books by Harvard University Asia Center     books:     Harvard University...      War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005 (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Franziska Seraphim Harvard University Asia Center, 2008 Japan has long wrestled with the memories and legacies of World War II. In the aftermath of defeat, war memory developed as an integral part of particular and divergent approaches to postwar democracy. In the last six decades, the demands placed upon postwar democracy have shifted considerably?from social protest through high economic growth to ...             Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series) Alfreda Murck Harvard University Asia Center, 2002 Throughout the history of imperial China, the educated elite used various means to criticize government policies and actions. During the Song dynasty (960-1278), some members of this elite found an elegant and subtle means of dissent: landscape painting. By examining literary archetypes, the titles of paintings, contemporary inscriptions, and the ...             Hideyoshi (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Mary Elizabeth Berry Harvard University Asia Center, 1989 Berry captures the grand sweep of Japan's great unifier. This book provides an excellent portrait of arguably the most important single individual in Japanese history. Berry's scholarship is abundantly informative without being heavy-handed. This account of Hideyoshi's life reads like a narrative and is rich with references ...             War and Faith: Ikko Ikki in Late Muromachi Japan (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Carol Richmond Tsang Harvard University Asia Center, 2007 During the sengoku era--the period of "warring provinces" in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Japan--warlords vied for supremacy and sought to expand their influence over the realm. Powerful religious institutions also asserted their military might by calling upon their adherents to do battle against forces that threatened their spiritual and ...             A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Paul Rouzer Harvard University Asia Center, 2007 At Last! Finally! A very good text for introducing classical Chinese! I have looked at most of them and as a teaching/learning tool this is head and shoulders above the rest. Really in a class by itself. I first studied Classical Chinese back in the days--yes it is ...             House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930 (Harvard East ... Jordan Sand Harvard University Asia Center, 2005 A house is a site, the bounds and focus of a community. It is also an artifact, a material extension of its occupants' lives. This book takes the Japanese house in both senses, as site and as artifact, and explores the spaces, commodities, and conceptions of community associated with it in the modern era. As Japan modernized, the principles ...             Neo-Confucianism in History (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Peter K. Bol Harvard University Asia Center, 2008 Where does Neo-Confucianism?a movement that from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries profoundly influenced the way people understood the world and responded to it?fit into our story of China?s history? This interpretive, at times polemical, inquiry into the Neo-Confucian engagement with the literati as the social and political elite, ...             An Introduction to Literary Chinese: Revised Edition (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Michael A. Fuller Harvard University Asia Center, 2004 An Interesting Resource with some good Ideas I will admit, I am not a Chinese Clacissit, so I am not interested in devoting myself exclusively to Litterary Chinese. I do enjoy it, though, and this book suits my interests well. The most outstanding feature of this book is the Introduction, which provides an ...             Gendering Modern Japanese History (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Harvard University Asia Center, 2008 In the past quarter-century, gender has emerged as a lively area of inquiry for historians and other scholars, and gender analysis has suggested important revisions of the ?master narratives? of national histories?the dominant, often celebratory tales of the successes of a nation and its leaders. Although modern Japanese history has not yet been ...             Chinese History: A Manual, Revised and Enlarged Endymion Wilkinson Harvard University Asia Center, 2000 An invaluable guide to all aspects of traditional China This is an annotated resarch guide and bibliography, as described by the publisher, but has much more: introductions to the sources available for the writing of traditional Chinese history (up to 1911); shrewd evaluations of reference and research tools involved; ...             From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan's Keynes (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Richard J. Smethurst Harvard University Asia Center, 2007 From his birth in the lowest stratum of the samurai class to his assassination at the hands of right-wing militarists, Takahashi Korekiyo (1854-1936) lived through tumultuous times that shaped the course of modern Japanese history. Takahashi is considered "Japan's Keynes" in many circles because of the forward-thinking (and controversial) fiscal ...             Colonial Modernity in Korea Harvard University Asia Center, 2001 Very progressive approach on the subject I really like to recommend this anthology to all history and Korean studies interested people. The authors address to a very contentious and emotional topic of modern Korean history: the period of Japanese colonialism from 1910-1945. However, this book doesn't cover ...             The Readability of the Past in Early Chinese Historiography (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Wai-yee Li Harvard University Asia Center, 2008 The past becomes readable when we can tell stories and make arguments about it. When we can tell more than one story or make divergent arguments, the readability of the past then becomes an issue. Therein lies the beginning of history, the sense of inquiry that heightens our awareness of interpretation. How do interpretive structures develop and ...             Printing for Profit: The Commercial Publishers of Jianyang, Fujian (11th-17th Centuries) Lucille Chia Harvard University Asia Center, 2003 From the eleventh through the seventeenth centuries, the publishers of Jianyang in Fujian province played a conspicuous role in the Chinese book trade. Unlike the products of government and educational presses, their publications were destined for the retail book market. These publishers survived by responding to consumer demands for dictionaries, ...             War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919 (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Frederick R. Dickinson Harvard University Asia Center, 2001 Extraordinary insights and a fascinating story World War I, the event that changed everything in European and American history, left Japan little touched -- or so it had long been thought. Frederick Dickinson's book stands many accepted truths on their heads. 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