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Books in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University series

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    - Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860-1945
    by Alyssa M. Park
    £41.99

    Sovereignty Experiments tells the story of how authorities in Korea, Russia, China, and Japan-through diplomatic negotiations, border regulations, legal categorization of subjects and aliens, and cultural policies-competed to control Korean migrants as they suddenly moved abroad by the thousands in the late nineteenth century. Alyssa M. Park...

  • - Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World
    by Aaron Herald Skabelund
    £23.49

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    - Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education
    by Raja (Assistant Professor of History) Adal
    £43.99

    Beauty in the Age of Empire is a global history of aesthetic education focused on how Western practices were adopted, transformed, and repurposed in Egypt and Japan. Raja Adal uncovers the emergence of aesthetic education in modern schools and its role in making a broad spectrum of ideologies from fascism to humanism attractive.

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    - Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961
    by Cheehyung Harrison Kim
    £48.99

    Heroes and Toilers offers an unprecedented account of life and labor in postwar North Korea that looks at both governance and popular resistance. Cheehyung Harrison Kim traces the state's pursuit of progress through industrialism and examines how ordinary people challenged the state every step of the way.

  • - State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China
    by Charlene E. (Reed College) Makley
    £26.49 - 92.99

    In a deeply ethnographic appraisal, based on years of in situ research, The Battle for Fortune looks at the rising stakes of Tibetans' encounters with Chinese state-led development projects in the early 2000s. The book builds upon anthropology's qualitative approach to personhood, power and space to rethink the premises and consequences of...

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    - Film and Visual Culture in Imperial Japan, 1926-1945
    by Hikari Hori
    £44.99

    In Promiscuous Media, Hikari Hori makes a compelling case that the visual culture of Showa-era Japan articulated urgent issues of modernity rather than serving as a simple expression of nationalism. Hori makes clear that the Japanese cinema of the time was in fact almost wholly built on a foundation of Russian and British film theory as well as...

  • - Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan
    by D. Colin Jaundrill
    £33.49

    In Samurai to Soldier, D. Colin Jaundrill traces the radical changes to Japanese military institutions, as well as the consequences of military reforms in his accounts of the Boshin War (1868-1869) and the Satsuma Rebellions of 1877. He shows how pre-1868 developments laid the foundations for the army that would secure Japan's Asian empire.

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    - Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea
    by Celeste L. Arrington
    £33.99

    Government wrongdoing or negligence harms people worldwide, but not all victims are equally effective at obtaining redress. In Accidental Activists, Celeste L. Arrington examines the interactive dynamics of the politics of redress to understand why not.

  • - The Wartime Celebration of the Empire's 2,600th Anniversary
    by Kenneth J. Ruoff
    £27.49

  • - The Left in Philippine Politics after 1986
     
    £17.99

    A detailed investigation of the contemporary Philippine Left, focusing on the political challenges and dilemmas that confronted activists following the disintegration of the Marcos regime and the reestablishment of electoral democracy under Corazon...

  • - Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State
    by Janis Mimura
    £27.49 - 37.49

    The origins and evolution of technocratic fascism in wartime Japan.

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    - Wounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War
    by Lee K. Pennington
    £32.49

    In Casualties of History, Lee K. Pennington relates for the first time in English the experiences of Japanese wounded soldiers and disabled veterans of Japan's "long" Second World War (from 1937 to 1945).

  • by Charles K. Armstrong
    £23.99 - 41.99

    Armstorng examines the genesis of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) both as an important yet rarely studied example of a communist state and as part of modern Korean history.

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