The all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories, torridly romantic liaisons in foreign settings, and fanatically devoted fans. But that is only a small part of its complicated and complicit performance history. In this sophisticated and historically grounded analysis, anthropologist Jennifer Roberts...(展开全部)

Jennifer Robertson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, and author of Native and Newcomer: Making and Remaking a Japanese City (California, 1991).

The focus of Richard Rubinger's study of Japanese literacy is the least-studied (yet overwhelming majority) of the premodern population: the rural farming class. In this book-length historical exploration of the topic, the first in any language, Rubinger dispels the misconception that there are few materials available for the study of popular literacy in Japan. He analyzes a ri...(展开全部)

The concept of cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part to the pioneering work of Peter Burke, the tools of the cultural historian are now routinely brought to bear on every aspect of history, and have transformed our understanding of the past. First published in 1978, this study examines...(展开全部)

彼得·伯克（Peter Burke），英国历史学家。1937年生，现为剑桥大学文化史教授和伊曼纽尔学院研究员。伯克毕业于牛津大学，获圣约翰学院学士学位和圣安东尼学院硕士学位。一度任苏塞克斯大学高级讲师。1970年转入剑桥大学执教。伯克的研究专长在欧洲近代早期的社会史、思想史和文化史，主要著作包括《文艺复兴时代的历史观》（1970年）、《文艺复兴时代意大利的文化与社会：1420－1540年》（1972年）、《文艺复兴时代意大利的传统和创新：一种社会学的研究方法》（1974年）、《威尼斯和阿姆斯特丹：17世纪上层社会研究》（1974）、《欧洲近代早期的大众文化》（1978年）、《社会学和历史学》（1980年）、《蒙泰涅》（1981年）、《维科》（1985年）、《法国的史学革命：年鉴学派1929－1989年》（1990年）、《制作路易十四》（1992年）、...(展开全部)

Crafts were central to daily life in early modern Japan. They were powerful carriers of knowledge, sociality, and identity, and how and from what materials they were made were matters of serious concern among all classes of society. In Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan, Christine M. E. Guth examines the network of forces—both material and immaterial—that supported Japan’s ric...(展开全部)

Crafts were central to daily life in early modern Japan. They were powerful carriers of knowledge, sociality, and identity, and how and from what materials they were made were matters of serious concern among all classes of society. In Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan, Christine M. E. Guth examines the network of forces—both material and immaterial—that supported Japan’s ric...(展开全部)

This is the first comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China, and of its political impact during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 (known in China as 'The War of Resistance against Japan'). Chang-tai Hung shows in compelling detail how Chinese resisters used a variety of popular cultural forms - especially dramas, cartoons, and newspapers - to reach out ...(展开全部)

In this provocative and timely book, John Docker takes his readers on an intellectual adventure. The journey includes an introductory guided tour of the history of modernism, consideration of the development of postmodernism, explanation of the difference between structuralism and poststructuralism and discussion of the debates and conflicts around each. Along the way readers w...(展开全部)

Understanding how cultural diversity relates to international order is an urgent contemporary challenge. Building on ideas first advanced in Reus-Smit's On Cultural Diversity (2018), this groundbreaking book advances a new framework for understanding the nexus between culture and order in world politics. Through a pioneering interdisciplinary collaboration between leading histo...(展开全部)