In 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachiko. Each evening Hachiko greeted Ueno on his return to Shibuya Station. In May 1925 Ueno died while giving a lecture. Every day for over nine years the Akita waited at Shibuya Station, eventually becoming nationally and even internationally famous for his purported loyalty. A year...(展开全部)

Placing Empire examines the spatial politics of Japanese imperialism through a study of Japanese travel and tourism to Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan between the late nineteenth century and the early 1950s. In a departure from standard histories of Japan, this book shows how debates over the role of colonized lands reshaped the social and spatial imaginary of the modern Japanese ...(展开全部)

Paper, bottles, metal scrap, kitchen garbage, rubber, hair, fat, rags, and bones--the Nazi empire demanded its population obsessively collect anything that could be reused or recycled. Entrepreneurs, policy makers, and ordinary citizens conjured up countless schemes to squeeze value from waste or invent new purposes for defunct or spent material, no matter the cost to people or...(展开全部)

罗伯特·杰伊·利夫顿 Robert Jay Lifton 是约翰·杰伊学院和纽约城市大学研究生院的著名精神病学和心理学教授。他广受好评的众多著述中包括《生中之死：广岛幸存者》(美国国家图书奖)、《断裂之联结：死亡与生命的延续》、《多变之人》和《毁灭这个世界来拯救它》。

Naoki Sakai is associate professor of Japanese literature and history at Cornell University.

An excursion across the boundaries of language and culture, this provocative book suggests that national identity and cultural politics are, in fact, “all in the translation.” Translation, we tend to think, represents another language in all its integrity and unity. Naoki Sakai turns this thinking on its head, and shows how this unity of language really only exists in our manne...(展开全部)

Chartier examines various approaches to the history of cultural forms, including the work of the Annales tradition, the contributions of Foucault and Elias, and the more recent writings of Robert Darnton, Carlo Ginzburg and others. The second part of the volume offers a series of case studies. Chartier explores, among other things, the cultural significance of symbolic role rev...(展开全部)

埃德温•O.赖肖尔（Edwin O. Reischauer），中文名赖世和，美国历史学家和外交家，哈佛燕京学社第二任社长，1961年至1966年任美国驻日本大使，1973年创办哈佛大学日本研究所，是美国公认的日本问题专家。

When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country's more than 250 decentralized domains and who were, in the main, cut off from the outside world, staunchly antiforeign, and committed to the traditions of the past. Before long, the shogun surrendered to the emperor, a new constitution w...(展开全部)