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- Summary, etc."As the first book in English on the origins of Japanese historiography, using both archaeol...... this book examines the connection bet......ient Japan and the Korean kingdom of Paekche and how tutors from the kingdom of Kara helped to lay the foundation for......terate culture in Japan. Illustrating how tutors from the kingdoms of Kara and Paekche taught Chinese writing to the Japanese court through the prism of the highly civilized culture of Paekche, the book goes on t...... tutors guided the early Japanese court through writing, recording family history, and ultimately an early history of the ruling family. As the Jap...
- ContentsThe Medium: the Mechanics of Writing History Words and Their Meaning Mythical Beginnings and Beginning of Myth From Kings to Heavenly Sovereigns The Beginnings of Writing a History The Tenmu-Jitō Historiographical...
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- Summary, etc."Goto introduces the diverse and mu......ural astronomy of the peoples of the Japanese archipelago. Going as far back as the Jomon, Yayoi and Kofun periods, this book examines the significance of constellations in the daily life of farmers, fishe......s, priests and the ruling classes throu......t and medieval history. As well as covering the systems of the dominant Japanese pe...... also explores the astronomy of the Ainu people of Hokkaido, and of the people of the Ryukyu islands. Along the way he discusses the importance of astronomy in official rituals,......thology, and Shinto and Buddhist......nique overview of cultural astronomy in Japan a...
- ContentsIntroduction Japa...... and star lore of the Japanese Stars in mythology and ......ture Star lore of the Hokkaido Ainu Ethnoastronomy in the Ryukyu Islands......chaeoastronomy of prehistoric Ja......n star legends in Japanese folk ......Cosmology seen in house and burial orientation of the Hokkaido Ainu, Northern Japan The sun and the Kingdom of Ryukyu : an ethnohistorical a...
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- Summary, etc."Asia as we know it today is the product of a vast range of polity expansi...... over time. Whether we examine the Guptas, Cholas......has or Mughals in South Asia, the Chinese polities, Nanzhao, the Tibetans, Khitan, Jin, Mongols, Kore......ese or Manchus in East Asia, or the Khmers, Vietna......ai, or Burmans in Southeast Asia, aspects of the effects of these expansions a...... still evident in the region today. ...... not reflected in the longstanding and widely he......view that East Asian polities were not interested in expanding their territory. In contrast, this......ests that East Asian political leaders were indee...
- ContentsAsian Expansions : an Introduction / Geoff Wade Why Do E......eter C. Perdue Asian States and Ov......An Approach to the Problem of European Excep...... Tonio Andrade The "Native Office" System : A Chinese Mechanism for Southern Territorial ...... Millennia / Geoff Wade The Southeast Asian Mainland and the World Beyond : Rethinking Assumptions /......ctor Lieberman The Thirteenth Province : Internal Administration and E......rnal Expansion in Fifteenth Cent......hn K. Whitmore The Vietnamese Emp......tate Expansion in the Thonburi and Early Bangkok Period......Junko Politics of Integration and Cultures of Resistance : A Study of Burma...
- Subject HeadingHISTORY / Asia / General. HISTORY / World. POLIT......onialism. East Asia--Historical geography. Southeast Asia--Historical geography. East Asia--Territorial expansion--History. Southeast Asia--Territorial expansion--History. East Asia--Colonies.
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- ContentsIntroduction Myth......d mental space The prehistories of Japan and Indonesia The enterprise of rice cultivation The evidence of the teeth and skulls Breaking the DNA code Breaking the language code : the words that tell the story The world enchante...... a consilience of induction.
- Subject HeadingYayoi culture. Japan -- History -- To 645.
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- Summary, etc."Concentrating on the rivalry between the formal and informal empires of Great Britain, Japan and the United States of America, this book examines how regional......ere negotiated in Asia and the Pacific during the interwar years. A range of international organizations including the League of Nations and the Institute of Pacific Relati......ns, as well as internationally minded intellectuals in various countries intersected with each other, forming a type of regional governance in the Asia-Pacific. This ......ccelerated and the United States ...... a major power in the region. This was further reinforced by big foundations, inc...
- ContentsUnderstanding trans-Pacific interactions : the liberal inter-imperial order in the "Pacific" regi....../ Tomoko Akami The Institute of Pacific Relati......) : hidden origins of IR study / Sei......cognition" and the Institute of Pacific Relati......shie Takamitsu International cul......hange programs in the prewar period ......cculturation : the Japan-America ......Conference and the Philippines-Japan Studen......uyuki Nakamura The regeneration of international society in the Asia-Pacific : toward the postwar years ......rratives reexamined : through the eyes of Edwin O. Reischauer ......ections : focusing on the period after he left ...
- Subject HeadingInternational age......-Pacific Area--History--20th century ......Area--Colonial influence
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- Summary, etc.... normally used in relation to the Indian subcontinent, is rarely ......ted with Japan in contemporary s......ot always been the case, and the term was often used among ......er generations of scholars, who introduced the Buraku problem......and that a combination of ideas, beliefs......actices rooted in Confucian, Buddhist, Shinto, and militar......re brought together from the late 16th Century in ways that influenced the development of institutions and ...... structures on the Japanese archipelago. These influences brought the social structures closer in form and substance to certain caste formations found in the Indian subcontinent durin...
- Subject HeadingCaste--Japan--History. Caste-based discrimination--Japan--History.
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- Subject HeadingTheater--China--History. China--History--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.
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- ContentsAustronesian cultural origins : out of Taiwan, via the Batanes Island......r a late onset of agriculture in the lower Yangtze ...... archaeobotany of rice / Dorian Q. Fuller, Ling Qin, and Emma Harvey Livestock in ancient China : an archaeoz......perspective / Jing Yuan, Han Jian-Lin, and Roger Ble......Stratification in the peopling of China : how far does the linguistic evidenc....../ Roger Blench The expansion of setaria farmers in East Asia : a linguistic and arc......Laurent Sagart The integrity of the Austronesian l....../ Malcolm Ross The Formosan langu......me perspective of Formosan aborigines / Paul Jen-Kuei Li To which...
- Subject HeadingPrehistoric peoples -- East Asia. Anthropological linguistics -- East Asia. Agriculture, ......storic -- East Asia. Domestication -- East Asia. Human beings -- Migrations. East Asia -- Antiquities.
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- Summary, etc."Bringing a fresh persp......rea, this book offers a critical......urce-based examination and assessment of the roles of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (KPG) and the United States during WW2 in the rebirth of Korea as a nat...... state. Presenting original research fro......rican sources, the first half of this book explores how the US policy regarding the independence of the Korean peninsula was articulated by the US, and how it......med to prevent the domination of Korea by either China or the Soviets. Chapters 4-5 introduce the US's policy of utilizing Korean soldiers on the battlefield against Japan, an...
- ContentsWorld War Two and U.S. policy in East Asia Korean nationalists between the US and China The US policy of utilizing Korean soldie......ations between the United States and the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea The beginnings of the U.S- South Korea alliance fro...
- Genre/Form TermsHistory
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- Summary, etc.... comprehensive history of the modern Chinese navy from 1840 to the present. Beginning with a survey of naval developments in earlier imperial times, the book goes on to show how China has since the mid-nineteenth century......ts navy: after the Opium Wars, a ......or captured by the Japanese in the war of 1894-5; during the 1920s and 1930s, a navy again sunk or lost to Japan, in the war of 1937-45; in the 1950s, a navy ......tagnated following the Sino-Soviet split in the early 1960s; and fourthly the present navy w......ssor, but with the most modern sections dating from the 1990s - a navy which continues to grow and prosper. The b...
- ContentsPreface : Four Periods of modern Chinese naval development Introduction : China's modern navy in historical perspective : the importance of coastal defense strategies The origins of the "modern" navy under the Qing dynasty The first opium war and Chinese naval modernization The Chinese navy in the second opium war, in Okinawa, and in Annam China's navy and the sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895 The Chinese navy's incomplete modern......westernization The "new army" reforms and the Chinese navy's impact of the Xinhai revolution The nationalist na......2 through 1938 The post-world war......t navy through the Chinese civil war Founding th...
- Subject HeadingChina. Zhongguo ren min jie fang jun. Hai jun--History Navies--China--History China--History, Naval--1912-1949 China--History, Naval--1949- China--History, Naval--19th century
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- ContentsIntroduction : lies or truth? China before the Mongol conquest The Mongols and their conquests The journey and the writing of the book No Great ......rco's journeys in China, part 1 : the route into China Marco's journeys in China, part 2 : Kha......rco's journeys in China, part 3 : Gio......k, cranes and other creatures Wine, women and poison Military a...
- Subject Heading...23? -- Travels of Marco Polo. Juan-dynastie. China -- History -- Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368 --...
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- Summary, etc."Shedding new light on how the histories of zainichi Koreans ha......book addresses the roots of postwar debates concerning the wartime experiences of Koreans in Japan. Providing an overview of the complicated hi......y, it explores the experiences of Koreans locate......at Ground Zero in Hiroshima and ......ki, as well as the history and processes ......d Korean women into military prostitution. These debates and ......troversies continue to attract a...... demonstrates, they are deeply embedded in ideas dating back decades ......arlier. By tracing the roots of these debates in historical writings from local history groups t...
- ContentsFoundational narratives of forced recruit......d forced labor History and the politics of testimony: Kor......re/not victims of forced recruit......ntested spaces of ethnicity: Zainichi Korean accounts of the atomic bombings Journalists'......zens' debates: early narratives of enforced milit......ostitution Telling the story today: problematizing the so-called 'comfort women issu...
- Subject HeadingKoreans--Japan--History--20th century....... labor--Japan--History. Japan--Social conditions--19...
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- Summary, etc....conomic change in Southeast Asia of the last two hundr......bstantial than in any previous age as the impact of the Industrial Revolution intruded into the region and, pa......ticularly over the last fifty yea......ifested itself in patent and tangible measures of the region's productivity reflecting unprecedented sustained economic gro...... book analyses the Southeast Asian experience of educational de......ough a variety of micro-historical studies on the subject of education, pol......y and practice in the region from the emergence of modern education to the end of the twentieth century, the book examines if there is an ...
- ContentsIntroduction / Pi......a Identity and the Shifting Value of the Classical Past: A Case Study of King Kyansittha in Burmese History Textbooks, 182...... Rosalie Metro The legend of the "lost book" and the Value of Education Among the Karen People in Myanmar and Th......Maria Jolliffe The Modernisation of Female Education and the Emergence of Class-conflict......iterate Groups of Women in Siam 1870-1910......ong Thailand's Early Adult Education in Textbooks: Inclusion, Exclus......40-1944 / Wasitthee Chaiyakan Contesting Chinese Education: Schooling in the Kuomintang Chinese Diaspora in Northern Thailand, 19......cation, Shoemaking and the Emergenceof a Nation...
- Genre/Form TermsHistory.
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- Summary, etc."The city of Kyoto has unde......radical shifts in its significan......ntre, as a hub of the national burea...... as a site for the production and display of art. However, the field of Japanese history and culture la......ty with a changing identity. Examining cultural production in the city of Kyoto in two periods of political tran......r step forward in advancing our knowledge of Kyoto's history and culture. I...... two centuries in Kyoto's history in which the old capital wa......olitically marginalised: the seventeenth century, when the centre of power shifted from the old imperial capital to the new warriors' capital of Edo;...
- ContentsIntroduction / Mo......t One Warriors in the capital : Kobo......f decoration : the Princeton Sagamigaw......erial memory : the formation of Kyoto Imperial...... Park as sites of cultural reviv...... Y. Tseng Rescuing temples and empowering art : Naiki Jinzaburo and the rise of civic initiatives in Meiji Kyoto / ...... Naturalism fusing past and present : the reconfiguration of the Kyoto School of Painting and the revival of the textile industry / Julia Sapin Epilogue: A Ky...... from Meiji to early Showa period / Toshio Watanab...
- Subject HeadingKyoto (Japan)--Intellectual life......-Japan--Kyoto--History. Arts and soci......-Japan--Kyoto--History. Kyoto (Japan)--History. Kyoto (Japan)......-Japan--Kyoto--History. Visual commun......-Japan--Kyoto--History. Social change......-Japan--Kyoto--History. Japan--History--Tokugawa peri......0-1868. Japan--History--Meiji period, 1868-1912.
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- ContentsIntroduction History in the imperial curriculum of Malaya and Singapore (1899-1930s) Teaching history and imperial citizenship in the 1930s The beginnings of the "decolonization" of colonial educa......942-1952) Creating an "Asia-centric" history syllabus for a......ommon national history in the early postcolonial s......te (1959-1965) The formation of a "Malaysian-centric" history syllabus Separation and a "Singapore-centric" history syllabus Conclusion.
- Subject HeadingEducation--Malaysia--History. Education--Singapore--History. Education--Cu......n--Curricula--Singapore. History--Study and teaching--Malaysia. History--Study and teaching--Singapore. Postcol......tcolonialism--Singapore. Malaysia--History--Study and teaching--Malaysia. Singapore--History--Study and teaching--Singapore.
- Author HeadingBlackburn, Kevin, 1965- Wu, ZongLun.
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- Summary, etc."The Nixon or Guam Doctrine of 1969 stressed the importance of progress towar......ooperation and Asian collective security, indicating that Asian countries themselves should take the initiative in creating programs in which the United States ...... book analyses the development of United States ......n policy on Southeast Asia and its import......long-term planning for the region that had been the general aim of successive Ame......an post-war administrations. The author demonstrates the link between econo......ctive security in Southeast Asia, placing regionalism in an international context by examining the influence United State...
- ContentsEarly initiatives from Asia, 1944-1950 Mil...... 1949-1952 Continuity under a "n......ion, 1965-1969 The Nixon doctrine, 1969-1972 Closer regional c...
- Genre/Form TermsHistory.
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- Summary, etc."The end of Japan's empire...... shows, it was in fact very mess...... a long period of establishing or re-establishing the postwar order. Moreover, as the authors argue,......rlives, which, in the case of Japan's empire......book considers the details of de-imperialization, including repatriation of Japanese personnel, the redrawing of boundaries, is......with prisoners of war and war criminals, new arrang......atic political institutions, for media and for the regulation of trade. It also discusses the continuing impact of empire: on the countries rule......re as a result of Japanese management and administration, both formal and inf...
- ContentsIntroduction: Angles of empire Section One. The new postwar order : meaning and significance Kato Kiyofumi The decline of the Japanese Empire and the transformation of the regional order in East Asia Kawashima Shin "De-imperialization" in early postwar japan : adjusting and transforming institutions of empire Barak K......macy Araragi Shinzo Collapse of the Japanese empire and the great migratio......ation, and remaining behind Section Two. War criminals, POWs, and the imperial break...... Sandra Wilson The shifting politics of guilt : the campaign for the release of Japanese war criminals Sarah Kovner Allied POWs in Korea : life and death during...
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- Summary, etc."Xinjiang, China's far northwestern province where the majority of the population are......, was for most of its history contested territory. On the Silk Road, a region of overlapping cultures, the province was virtually independent until the late nineteenth century, nominally part of the Qing Empire, with considerable interest taken in it by the British and the Russians as part of their Great Game rivalry in Asia. Ruled by warlords in the early twentieth cent......t was occupied in 1949-50 by the People's Liberation Army, since when attempt......e been made to integrate the province more fully into China. This book outlines t...
- ContentsSilk Road city in the land of mountain and desert Kashgar and the Chinese Republic, 1......49 Kashgar and the Eastern Turkes......strations from the Hook Collection The view from Chinibagh 1: Britain's Consulate-General in Kashgar and Xinjiang under Governor Jin Shuren The view from Chinibagh 2: the Consulate-General and the 1933-4 revolt in southern Xinjiang Communist activists in the Kashgar region during the 1930s and 1940......r security and the battle against the British and sm......glers: Hu Dong in Tashkurgan Tax......urrency reform in Kashgar Education and running a county: Li Yunyang in Kashgar and Maralbashi (Bachu...
- Subject Heading...IENCE / Ethnic Studies / General. Kashi (China)--History--20th century. China--Kashi.
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- Contents"Eastminster" : decolon......and state-building in British Asia / H. Kumarasingham British co......al thought and the emergence of bills of rights in Britain's overseas territories in Asia at decolonizat......rles O. H. Parkinson Discretiona......reserve powers of heads of state / Anne T......British misreading : Sir Ivor Jennings' early assessment of the Indian constituti......ical appraisal of centralization......an "Specialist in omniscience" :......d Sir Ivor Jennings' engagement ......onstitution making in Malaysia, 1956......stitution drafting as cold war r......: Sir Ivor Jennings and Nepal's ......lliam Ivor Jennings : a centennial paper / A. W...
- Subject HeadingConstitutional history--South Asia. Constitutional law--South Asia--English influences.
- Author HeadingKumarasingham, Harshan, 1979-
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- Contents"The usual intercourse of nations": the British in pre-Opium War ......arroll British intervention in the Taiping Rebellion / S...... R. Platt Britain and China, and India, 1830s-1947......Robert Bickers The interest of our colonies s......ia and Anglo-Chinese relations / Benjamin Mountford "Coo......ong?": Conflicting British and Chinese attitudes towards Chinese contract workers in World War One ......aul J. Bailey Sino-British relations in railway constr......Hirata Foreign investment in modern China: an analysis ......cus on British interests / Chen Qianping Curative finance: Francis A......d markets, and the early republic, 1911-1928 / H...
- Subject Heading...ns. Great Britain--Foreign relations--China. China--Foreign rela......ns--Great Britain. China. Great Britain.
- Title HeadingRoutledge studies in the modern history of Asia (2005) ; 108.