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  • The Global Environmental Crisis

    The Limitations of Scientific Knowledge and the Necessity of Utopian Imagination

    by John Lie ...
    The Global Environmental Crisis presents a new perspective on our inattention and inaction in the face of a major crisis.We cannot proceed without scientific knowledge, but we cannot exclusively rely on it. What we need, in addition to scientific knowledge, is utopian imagination to make us understand the nature of the crisis and to suggest an alternative vision of a viable future.This book is an ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Multiethnic Japan

    by John Lie ...
    Multiethnic Japan challenges the received view of Japanese society as ethnically homogeneous. Employing a wide array of arguments and evidence--historical and comparative, interviews and observations, high literature and popular culture--John Lie recasts modern Japan as a thoroughly multiethnic society.Lie casts light on a wide range of minority groups in modern Japanese society, including the ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Japan, the Sustainable Society

    The Artisanal Ethos, Ordinary Virtues, and Everyday Life in the Age of Limits

    by John Lie ...
    By the late twentieth century, Japan had gained worldwide attention as an economic powerhouse. Having miraculously risen from the ashes of World War II, it was seen by many as a country to be admired if not emulated. But by the early 1990s, that bubble burst in spectacular fashion. The Japanese economic miracle was over. In this book, John Lie argues that in many ways the Japan of today has the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Social Voices

    The Cultural Politics of Singers around the Globe

    by Jeff Todd Titon, Ruth Hellier, Anthony Seeger, Treva B. Lindsey, Nancy Guy, Carol Muller, Elijah Wald, Andrew Simon, John Lie0, Eric Lott1, Christina D Abreu2, Carol Silverman3, Michael K Bourdaghs4, Kwame Dawes5, Natalie Sarrazin6, Katherine Meizel7 ...
    Singers generating cultural identity from K-Pop to Beverly SillsAround the world and across time, singers and their songs stand at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives. Levi S. Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening as a political act that produces meaning. Contributors explore a wide range of issues by examining artists like Romani icon Esma Redžepova, Indian ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Blue Dreams

    Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots

    by Nancy Abelmann, John Lie ...
    No one will soon forget the image, blazed across the airwaves, of armed Korean Americans taking to the rooftops as their businesses went up in flames during the Los Angeles riots. Why Korean Americans? What stoked the wrath the riots unleashed against them? Blue Dreams is the first book to make sense of these questions, to show how Korean Americans, variously depicted as immigrant seekers after ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • K-Pop

    Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea

    by John Lie ...
    K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations. John Lie provides not only a history of South Korean popular music—the premodern background, Japanese colonial influence, post-Liberation ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Two Dreams in One Bed

    Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria

    by Hyun Ok Park, Ph.D. ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    Rethinking a key epoch in East Asian history, Hyun Ok Park formulates a new understanding of early-twentieth-century Manchuria. Most studies of the history of modern Manchuria examine the turbulent relations of the Chinese state and imperialist Japan in political, military, and economic terms. Park presents a compelling analysis of the constitutive effects of capitalist expansion on the social ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Japan

    A Reinterpretation

    by Patrick Smith ...
    The Japanese are in the process of re-creating themselves--an endeavor they have undertaken at intervals throughout history, always prompted by a combination of domestic and global forces. In this landmark book, Patrick Smith asserts that a variety of forces--the achievement of material affluence, the Cold War's end, and the death of Emperor Hirohito--are now spurring Japan once again toward a ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

  • Making Japanese Citizens

    Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan

    by Simon Andrew Avenell ...
    Making Japanese Citizens is an expansive history of the activists, intellectuals, and movements that played a crucial role in shaping civil society and civic thought throughout the broad sweep of Japan's postwar period. Weaving his analysis around the concept of shimin (citizen), Simon Avenell traces the development of a new vision of citizenship based on political participation, self-reliance, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • A History of Popular Culture in Japan

    From the Seventeenth Century to the Present

    by Dr. E. Taylor Atkins ...
    A 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in Japan provides the first historical and analytical overview of popular culture in Japan from its origins in the 17th century to the present day, using it to explore broader themes of conflict, power, identity and ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Erotic Grotesque Nonsense

    The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times

    by Miriam Silverberg ...
    Series Book 1 - Asia Pacific Modern
    This history of Japanese mass culture during the decades preceding Pearl Harbor argues that the new gestures, relationship, and humor of ero-guro-nansensu (erotic grotesque nonsense) expressed a self-consciously modern ethos that challenged state ideology and expansionism. Miriam Silverberg uses sources such as movie magazines, ethnographies of the homeless, and the most famous photographs from ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Neurotic Beauty

    An Outsider Looks at Japan

    by Morris Berman ...
    Neurotic Beauty is a remarkable reevaluation of Japan’s role in the modern world. It includes a new assessment of the events leading up to the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, and of the potential role of Japanese philosophy in creating a dynamic approach to human nature and our understanding of reality. The book also shows the interrelatedness of various facets of Japanese history and society, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD