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  • 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

  • A Fictional Commons

    Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature

    by Michael K. Bourdaghs ...
    Modernity arrived in Japan, as elsewhere, through new forms of ownership. In A Fictional Commons, Michael K. Bourdaghs explores how the literary and theoretical works of Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916), widely celebrated as Japan's greatest modern novelist, exploited the contradictions and ambiguities that haunted this new system. Many of his works feature narratives about inheritance, thievery, and ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Literature among the Ruins, 1945–1955

    Postwar Japanese Literary Criticism

    by Atsuko Ueda, Richi Sakakibara, Hirokazu Toeda, James Dorsey, Ko Youngran, Seiji M. Lippit, Ann Sherif, Michael K. Bourdaghs1, Doug Slaymaker2 ...
    Series series New Studies in Modern Japan
    In the wake of the disaster of 1945—as Japan was forced to remake itself from “empire” to “nation” in the face of an uncertain global situation—literature and literary criticism emerged as highly contested sites. Today, this remarkable period holds rich potential for opening new dialogue between scholars in Japan and North America as we rethink the historical and contemporary significance of such ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Sound Alignments

    Popular Music in Asia's Cold Wars

    Edited by Michael K. Bourdaghs, Paola Iovene, Kaley Mason ...
    In Sound Alignments, a transnational group of scholars explores the myriad forms of popular music that circulated across Asia during the Cold War. Challenging the conventional alignments and periodizations of Western cultural histories of the Cold War, they trace the routes of popular music, examining how it took on new meanings and significance as it traveled across Asia, from India to Indonesia, ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Structure of World History

    From Modes of Production to Modes of Exchange

    by Kojin Karatani ...
    Translated by Michael K. Bourdaghs ...
    In this major, paradigm-shifting work, Kojin Karatani systematically re-reads Marx's version of world history, shifting the focus of critique from modes of production to modes of exchange. Karatani seeks to understand both Capital-Nation-State, the interlocking system that is the dominant form of modern global society, and the possibilities for superseding it. In The Structure of World History, he ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Politics and Literature Debate in Postwar Japanese Criticism, 1945–52

    by Odagiri Hideo, Hirano Ken, Sasaki Kiichi, Hanada Kiyoteru, Kurahara Korehito, Ara Masahito, Nakamura Mitsuo, Nakano Shigeharu, Takeuchi Yoshimi, Haniya Yutaka, Honda Shugo, Kato Shuichi, Kawakami Tetsutaro ...
    Series series New Studies in Modern Japan
    In the wake of its defeat in World War II, as Japan was forced to remake itself from “empire” to “nation” in the face of an uncertain global situation, literature and literary criticism emerged as highly contested sites. Today, this remarkable period holds rich potential for opening new dialogue between scholars in Japan and North America as we rethink the historical and contemporary significance ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Asian Sound Cultures

    Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology

    Edited by Iris Haukamp, Christin Hoene, Martyn Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
    This book examines the meanings, uses, and agency of voice, noise, sound, and sound technologies across Asia.Including a series of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary case studies, the book reveals sound as central to the experience of modernity in Asia and as essential to the understanding of the historical processes of cultural, social, political, and economic transformation throughout the long ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture

    Edited by Kam Louie ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    At the start of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. Understanding its culture is more important than ever before for western audiences, but for many, China remains a mysterious and exotic country. This Companion explains key aspects of modern Chinese culture without assuming prior knowledge of China or the Chinese language. The volume acknowledges the ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Sovereignty and Authenticity

    Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern

    by Prasenjit Duara ...
    Series series State & Society in East Asia
    In this powerful and provocative book, Prasenjit Duara uses the case of Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in northeast China from 1932-1945, to explore how such antinomies as imperialism and nationalism, modernity and tradition, and governmentality and exploitation interacted in the post-World War I period. His study of Manchukuo, which had a population of 40 million and was three times the ... Read more

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  • Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture

    Edited by Edward L. Davis ...
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    This is the first reference book to digest this vast cultural output and make it accessible to the English-speaking world. It contains nearly 1,200 entries written by an international team of specialists, to enable readers to explore a range of diverse and fascinating cultural subjects from prisons to rock groups, underground Christian churches to TV talk shows and radio hotlines. Experimental ... Read more

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  • East Asia Beyond the History Wars

    Confronting the Ghosts of Violence

    by Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Morris Low, Leonid Petrov, Timothy Y. Tsu ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    East Asia is now the world’s economic powerhouse, but ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region, particularly between Japan, China and the two Koreas. Unhappy legacies of Japan’s military expansion in pre-war Asia prompt on-going calls for apologies, while conflicts over ownership of cultural heritage cause friction between China and Korea, and no ... Read more

    $77.99 USD