The Readability of the Past in Early Chinese Historiography
by Wai-yee Li

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The Age of Visions and Arguments: Parliamentarianism and the National Public Sphere in Early Meiji Japan
by Kyu Hyun Kim

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Emplacing a Pilgrimage: The Ōyama Cult
and Regional Religion in Early Modern Japan
by Barbara Ambros

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Lost Soul: "Confucianism" in Contemporary Chinese Academic Discourse
by John Makeham

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China during the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937
by Tomoko Shiroyama

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When Our Eyes No Longer See:
Realism, Science, and Ecology
in Japanese Literary Modernism
by Gregory Golley

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Out of the Alleyway: Nakagami Kenji and the Poetics of Outcaste Fiction
by Eve Zimmerman

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Beacon Fire and Shooting Star: The Literary Culture of the Liang (502-557)
by Xiaofei Tian

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Articulating Citizenship: Civic Education and Student Politics in Southeastern China, 1912–1940 by Robert Culp

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Amid the Clouds and Mist: China's Colonization of Guizhou, 1200–1700
by John E. Herman

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The Divine Nature of Power: Chinese Ritual Architecture at the Sacred Site of Jinci
by Tracy Miller

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Competion over Content: Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service Examinations in Imperial China, 1127–1279 by Hilde De Weerdt

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A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese
by Paul Rouzer

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From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan's Keynes
by Richard J. Smethurst

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Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods
by Cynthia Brokaw

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Between Dreams and Reality:
The Military Examination in Late Choson Korea, 1600–1894
by Eugene Y. Park

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War and Faith: Ikko Ikki
in Late Muromachi Japan
by Carol Richmond
Tsang

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Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence, and State-Making
in Modern China
by Patricia M. Thornton

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A Court on Horseback: Imperial Touring
and the Construction of Qing Rule, 1680–1785
by Michael G. Chang

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Householders: The Reizei Family in Japanese History
by Steven D. Carter

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Love After The Tale of Genji: Rewriting the World of the Shining Prince
by Charo B. D'Etcheverry

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The Taoists of Peking,
1800–1949: A Social History of Urban Clerics
by Vincent Goossaert

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A History of the Early Korean Kingdom of Paekche
by Jonathan W. Best

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Manga from the
Floating World: Comicbook Culture
and the Kibyoshi
of Edo Japan
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Adam L. Kern

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The Late Tang:
Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century
(827–860)
by Stephen Owen

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Death and Social Order
in Tokugawa Japan: Buddhism, Anti-Christianity, and the Danka System
by Nam-lin Hur

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War Memory and
Social Politics in Japan, 1945–2005
by Franziska Seraphim

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China Upside Down: Currency, Society, and Ideologies,
1808–1856
by Man-houng Lin

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Out of the Cloister: Literati Perspectives on Buddhism in Sung China, 960–1279
by Mark Halperin

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Pattern and Person: Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China
by Martin J. Powers

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The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry
by Stephen Owen

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Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China: The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics
by Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Maggie Bickford, editors

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Practices of the Sentimental Imagination: Melodrama, the Novel, and the Social Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century Japan
by Jonathan E. Zwicker

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The Heart of Time:
Moral Agency in
Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction
by Sabina Knight

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The Sea of Learning: Mobility and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou
by Steven B. Miles

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The Uses of Memory: The Critique of Modernity in the Fiction of Higuchi Ichiyo
by Timothy J.
Van Compernolle

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The Problem of Beauty: Aesthetic Thought and Pursuits in Northern Song Dynasty China
by Ronald Egan

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The Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China
by Ellen Widmer

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Intimate Politics: Marriage, the Market, and State Power in Southeastern China
by Sara L. Friedman

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State or Merchant? Political Economy and Political Process in
1740s China
by Helen Dunstan

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Words Well Put: Visions of Poetic Competence in the Chinese Tradition
by Graham Sanders

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Crafting a Collection: The Cultural Contexts and Poetic Practices of the Huajian ji (Collection from Among the Flowers)
by Anna M. Shields

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Advertising Tower: Japanese Modernism and Modernity in the 1920s by William O. Gardner

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Useless to the State: “Social Problems” and Social Engineering in Nationalist Nanjing, 1927–1937 by Zwia Lipkin

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Localities at the Center: Native Place, Space, and Power in Late Imperial Beijing by Richard Belsky

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Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan by D. Max Moerman

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Dynastic Crisis and Cultural Innovation: From the Late Ming to the Late Qing and Beyond by David Der-wei Wang and Shang Wei, editors

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Trauma and Transcendence in Early Qing Literature by Wilt L. Idema, Wai-yee Li, and Ellen Widmer, editors

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Normalization of U.S.-China Relations by William C. Kirby, Robert S. Ross, and Gong Li, editors

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The United Nations in Japan's Foreign and Security Policymaking, 1945–1992 by Liang Pan

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Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683–1895 by Emma Jinhua Teng
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Gendering Modern Japanese History by Barbara Molony and Kathleen Uno, editors

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Public Spheres, Private Lives in Modern Japan, 1600–1950: Essays in Honor of Albert M. Craig by Gail Lee Bernstein, Andrew Gordon, and Kate Wildman Nakai, editors

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Practical Pursuits: Takano Choei, Takahashi Keisaku, and Western Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Ellen Gardner Nakamura

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Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture by Wu Hung and Katherine R. Tsiang, editors

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Islands of Eight Million Smiles: Idol Performance and Symbolic Production in Contemporary Japan by Hiroshi Aoyagi

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The Red Brush: Writing Women of Imperial China by Wilt Idema and Beata Grant

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The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

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A Political Explanation of Economic Growth: State Survival, Bureaucratic Politics, and Private Enterprises in the Making of Taiwan’s Economy, 1950–1985 by Yongping Wu

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Discourses of Seduction: History, Evil, and Desire and Modern Japanese Literature by Hosea Hirata

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Proving the Way: Conflict and Practice in the History of Japanese Nativism by Mark McNally

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Opium and the Limits of Empire: Drug Prohibition in the Chinese Interior, 1729–1850 by David A. Bello

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Writing Home: Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese Literature by Stephen Dodd

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Identity Reflections: Pilgrimages to Mount Tai in Late Imperial China by Brian R. Dott

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The Qing Formation in World-Historical Time by Lynn A. Struve, editor

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Beyond Birth: Social Status in the Emergence of Modern Korea by Kyung Moon Hwang

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Speaking of Yangzhou: A Chinese City, 1550–1850 by Antonia Finnane

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A Newspaper for China? Power, Identity, and Change in Shanghai's News Media,1872–1912 by Barbara Mittler

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Building Local States:
China During the Replubican and Post-Mao Eras by Elizabeth J. Remick

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China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation by Karl Gerth
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Burning and Building: Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750–1890 by Brian Platt

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The Troublesome Legacy of Commissioner Lin: The Opium Trade and Opium Suppression in Fujian Province, 1820s to 1920s by Joyce A. Madancy

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The Ethos of Noh: Actors and Their Art by Eric C. Rath

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Alien Kind: Foxes and Late Imperial Chinese Narrative by Rania Huntington

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From Cotton Mill to Business Empire: The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China by Elisabeth Köll

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House and Home in Modern Japan by Jordan Sand
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* Winner of the American Historical Association’s John King Fairbank Prize for East Asian History, 2004

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Transmitters and Creators: Chinese Commentators and Commentaries on the Analects by John Makeham

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Steps of Perfection: Exorcistic Performers and Chinese Religion in Twentieth-Century Taiwan by Donald S. Sutton

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Metamorphosis of the Private Sphere: Gardens and Objects in Tang-Song Poetry by Xiaoshan Yang

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Fu Shan's World: The Transformation of Chinese Calligraphy in the Seventeenth Century by Qianshen Bai

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Writing and Materiality in China: Essays in Honor of Patrick Hanan by Judith T. Zeitlin and Lydia H. Liu, editors

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The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History by Paul Jakov Smith and Richard von Glahn, editors

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Rulin Waishi and Cultural Transformation in Late Imperial China by Shang Wei

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Allegories of Desire: Esoteric Literary Commentaries of Medieval Japan by Susan Blakeley Klein

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On Sacred Grounds: Culture, Society, Politics, and the Formation of the Cult of Confucius by Thomas A. Wilson

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Printing for Profit: The Commercial Publishers of Jianyang, Fujian (11th–17th Centuries) by Lucille Chia

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The Golden Age of the U.S.-China-Japan Triangle, 1972–1989 by Ezra F. Vogel, Yuan Ming, and Tanaka Akihiko, editors

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To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China by Michael J. Puett
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The Book of Korean Shijo by Kevin O'Rourke, editor and translator

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Emperor and Aristocracy in Japan, 1467–1680: Resilience and Renewal by Lee Butler

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The Making of Shinkokinshu by Robert N. Huey

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Inklings of Democracy in China Suzanne Ogden
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