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Oil and Water Being Han in Xinjiang

Cliff Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226360133, ISBN: HB: 9780226359939, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 44 halftones, 1 table

For decades, China's Xinjiang region has been the site of clashes between long-residing Uyghur and Han settlers. Up until now, scholars of China have focused primarily on state actions and Uyghur efforts to resist cultural and economic repression. Th...

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Islam

Islam Translated Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia

Ronit Ricci

ISBN: PB: 9780226380537, ISBN: HB: 9780226710884, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
336 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 3 maps, 4 halftones

The spread of Islam eastward into South and Southeast Asia was one of the most significant cultural shifts in world history. As it expanded into these regions, Islam was received by cultures vastly different from those in the Middle East, incorporati...

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Literary Criticism

For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution An Anthology of Japanese Proletarian Literature

Field Norma, Bowen-Struyk Heather

ISBN: PB: 9780226068374, ISBN: HB: 9780226068367, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
488 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Fiction created by and for the working class emerged worldwide in the early twentieth century as a response to rapid modernization, dramatic inequality, and imperial expansion. In Japan, literary youth, men and women, sought to turn their imagination...

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Partition The Long Shadow

Butalia Urvashi

ISBN: HB: 9789383074778, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2015
272 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 12 halftones

The Partition of British India into the nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 and the further redrawing of the borders in 1971 to create Bangladesh were major, wrenching events whose effects are still felt today in the everyday lives of people in all...

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History of Art

Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting Kano Hogai and the Search for Images

Foxwell Chelsea

ISBN: HB: 9780226110806, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
296 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 34 colour plates, 70 halftones

The Western discovery of Japanese paintings at nineteenth-century world's fairs and export shops catapulted Japanese art to new levels of international popularity. With that popularity, however, came criticism, as Western writers began to lament a pe...

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Literary Criticism

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Crafting of the 10,000 Things Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China

Schafer Dagmar

ISBN: PB: 9780226272801, ISBN: HB: 9780226735849, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
352 pp., 22.9x16.3 cm, 24 halftones, 1 line illus.

The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw a significant increase of publications that examined advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous guides and reference books that appeared during this peri...

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History of Art

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Museum on the Roof of the World Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet

Harris Clare E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226213170, ISBN: HB: 9780226317472, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
328 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 19 colour plates, 50 halftones, 1 line illus.

For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics...

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Religion in China and Its Modern Fate

Katz Paul R.

ISBN: PB: 9781611685435, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Paul R. Katz has composed a fascinating account of the fate of Chinese religions during the modern era by assessing mutations of communal religious life, innovative forms of religious publishing, and the religious practices of modern Chinese elites t...

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Culture Studies

Politics of Dialogic Imagination Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan

Hirano Katsuya

ISBN: PB: 9780226060569, ISBN: HB: 9780226060422, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

In "The Politics of Dialogic Imagination", Katsuya Hirano seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to regulate the ostensibly unimportant popular culture of Edo (present-d...

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In Japan (1893-94)

Korensky Josef

ISBN: HB: 9788024620732, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2013
250 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! During his 1893 journey around the world, Czech traveler, pedagogue, and writer Josef Korensky spent only two months traveling in Japan, yet his power of observation yielded a travelogue t...

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