Imagining China in Tokugawa Japan

Imagining China in Tokugawa JapanPioneering study of the localization of Chinese culture in early modern Japan, using legends, classics, and historical terms as case studies. While current scholarship on Tokugawa Japan (16031868) tends to see China as either a model or "the Other," Wai ming Ng's pioneering and ambitious study offers a new perspective by suggesting that Chinese culture also functioned as a collection of "cultural building blocks" that were selectively introduced and

Interweaving stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of suicide in his own family

this book provides a foundation for future research

It has also become the focus for critical theorists such as Walter Benjamin and Michel de Certeau in their attempt to push the limits of textual analysis beyond literature and art towards our daily experience of the world

how they participated in and endured the Revolution

have begun to ask the "God question

Mark Podwal's imaginative and inventive interpretations of woodcuts from a 16th-century Sefer Minhagim (Book of Customs) allow us to see these historic images in a new light

and discusses possible new breeding strategies for FHB resistance improvement

Away from the hustle and bustle of New York City

deconstruction

the failure of the United States to prioritize a sufficient social wage for poor families outside of labor markets

the benefits and challenges that it presents for African States

Patrick Wallis