting and employing soldiers in different parts of the globe over the last 500 years. It does so on the basis of a wide range of case studies... more

     

    Fighting for a Living investigates the circumstances that have produced starkly different systems of recruiting and employing soldiers in different parts of the globe over the last 500 years. It does so on the basis of a wide range of case studies taken from Europe, Africa, America, the Middle East and Asia. The novelty of "Fighting for a Living" is that it is not military history in the traditional sense (concentrating at wars and battles or on military technology) but that it looks at military service and warfare as forms of labour, and at the soldiers as workers. Military employment offers excellent opportunities for this kind of international comparison. Where many forms of human activity are restricted by the conditions of nature or the stage of development of a given society, organized violence is ubiquitous. Soldiers, in one form or another, are always part of the picture, in any period and in every region. Nevertheless, Fighting for a Living is the first study to undertake a systematic comparative analysis of military labour. It therefore speaks to two distinct, and normally quite separate, communities: that of labour historians and that of military historians. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

     
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    Contributor: Zürcher, Erik-Jan (Publisher)
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789089644527
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    Subjects: Theatre studies; Asian history
    Other subjects: comparative history europe, asia, middle east; military recruitment; military employment
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (690 p.)
  18. Narrating China's Governance : Stories in Xi Jinping's Speeches
    Author: People's Daily, Department of Commentary
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Springer Nature, Singapore

    This open access book captures and elaborates on the skill of storytelling as one of the distinct leadership features of Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and the President of the People’s Republic of China. It gathers... more

     

    This open access book captures and elaborates on the skill of storytelling as one of the distinct leadership features of Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and the President of the People’s Republic of China. It gathers the stories included in Xi’s speeches on various occasions, where they conveyed the essence of China’s history and culture, its reform and development, and the principles of China’s participating in global governance and cooperating with other countries to build a community of common destiny. The respective stories not only convey abstract and profound concepts of governance in comparatively straightforward language, but also create an immediate emotional connection between the narrator and the listener. In addition to the original stories, extensive additional materials are provided to convey the original context in which each was told, including when and to whom Xi told it, helping readers attain a deeper, intuitive understanding of their relevance.

     
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    ISBN: 978-981-32-9178-2
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    Subjects: Asian history; Cultural studies; Political structure & processes
    Other subjects: History; China—History; Ethnology—Asia; Political science
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (266 p.)
  19. Tsangnyön Herukas sånger : En studie och översättning av en tibetansk buddhistisk yogis religiösa poesi
    Author: Larsson, Stefan
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Kriterium, Gothenburg

    "The core of the book is a complete annotated translation of the collected ‘religious poetry’ (Tibetan: mgur) of the Tibetan yogin Tsangnyön Heruka (gTsang smyon Heruka, 1452–1507). The book also contains a translation of a short ‘catalogue’ (dkar... more

     

    "The core of the book is a complete annotated translation of the collected ‘religious poetry’ (Tibetan: mgur) of the Tibetan yogin Tsangnyön Heruka (gTsang smyon Heruka, 1452–1507). The book also contains a translation of a short ‘catalogue’ (dkar chag) of Tsangnyön’s poetry/songs. These two texts were compiled and printed in 1508 by a group of disciples who wanted to express their devotion to their recently deceased master, and make his insights available for others. The Songs of Tsangnyön Heruka begins with an extensive scholarly introduction to Tsangnyön and his songs, providing the reader with a context to the translations. Following the two translated texts, is an appendix introducing Tibetan Buddhism to the general reader, then comes a glossary explaining some of the key terms used in the songs, and finally some back matters, i.e. end notes and bibliographies.

    Nowadays, Tsangnyön Heruka is mainly known for having written and printed the ‘life story’ (rnam thar) and ‘song collection’ (mgur ’bum) of the famous poet-saint Milarepa (1040–1123). However, Tsangnyön is not only one of Tibet’s foremost authors and poets, he is also one of the best known ‘holy madmen’ (smyon pa) of Tibet. These colourful figures challenged powerful leaders and monks with their peculiar and seemingly crazy ways.

    In sharp contrast to Milarepa’s life story and songs, Tsangnyön’s were gradually forgotten. Tsangnyön’s songs provide us with a fascinating and direct insight into the lifestyle, teachings, and message of the wandering yogins. Moreover, they give us an idea of how it was in Tibet before the Fifth Dalai Lama came to power in the mid-17th century. However, the songs have a direct, down-to-earth, and human message, making them timeless and relevant also for people living in another time and culture.

     

    These songs have never been translated to any language, and they have never been studied thoroughly before."

     
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    Language: Swedish
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    ISBN: 9789188661340
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    Subjects: Poetry by individual poets; Humanities; Asian history; Religion & beliefs; Buddhism; Tibetan Buddhism
    Other subjects: Tsangnyön Heruka; Kagyu; Milarepa; Tibetan Buddhism; Religious poetry; Nature of the mind
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (273 p.)
  20. War as Entertainment and Contents Tourism in Japan
    Contributor: Yamamura, Takayoshi (Publisher); Seaton, Philip (Publisher)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    This book examines the phenomenon of war-related contents tourism throughout Japanese history, from conflicts described in ancient Japanese myth through to contemporary depictions of fantasy and futuristic warfare. It tackles two crucial questions:... more

     

    This book examines the phenomenon of war-related contents tourism throughout Japanese history, from conflicts described in ancient Japanese myth through to contemporary depictions of fantasy and futuristic warfare. It tackles two crucial questions: first, how does war transition from being traumatic to entertaining in the public imagination and works of popular culture; and second, how does visitation to war-related sites transition from being an act of mourning or commemorative pilgrimage into an act of devotion or fan pilgrimage? Representing the collaboration of ten expert researchers of Japanese popular culture and travel, it develops a theoretical framework for understanding war-related contents tourism and demonstrates the framework in practice via numerous short case studies across a millennium of warfare in Japan including: the tales of heroic deities in the Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters, AD 712), the Edo poetry of Matsuo Basho, and the Pacific war through lens of popular media such as the animated film the Grave of the Fireflies. This book will be of interest to researchers and students in tourism studies and cultural studies, as well as more general issues of war and peace in Japan, East Asia and beyond.

     
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    Contributor: Yamamura, Takayoshi (Publisher); Seaton, Philip (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781003239970; 9781000603590; 9781032145693; 9781032145679
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    Subjects: Travel & holiday; Asian history; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: contents tourism; dark tourism; heritage tourism; popular culture; Russo-Japanese War; samurai; World War II; war
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (176 p.)
  21. Sensitive Reading : The Pleasures of South Asian Literature in Translation (Edition 1)
    Contributor: Bronner, Yigal (Publisher); Hallisey, Charles (Publisher)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  University of California Press

    A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What are the pleasures of reading translations of South Asian literature, and what does it take to enjoy a translated text? This volume provides opportunities... more

     

    A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

     

    What are the pleasures of reading translations of South Asian literature, and what does it take to enjoy a translated text? This volume provides opportunities to explore such questions by bringing together a whole set of new translations by David Shulman, noted scholar of South Asia. The translated selections come from a variety of Indian languages, genres, and periods, from the classical to the contemporary. The translations are accompanied by short essays written to help readers engage and enjoy them. Some of these essays provide background to enhance reading of the translation, whereas others model how to expand appreciation in comparative and broader ways. Together, the translations and the accompanying essays form an essential guide for people interested in literature and art from South Asia.

     
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    Contributor: Bronner, Yigal (Publisher); Hallisey, Charles (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Asian history; Anthologies (non-poetry); Literature: history & criticism
    Other subjects: History; Asia; India & South Asia; Literary Collections; Asian; Indic; Literary Criticism; Asian; Indic
  22. Karawitan : Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music, Volume 3
    Contributor: Becker, Judith (Publisher); Feinstein, Alan H. (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  University of Michigan Press

    The twentieth century has spawned a great interest in Indonesian music, and now books, articles, and manuscripts can be found that expound exclusively about karawitan (the combined vocal and instrumental music of the gamelan). Scholar Judith Becker... more

     

    The twentieth century has spawned a great interest in Indonesian music, and now books, articles, and manuscripts can be found that expound exclusively about karawitan (the combined vocal and instrumental music of the gamelan). Scholar Judith Becker has culled several key sources on karawitan into three volumes and has translated them for the benefit of the Western student of the gamelan tradition. The texts in her collection were written over a forty-five-year time period (ca 1930–1975) and include articles by Martopangrawit, Sumarsam, Sastrapustaka, Gitosaprodjo, Sindoesawarno, Poerbapangrawit, Probohardjono, Warsadiningrat, Purbodiningrat, Poerbatjaraka, and Paku Buwana X. The final volume also contains a glossary of technical terms, an appendix of the Javanese cipher notations (titilaras kepatihan), a biographical listing, and an index to the musical pieces (Gendhing).

     
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    Contributor: Becker, Judith (Publisher); Feinstein, Alan H. (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: History; Asian history; Music
    Other subjects: History; Music; Indonesia
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (513 p.)
  23. Brought to Life by the Voice : Playback Singing and Cultural Politics in South India
    Author: Weidman, Amanda
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  University of California Press

    To produce the song sequences that are central to Indian popular cinema, singers' voices are first recorded in the studio and then played back on the set to be lip-synced and danced to by actors and actresses as the visuals are filmed. Since the... more

     

    To produce the song sequences that are central to Indian popular cinema, singers' voices are first recorded in the studio and then played back on the set to be lip-synced and danced to by actors and actresses as the visuals are filmed. Since the 1950s, playback singers have become revered celebrities in their own right. Brought to Life by the Voice explores the distinctive aesthetics and affective power generated by this division of labor between onscreen body and offscreen voice in South Indian Tamil cinema. In Amanda Weidman's historical and ethnographic account, playback is not just a cinematic technique, but a powerful and ubiquitous element of aural public culture that has shaped the complex dynamics of postcolonial gendered subjectivity, politicized ethnolinguistic identity, and neoliberal transformation in South India.

     
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  24. Documentation and Argument in Early China : The Shàngshū 尚書 (Venerated Documents) and the Shū Traditions
    Author: Meyer, Dirk
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    This study uncovers the traditions behind the formative Classic Shàngshū (Venerated Documents). It reveals a genre of “Shū” (Documents) practice that was used creatively by contrasting conceptual communities for socio-philosophical ends. Working from... more

     

    This study uncovers the traditions behind the formative Classic Shàngshū (Venerated Documents). It reveals a genre of “Shū” (Documents) practice that was used creatively by contrasting conceptual communities for socio-philosophical ends. Working from Warring States-manuscript texts, it shows how different communities rewrote old cultural capital, becoming political actors by expanding their scope of action through literary thought production.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110708530; 9783110708417; 9783110708608
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    Subjects: linguistics; Literature: history & criticism; Interdisciplinary studies; History; Asian history
    Other subjects: Chinese Philosophy; Genre; Text formation; Text Performance; Warring Statets Period; Zhou Dynasty; Codicology
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (281 p.)
  25. Austronesian Paths and Journeys
    Contributor: Fox, James J. (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  ANU Press, Canberra

    This is the eighth volume in the Comparative Austronesian series. The papers in this volume examine metaphors of path and journey among specific Austronesian societies located on islands from Taiwan to Timor and from Madagascar to Micronesia. These... more

     

    This is the eighth volume in the Comparative Austronesian series. The papers in this volume examine metaphors of path and journey among specific Austronesian societies located on islands from Taiwan to Timor and from Madagascar to Micronesia. These diverse local expressions define common cultural conceptions found throughout the Austronesian-speaking world.

     
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    Contributor: Fox, James J. (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Asian history; Australasian & Pacific history; Cultural studies; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: Asia Pacific;Ethnographic;Austronesia;Journeys;Cultural
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (366 p.)