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Fact or Fiction?
Purnendra Jain and Brad Williams
KEY FEATURE(S) To what extent is Japan in decline? In recent years popular writings, media commentaries and analysts often take the view that the rise of Japan is long since over and that the wold's second largest economy is not just treading water but that society and the economy is failing, with potential catastrophic outcomes. But is this really the case? Could it be that once again Japan is being misread and misinterpreted? Are there not both obvious and less obvious signs of renewal and recovery? And might the new DPJ-led government reform Japan?
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Fact or Fiction?
Edited by Purnendra Jain and Brad Williams
KEY FEATURE(S) To what extent is Japan in decline? In recent years popular writings, media commentaries and analysts often take the view that the rise of Japan is long since over and that the wold's second largest economy is not just treading water but that society and the economy is failing, with potential catastrophic outcomes. But is this really the case? Could it be that once again Japan is being misread and misinterpreted? Are there not both obvious and less obvious signs of renewal and recovery? And might the new DPJ-led government reform Japan?
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A Critical Edition of Xiao Dilu and Yelu Xiangwen
Wu Yingzhe and Juha Janhunen
INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY AND THE UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI
KEY FEATURE(S) This volume contains a state-of-the-art survey of Khitan Small Script studies, accompanied by a critical analysis of two recently discovered and previously unpublished epigraphic documents. The texts are reproduced in the original script, in transcription as well as in facsimile, and are supported by a preliminary translation, linguistic comments and index. This is the first ever critical edition of Khitan texts, and the two epigraphic documents analysed in the volume constitute a substantial addition to the extant corpus of Khitan Small Script materials.
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Sharing the Contested Ground
Beth Meriam
KEY FEATURE(S) This pioneering ethnographic analysis provides a far-reaching critique of ‘ethnic’ China’s changing cultural topography. The study offers a timely reexamination of the complex and subtle processes of identification and belonging in a ‘Tibetan’ autonomous area (Trindu). This work highlights how policies and social categories are anything but self-evident or monolithic: instead, local people are actively engaged in reinterpreting and modifying official policies in practice.
The 1980s social and economic ‘reform and opening up’ in China has involved limited devolution of power, the localization of fiscal responsibilities and a relaxation of many ‘cultural’ and some ‘relig... |
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From the First Alliance to Post 9/11
Edited by Alessio Patalano
KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON
KEY FEATURE(S) This thought-provoking volume explores how, across more than a century, sea power empowered both the UK and Japan with a defensive shield, an instrument of deterrence, and an enabling tool in expeditionary missions to implement courses of actions to preserve national economic and security interests worldwide.
Furthermore, it expands the boundaries of the literature beyond the alliance period by exploring the strategic rationale underpinning the countries’ military policies since the end of the nineteenth c... |
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Biographical Portraits, Volume VII
Edited by Hugh Cortazzi
Published in association with the Japan Society
KEY FEATURE(S) This latest volume of leading figures in the history of Anglo-Japanese relations offers a classic menu of personalities, themes and events (in all 25 contributions)
Contents include the Cambridge scholar Carmen Blacker and leading historian William Beasley, British military observer and Times reporter of the Russo-Japanese War General Sir Ian Hamilton, philosophe... |
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From the Black Mountain to Waziristan
H.C. Wylly
KEY FEATURE(S) While serving in the British Army in the North-West frontier region in the 1890s, Colonel Wylly found that there was no reliable, up to date information on the tribes or on the terrain. His work remains valuable for the detailed descriptions of tribes and their way of life, as well as for the regional background and information on the campaigns waged by the British in an attempt at subjugation.
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[Ainu-Russian Dictionary]
M.M. Dobrotvorskii
KEY FEATURE(S) This dictionary of the Ainu language is highly eclectic: it contains not only words from Sakhalin dialects collected personally by Dobrotvorskii, but also entries from other sources , such as the Japanese-Ainu dictionary Moshiogusa (1793).
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The Tibetan Loanwords of Monguor and the Development of the Archaic Dialects
A. Rona-Tas
KEY FEATURE(S) The specific linguistic position of Monguor is the outcome of the historical development of Monguor society. Monguors became farmers, were settled as border-guards of the Chinese Empire, and subsequently played an important part in the spreading of Tibetan Lamaism. Semantically, Monguor vocabulary reflects this background.
This work is particularly valuable for its extensive notes and the richness of sources cited.... |
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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.... |
