2012

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The Politics of FILP and the Politics Equitable Development of Public Finance in Southeast Asia in Japan
Erik Kuhonta
Why do some countries in the developing world achieve growth with equity, while others do not? If democracy is the supposed panacea for the developing world, why have Southeast Asian democracies had such uneven results? In exploring these questions, political scientist Erik Martinez Kuhonta argues that the realization of equitable development hinges heavily on strong institutions, particularly institutionalized political parties and cohesive interventionist states, and on moderate policy and ideology.

The Institutional Imperative

Spending Without Taxation

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Politics & International Relations ..............................2-6 Sociology & Anthropology .................7-10 History .............................. 11-14 Literature.........................14-15 Exam Copy Policy ............ 10 Ordering .................................10
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Gene Park
Governments confront difficult political choices when they must determine how to balance their spending. But what would happen if a government found a means of spending without taxation? In this book, Gene Park demonstrates how the Japanese government established and mobilized an enormous off-budget spending system, the Fiscal Investment Loan Program (FILP), which drew on postal savings, public pensions, and other funds to pay for its priorities and reduce demands on the budget.

This boldly comparative book [P]rovides a compelling rawill be widely read, widely astionale for FILPs importance signed, and widely debated in in Japans postwar political the field. There are few compaeconomy.[N]o one has rable works out there. Kuhontas brought to bear the sustained book should be required reading focus, historical scope, or for those interested in developanalytical rigor that Gene ment, political institutions, state Park has with this book. building, social welfare policies, William W. Grimes, Boston University and Southeast Asia.
Allen Hicken, University of Michigan

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Politics & international Relations

Militants or Partisans

Roots of the State

Neighborhood Organization and Social Networks in Beijing and Taipei
Benjamin L. Read
Roots of the State examines neighborhood-level structures in East and Southeast Asia that occupy a unique space between civil society associations and government-sponsored organizations. Initially created as tools of control, such institutions may underpin a repressive regime such as Chinas, but they also can evolve to empower societies, as in Taiwan. This book engages broad and much-discussed questions about governance and political participation in both authoritarian and democratic regimes. An intimate glimpse into the life and work of the neighborhood organizations that are the states first thread of connection to its citizens.
Mary Gallagher, University of Michigan

Labor Unions and Democratic Politics in Korea and Taiwan

Yoonkyung Lee
The exceptional experiences of South Korea and Taiwan in combining high growth and liberal democracy in a relatively short and similar timetable have brought scholarly attention to their economic and political transformations. This new work looks specifically at the operation of workers and unions in the decades since labor-repressive authoritarian rule ended, bringing Taiwan, in particular, into the literature on comparative labor politics. A strong contribution to the literature on the political economy of East Asia, with interesting implications for studies of labor and democratization more generally.
Stephan Haggard, University of California, San Diego

Comparative Perspectives on Chinas Capitalist Transformation

Beyond the Middle Kingdom

Edited by Scott Kennedy

This book breaks new ground by systematically examining China's capitalist transformation through several comparative lenses. With contributions from leading specialists on Chinas political economy, Beyond the Middle Kingdom compares China with France, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, India, Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa. Doing so puts the PRC in a light not available through other approaches, and includes an important case too often left out of comparative studies. With the advent of this volume, the literature of contemporary Chinese political economy no longer stands alone, but rather is duly blended into the mainstream studies of comparative political economy. Innovative and insightful.
Tun-jen Cheng, College of William and Mary

A great book on the little-known complexities and ironies of labor politics in the new East Asian democracies.
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Hagen Koo, University of Hawaii at Manoa

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Politics & international Relations

Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific, a series sponsored by the East-West Center

Foreign Firms, Change and Continuity Investment, and in Asian International Environmental Relations Since World Regulation in the War II Peoples Republic Alice Lyman Miller and of China Richard Wich Becoming Asia
Does FDI lead to weakened environmental regulation, turning developing countries into pollution havens? In this new book, Phillip Stalley examines Chinese law governing the environmental impact of foreign investors, describes how regional competition for investment has influenced environmental regulation, and analyzes the environmental Alice Lyman Miller and Richard practices of foreign and ChiWich have done a great service nese companies. While he finds in this thorough and thoughtful only modest evidence that volume. The historical depth, detailed analysis, and broad geo- global economical integration has transformed China into a graphic scope of Becoming Asia pollution haven, he identifies put it in a class by itself among the fine surveys of Asian interna- conditions under which FDI tional relations in the last century. contributes to and undermines environmental protection. Robert Sutter, Georgetown University This book is a must for all in336 pp., 1 table, 2 maps, 2011 terested in understanding the 9780804771511 Paper $29.95 $23.96 sale impact of foreign investment 9780804771504 Cloth $80.00 $64.00 sale upon China's environment.
Richard Louis Edmonds, The University of Chicago

The Dragon in the Room

China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization

Kevin P. Gallagher and Roberto Porzecanski

Becoming Asia offers a fascinating and comprehensive account of how the region has evolved since World War II. Unlike existing works, this student-friendly text covers South, Southeast, and Central Asia along with East Asia. It explains how Asia, hardly more than a geographic expression at the end of 1945, became the vibrant, assertive region that it is today.

Phillip Stalley

In the eyes of many, China's unprecedented economic rise has brought nothing but good news to the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Yet the dragon in the room is the fact that China is simultaneously out-competing Latin American manufacturers at home and in world markets so much so that it may threaten the region. The authors findings demonstrate how China's road to globalization has been superior to the route taken by most Latin American nations, and points to areas in which Latin America can bolster its long-term economic growth. A must have for economists, political scientists, policymakers, and anyone else interested in development, political economy, and industrial policy.
Carol Wise, University of Southern California

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Politics & international Relations

Looking for Balance

China, the United States, The Nexus of and Power Balancing in Economics, East Asia Security, and
Steve Chan
Debate surrounding Chinas rise, and the prospects of its possible challenge to Americas preeminence in international relations in East Asia, has focused on two questions, rooted in powerbalancing theory: whether the United States should contain or engage China; and whether the rise of Chinese power has inclined other East Asian states to balance against Beijing by alignment with the United States.

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International Relations in East Asia

Theory, History, and Practice

Competitive Strategies for the 21st Century

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Edited by Avery Goldstein and Edward D. Mansfield

Edited by Thomas G. Mahnken

Leading scholars and practitioners from the United States, Great Britain, and Australia examine the theory and practice of competitive strategiesespecially the practice of competitive strategies during the Cold Warthen assess the U.S.-China military balance in depth and consider the role of Americas allies in the region. The final section of the book explores strategies that the United States could adopt to improve its strategic position relative to China over the long term.
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This book sheds new light on the growth of economic regionalism in East Asia by comparing the current era with the recent past in the region, by drawing some comparisons with evidence from the European experience, and by addressing By drawing on alternative theoretic the increasingly prominent role approaches, Steve Chan is able to of China. It explores a variety create an explanation of what is in of security issues linked with motion in the region that differs regional economic developwidely from the traditional straments, and discusses and evalutegic vision of national interest. ates leading theories that offer explanations for the connection Compellingly argues for serious change in prevalent American for- between economic and security affairs in international politics. eign policy thinking about power dynamics in world affairs, and thus 280 pp., 2012 9780804782746 Paper $29.95 $23.96 sale for how to deal with China and East Asia. It should cool the zealots 9780804782739 Cloth $100.00 $80.00 sale for additional U.S. pursuit of military dominance in distant regions.
Davis B. Bobrow, University of Pittsburgh

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Studies in Asian Security

Politics & international Relations

Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security

From Pacifism to Realism?
Paul Midford

Conflict, Escalation, and Limitations on Two-level Games

Asian Rivalries

Edited by Sumit Ganguly and William R. Thompson

The most typical treatment of international relations is to conceive it as a battle between two Paul Midford engages claims antagonistic states volleying back that since 9/11 Japanese puband forth. In reality, interstate relic opinion has turned sharply lations are often at least two-level away from pacifism and toward games in which decision-makers supporting normalization of Japans military power. He argues operate not only in an international environment but also in that Japanese public opinion a competitive domestic context. has never embraced pacifism. Given that interstate rivalries are It has, instead, contained sigresponsible for a disproportionnificant elements of realism, in ate share of discord in world polthat it has acknowledged the itics, this book sets out to explain utility of military power for just how these two-level rivalries defending national territory really work. By pulling together and independence, but has seen the threads laid out by each offensive military power as contributor, the editors create a ineffective for promoting other grounded theory for interstate goals. On this basis, says Midford, we should re-conceptualize rivalries that breaks new ground in international relations theory. Japanese public opinion as attitudinal defensive realism. This book provides many important details, and therefore a numA ground breaking study of ber of good insights, about key Japanese foreign and security rivalries in the Asian region. policy making.
Thomas U. Berger, Department of International Relations, Boston University Paul F. Diehl, University of Illinois and Director, Correlates of War Project

How China and India Are Influencing the Global Economy and Environment
Carl J. Dahlman
The rapid rise of China and India is reshaping our global economic and environmental systems raising major issues of stability, governance, and sustainability. This book develops a framework that shows the interdependence between economic size, trade, finance, technology, environment, security, and global governance. Author Carl J. Dahlman uses this framework to provide data on the speed of global power shifts and to trace the implications for nations worldwide. Analyzing this critical moment in historical context, he offers insights into our most pressing concerns. A number of authors have looked in tandem at China and India as development challenges for the world. But, the framework presented in The World Under Pressure and the amount of information that Dahlman weaves together make this work a distinctive and worthy read.
Ernesto Zedillo, Yale University and Former President of Mexico

The World Under Pressure

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Studies in Asian Security, East-West Center

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Politics & international Relations

Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World
Vanessa L. Fong

Paradise Redefined Markets and Bodies

Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China

Eileen M. Otis
Examining how gender enables the globalization of markets and how emerging forms of service labor are changing womens social status in China, Markets and Bodies reveals the forms of social inequality produced by shifts in the economy. No longer working for the common good as defined by the socialist state, service workers are catering to the individual desires of consumers. This economic transition ultimately affords a unique opportunity to investigate the possibilities and current limits for better working conditions for the young women who are enabling the development of capitalism in China.

East Asian National Identities

Common Roots and Chinese Exceptionalism
Gilbert Rozman
This rigorous comparative study of national identity in Japan, South Korea, and China examines countries with long histories influenced by Confucian thought, surging nationalism, and far-reaching ambitions for regional importance. East Asian National Identities compares national identities in terms of six dimensions encompassing ideology; history; the salience of cultural, political, and economic factors; superiority as a model national community; displacement of the U.S. in Asia; and depth of national identity. The six-dimensional analysis offers a novel approach to the study of national identity, and the comparative study should be commended.
Gi-Wook Shin, Director, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center

In 2004, Vanessa Fongs Only Hope offered a groundbreaking ethnographic exploration of the social, economic, and psychological development of children born since Chinas one-child policy was introduced in 1979. In Paradise Redefined, Fong tracks the experiences of many in her initial cohort of Chinese onlychildrennow college-ageas they make decisions about studying abroad, staying abroad, immigration, and returning home.

Fongs unique, longitudinal research offers an invaluable key to better understand the singleton generation in China who have come of age in the first decade of the 21st century, and will to [A] beautifully observed, somea great extent determine the times funny and sometimes future of the most populous frightening, account of service country on earth. work, showing how inequalities Yunxiang Yan, of class and gender are being University of California, Los Angeles freshly created in the cauldron of 280 pp., 2011 Chinese capitalism.
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Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney

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sociology & Anthropology

Illicit Flirtations
Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo

Disquieting Gifts
Humanitarianism in New Delhi
Erica Bornstein
Disquieting Gifts takes a close look at people working on humanitarian projects in New Delhi to explore why they engage in philanthropic work, what humanitarianism looks like to them, and the ethical and political tangles they encounter. Motivated by debates surrounding Marcel Mausss The Gift, Bornstein investigates specific cases of people engaged in humanitarian work to reveal different perceptions of assistance to strangers versus assistance to kin, how the impulse to give to others in distress is tempered by its regulation, suspicions about recipient suitability, and why the figure of the orphan is so valuable in humanitarian discourse.

Youth, Class, and the Politics of Waiting in India

Craig Jeffrey
This is a captivating ethnography of the student politics and youth activism of lower middle class young men in India, undertaken in response to pervasive underemployment. It highlights the importance of waiting as a social experience and basis for political mobilization, the micro-politics of class power in north India, and the socio-economic strategies of lower middle classes.

Timepass

Rhacel Salazar Parreas

In 2004, the U.S. State Department declared Filipina hostesses in Japan the largest group of sex trafficked persons in the world. Since then, the number of hostesses entering Japan has dropped by nearly 90 percent; but Rhacel Parreas argues that this drastic declinewhich stripped thousands of migrants of their livelihoodsis in truth a setback. Working alongside migrant Filipina hostesses in Japan, Parreas investigates the impact of being labeled as trafficked victims and explores what governments should do to improve the lives of global migrants.

In this gracefully written book, Craig Jeffrey draws on fine ethnography to explore the little understood world of Indian youth, for long largely neglected by scholars, illuminating Illicit Flirtations presents a nuwhat it means to be a young anced portrayal of the womens man with aspirations and limBornstein has pioneered the homultiple labor and sentimental ited opportunities in todays experiences. Scholars and policy- listic study of aid, and in this deliIndia. A tour de force. cately crafted book she conveys makers should take note. John Harriss, deep insights into international Viviana A. Zelizer, Simon Fraser University and intra-Indian charity and volPrinceton University, author of 232 pp., 2010 Purchase of Intimacy and unteering. An important sequel 9780804770743 Paper $21.95 $17.56 sale Economic Lives: How Culture to The Spirit of Development. 9780804770736 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale
Shapes the Economy

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Jonathan Benthall, University College London

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Stanford Studies in Human Rights

sociology & Anthropology

Youth Migration, Heroin, and AIDS in Southwest China

Shao-hua Liu
Passage to Manhood addresses the intersection of modernity, heroin use, and HIV/AIDS as they are embodied in a new rite-of-passage among young men in the Sichuan province of southwestern China. Through a nuanced analysis of the Nuosu population, this fascinating ethnography seeks to answer why the Nuosu has a disproportionately large number of opiate users and HIV positive individuals relative to others in Sichuan. As impressive an anthropological study as I have read of how the failure of the Chinese state and international organizations to take into account the local moral experiences of real people both causes social suffering and prevents the successful implementation of intervention programs.
Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University,

Passage to Manhood

Christians, Power, and Place in Contemporary Wenzhou

Nanlai Cao

Constructing Chinas Jerusalem

On the Edge of the Global

Niko Besnier

Modern Anxieties in a Pacific Island Nation

This book provides an intimate portrait of contemporary Chinese Christianity in the context of a modern, commercialized economy. In vivid detail, anthropologist Nanlai Cao explores the massive resurgence of Protestant Christianity in the southeastern coastal city of Wenzhoupopularly referred to by its residents as Chinas Jerusalema nationwide model for economic development and the largest urban Christian center in China. The best picture I have seen of the complex pattern of relationships among the different components of contemporary urban Christianity in China today. There is nothing to compare with this stimulating read.
Daniel H. Bays, Calvin College

This illuminating ethnography explores the malaise present in postcolonial Tonga, analyzing the way in which segments of this small-scale society hold on to different understandings of what modernity is, how it should be made relevant to local contexts, and how it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition. Ethnographically acute and open-eared, interpretively imaginative and principled, and always engaging, Besniers book takes Tonga from the edge to the center of new ways of thinking about the global.

Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz

Besniers study of Tonga as a nervous kaleidoscopeof make-up, make-over, bodybuilding, and the pawning and reselling of everyday thingsis sharply observed and beautifully drawn. Clear, smart, witty, and touching.
Anne Allison, Duke University

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

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Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific, East-West Center

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Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific, East-West Center

sociology & Anthropology

Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific, a series sponsored by the East-West Center

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The Lived Experiences of the Elderly in Japan

Edited by Yoshiko Matsumoto
The indisputable fact of Japans rapidly aging population has been known for some time. But beyond statistics, we do not know much about the actual aging process. Faces of Aging foregrounds a spectrum of elder-centered issuessocial activity, care giving, generational bias, suicide, sexuality, to name a fewfrom the perspective of those who are living them. The volumes diverse contributors represent the fields of sociology, anthropology, medicine, nursing, gerontology, psychology, film studies, gender studies, communication, and linguistics, offering a diverse selection of qualitative studies of aging. An outstanding addition to the literature on an increasingly visible and growing segment of the Japanese population that enriches our understanding of the aging process as it is lived by real people, rather than as it is conceptualized by policy makers.
Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith, University of California, Davis

Faces of Aging

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sociology & Anthropology

The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 17701900

Andrea S. Goldman

Opera and the City After Empire

In late imperial China, opera was an integral part of life and culture, shared across the social hierarchy. The Qing capital of Beijing attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by extension, served as a hub for the diffusion of cultural values via performance. By examining opera in Qing Beijing, this work illuminates how the state and various urban constituencies partook of opera and manipulated it to their own ends. Given Beijings political influence, Goldmans analysis of opera and its tensions in the capital also sheds light on empire-wide transformations underway at the time. Goldmans study of Peking opera is thorough, convincing, and fascinating. It will be required reading for scholars of Chinese theater, late imperial culture, Qing history, and gender studies. The scholarship is as good as it gets.
Catherine Swatek, University of British Columbia

The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 18851924

Peter Zarrow
After Empire traces the formation of the modern Chinese idea of the state through the radical reform programs of the late Qing (1885 1911), the Revolution of 1911, and the first years of the Republic through the final expulsion of the last emperor of the Qing from the Forbidden City in 1924. It contributes to longstanding debates on modern Chinese nationalism by highlighting the evolving ideas of major political thinkers and the views reflected in the general political culture. Zarrow uses a wide range of sources and provides fresh interpretations and keen insights into Chinas pivotal transition from dynasty to republic.

Modern Chinas Network Revolution

Chambers of Commerce and Sociopolitical Change in the Early Twentieth Century

Zhongping Chen

This is a deeply researched and intellectually ambitious work. Zarrow speaks with the authorita- This is an insightful, carefully tive and convincing voice of one researched study that should who knows his subject deeply be on the reading list of all who and has thought long and hard are interested in the social and about the issues. economic history of China.
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Henrietta Harrison, Harvard University

An examination of Chinese chambers of commerce and their network development across Lower Yangzi cities and towns, this book details how they achieved increasing integration, and how their collective actions deeply influenced nationalistic, reformist, and revolutionary movements. With both historical narrative and theoretical analysis, this study offers a keen historical understanding of the interaction of Chinese society, business, and politics in the early twentieth century.

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Di Wang, Texas A&M University

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History

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The Culture and Politics of Rice in Modern Canton

Seung-joon Lee

Gourmets in the Land of Famine

The Premise of Fidelity

Occupying Power
Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan
Sarah Kovner
Occupying Power shows how intimate histories and international relations are interconnected in ways scholars have only begun to explore. Although sex workers became symbols of Japans diminished status, by earning scarce dollars they helped jumpstart economic recovery. But sex workers who catered to servicemen were nonetheless a frequent target. This probing history reveals an important but underexplored aspect of the Japanese occupation and its effect on gender and society. It seeks to shift the terms of debate on a number of controversies, including Japans history of forced sexual slavery, rape accusations against U.S. servicemen, opposition to U.S. overseas bases, and sexual trafficking. A path-breaking work of Japanese history, this book will serve as the base line for studies in the history of sex work in postwar Japan for many years to come.
William Johnston, Wesleyan University

Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in NineteenthCentury Japan

Maki Fukuoka

The Premise of Fidelity puts forward a new history of Japanese visuality through an examination of the nineteenth century transposition of the real in the decades before photography was introduced. This intellectual history is informed by an examination of a network of local scholars, known as ShhyakuIn this creative and thoroughly sha, who shaped the concept of researched book, Seung-joon shasin, which would, years later, Lee explores a vitally important but largely ignored topic in Chi- come to signify photography nese history: rice. Lee situates the in Japanese. A fascinating case study that disrupts the dominant marketing and consumption of narratives of photography, art, rice at the intersection of major forces in the early twentieth cen- and science in Japan, this voltury, from imperialism and revo- ume also includes a sampling of lution, to regionalism and nation- color plates that bring to life the renderings of the Shhyaku-sha. alism, to urban modernization. Steven B. Miles, A major contribution to visual author of The Sea of Learning: and intellectual studies of nineMobility and Identity in teenth-century Japan. Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou
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Luke Gartlan, University of St. Andrews

A study of the politics of rice in Canton, this book sheds new light on the local history of the city, and illuminates how Chinas struggles with food shortages in the early twentieth century unfolded and the ways in which they were affected by the rise of nationalism and the fluctuation of global commerce.

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History

The Cold War in East Asia, 19451991

Edited by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
The Cold War in East Asia studies Asia as a second front in the Cold War, examining how the six powersthe U.S., Soviet Union, China, Japan, and North and South Koreainteracted and forged conditions that were distinct from the Cold War in Europe. Provides a wealth of new information coming from fresh research in Japanese, American, East European, U.S., and Chinese archival and primary sources. This is an important contribution to the state of the field.
Christopher Goscha, University of Quebec at Montreal

The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam

James G. Hershberg
Marigold presents the first rigorously documented, in-depth story of one of the Vietnam Wars last great mysteries: the secret Polish-Italian peace initiative, codenamed Marigold, that sought to end the war, or at least to open direct talks between Washington and Hanoi, in 1966. The initiative failed, the war dragged on for another seven years, and this episode sank into history as an unresolved controversy. This is a well-written, in-depth look at the facts of a controversial and convoluted peace effort that could have significantly altered the course of the Vietnam War.
Publishers Weekly

Marigold

After Leaning to One Side

Zhihua Shen and Danhui Li

China and Its Allies in the Cold War

After Leaning to One Side traces the rise and fall of the SinoSoviet alliance between 1949 and 1973, emphasizing tension over the Korean and Vietnam wars. Underscoring the theme of inherent conflict within the communist movement, this book shows that while that movement was an international campaign with an imposing theory and an impressive party structure, it was also a collection of sovereign states with disparate national interests. This book reflects the best scholarship by two serious Chinese scholars of Cold War international history. No existing study has tackled this topic as thoroughly and solidly.
Shu Guang Zhang, Macau University of Science and Technology

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Copublished with the Woodrow Wilson Center Press

Hershberg has done remarkable work, piecing together the Marigold story from newly available Soviet documents, DOrlandis journals, and numerous interviews. He has calmed oceans of detail into a graceful narrative, an important work for Vietnam-era and Cold War historians.
Karl Helicher, Library Journal

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Cold War International History Project Copublished with the Woodrow Wilson Center Press

The Oil Princes Legacy

Rockefeller Philanthropy in China

South Asians in America

Bakirathi Mani

Aspiring to Home

Mary Brown Bullock

The Oil Princes Legacy traces Rockefeller philanthropy in China from the nineteenth century to today. Family diaries, letters, interviews in China, and institutional archival records are used to tell a compelling story about successive Rockefeller generations and U.S.China cultural relations. This is an extraordinary nuanced and complex evaluation of the Rockefeller familys motives, actions, and achievements where East Asia is concerned. Showing the impact of China on the Rockefellers as well as the Rockefellers impact on China makes for some captivating and at times breathtaking reading.
Laurence A. Schneider, Washington University in St. Louis

What does it mean to belong? How are twenty-first-century diasporic subjects fashioning identities and communities that bind them together? Aspiring to Home examines these questions with a focus on immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The book focuses on popular cultural works created by firstand second-generation South Asians from 19992009, including those by author Jhumpa Lahiri and filmmaker Mira Nair, as well as public events such as the Miss India U.S.A. pageant and the Broadway musical Bombay Dreams. Analyzing these diverse productions through an interdisciplinary framework, Mani weaves literary readings with ethnography to unravel the constraints of form and genre that shape how we read diasporic popular culture. An elegantly written and trenchantly argued book.
Martin F. Manalansan IV, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Poetry and Courtier Culture in the Yongming Era (483493)

Meow Hui Goh

Sound and Sight

Gohs solidly researched effort to understand the Yongming era through its own aesthetic ideals not only takes a comprehensive approach to the much debated euphonic guidelines, but examines a change in the poets sense of self-worth and situates major themes in the context of the courts environment and culture.
Early Medieval China

208 pp., 2010 9780804768597 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale

Poetry, Empathy, and Community in MidTokugawa Confucianism and Nativism

Peter Flueckiger
The sophistication, accessibility, subtlety, and clarity of Flueckigers analysis makes for a valuable contribution to the literary and intellectual history of early modern Japan.
James McMullen, Pembroke College, Oxford

Imagining Harmony

224 pp., 2011 9780804776882 Cloth $39.95 $31.96 sale

Copublished with the Woodrow Wilson Center Press

328 pp., 4 illustrations, 2012 9780804778008 Paper $27.95 $22.36 sale 9780804777995 Cloth $85.00 $68.00 sale

Asian America

304 pp., 2010 9780804761574 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale

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Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road

Alisa Freedman

Tokyo in Transit

On Uneven Ground

An approachable and enjoyable book, Tokyo in Transit offers an exciting ride through modern Japanese literature and culture, and includes the first English translation of Kawabata Yasunaris The Corpse Introducer, a 1929 crime novella that presents an important new side of its Nobel Prizewinning author. A significant contribution to Japanese literary studies, Tokyo in Transit offers such a readable, compelling cultural history that anyone who has ever taken a train or waited at a bus stop will find a story here that strikes a chord.
Jan Bardsley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Miyazawa Kenji and the Making of Place in Modern Japan

Hoyt Long

Text, Context, and Critique

Reading Colonial Japan

Edited by Michele M. Mason and Helen J.S. Lee
Reading Colonial Japan is a unique anthology that provides an eclectic selection of translated Japanese primary sources and analytical essays to illuminate Japans many and varied colonial projects. By making available and analyzing a wide-range of sources from the Japanese colonial period, it draws attention to the powerful role that language and imagination played in producing the material realities of Japanese colonialism.

The history of literary and artistic production in modern Japan has typically centered on the literature and art of Tokyo, yet cultural activity in the countrys regional cities and rural towns was no less vibrant. On Uneven Ground recovers pieces of this neglected history through the figure of Miyazawa Kenji (18961933). The first book-length study of Miyazawa in English, it centers on Miyazawas life and writing to recreate a sense of what it was to write about and remake place from a spatially marginal position in the cultural field. Required reading for those with an interest in modern Japan beyond the borders of Tokyo.
Richard Torrance, The Ohio State University

352 pp., 16 figures, 3 illustrations, 2 maps, 2010 9780804771450 Paper $22.95 $18.36 sale 9780804771443 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

Original and engaging. It is an exceptional achievement and a truly important addition to cultural studies, Asian studies, history, and the study of colonialism/postcolonialism, migration, and translation.
Sabine Frhstck, University of California, Santa Barbara

A sophisticated analysis that reframes 20th century literary history and its heroes.
Louise Young, Professor of History, UW-Madison

312 pp., 2011 9780804776868 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale

Enables the creation of new courses on Japan and expands the possibilities of existing courses on colonial encounters around the world.
Timothy J. Van Compernolle, Amherst College

320 pp., 2 figures, 2012 9780804776974 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale 9780804776967 Cloth $80.00 $64.00 sale

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