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Asian and Southeast Asian History

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Minor Salvage

The Korean War and Korean American Life Writings

By Stephen Hong Sohn
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History

Explores the forgotten archives and life writings of Korean War refugees

Gendered Power

Educated Women of the Meiji Empress' Court

By Mamiko Suzuki
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Examines the contributions of three powerful Meiji women and how their own education and ideas about Japanese women’s potential shaped how females were to participate in modern society

Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan

By Gill Steel
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Gives critical attention to the issue of Japan’s low level of gender equality and the conflicting information from surveys of women reporting a high sense of well-being

The Female as Subject

Reading and Writing in Early Modern Japan

Edited by P.F. Kornicki, Mara Patessio, G. Rowley, and Gaye Rowley
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Reveals the rich and lively world of literate women in Japan from 1600 through the early 20th century

Confluences

Postwar Japan and France

Edited by Doug Slaymaker
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Explores the relationship between Japan and France and the development of postwar national and individual identities

The Chinese Postmodern

Trauma and Irony in Chinese Avant-Garde Fiction

By Xiaobin Yang
Subjects: Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History

An insightful look into contemporary Chinese avant-garde fiction and the problem of Chinese postmodernity

Small Well Lane

A Contemporary Chinese Play and Oral History

By Li Longyun
Translated by Hong Jiang & Timothy Cheek
Subjects: Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History

A compelling story of Mao's revolution through the eyes of a group of working class, back alley Beijing residents

Dumb Luck

A Novel by Vu Trong Phung

Edited by Peter Zinoman
Translated by Nguyen Nguyet Cam
Subjects: Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Modern Literature

This once banned book is the first colonial-era Vietnamese novel to be translated into English and published in the West

When We Say “Hiroshima”

Selected Poems

By Sadako Kurihara
Translated by Richard Minear
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Compelling poetry that constitutes a major legacy of the nuclear age

Righteous Cause or Tragic Folly

Changing Views of War in Modern Japanese Poetry

By Steve Rabson
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Translations and readings of some of the most important modern Japanese poems written for and against war

The Cult of Kasuga Seen Through Its Art

By Susan Tyler
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Art, Photography, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A detailed and animating study of the syncretic cult of Kasuga Shrine at its height in the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries

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