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Alai has said that he seeks to demystify Tibet and to depict the Tibetan reality--the "noun" rather than the "adjectivized" Tibet offered by some outsiders. The stories collected here present various Tibetan realities, some drawn from legends, others inspired by daily life, by his home village, and by his extensive travels through the region.

Alai has said that he seeks to demystify Tibet and to depict the Tibetan reality--the "noun" rather than the "adjectivized" Tibet offered by some outsiders. The stories collected here present various Tibetan realities, some drawn from legends, others inspired by daily life, by his home village, and by his extensive travels through the region.

The Battle of Okinawa was the last great battle of World War II. In terms of casualties, it was a horrific struggle with over 200, 000 Japanese military and civilians perishing. This the story of an Okinawan schoolboy conscripted by the Japanese to fight the Americans as a child soldier.

The Long Road is the sole work of Korean literature in English that treats the Korean diaspora experience in Australia.

Kim Yeong-nang (1903-1950) is highly reputed in Korea for the delicate lyricism of his poems. Yet in many ways he has remained little known, even in Korea, limited to a small number of often anthologized poems. Although he was a resolute opponent of Japanese colonial rule, he did not suffer frequent imprisonment, or death, so his role as a champion of Korean independence has largely been ignored. Killed in bombing near the start of the Korean ...

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Does our understanding of China's long and complex history of foreign relations help us to understand the rapidly changing involvement of China in the twenty-first century world? This many-sided volume offers a remarkable variety of approaches to these issues.

Offers a study of General Douglas MacArthur's effort to influence the religious life of Japan by suppressing native religions and enabling the propagation of Christianity in that country during the American occupation (1945-1952). This books is an important contribution to the ongoing study of MacArthur, the Occupation, and Christianity in Japan.

Presents is a collection of fifty pieces written between 1978 and 2015 by Charles Horner, a China Scholar, a former US government official, and the author of the two-volume work Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate. The pieces originally appeared in general interest publications.

Presents is a collection of fifty pieces written between 1978 and 2015 by Charles Horner, a China Scholar, a former US government official, and the author of the two-volume work Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate. The pieces originally appeared in general interest publications.

Novelist Liang Xiaosheng's Confessions of a Red Guard relates minor, intensely personal incidents affecting ordinary people during this extraordinary historical period. In the author's odyssey as a young Red Guard, he is witness to public humiliations of "counterrevolutionaries", an execution, a budding romance, and stolen pleasures with forbidden books.

Novelist Liang Xiaosheng's Confessions of a Red Guard relates minor, intensely personal incidents affecting ordinary people during this extraordinary historical period. In the author's odyssey as a young Red Guard, he is witness to public humiliations of "counterrevolutionaries", an execution, a budding romance, and stolen pleasures with forbidden books.

Wang Meng is the only Chinese writer who really understands China", according to noted sinologist Merle Goldman. His memoir is a colourful record of life in an eventful era when one could get up in the morning a CCP official and go to bed an "enemy" of the people.

Wang Meng is the only Chinese writer who really understands China", according to noted sinologist Merle Goldman. His memoir is a colourful record of life in an eventful era when one could get up in the morning a CCP official and go to bed an "enemy" of the people.

Conventional scholarship reads the story of Japan's late 19th-early 20th century encounter with China backward through the lens of wartime, cherry picking evidence to develop a picture consistent with Japan's later acts of aggression. Using a wealth of resources, including diaries, newspaper accounts, and contemporary journals, Asia for the Asians: China in the Lives of Five Meiji Japanese dispenses with dominant narratives to explore the Meij...

The Life We Longed For examines high-rise housing projects called danchi that were built during Japan's years of "high speed economic growth" (1955-1972) to house aspiring middle-class families migrating to urban areas. Due to their modern designs and the well-documented lifestyles of their inhabitants, the danchi quickly entered the social imagination as a "life to long for" and ultimately helped to redefine the parameters of middle-class asp...

This anthology by the students and colleagues of University of Pennsylvania East Asian History Professor Francis Hilary Conroy reflects his values and goes beyond the extensive memorializations already tendered to Professor Conroy by his professional organisation, the Association for Asian Studies. This book is intended as an enduring tribute in a scholarly medium he would have appreciated.

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The Treatise on the People of Wa is the oldest written text that we have about that place now known as Japan. Saeki Arikiyo takes a straightforward philological approach to the text, analysing it character by character in comparison to countless other early texts in an effort to explain the meaning of the text in its time.