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Histories, Encounters, Identities
Edited by Jacob Edmond, Henry Johnson, Jacqueline Leckie
UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO
KEY FEATURE(S) This volume explores a key new approach to Asian Studies with a particular focus on globalization, diaspora, modernism and modernity. Essentially, it is concerned with two concepts – re-centering Asia by way of asserting the centrality of Asia – such as when Asian locations become centres and microcosms for transnational and global phenomena, but equally importantly re-centering Asia by rethinking Asia in time and place, i.e., not as a unified whole, but as a zone of encounter, exchange and contestation.
For example, among the fourteen contributors to this volume, Barbara Andaya (University of Hawai’i) considers Melaka as a centre of global trade and international piracy in ways previously overlooked.... |
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Subjectivity, Transience and National Identity
Tim Cross
KEY FEATURE(S) This provoking new study of the Japanese tea ceremony (chanoyu) examines the ideological foundation of its place in history and the broader context of Japanese cultural values where it has emerged as a so-called ‘quintessential’ component of the culture.
It was in fact, Sen Soshitsu Xl, grandmaster of Urasenke, today the most globally prominent tea school, who argued in 1872 that tea should be viewed as the expression of the moral universe of the nat... |
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Images and Texts
Ann Fielding
KEY FEATURE(S) This is the first study to examine the effect the Mogols had on Western imagination and the world beyond Christendom. It focuses on images and texts that have been hidden in plain sight for centuries.
In the early thirteenth century, the Mongols who were causing turmoil throughout the known world, were perceived as an Other that Westerners could neither dominate, nor pretend to understand, a people... |
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Contemporary Expressions of Cultural Identity
Henry Johnson
UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO
KEY FEATURE(S) For the first time, using an interdisciplinary, theoretical and ethnographic approach, the editors have brought together a rich collection of current research on contemporary Japanese performance practices. Topics covered include theatre, music, art, fashion and technology, media, architecture and tourism.
Well illustrated, Performing Japan will provide added-value in introductory courses on the Japanese language, history, or culture, as well as Asian Studies in general. In addition, it offers valuable... |
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Takie Lebra
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I
As one of Japan’s leading post-war anthropologists, the writings of Takie Lebra have had a profound impact on Western scholarship, understanding and appreciation of the structures and workings of Japa... |
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EDITED by Sukehiro Hirakawa
PROFESSOR EMERITUS, UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
KEY FEATURE(S) The East-West controversy over the significance of Lafcadio Hearn as a writer, thinker and interpreter of Japan continues unabated.
This volume, edited by one of Hearn’s leading contemporary apologists, in which he is also a significant contributor, draws on some seventy papers delivered at conferences held in four cities in Japan... |
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The Spirit of Renewal
Nils-Johan Jorgensen
Originally published in Norwegian under the title ‘Japan and Germany – Restoration and Power’ (1997), this revised and updated English version provides a rare and insightful analysis of the post-war ‘... |
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EDITED by and Michael Shapiro
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
Minoru Fujita
KANSAI UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) Many of the world’s leading experts on shakespeare and Kabuki are contributors to this important new volume on crossdressing in both traditions - a subject of fundamental importance and enduring debate.
It remains a remarkable coincidence that by the early seventeenth century, from opposite sides of the globe and virtually completely ignorant of each other’s cultures, both the English stage of Shakes... |
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A comparative study of the American, British and Russian campaigns to force the Tokugawa shogunate to conclude treaties and open ports to their ships
William McOmie
KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY
When in 1852 US President Fillmore’s plans to send a large naval expedition to Japan to negotiate a treaty of amity and commerce became known in Europe, Britain decided on a wait-and-see policy, while... |
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COMPILED AND EDITED by Nobuhiro Miyoshi
UNIVERSITY OF HIROSHIMA
KEY FEATURE(S) This is the complete archive of Britain’s ‘lost’ great educationalist, Japan interpreter, pioneer of cross-cultural politics and founding principal of Japan’s Imperial College of
Engineering.
At the age of 24 Henry Dyer (1848-1918) was appointed Principal of the Imperial College of Engineering (later to become part of Tokyo University) and remained in Japan for nine years. On his departure... |
