The violent protests in Lhasa in 2008 against Chinese rule were met by disbelief and anger on the part of Chinese citizens and state authorities, perplexed by Tibetans’ apparent ingratitude for the ge
Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution o
Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine is the first book in English on the history of evolutionary theory in Japan. Bringing to life more than a century of ideas, G. Clinton Godart examines how and why Japane
Curtis (political science, Columbia U., and former director of the East Asian Institute) uses his personal knowledge of key Japanese political figures to illuminate the complexities of the contemporar
Since its first publication, Paul A. Cohen's "Discovering History in China" has occupied a singular place in American China scholarship. Translated into three East Asian languages, the volume has beco
Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before the wind," but histo
Mimura (history, State U. of New York, Stony Brook) presents this interesting examination of the economic and bureaucratic architects of Japan's transformation into a modern fascist state in the early
Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China offers the first comprehensive analysis of how China’s current system of land ownership has evolved over the past six decades. Based on extended fie
Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and ambitions. Its members embraced t
Despite a decade of rapid economic development, rising living standards, and large-scale improvements in infrastructure and services, China's western borderlands have experienced a wave of ethnic unre
The Japan Teachers' Union, which represents 500,000 elementary and lower secondary school teachers, is an important interest group in Japanese politics. It is especially significant as a radical group
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
