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Book announcement: History Without Borders: The Making of an Asian World Region, 1000-1800

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Paula

History Without Borders: The Making of an Asian World Region, 1000-1800 Geoffrey C. Gunn (Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press, 2011) With 20 col illus, 4 maps. Hardback   444 Pages ISBN 9789888083343 Description Astride the historical maritime silk … Continue reading →

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Now Available: The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight

Posted on September 13, 2011 by LM

When I came to Japan as a JET Program CIR in 2009, I was completely befuddled by how to feed myself. With my 2kyuu certification in hand, I could read and speak Japanese well, but trying to adjust my favorite … Continue reading →

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Call for Participants: Workshop – Reading Edo-period texts in the raw

Posted on September 10, 2011 by Paula

Reading Edo-period texts in the raw: learning how to read manuscripts and woodblock-printed books as Edo-period readers read them We welcome applications for the following workshop: “Reading Edo-period texts in the raw: learning how to read manuscripts and woodblock-printed books … Continue reading →

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Rare Book Workshop: “The Art of the Book in Edo and Meiji Japan, 1615-1912”

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Paula

University of Virginia Rare Book School welcomes applications for its upcoming course, “The Art of the Book in Edo and Meiji Japan, 1615-1912,” which will be taught by Ellis Tinios, Honorary Lecturer at the University of Leeds, visiting researcher at … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard:  A Novel in Three Parts

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Paula

A translation of Levy Hideo’s A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard (Seijoki no kikoenai heya, 1992) has recently been published by Columbia University Press.  As the first work of fiction written in Japanese by a white American … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: Cultivating Commons: Joint Ownership of Arable Land in Early Modern Japan

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Paula

Philip C. Brown Cultivating Commons challenges the common understanding of Japanese economic and social history by uncovering diverse landholding practices in early modern Japan. In this first extended treatment of multiple systems of farm­land ownership, Philip Brown argues that it … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: Sex in Japan’s Globalization, 1870–1930: Prostitutes, Emigration and Nation-Building

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Paula

Bill Mihalopoulos London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011 ISBN-10: 1848932014 ISBN-13: 978-1848932012 http://www.pickeringchatto.com/nationbuilding Based on archival research undertaken in Japan and Britain, Mihalopoulos offers a new perspective on the relations between gender hierarchies and the political economy in a newly modernized … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: Japan’s Siberian Intervention, 1918-1922: “A Great Disobedience Against the People”

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Paula

Now available from Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield, as the second title in their New Studies of Modern Japan series. http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=%5EDB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0739146009 Hard cover ISBN: 978-0-7391-4600-2, $75. Soft cover ISBN: 978-0-7391-4601-9, $29.95. The first complete narrative of the … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: NAKAGAMI, JAPAN: Buraku and the Writing of Ethnicity

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Paula

Our book announcements tend to get buried in the files for some reason, so here’s another belated one: — How Japan’s most canonical postwar writer brought that country’s largest social minority into the mainstream NAKAGAMI, JAPAN: Buraku and the Writing … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Digital Gallery of World Picture Books

Posted on June 3, 2011 by tnguyen3729

Are you suffering from Peter Pan syndrome and have a love of picture books? Are you a parent burdened by the fact that your local library doesn’t have many children’s books in other languages? Do you just have a penchant … Continue reading →

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