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Pak Chiwon
KEY FEATURE(S) This is the first translation into English of the eighteenth-century Korean masterpiece entitled Yorha ilgi (‘The Jehol Diary’) by Pak Chiwon (1737-1805). The original text was written in classical Chinese and is a notoriously difficult work to translate.
Pak Chiwon diarises the experiences of his remarkable overland journey on horseback from the northern border region of Korea to China’s imperial summer residence in Jehol. Having been commanded by Kin... |
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Zilia Papp
HOSEI UNIVERSITY, TOKYO
KEY FEATURE(S) Japanese anime plays a major role in modern popular visual culture and aesthetics, yet this is the first study which sets out to put today’s anime in historical context by tracking the visual links between Edo- and Meiji- period painters and the post-war period animation and manga series ‘Gegegeno Kitaro’ by Mizuki Shigeru.
Through an investigation of the very popular Gegegeno Kitaro series, broadcast from the 1960s to the present time, the author is able to pinpoint the visual roots of the animation characters in the ... |
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Joanna Elfving-Hwang
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
This book discusses perceptions of ‘femininity’ in contemporary South Korea and the extent to which fictional representations in South Korean women’s fiction of the 1990s challenges the enduring assoc... |
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David Sneath
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
KEY FEATURE(S) A significant aspect of this work is the emphasis on source materials, many being translated from Mongolian and other languages for the first time. The source material and other articles are all fully contextualized and situated by introductory material by the volume’s editors.
This is the first work in English to bring together significant articles in Mongolian studies in one place, which will be widely welcomed by scholars and researchers in this field. This essential ref... |
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Akira Hayami
KEIO UNIVERSITY, TOKYO
KEY FEATURE(S) Doyen of demography studies in Japan at the University of Tokyo, this collection of Akira Hayami’s writings in English brings together for the first time an invaluable resource of comparative primary data on the demographic history of Japan.
Containing twenty key essays, the volume is divided into five parts: Tokugawa Japan, Demography through Telescope, Demography through Microscope, Family and Household, Afterwards. It begins with Phili... |
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Two Lives Lived Above and Below the Clouds
Dorothy Britton
KEY FEATURE(S) The opening chapters, originally published in condensed form, dealing with the early years of the princess, are now translated in full from the original autobiography, providing fresh new insights into the life and times of one of Japan's distinguished noble families and their daughter who was 'chosen' to be a princess.
First published in 1996, and long out of print, translator Dorothy Britton has now had access to additional sources enabling her in a new separate Appendix to address some of the key issues involving ... |
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F.A. McKenzie
KEY FEATURE(S) Author also of From Tokyo to Tiflis covering his personal experiences of the Russo-
Japanese War, McKenzie was an accomplished writer and knew how to tell a good yarn. Yet in the context of today’s socio-political changes on the peninsula and elsewhere the opportunity for a reappraisal of the Japanese occupation of Korea as observed in The Tragedy of Korea could be seen to be both timely and relevant.
First published in 1908 after some ten years’ occupation of Korea by Japan (formal annexation as part of the Japanese empire announced in 1910), F.A.McKenzie’s strident study opens with the words: ‘I ... |
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Peter O’Connor
MUSASHINO UNIVERSITY,TOKYO
KEY FEATURE(S) This study is the first to assess the combined significance of the English-language newspapers of China, Japan and Korea in the period 1918-45. It not only frames the English-language press networks in the international media history of East Asia but also relates them to media developments in the ‘British world’, linking Fleet Street to the Empire and Dominions, and to the rise of the United States as a broker of international opinion on and in the Asia-Pacific.
The English-language newspapers occupied a narrow but significant segment of the public sphere in East Asia in the inter-war years. As forums of opinion on Japanese, Chinese and Western interests in E... |
