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Tag Archives: books
Book announcement: Grounds of Judgment: Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan
Author: Pär Cassel ISBN-10: 0199792054 ISBN-13: 9780199792054 Published: Oxford University Press, USA Pages: 272 Language: English Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, the nineteenth century encounter between East Asia and the Western world has been narrated as a … Continue reading
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Job Opening: Librarian, Robert Allerton Art Research Library
The librarian is responsible for the development and administration of the research library and supports the programs, research activities of the Academy, and provides reference and research assistance to members of the academic and general community. The librarian will create, … Continue reading
Book Announcements: Modernism and Japanese Culture, Politics and Religion in Modern Japan, Rethinking Japanese Modernism
Modernism and Japanese Culture By Roy Starrs. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 344 pages. Paperback: $25, Hardcover: $80. Webpages: UK: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=360186; US:http://us.macmillan.com/modernismandjapaneseculture/RoyStarrs Offering an in-depth and comprehensive account of the complex history of Japanese modernism, in this book Roy … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: Voices of Early Modern Japan. Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life during the Age of the Shoguns
Constantine Nomikos Vaporis. Greenwood Press,2012. 254 pages. ISBN 978-0-313-39200-9 eISBN 978-0-313-39201-6. Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life during the Age of the Shoguns spans an extraordinary period of Japanese history, ranging from the unification of the … Continue reading
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Book announcement: From Sovereign to Symbol: An Age of Ritual Determinism in Fourteenth Century Japan
Thomas Donald Conlan ISBN13: 9780199778102 ISBN10: 0199778108 Hardback, 256 pages Fourteenth-century Japan witnessed a fundamental political and intellectual conflict about the nature of power and society, a conflict that was expressed through the rituals and institutions of two rival courts. … Continue reading
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Book announcement: Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo12046404.html Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that reason, Japanese Buddhism’s social and economic base has long been in mortuary service–a base now threatened by public … Continue reading
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Book announcement: Laughing Wolf
Laughing Wolf By Tsushima Yuko Translated from the Japanese by Dennis Washburn Iv + 240 pp., Copyright 2011 ISBN 978-1-929280-69-8. Paper only. $20.00 Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, Number 73 Publication Date: 9/22/11 Published by the Center for Japanese … Continue reading
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Book announcement: Nowaki
Nowaki Natsume Soseki Translated and with an Afterword and Chronology By William N. Ridgeway vii + 120 pp., Copyright 2011 ISBN 978-1-929280-68-1. Paper only. $15.00 Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, Number 72 Publication Date: 6/13/2011 Published by the Center … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: Dealing With Disaster in Japan: Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash
Just as the sinking of the Titanic is embedded in the public consciousness in the English-speaking world, so the crash of JAL flight JL123 is part of the Japanese collective memory. The 1985 crash involved the largest loss of life … Continue reading
Book announcement: Japan’s Postwar
Edited by Michael Lucken, Anne Bayard-Sakai, Emmanuel Lozerand Translated by J. A. A. Stockwin Historical surveys of postwar Japan are usually established on the grounds that the era is already over, interpreting “postwar” to be the years directly proceeding World … Continue reading
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