Harvard University Press

Asian Studies 2015

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Makers of Modern AsiaEdited by Ramachandra Guha

“[An] entertaining and illuminating collection of essays… The chapters on Sukarno, by James Rush, and on Bhutto, by Farzana Shaikh, are exceptional.”

—The Economist

“A much-needed collection…Compared to many biographies of Western political leaders, these stories lack the commercial drama and overheated sensationalism of the bestselling variety, but that characteristic may be a welcome respite for many readers.”

—Publishers WeeklyBelknap Press 2014 400 pp. $29.95 • £22.95 cloth 9780674365414

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The Struggle for PakistanA Muslim Homeland and Global PoliticsAyesha Jalal

“Perceptive and learned…[Jalal] shows that Pakistan never went off the rails; it was, moreover, never a democracy in any mean-ingful sense. For its entire history, a military caste and its sup-porters in the ruling class have formed an ‘establishment’ that defined their narrow interests as the nation’s…The Struggle for Pakistan traces Pakistan’s decline all the way up to the present.”

—Isaac Chotiner, Wall Street Journal

“Jalal offers a clear, chronological account of how the army, in competition with civilians, has misruled Pakistan.”

—The EconomistBelknap Press 2014 22 halftones, 4 maps 448 pp. $35.00 • £25.00 cloth 9780674052895

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The VisitorAndré Palmeiro and the Jesuits in AsiaLiam Matthew Brockey

“This story transcends Palmeiro’s life…Indeed, it is Palmeiro’s own letters and his lively accounts of his journeys, along with other sources, that Brockey puts to excellent use in his account of Jesuit enterprise in the Portuguese Empire in maritime Asia…In crafting Palmeiro’s life story Brockey brilliantly accomplishes his goal of shedding light on different historical contexts as well as the problems and questions of the early modern world…This well-written and enjoyable book illustrates how Palmeiro’s final days until his death marked the end of a generation of Jesuits whose dreams materialized in the expansion of Christianity in Asia.”

— Ana Carolina Hosne, Times Higher Education

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Fateful TiesA History of America’s Preoccupation with ChinaGordon H. Chang

“Chang analyzes the past 300 years of Sino-American relations, as the world’s most populous nation is poised to regain eco-nomic supremacy. It’s a succinct, sharply focused analysis.”

— Publishers Weekly

“Chang argues that ties between [China and the United States] are not predestined but that the futures of both nations are nonetheless deeply intertwined.”

—Casey Watters, Library Journal2015 336 pp. $32.95 • £24.95 cloth 9780674050396

Chinese and AmericansA Shared HistoryXu GuoqiForeword by Akira Iriye

“With the support of extensive, highly original, and reliable research, Xu Guoqi has written a truly pathbreaking book, one with the scholarly and intellectual power to redefine some key dimensions of studies on international history in general and Chinese–American relations in particular. It is a book that concentrates on people rather than on the state, government, and various institutions…A series of fascinating stories.”

—Chen Jian, Cornell University2014 25 halftones 352 pp. $39.95 • £29.95 cloth 9780674052536

Army and NationThe Military and Indian Democracy since IndependenceSteven I. Wilkinson

“A story of what happens when armies fail to reflect the societies they defend, as well as a meditation on Juvenal’s famous question quis custodiet ipsos custodes? —who shall guard the guards?…Wilkinson’s book is an excellent guide to the world’s biggest democratic army. It is also a fine answer to Juvenal’s cautionary question.”

—Shashank Joshi, Financial Times2015 16 line illus., 16 tables 304 pp. $39.95 • £29.95 cloth 9780674728806

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The Sacred Routes of Uyghur HistoryRian Thum

“In The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History, [Thum] documents how the Muslims of the region now called Xinjiang understood their past in the three centuries before the Cultural Revolution. Then he explains how that historical identity was torn apart, by inside and outside forces, in the course of the 20th century…What makes Sacred Routes so valuable is its coverage of both the modern and pre-modern periods, taking us back before the Chinese conquest of Altishahr. This enables Thum to show what happened to the older cultural technologies of manuscript, shrine, and pilgrimage in the age of mass printing, competing nationalisms, and commercial tourism…This is Uyghur history as everyman’s history.”

— Nile Green, Los Angeles Review of Books

2014 1 map, 3 tables 336 pp. $39.95 • £29.95 cloth 9780674598553

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Sufi LyricsBullhe ShahEdited and translated by Christopher Shackle

The poetry of Bullhe Shah (d. 1758) is considered one of the glories of premodern Panjabi literature. Sufi Lyrics offers at once the most com-plete and most approachable version of this great poet’s works yet available.MCLI 1 2015 496 pp. $29.95 | £22.95 cloth 9780674427747

TherigathaPoems of the First Buddhist WomenTranslated by Charles Hallisey

The Therīgāthā, composed more than two millennia ago, is an anthology of poems by and about the first Buddhist women that are arguably among the most ancient examples of women’s writing in the world.MCLI 3 2015 336 pp. $29.95 | £22.95 cloth 9780674427730

The Story of ManuAllasani PeddanaTranslated by Velcheru Narayana Rao • David Shulman

The Story of Manu is the definitive literary monument of Telugu civilization and a powerful embodiment of the imperial culture of Vijayanagara.MCLI 4 2015 656 pp. $32.95 • £24.95 cloth 9780674427761

Sur’s OceanPoems from the Early TraditionSurdasEdited by Kenneth E. Bryant • Translated by John Stratton Hawley

Surdas has been regarded as the epitome of artistry in Old Hindi religious poetry from the end of the sixteenth century, when he lived, to the present day. This remarkable volume reconstructs the early tradition of Surdas’s verse.MCLI 5 2015 1072 pp. $35.00 | £25.95 cloth 9780674427778

M u r t y C l a s s i c a l L i b r a r y o f I n d i a

“The shaping of India’s future depends on understanding its past, and the Murty Classical Library of India deserves acclaim for making great works from the past widely available.”

—Amartya Sen

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The History of AkbarVolume 1Abu’l-FazlEdited and translated by Wheeler M. Thackston

One of the most important works of Indo-Persian history and a touchstone of prose artistry, Akbarnāma, or The History of Akbar, by Abu’l-Fazl (d. 1602) served as a model for historians throughout the Persianate world. MCLI 2 2015 $32.95 • £24.95 cloth 9780674427754

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The Yellow RiverThe Problem of Water in Modern ChinaDavid A. Pietz

“This book’s value lies in showing that the issues are not confined to geology and engineering. Water in China is an unavoidably political issue because of cultural beliefs.”

—Philip Ball, Nature

“In addition to skillfully weaving together a history of the Yellow River that spans more than 3,000 years, Pietz’s meticulous and comprehensive study offers a wide perspective on China’s environmental concerns.”

—Micah S. Muscolino, author of The Ecology of War in China2015 23 halftones, 11 maps, 2 graphs, 3 tables 384 pp. $39.95 • £29.95 cloth 9780674058248

Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of EmpireSeema Alavi

“An impressively well-researched and theoretically rich book that illuminates the transformation of Muslim transnationalism and cosmopolitanism during the long 19th century.”

—Cemil Aydin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“An important book about Muslims and modernity by an outstanding historian of South Asia.”

—Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University2015 1 map 504 pp. $45.00 • £33.95 cloth 9780674735330

A Storm of SongsIndia and the Idea of the Bhakti MovementJohn Stratton Hawley

“There is no other scholar who could have pulled off the wonderfully exciting achievement of this book. It is erudite, wide-ranging, meticulous, accessible, articulate, and elegant. Hawley’s scholarship is in many ways revolutionary and of huge significance to our understanding of devotional religion in India.”

—Rupert Snell, The University of Texas at Austin2015 11 halftones, 2 maps, 1 table 464 pp. $49.95 • £36.95 cloth 9780674187467

Men to Devils, Devils to MenJapanese War Crimes and Chinese JusticeBarak Kushner

“A fascinating and reliable account of the ending of the long war between China and Japan in 1945, with particular emphasis on how the Chinese dealt with Japanese war criminals—and how the Japanese failed to come to terms with their own war crimes…This book is must reading for anyone interested in understanding the still tortuous relationship between the two countries.”

— Akira Iriye, editor of Global Interdependence

2015 13 halftones, 1 map, 1 table 416 pp. $45.00 • £33.95 cloth 9780674728912

China Under MaoA Revolution DerailedAndrew G. Walder

“This is a masterful synthesis of the literature on Mao Zedong’s China and of Walder’s own extensive sociological research. He combines Mao-centered political history with close attention to the organizational characteristics of the Communist Party, which explain its responsiveness to Mao Zedong’s often disas-trous initiatives.”

—Thomas P. Bernstein, Columbia University2015 19 halftones, 14 graphs, 6 tables 440 pp. $49.95 • £35.00 cloth 9780674058156

China from Empire to Nation-StateWang HuiTranslated by Michael Gibbs Hill

“China from Empire to Nation-State, a stellar contribution to intellectual history, does something very rare: it enriches and expands our vocabulary. There will be no greater incentive to study the political and philosophical traditions of China—and of the non-West in general—than this consistently illuminating and bracing book.”

—Pankaj Mishra, author of From the Ruins of Empire2014 200 pp. $29.95 • £22.95 cloth 9780674046955

China’s War ReportersThe Legacy of Resistance against JapanParks M. Coble

“Thoroughly researched and well written, this is an original contribution to our understanding of China’s war with Japan. One of its strengths is the way Coble shows how varied over time and place the devastating war experience was for journal-ists as well as the Chinese populace in general…I know of no other work that covers the ups and especially the downs of the war experience so well and comprehensively.”

— Stephen MacKinnon, Arizona State University2015 10 halftones, 1 map 288 pp. $39.95 • £29.95 cloth 9780674967670

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The Journey of “A Good Type”

From Artistry to Ethnography in Early Japanese PhotographsDavid Odo

Foreword by Elizabeth Edwards

When Japan opened its doors to the West in the 1860s, delicately hand-tinted photographic prints of Japanese people and landscapes were among its earliest and most popular exports. In this elegant volume, visual anthropologist David Odo examines the Peabody’s collec-tion of Japanese photographs and the ways in which such objects were produced, acquired, and circulated in the nineteenth century. His in-novative study reveals the images’ shifting and contingent uses—from tourist souvenir to fine art print to anthropological “type” record—were framed by the desires and cultural preconceptions of makers and consumers alike.

2015 73 color photographs, 2 halftones 144 pp. $45.00 • £33.95 cloth 9780873654081

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Industrial EdenA Chinese Capitalist VisionBrett Sheehan

“Industrial Eden is a fascinating and important study of modern Chinese capitalism that tracks the long arc of a business family from its rise in the late-nineteenth century to the collapse of its fortunes in the 1950s. The documentary basis of the book is rich and exhaustive; no archival stone has been left unturned. The book offers a rare and revealing picture of political and eco-nomic change taking place in tandem, in alternating moments of rise and ruin.”

—David Strand, Dickinson College2015 22 line illus., 2 maps, 1 graph, 4 tables 344 pp. $45.00 • £33.95 cloth 9780674967601

Vanishing into ThingsKnowledge in Chinese TraditionBarry Allen

“Allen provides us with an interpretation of Western and Chinese modes of knowing. But he does more. He provides us with an-other voice in the emerging world of global philosophy, taking the history of Chinese epistemology, knowledge, and wisdom into account…Allen’s style…translates very complicated Western and Chinese philosophical epistemological discourse into a form that is readily accessible to an intelligent reader.”

—John Berthrong, Boston University2015 304 pp. $45.00 • £33.95 cloth 9780674335912

HomesicknessCulture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern ChinaCarlos Rojas

“Both in scope and in its grounding of modern Chinese literature and culture in the intersection of literature, nation, and medicine, Homesickness is of great importance.”

—Xiaojue Wang, University of Pennsylvania2015 336 pp. $45.00 • £33.95 9780674743946

Cold War CrucibleThe Korean Conflict and the Postwar WorldMasuda Hajimu

“Cold War Crucible builds on both the traditional approach to diplomatic history and the so-called ‘cultural turn.’ Masuda unearths the roots of social change at the local level in several different societies to show how change impacted reactions to larger events and, in turn, influenced and was influenced by national political elites. An impressive book.”

— William Stueck, author of Rethinking the Korean War

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The Asia Inside Out series reveals the dynamic forces that have historically linked regions of the world’s largest continent, stretching from Japan and Korea to the South China Sea, Indian Ocean, and the Middle East.

Asia Inside OutChanging TimesEdited by Eric Tagliacozzo • Helen F. Siu • Peter C. Perdue

“A wonderfully rich, provocative, and timely collection. By illuminating moments of transformation not typically identified as historical turning points, these essays highlight alternative temporalities of Asian social, cultural, and political life.”

—Ajantha Subramanian, Harvard UniversityAsia Inside Out 2015 21 halftones, 2 maps 336 pp. $39.95 • £29.95 cloth 9780674598508

Asia Inside OutConnected PlacesEdited by Eric Tagliacozzo • Helen F. Siu • Peter C. Perdue

Connected Places, the second installment in this pioneering three-volume survey, highlights the transregional flows of goods, ideas, and people across natural and political boundaries—sea routes, delta ecologies, and mountain passes, ports and oasis towns, imperial capitals and postmodern cities.Asia Inside Out 2015 26 halftones, 5 maps, 5 graphs, 2 tables 432 pp. $45.00 • £33.95 cloth 9780674967687

Empires and Encounters1350–1750Edited by Wolfgang Reinhard General Editors, Akira Iriye • Jürgen Osterhammel

Between 1350 and 1750—a time of empires, exploration, and exposure to radically different lands and cultures—the world reached a tipping point of global connectedness. In this volume of the acclaimed History of the World series, noted international scholars examine five critical geographical areas during this pivotal period: Eurasia between Russia and Japan; the Muslim world of the Ottoman and Persian empires; Mughal India and the Indian Ocean trading world; maritime Southeast Asia and Oceania; and a newly configured transatlantic rim.Belknap Press | A History of the World 2015 57 halftones, 32 maps, 1 table 1168 pp. $39.95 • £29.95 cloth 9780674047198

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Indians in KenyaThe Politics of DiasporaSana Aiyar

“Elegantly written and richly researched, this book traces the manifold layers that make up the connective tissue between Kenya and India. In a stylish narrative with a compelling cast of characters, this book expands the scale of colonial history and decolonization, reconfiguring East Africa, South Asia, and the Indian Ocean world in a wonderful instance of transnational history.”

— Isabel Hofmeyr, author of The Portable Bunyan

Harvard Historical Studies 2015 2 maps 384 pp. $49.95 • £36.95 cloth 9780674289888

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The Essential TagoreRabindranath TagoreEdited by Fakrul Alam • Radha Chakravarty Foreword by Amit Chaudhuri

H A New Statesman Book of the Year

“[While T. S.] Eliot is a major poet for a single era of one literary tradition, Tagore is the most important poet of all eras for an entire culture…The Essential Tagore is a publication for readers all over the world, for all times.”

—Mohit Ul-Alam, Kali O KalamBelknap Press 2014; 2011 864 pp. $24.95 • £18.95 paper 9780674417045

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Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian AmericaVivek Bald

H Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society

“A revelatory book…Vivek Bald’s new book on Bengali migration tells a history that has been largely unknown.”

—Mini Basu, CNN.com

“[Bald] has produced an engaging account of a largely untold wave of immigration: Muslims from British India who arrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.”

—Sam Roberts, New York Times2015; 2013 320 pp. $22.50 • £16.95 paper 9780674503854

The Buddhas of BamiyanLlewelyn Morgan

“Llewelyn Morgan’s exquisite story telling brought me back to the ‘peaceful valley’ and the magnificent Buddhas of Bamiyan. Written with great authority and affection, this entrancing book ensures their rich history and meaning will not be lost.”

—Lyse Doucet, BBCWonders of the World 2015; 2012 256 pp. $15.95 • £11.95 paper 9780674503793

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Picturing the True FormDaoist Visual Culture in Traditional ChinaShih-shan Susan Huang

“Picturing the True Form undertakes a path-breaking and comprehensive treatment of a highly important topic in the study of Chinese religions: the nature and cultural import of Daoist art. With an unprecedented level of analysis and meticulous attention to detail, Susan Huang considers Daoist artworks from the perspective of cultural history and presents exciting new data on how Daoist art differed from that of Buddhism. The result is not only an assiduous investigation of Daoist visual culture, but a veritable history of Daoism itself.”

— Paul Katz, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica

Harvard East Asian Monographs 2015; 2012 80 color illus., 46 halftones, 242 line illus. 526 pp. $39.95 • £29.95 paper 9780674504288

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Defensive PositionsThe Politics of Maritime Security in Tokugawa JapanNoell Wilson

Defensive Positions focuses on the role of regional domains in early modern Japan’s coastal defense, shedding new light on this system’s development. This examination, in turn, has significant long-term political implications for the involvement of those domains in Tokugawa state formation. Harvard East Asian Monographs 2015 6 halftones, 2 line illus., 6 maps 250 pp. $39.95 • £29.95 cloth 9780674504349

Significant SoilSettler Colonialism and Japan’s Urban Empire in ManchuriaEmer O’Dwyer

In this study, Emer O’Dwyer traces the history of Japan’s prewar Manchurian empire over four decades, mapping how South Manchuria—and especially its principal city, Dairen—was naturalized as a Japanese space and revealing how this process ultimately contributed to the success of the Japanese army’s early 1930s takeover of Manchuria. Harvard East Asian Monographs 2015 8 line illus., 20 tables, 2 maps 520 pp. $59.95 • £44.95 cloth 9780674504332

Empires on the WaterfrontJapan’s Ports and Power, 1858–1899Catherine L. Phipps

Empires on the Waterfront offers a new spatial framework for understanding Japan’s extended transition into the modern world of nation-states. This study examines a largely unacknowl-edged system of “special trading ports” that operated under full Japanese jurisdiction in the shadow of the better-known treaty ports. By allowing Japan to circumvent conditions imposed on treaty ports, the special trading ports were key to achieving autonomy and regional power.Harvard East Asian Monographs 2015 6 maps, 3 tables 250 pp. $39.95 • £29.95 cloth 9780674417168

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Investing JapanForeign Capital, Monetary Standards, and Economic Development, 1859–2011Simon James Bytheway

“A major contribution to the literature on Japanese financial and economic history, this work is the first comprehensive study in English of foreign involvement in Japan’s modern economy through both loans and joint ventures. It challenges notions of Japanese economic development as a largely ‘autonomous’ process by highlighting the long history of foreign investment in modern Japan. The book richly documents the enormous inflow and multifaceted use of some ¥4 billion in foreign capital prior to World War II and places in compelling historical perspective the growing foreign presence in Japan’s postwar economy.”

— Steven Ericson, Dartmouth College

Harvard East Asian Monographs 2014 5 line illus., 18 tables 304 pp. $39.95 • £29.95 cloth 9780674417137

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Monstrous BodiesThe Rise of the Uncanny in Modern JapanMiri Nakamura

Monstrous Bodies focuses on what the book calls modern mon-sters—doppelgangers, robots, twins, hybrid creations—bodily metaphors that became ubiquitous in the literary landscape from the Meiji era (1868–1912) up until the outbreak of the Second Sino–Japanese War in 1937. Reading these literary bod-ies against the historical rise of the Japanese empire and its colonial wars in Asia, Nakamura argues that they must be under-stood in relation to the most “monstrous” body of all in modern Japan: the carefully constructed image of the empire itself.Harvard East Asian Monographs 2015 5 halftones, 2 line illus. 240 pp. $39.95 • £29.95 cloth 9780674504325

The Proletarian WaveLiterature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945Sunyoung Park

From the 1910s through the 1940s, a veritable wave of anarchist, Marxist, nationalist, and feminist leftist groups swept the cultural scene with differing agendas as well as shared demands for equality and social justice. In The Proletarian Wave, Sunyoung Park reconstructs the complex mosaic of colonial leftist culture by focusing on literature as its most fertile and enduring expression. Harvard East Asian Monographs 2015 10 color illus., 21 line illus. 350 pp. $49.95 • £36.95 cloth 9780674417175

The Efficacious LandscapeOn the Authorities of Painting at the Northern Song CourtFoong Ping

Ink landscape painting is a distinctive feature of the Northern Song, and painters of this era produced some of the most cel-ebrated artworks in Chinese history. The Efficacious Landscape addresses how landmark works of this pivotal period first came to be identified as potent symbols of imperial authority and later became objects through which exiled scholars expressed disaf-fection and dissent. In fulfilling these diverse roles, landscape demonstrated its efficacy in communicating through embodi-ment and in transcending the limitations of the concrete.Harvard East Asian Monographs 2015 63 color illus., 12 line illus. 320 pp. $79.95 • £59.95 cloth 9780674417151

Real and ImaginedThe Peak of Gold in Heian JapanHeather Blair

During the Heian period (794–1185), the sacred mountain Kinpusen, literally the “Peak of Gold,” came to cultural prominence as a pilgrimage destination for the most powerful men in Japan—the Fujiwara regents and the retired emperors. Real and Imagined depicts their one-hundred-kilometer trek from the capital to the rocky summit as well as the imaginative landscape they navigated.

Harvard East Asian Monographs 2015 11 line illus., 3 maps 370 pp. $49.95 • £36.95 cloth 9780674504271

Writing, Publishing, and Reading Local Gazetteers in Imperial China, 1100–1700Joseph R. Dennis

This book is the definitive study of imperial Chinese local gazetteers, one of the most important sources for premodern Chinese studies. Methodologically innovative, it represents a major contribution to the history of books, publishing, reading, and society. By examining how gazetteers were read, Joseph R. Dennis illustrates their significance in local societies and na-tional discourses. Harvard East Asian Monographs 2015 23 line illus., 8 maps, 10 tables 406 pp. $49.95 • £36.95 cloth 9780674504295

The Chinese Political NovelMigration of a World GenreCatherine Vance Yeh

The political novel is primarily concerned with the nation’s politi-cal future. Focusing on its adaptation in the Chinese context, Catherine Vance Yeh traces the genre from Disraeli’s England through Europe and the United States to East Asia. Her study goes beyond comparative approaches and nation-state- and language-centered histories of literature to examine the intrin-sic connections among literary works.Harvard East Asian Monographs 2015 3 halftones, 11 line illus. 464 pp. $59.95 • £44.95 cloth 9780674504356

Illusory AbidingThe Cultural Construction of the Chan Monk Zhongfeng MingbenNatasha Heller

Illusory Abiding offers a cultural history of Buddhism through a case study of the eminent Chan master Zhongfeng Mingben. Natasha Heller demonstrates that Mingben, and other monks of his stature, developed a range of cultural competencies through which they navigated social and intellectual relation-ships. This monograph contributes to a more robust account of Chinese Buddhism in late imperial China, and demonstrates the importance of situating monks as actors within broader sociocultural fields of practice and exchange.Harvard East Asian Monographs 2014 15 halftones, 1 map, 1 table 486 pp. $49.95 • £36.95 cloth 9780674417113

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Sound Rising from the PaperNineteenth-Century Martial Arts Fiction and the Chinese Acoustic ImaginationPaize Keulemans

Chinese martial arts novels from the late nineteenth century are filled with a host of suggestive sounds. Characters cuss and curse in color-ful dialect accents, vendor calls ring out from bustling marketplaces, and martial arts action scenes come to life with the loud clash of swords and the sounds of bodies colliding. In Sound Rising from the Paper, Paize Keulemans focuses on the role sound played in late nineteenth-century martial arts fiction. In doing so, he offers alternatives to the visual models that have dominated our approach to the study of print culture, the commercialization of textual production, and the construction of the modern reading subject.

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Radical InequalitiesChina’s Revolutionary Welfare State in Comparative PerspectiveNara Dillon

The Chinese Communist welfare state was established with the goal of eradicating income inequality. But paradoxically, it actually widened the income gap, undermining one of the most important objectives of Mao Zedong’s revolution. Nara Dillon traces the origins of the Chinese welfare state from the 1940s through the 1960s, when such inequalities emerged and were institutionalized, to uncover the reasons why the state failed to achieve this goal.Harvard East Asian Monographs 2015 5 halftones, 2 line illus., 1 map, 22 tables 325 pp. $49.95 • £36.95 cloth 9780674504318

Under the Ancestors’ EyesKinship, Status, and Locality in Premodern KoreaMartina Deuchler

Under the Ancestors’ Eyes presents a new approach to Korean social history by focusing on the origin and development of the indigenous descent group. Martina Deuchler maintains that the surprising continuity of the descent-group model gave the ruling elite cohesion and stability and enabled it to retain power from the early Silla (fifth century) to the late nineteenth century. This argument illuminates the role of Neo-Confucianism as an ideological and political device through which the elite regained and maintained dominance during the Chosŏn period. Harvard East Asian Monographs 2015 14 halftones, 4 line illus., 1 map, 19 genealogical charts 725 pp. $79.95 • £59.95 cloth 9780674504301

The Korean EconomyFrom a Miraculous Past to a Sustainable FutureBarry Eichengreen • Wonhyuk Lim •

Yung Chul Park • Dwight H. Perkins

South Korea has been held out as an economic miracle, but with these successes have come challenges, among them poverty, inequality, long work hours, financial instability, and complaints about the economic and political power of the country’s large corporate conglomerates, or chaebol. The Korean Economy provides an overview of Korean economic experience since the 1950s.Harvard East Asian Monographs 2015 35 line illus., 4 halftones, 53 tables 378 pp. $49.95 • £36.95 cloth 9780674417182

Negotiated PowerThe State, Elites, and Local Governance in Twelfth- to Fourteenth-Century ChinaSukhee Lee

The internal dynamics driving the relationship between the state and local society during the Southern Song and Yuan dynasties has both captivated and baffled scholars. In this book, Sukhee Lee posits an alternative understanding of the relationship between the state and social elites in the middle period of Chinese imperial history. Directly challenging the assumption of a zero-sum competition between the power of the state and that of local elites, Negotiated Power shows in vivid detail how state power and local elite interests were mutually constitutive and reinforcing.

Harvard East Asian Monographs 2014 8 halftones, 1 map, 12 tables 362 pp. $49.95 • £36.95 cloth 9780674417144

One Who Knows MeFriendship and Literary Culture in Mid-Tang ChinaAnna M. Shields

In One Who Knows Me, the first book to delve into friendship in medieval China, Anna M. Shields explores the literature of the mid-Tang to reveal the complex value its writers discovered in friendship—as a rewarding social practice, a rich literary topic, a way to negotiate literati identity, and a path toward self-understanding. Shields traces the evolution of the performance of friendship through a wide range of genres, including letters, prefaces, exchange poetry, and funerary texts. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 2015 425 pp. $49.95 • £36.95 cloth 9780674504370

Savage ExchangeHan Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic ImaginationTamara T. Chin

“Savage Exchange is a major breakthrough in conceptualizing grounds of comparison between early Chinese texts and other literary traditions. By drawing attention to a range of texts often outside the purview of literary scholars, Tamara Chin rethinks the relationship between centers and margins in the Chinese tradition.”

—Wai-yee Li, Harvard UniversityHarvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 2014 14 halftones, 2 line illus., 1 map, 1 table 380 pp. $49.95 • £36.95 cloth 9780674417199

Shifting StoriesHistory, Gossip, and Lore in Narratives from Tang Dynasty ChinaSarah M. Allen

Shifting Stories explores the tale literature of eighth- and ninth-century China to show how the written tales we have today grew out of a fluid culture of hearsay that circulated within elite society. Sarah M. Allen focuses on two main types of tales, those based in gossip about recognizable public figures and those developed out of lore concerning the occult. She dem-onstrates how writers borrowed and adapted stories and plots already in circulation and how they transformed them.Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 2014 330 pp. $39.95 • £29.95 cloth 9780674417205

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Materializing Magic PowerChinese Popular Religion in Villages and CitiesWei-Ping Lin

“An ethnographic work that weaves together description and theoretical discussion, Materializing Magic Power demonstrates the insights we achieve when we approach religious practices from the vantage of materiality…Materializing Magic Power will appeal to those curious about religious practices, but will also engage anyone who wonders about material culture’s role in how we build lasting social relationships.”

— D. J. Hatfield, Berklee College of Music

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