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Japan–China Relations in the Modern Era

By: Ryosei Kokubun,Yoshihide Soeya,Akio Takahara,Shin Kawashima

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Japan–China Relations in the Modern Era

By: Ryosei Kokubun,Yoshihide Soeya,Akio Takahara,Shin Kawashima

From before the dawn of recorded history, there has been a rich flow of interaction between Japan and China. Japan has long learned many things from Chinese civilization, and since the modern era China began to learn from Japan. In the twenty-first century, however, China surpassed Japan in terms of GDP in 2010 to become the world’s second largest economy. Amid this rapid rise of China and what has been called a power-shift in Japan–China relations, there are signs that bilateral tensions are rising and that the image each country has of the other is worsening. This volume provides a cogent analysis of the politics of the bilateral relationship in the modern era, explaining the past, present, and future of Japan–China relations during a time of massive political, social, and economic changes. Written by a team of internationally renowned Japanese scholars and based on sources not available in English, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of Japan–China relations, Japanese international relations, and the politics and international relations of East Asia

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1351857932

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Itineraries of Power

Texts and Traversals in Heian and Medieval Japan

By: Terry Kawashima

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Itineraries of Power

Texts and Traversals in Heian and Medieval Japan

By: Terry Kawashima

Movements—of people and groups, through travel, migration, exile, and diaspora—are central to understanding both local and global power relationships. But what of more literary moves: textual techniques such as distinct patterns of narrative flow, abrupt leaps between genres, and poetic figures that flatten geographical distance? This book examines what happens when both types of tropes—literal traversals and literary shifts—coexist. Itineraries of Power examines prose narratives and poetry of the mid-Heian to medieval eras (900–1400) that conspicuously feature tropes of movement. Terry Kawashima argues that the appearance of a character’s physical motion, alongside literary techniques identified with motion, is a textual signpost in a story, urging readers to focus on how the work conceptualizes relations of power and claims to authority. From the gendered intersection of register shifts in narrative and physical displacement in the Heian period, to a dizzying tale of travel retold multiple times in a single medieval text, the motion in these works gestures toward internal conflicts and alternatives to existing structures of power. The book concludes that texts crucially concerned with such tropes of movement suggest that power is always simultaneously manufactured and dismantled from within.

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BRILL

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1684175704

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Writing Margins

The Textual Construction of Gender in Heian and Kamakura Japan

By: Terry Kawashima

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The Textual Construction of Gender in Heian and Kamakura Japan

By: Terry Kawashima

In texts from the mid-Heian to the early Kamakura periods, certain figures appear to be “marginal” or removed from “centers” of power. But why do we see these figures in this way? This study first seeks to answer this question by examining the details of the marginalizing discourse found in these texts. Who is portraying whom as marginal? For what reason? Is the discourse consistent? The author next considers these texts in terms of the predilection of modern scholarship, both Japanese and Western, to label certain figures "marginal." She then poses the question: Is this predilection a helpful tool or does it inscribe modern biases and misconceptions onto these texts?

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372

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1684173566

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9781684173563

The Proletarian Gamble

Korean Workers in Interwar Japan

By: Ken C. Kawashima

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The Proletarian Gamble

Korean Workers in Interwar Japan

By: Ken C. Kawashima

Koreans constituted the largest colonial labor force in imperial Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Caught between the Scylla of agricultural destitution in Korea and the Charybdis of industrial depression in Japan, migrant Korean peasants arrived on Japanese soil amid extreme instability in the labor and housing markets. In The Proletarian Gamble, Ken C. Kawashima maintains that contingent labor is a defining characteristic of capitalist commodity economies. He scrutinizes how the labor power of Korean workers in Japan was commodified, and how these workers both fought against the racist and contingent conditions of exchange and combated institutionalized racism. Kawashima draws on previously unseen archival materials from interwar Japan as he describes how Korean migrants struggled against various recruitment practices, unfair and discriminatory wages, sudden firings, racist housing practices, and excessive bureaucratic red tape. Demonstrating that there was no single Korean “minority,” he reveals how Koreans exploited fellow Koreans and how the stratification of their communities worked to the advantage of state and capital. However, Kawashima also describes how, when migrant workers did organize—as when they became involved in Rōsō (the largest Korean communist labor union in Japan) and in Zenkyō (the Japanese communist labor union)—their diverse struggles were united toward a common goal. In The Proletarian Gamble, his analysis of the Korean migrant workers' experiences opens into a much broader rethinking of the fundamental nature of capitalist commodity economies and the analytical categories of the proletariat, surplus populations, commodification, and state power.

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309

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Duke University Press

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0822392291

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9780822392293

Japanese Foreign Policy at the Crossroads

Challenges and Options for the Twenty-First Century

By: Yutaka Kawashima

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Japanese Foreign Policy at the Crossroads

Challenges and Options for the Twenty-First Century

By: Yutaka Kawashima

The post–World War II paradigm that ensured security and prosperity for the Japanese people has lost much of its effectiveness. The current generation has become increasingly resentful of the prolonged economic stagnation and feels a sense of drift and uncertainty about the future of Japan's foreign policy. In J apanese Foreign Policy at the Crossroads, Yutaka Kawashima clarifies some of the defining parameters of Japan's past foreign policy and examines the challenges it currently faces, including the quagmire on the Korean Peninsula, the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance, the management of Japan-China relations, and Japan's relation with Southeast Asia. Kawashima—who, as vice minister of foreign affairs, was Japan's highest-ranking foreign service official—cautions Japan against attempts to ensure its own security and well-being outside of an international framework. He believes it is crucial that Japan work with as many like-minded countries as possible to construct a regional and international order based on shared interests and shared values. In an era of globalization, he cautions, such efforts will be crucial to maintaining global world order and ensuring civilized interaction among all states.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0815796153

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9780815796152

Japanese Dictionary

By: Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston Terry Kawashima,Terry Kawashima

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Japanese Dictionary

By: Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston Terry Kawashima,Terry Kawashima

Make the most of your trip to Japan with this convenient phrasebook/dictionary. Living Language Traveltalk TM Japanese is the ideal traveler's companion. It's easy and fun to learn essential phrases, even if you've never studied Japanese before. This 288-page book features: -- more than 2,200 useful expressions in well-organized chapters covering every travel situation from arrival to departure -- an accurate, easy-to-use phonetic system that helps you speak like a native -- a 1,600-word English-Japanese/Japanese-English dictionary -- extensive, practical travel information for Japan, including two maps. Living Language Traveltalk TM book/cassette packages are available in Italian, Spanish, French, German, Russian, and Portuguese.

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Living Language

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0517587335

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Japan–China Relations in the Modern Era

By: Ryosei Kokubun,Yoshihide Soeya,Akio Takahara,Shin Kawashima

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By: Ryosei Kokubun,Yoshihide Soeya,Akio Takahara,Shin Kawashima

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Japan-China Relations in the Modern Era

By: Ryosei Kokubun,国分良成,高原明生,Shin Kawashima

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Japan-China Relations in the Modern Era

By: Ryosei Kokubun,国分良成,高原明生,Shin Kawashima

From before the dawn of recorded history, there has been a rich flow of interaction between Japan and China. Japan has long learned many things from Chinese civilization, and since the modern era China began to learn from Japan. In the twenty-first century, however, China surpassed Japan in terms of GDP in 2010 to become the world's second largest economy. Amid this rapid rise of China and what has been called a power-shift in Japan-China relations, there are signs that bilateral tensions are rising and that the image each country has of the other is worsening. This volume provides a cogent analysis of the politics of the bilateral relationship in the modern era, explaining the past, present, and future of Japan-China relations during a time of massive political, social, and economic changes. Written by a team of internationally renowned Japanese scholars and based on sources not available in English, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of Japan-China relations, Japanese international relations, and the politics and international relations of East Asia

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1351857924

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Writing Margins

The Textual Construction of Gender in Heian and Kamakura Japan

By: Terry Kawashima

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The Textual Construction of Gender in Heian and Kamakura Japan

By: Terry Kawashima

In texts from the mid-Heian to the early Kamakura periods, certain figures appear to be "marginal" or removed from "centers" of power. But why do we see these figures in this way? This study first seeks to answer this question by examining the details of the marginalizing discourse found in these texts. Who is portraying whom as marginal? For what reason? Is the discourse consistent? The author next considers these texts in terms of the predilection of modern scholarship, both Japanese and Western, to label certain figures "marginal." She then poses the question: Is this predilection a helpful tool or does it inscribe modern biases and misconceptions onto these texts?

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Harvard Univ Asia Center

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