The rivalry between Japan and China has a long and sometimes brutal history, and they continue to eye each other warily as the balance of power tips toward Beijing. They cooperate and compete at the same time, but if competition deteriorates into military conflict, the entire world has much to lose. The Perils of Proximity evaluates the chances of armed conflict between China a...(展开全部)

该书是1996年在美国加州大学圣迭哥学区举办的“前近代儒家文化与中日韩妇女”国际学术研讨会的精选文集，由熟悉中日韩三国儒家文化与社会性别的3名专家联合主编。据编者在该书的导论中所称，本书的目的是为观察东亚社会的历史开辟一个新的领域和新途径。因为以往的模式总是把亚洲妇女看作是儒家父权制的牺牲品；而该书所要揭示的，无论是“妇女”还是“儒家传统”都不是固定不变的范畴，书中所录的每一篇文章都在还原女性的主体性和历史的复杂性，揭示出前近代中日韩妇女如何由她们所生活其中的文化所建构，形成其主体的进程和她们在特定历史情境下的生活情景，她们既不是被动的牺牲品，也不是儒教的叛逆者，而是具有能动性的与她们所处的文化环境进行磋商较量的主体——既接受主流官方的观念也反抗某些不利于生存的方面。每篇文章基本上做到用社会性别范畴考察分析妇女的历史处境，展现了中日韩三国妇女丰富多彩...(展开全部)

With 234 superb color plates, and more than 950 color maps, Birds of East Asia makes it easy to identify all of the region's species. The first single-volume field guide for eastern Asia, the book covers major islands including Japan and Taiwan, as well as the Asian continent from Kamchatka to the Korean Peninsula. The region's major bird families are presented and distinct spe...(展开全部)

Since the end of the nineteenth century, the Korean people have faced successive waves of foreign domination, authoritarian regimes, forced dispersal, and divided development. Throughout these turbulent times, “queer” Koreans were ignored, minimized, and erased in narratives of their modern nation, East Asia, and the wider world. This interdisciplinary volume challenges such ma...(展开全部)

Precarious Asia assesses the role of global and domestic factors in shaping precarious work and its outcomes in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia as they represent a range of Asian political democracies and capitalist economies: Japan and South Korea are now developed and mature economies, while Indonesia remains a lower-middle income country. With their established backgrounds...(展开全部)

Mid-nineteenth century Russian radicals who witnessed the Meiji Restoration saw it as the most sweeping revolution in recent history and the impetus for future global progress. Acting outside imperial encounters, they initiated underground transnational networks with Japan. Prominent intellectuals and cultural figures, from Peter Kropotkin and Lev Tolstoy to Saigo Takamori and ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description Let the bullet train whisk you from futuristic Tokyo to Kyoto's most exquisite temples. Join a sake-filled cherry blossom party or the drum beat of a local matsuri. Pick your own way through sophisticated mega-cities packed with world-class museums. Then meet the wild snow monkeys of Chubu. How could one country offer so much? This bestselling guidebo...(展开全部)

When East Asia opened itself to the world in the nineteenth century, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean intellectuals had shared notions of literature because of the centuries-long cultural exchanges in the region. As modernization profoundly destabilized cultural norms, they ventured to create new literature for the new era. Satoru Hashimoto offers a novel way of understanding the ...(展开全部)