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The East Asia Publications Series is published for the Asian
Studies Association of Australia by Routledge in London.
The East Asia Publications Series welcomes proposals
for manuscripts on subjects principally concerned with any part
of the East Asian region (China, Japan, North and South Korea
and Taiwan). Topics may be contemporary or historical, and may
relate to any of the humanities or social sciences. The series
seeks in particular to publish manuscripts which, while maintaining
high scholarly standards, raise issues of broad intellectual interest
and are written in a style which will appeal to a wide readership.
Comparative studies, dealing with more than one country of the
region, are also welcomed.
Authors are invited to submit
a synopsis of about 5-6 pages in length, which should provide
the following information: the aims of the manuscript; a synopsis,
including chapter headings; the intended readership (is the book
mainly designed for an audience of academic researchers, postgraduates,
undergraduates or the wider public?); and the main competing publications.
The synopsis should also include an academic curriculum vitae
and list of publications. Where possible, authors are also encouraged
to submit a sample chapter with their synopsis.
A copy of the manuscript proposal should be sent
to both of the editors of the series:
Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Division of Pacific and Asian History
Research School of Pacific and Asian History
Australian National University
Australia
E-mail: tessa.morris-suzuki@anu.edu.au
Dr Morris Low
Department of the History of Science and Technology
Johns Hopkins University
3505 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Tel. 410-516 7501; fax 410-516 7502.
E-mail: mlow@jhu.edu
The other members of the editorial board are
Professor Colin Mackerras (Griffith University), Associate Professor
Sonia Ryang (Johns Hopkins University), Professor Vera Mackie
(Curtin University), and Dr Geremie Barmé (Australian National
University).
Important note to ASAA members: A substantial
discount is available to ASAA members. To get this discount please
send your orders directly Ms Stephanie Rogers at RoutledgeCurzon:
stephanie.rogers@tandf.co.uk
BOOKS PUBLISHED
IN THE EAST ASIA PUBLICATIONS SERIES BY ROUTLEDGE SINCE 2000
Homoerotic Sensibilities in
Late Imperial China
Wu Cuncun
Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China
is the richest exploration to date of late imperial Chinese literati
interest in male love. Employing primary sources such as miscellanies
(including diaries and letters), poetry, fiction and 'flower guides',
Wu Cuncun argues that male homoeroticism played a central role
in the cultural life of late imperial Chinese literati elites.
Countering recent arguments that homosexuality was marginal and
disparaged during this period, this book also seeks to trace the
relationship of homoeroticism to status and power, arguing that
existing paradigms for the study of sexuality, centred on identity
and behaviour, must be extended and placed within the larger context
of sexual culture. Only with this shift in methodological focus
is it possible to approach the distinctive character of homoerotic
sensibilities in late imperial China and the fashions through
which they were performed. In addition to historical portraits
and analysis the book also advances the concept of 'sensibilities'
as a method for interpreting the complex range of homoerotic texts
produced in late imperial China, recognizing a need to think about
sexuality not only in terms of behaviour and identity but also
in terms of culture: not necessarily national culture, but particular
cultures in which practices and identities are given meaning and
evaluated. Such an approach, bringing together historical and
textual strategies, allows us to account for the rise in homoeroticism
in late imperial China as a significant and far reaching sensibility
(fengqi) that in turn acted upon the wider cultural landscape.
Wu Cuncun lectures in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
at The University of New England, Australia. She was formerly
Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and
Literature, Nankai University.
2004 256 pages ISBN 0415334748 hardback £65.00
Japan and
National Anthropology: A Critique
Sonia Ryang
Japan and National Anthropology is an empirically
rich and theoretically sophisticated study which challenges the
conventional view of Japanese studies in general and Anglophone
anthropological writings on Japan in particular. Sonia Ryang explores
the process by which the post-war anthropology of Japan has come
to be dominated by certain conceptual and methodological approaches
and exposes the extent to which this process has occluded our
view of Japan.
In an attempt to move away from theoretical trends which identify
Japanese cultural boundaries with Japan's nation-state boundaries,
consequentially portraying the country as racially homogeneous
and culturally unique, Ryang examines:
- how wartime enemy studies shaped the direction of post-war
anthropology
- the historical effects and significance of Chrysanthemum
and the Sword
- key texts from the anthropology enquiry that started within
the US military occupation of Japan (1945-1952)
- Japanese kinship and its relationship to the study of Japan
as a nation
- the origins and development of the studies of the Japanese
self
This book will be welcomed by all students of Japanese anthropology
and Japanese history. Its historical breadth and criticism of
existing approaches provide a fresh and reasoned insight into
the development and future of anthropology of Japan. Sonia Ryang
is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University,
USA. She is also the author of North Koreans in Japan. 2004 272
pages ISBN 0415700329 hardback £65.00
Korea’s
Development under Park Chung Hee: Rapid Industrialization, 1961-1979
Kim Hyung-A
Based on personal interviews with the principal policy-makers
of the 1970s, Korea's Development under Park Chung-Hee examines
how the president sought to develop South Korea into an independent,
autonomous sovereign state both economically and militarily. Kim
provides a new narrative in the complex task of exploring the
paradoxical nature and effects of Korea's rapid development, which
maintains that any judgement of Park must consider his achievements
in the socio-economic, cultural and political context in which
they took place. Kim examines:
- Park’s abhorrence of Korea’s reliance on the US
presence
- Intellectual debate on national reconstruction pre-1961
- The Korean model of state-guided industrialization
- Park's rapid development strategy
- The role of the ruling elite
- The heavy and chemical industrialization of the 1970s
- Park's clandestine nuclear weapons development program
With a great deal of material never before published, students
of Korean politics and history at all levels will find this book
a stimulating account of South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s. Kim
Hyung-A is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong,
Australia.
2004 256 pages ISBN 041532 329 0 hardback £70
The Manchurian
Crisis and Japanese Society, 1931-33
Sandra Wilson
This book explores the reactions to the Manchurian
crisis of different sections of the state, and of a number of
different groups in Japanese society, particularly rural groups,
women's organizations and business associations. It thus seeks
to avoid a generalized account of public relations to the military
and diplomatic events of the early 1930s, offering instead a nuanced
account of the shifts in public and popular opinion in this crucial
period.
2001 264pp ISBN 0 41525 056 0 hardback £60.00
Rethinking
Identity in Modern Japan Nationalism as Aesthetics
Yumiko Iida
This volume is a major reconsideration of Japanese
late modernity and national hegemony which examines the creative
and academic works of a number of influential Japanese thinkers.
The author situates the process of Japanese knowledge production
in the interface between the immediate historical and the wider
socio-economic and politico-cultural contexts accompanying the
Japanese post-war experience of modernity.
This book will be of great value to anyone interested in the history
of contemporary Japanese culture and society.
2001 336pp ISBN 0 41523 521 9 hardback £65.00
THE
CHAEBOL AND LABOUR IN KOREA
The
Development of Management Strategy in Hyundai
Seung Ho Kwon and Michael O'Donnell
This important new study argues that an historical
analysis of the labour-management policies of the Korean family
congolomerates, or chaebol, is essential for a complete understanding
of the dynamics of South Korean industrial relations. Focusing
on the labour-management strategies of the Hyundai Business Group,
the book offers a new perspective on this Asian 'tiger' economy.
Forthcoming (December 2000) Illus 18 tables, 22 figures HB: 0-415-22169-2
£55.00
BOOKS PUBLISHED
IN THE EAST ASIA PUBLICATIONS SERIES BY ALLEN & UNWIN (SYDNEY)
UP TO 1991
Population
and Planning in China
Wang Chi-yeh and Terence H. Hull (editors)
This book offers important insights into the
population planning process from the perspectives of Chinese officials
and scholars of the State Planning Commission (SPC), and foreign
scholars who collaborated with the SPC in carrying out a project
on population and development planning.
1991 311pp ISBN 0 04 442323 3 paperback NOT IN PRINT
New God, New
Nation: Protestants and Self Reconstruction Nationalism in Korea
1896-1937
Ken Wells
At the close of the nineteenth century the kingdom
of Korea became a battleground at the centre of the tripartite
rivalry between China, Japan, and Russia, culminating in its official
incorporation into the Japanese empire in 1910. It was in the
context of this loss of political and cultural autonomy that some
Koreans turned to Protestantism and associated ideas of the nation-state
as a model for a new Korea.
1991 222pp ISBN 0 04 442341 1 paperback $24.95
Available from Allen & Unwin, PO Box 8500, St Leonards, NSW
2065 AUSTRALIA
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The Chosen
One: Succession and Adoption in the Court of Ming Shizong
Carney Fisher
When he took the Ming throne in 1521, the young
emperor Shizong asked his advisers about ceremonial protocol for
his deceased father. This initiated a violent conflict that would
engulf the entire realm and present a virtually unsolvable conundrum
to future Chinese historians. The heat and passion generated during
this controversy ended only after Shizong had used the full force
of the autocracy of the throne, had beaten to death seventeen
of his leading officials, and had alienated a great number of
the rest.
1990 230pp ISBN 0 04 442113 3 paperback NOT IN PRINT
Divided
Self
Leith Morton
Arishima Takeo led one of the most dramatic lives
of any modern Japanese writer. Making use of a revealing diary
left by Arishima, Leith Morton pieces together the story of his
early years in Japan. Arishima?s linking of behaviour with sexual
drives was undoubtedly his outstanding achievement as a writer
and presaged much later Japanese writing. His story is tragic
not only because of his famous love suicide but also because he
illustrates the dilemma in which many Japanese intellectuals found
themselves as Japan became increasingly right-wing when their
own sympathies tended increasingly to the left.
1988 237pp ISBN 0 04 378006 7 paperback NOT IN PRINT
Eighteenth
Century Japan: Culture and Society
C. Andrew Gerstle
The essays in this collection show a fascination
with the social context behind the development of aesthetics,
drama, language, art and philosophy in pre-industrialised Japan.
1989 163pp ISBN 0 04 380031 9 paperback NOT IN PRINT
China
Stands Up: Ending the Western Presence, 1948-1950
Beverley Hooper
This book analyses Chinese policies and actions
towards Westerners who remained in China during and immediately
after the Communist victory, focusing on the period from 1948
until the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950. The writer
assesses the impact of nationalism and socialism on Western businesses,
Christian missions, educational institutions, culture and official
interests.
1986 246pp ISBN 0 86861 986 8 paperback NOT IN PRINT
Populist
Nationalism in Pre-War Japan: A Biography of Nakano Seigo
Leslie Russel Oates
This study explores the political, social and
intellectual background to the emergence of nationalism in interwar
Japan through an examination of the life of Nakano Seigo (1886-1943).
Nakano was in many ways an unusual figure, combining popular oratory
and journalism with a long political career which brought him
close to the heart of Japan?s power structure.
1985 ISBN 0 86861 111 5 paperback NOT IN PRINT
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