While scholars of East Asia have often focused on the significance of culture and Confucianism for economic growth, this book examines the affective or emotional dimension of capitalist development in the region. Here, affect is defined as felt quality that gives meaning and imagination to social, political, and economic processes, and as this work demonstrates, it can provide ...(展开全部)

While scholars of East Asia have often focused on the significance of culture and Confucianism for economic growth, this book examines the affective or emotional dimension of capitalist development in the region. Here, affect is defined as felt quality that gives meaning and imagination to social, political, and economic processes, and as this work demonstrates, it can provide ...(展开全部)

耶鲁大学政治科学和人类学斯特林教授、农业研究计划主任,普林斯顿高等研究院研究员。其研究兴趣包括政治经济学、无政府主义、意识形态、农民政治学、革命、东南亚和阶级关系等。主要著作包括《马来西亚的政治意识形态》(1968)、《比较政治腐败》(1972)、《农民的道义经济学》(1976)、《弱者的武器》(1986)、《统治与抵抗的艺术》(1992)等。

耶鲁大学政治科学和人类学斯特林教授、农业研究计划主任,普林斯顿高等研究院研究员。其研究兴趣包括政治经济学、无政府主义、意识形态、农民政治学、革命、东南亚和阶级关系等。主要著作包括《马来西亚的政治意识形态》(1968)、《比较政治腐败》(1972)、《农民的道义经济学》(1976)、《弱者的武器》(1986)、《统治与抵抗的艺术》(1992)等。

More than two hundred magnificent, full-color photographs document the enormous productivity of eastern Asia against the background of traditional life and culture. In recent years the economies of eastern Asia have virtually exploded. What started in Japan and Taiwan after World War II and continued in Hong Kong and Korea, has now touched Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand,...(展开全部)

Despite the growth of interest in the history of anthropology as a over the last two decades, surprisingly little has been published in English on the development of anthropology in East and Southeast Asia and its relationship to the rest of the academic "world-system." The anthropological experience in this region has been varied. Japanese anthropology developed early, and ran...(展开全部)

A collection of papers on the history of Christianity along the Silk Road and in pre-modern China, pushing back the frontier of knowledge in a fast developing new area of research. The diffusion of Christianity along the Silk Road from Iraq and Iran to China in the premodern era has attracted scholarly attention in the West since the discovery of the famous Xian (Nestorian) Mon...(展开全部)

The history of the book in East Asia is closely linked to problems of language and script, problems which have also had a profound impact on the technology of printing and on the social and intellectual impact of print in this area. This volume contains key readings on the history of printed books and manuscripts in China, Korea and Japan and includes an introduction which prov...(展开全部)

Review Relationships between affect and national identity are a crucial aspect of the critical perspectivism ushered in by contemporaneity. This book is an important contribution to knowledge of those relationships in Asian contexts. (Paul Gladston, Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures and Critical Theory, University of Nottingham) Given the contemporary recrudescence of n...(展开全部)

The East Asian economic miracle of the twentieth century is now a fond memory. What does it mean to be living in post-miracle times? For the youth of China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea, the opportunities and challenges of the neoliberal age, deeply shaped by global forces in labor markets, powerfully frame their life prospects in ways that are barely recognizable to their pa...(展开全部)