Writing Violence is a deeply thoughtful and insightful rumination on early modern Japanese literature in its sociohistorical contexts. By addressing issues of cultural, political, and literary form in selected works from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries, Atherton suggests brilliant new ways of reading and understanding the popular fiction of the age.--Keller Kimbrou...(展开全部)

Since its publication in Japan ten years ago, the "Origins of Modern Japanese Literature" has become a landmark book, playing a pivotal role in defining discussions of modernity in that country. Against a history of relative inattention on the part of Western translators to modern Asian critical theory, this first English publication is sure to have a profound effect on current...(展开全部)

Historians have long been aware of the richness and complexity of the intellectual history of modern Japanese politics. Najita's study, however, is the first in a Western language to present a consistent and broad synthesis of this subject. Najita elucidates the political dynamics of the past two hundred years of Japanese history by focusing on the interplay of restorationism a...(展开全部)

This volume sheds light on the important role of copper in early modern Sino-Japanese trade. By examining the demand for copper and the policy on copper procurement in Japan and China as well as the role of Osaka merchant houses, this volume provides a new slant on the “life” of Japanese copper – from production and distribution to consumption. In addition, papers on other sign...(展开全部)

This volume sheds light on the important role of copper in early modern Sino-Japanese trade. By examining the demand for copper and the policy on copper procurement in Japan and China as well as the role of Osaka merchant houses, this volume provides a new slant on the “life” of Japanese copper – from production and distribution to consumption. In addition, papers on other sign...(展开全部)

Why would an inkstone have a poem inscribed on it? Early modern Chinese writers did not limit themselves to working with brushes and ink, and their texts were not confined to woodblock-printed books or the boundaries of the paper page. Poets carved lines of verse onto cups, ladles, animal horns, seashells, walking sticks, boxes, fans, daggers, teapots, and musical instruments. ...(展开全部)

丸山真男（1914-1996年），日本著名政治思想史学者，东京大学名誉教授，并获美国哈佛大学、普林斯顿大学分别授予名誉法学博士和名誉文学博士。其政治学被日本学界称为“丸山政治学”。著有《日本政治思想史研究》（1952年）、《现代政治的思想与行动》（1956-1957年）、《日本的思想》（1961年）、《忠诚与叛逆——转型期日本的精神状态》（1992年）等。 陈力卫，现为日本成城大学教授，译有《风土》（和辻哲郎著），列入商务印书馆“日本学术文库”出版。他同时为“日本学术文库”主编之一。

Are there any commonalities between such phenomena as soccer hooliganism, sabotage by peasants of landlords' property, road rage, and even the events of September 11? With striking historical scope and command of the literature of many disciplines, this book seeks the common causes of these events in collective violence. In collective violence, social interaction immediately i...(展开全部)

This is the first anthology ever devoted to early modern Japanese literature, spanning the period from 1600 to 1900, known variously as the Edo or the Tokugawa, one of the most creative epochs of Japanese culture. This anthology, which will be of vital interest to anyone involved in this era, includes not only fiction, poetry, and drama, but also essays, treatises, literary cri...(展开全部)

Widely recognized both in America and Japan for his insider knowledge and penetrating analyses of Japanese politics, Gerald Curtis is the political analyst best positioned to explore the complexities of the Japanese political scene today. Curtis has personally known most of the key players in Japanese politics for more than thirty years, and he draws on their candid comments to...(展开全部)