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When I Was a Boy in Japan
Sakae Shioya's 'When I Was a Boy in Japan' is a poignant memoir that offers a glimpse into the childhood experiences of the author growing up in Japan. Written in a lyrical and reflective style, the book transports readers to a different time and place, capturing the essence of a bygone era in vivid detail. Shioya's descriptions of traditional Japanese customs, family life, and the natural beauty of the countryside provide a rich tapestry of cultural insights for readers to appreciate. The narrative is filled with nostalgia and a deep sense of longing, making it a compelling read for those interested in Japanese literature and history. Sakae Shioya, a renowned Japanese author and cultural cr...
Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
This book discusses how Western ideas, knowledge, concepts and practices were imported, adapted and even transformed into varied contexts in East Asia. In particular, authors in this rich volume focus on the role translation played in the processes of modernization in China, Japan, and Korea in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Imagining Sisterhood in Modern Chinese Texts, 1890–1937
This book investigates sisterhood as a converging thread that wove female subjectivities and intersubjectivities into a larger narrative of Chinese modernity embedded in a newly conceived global context. It focuses on the period between the late Qing reform era around the turn of the twentieth century and the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, which saw the emergence of new ways of depicting Chinese womanhood in various kinds of media. In a critical hermeneutic approach, Zhu combines an examination of an outside perspective (how narratives and images about sisterhood were mobilized to shape new identities and imaginations) with that of an inside perspective (how subjects saw t...
Asian American Literature
Asian American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students is an invaluable resource for students curious to know more about Asian North American writers, texts, and the issues and drives that motivate their writing. This volume collects, in one place, a breadth of information about Asian American literary and cultural history as well as the authors and texts that best define it. A dozen contextual essays introduce fundamental elements or subcategories of Asian American literature, expanding on social and literary concerns or tensions that are familiar and relevant. Essays include the origins and development of the term "Asian American"; overviews of Asian American and Asian Canadian social and...
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Includes Part 1, Books, Group 1, Nos. 1-155 (March - December, 1934)
The Dawn that Never Comes
A critical rethinking of theories of national imagination, The Dawn That Never Comes offers the most detailed reading to date in English of one of modern Japan's most influential poets and novelists. This book surveys the ideologies of national imagination at play in early-twentieth-century Japan, specifically in the work of Shimazaki Toson (1872-1943). Bourdaghs analyzes Toson's major works in detail, using them to demonstrate that the field of national imagination requires a complex interweaving of varied--and sometimes even contradictory--figures for imagining the national community.
House and Home in Modern Japan
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 that had traditionally related house and family began to break down. Even where the traditional class markers surrounding the house persisted, they became vessels for new meanings, as housing was resituated in a new nexus of relations. The house as artifact and the artifacts it housed were affected in turn. The construction and ornament of houses ceased t...
The Spark of Genius
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