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“ian rapley”

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  • Green Star Japan

    Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880–1945

    by Ian Rapley ...
    During the first half of the twentieth century, a wide range of the Japanese populace was drawn to the possibilities offered by the proposed language known as Esperanto. Created in the nineteenth century by a European, L. L. Zamenhof, Esperanto seemed an unlikely candidate for Japanese interest, but to its advocates it was a potential solution to the international language problem: the question of ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • Dark Star Rising

    Magick and Power in the Age of Trump

    by Gary Lachman ...
    Within the concentric circles of Trump's regime lies an unseen culture of occultists, power-seekers, and mind-magicians whose influence is on the rise. In this unparalleled account, historian Gary Lachman examines the influence of occult and esoteric philosophy on the unexpected rise of the alt-right.Did positive thinking and mental science help put Donald Trump in the White House? And are there ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Manga and the Representation of Japanese History

    Edited by Roman Rosenbaum ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    This edited collection explores how graphic art and in particular Japanese manga represent Japanese history.The articles explore the representation of history in manga from disciplines that include such diverse fields as literary studies, politics, history, cultural studies, linguistics, narratology, and semiotics. Despite this diversity of approaches all academics from these respective fields of ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering

    Japan in the Modern World

    by John W. Dower ...
    "A series of astute academic essays on the forging of postwar Japan" from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and Bancroft Prize ( Kirkus Reviews).Remembering and reconstructing the past inevitably involves forgetting—and nowhere more so than in the complex relationship between the United States and Japan since the end of World War II. In this provocative and probing series of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fall of Language in the Age of English

    by Minae Mizumura ...
    Translated by Mari Yoshihara, Juliet Winters Carpenter ...
    Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge yet also embraces the different ways of understanding ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Fascist Effect

    Japan and Italy, 1915–1952

    by Reto Hofmann ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    In The Fascist Effect**, Reto Hofmann uncovers the ideological links that tied Japan to Italy, drawing on extensive materials from Japanese and Italian archives to shed light on the formation of fascist history and practice in Japan and beyond.** Moving between personal experiences, diplomatic and cultural relations, and geopolitical considerations, Hofmann shows that interwar Japan found in ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature

    by John Whittier Treat ...
    The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature tells the story of Japanese literature from its start in the 1870s against the backdrop of a rapidly coalescing modern nation to the present. John Whittier Treat takes up both canonical and forgotten works, the non-literary as well as the literary, and pays special attention to the Japanese state's hand in shaping literature throughout the country's ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Companion to Victor Pelevin

    Edited by Sofya Khagi ...
    Series series Companions to Russian Literature
    Companion to Victor Pelevin, a collaborative undertaking by a group of emerging Russianist scholars, focuses on the work of one of the most important and hotly debated post-Soviet writers. It provides a valuable resource to scholars, teachers, and students, including how best to teach Pelevin to university-level students, and which critical debates invite further investigation. The contributors ... Read more

    $168.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Planning for Empire

    Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State

    by Janis A. Mimura ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    Japan's invasion of Manchuria in September of 1931 initiated a new phase of brutal occupation and warfare in Asia and the Pacific. It forwarded the project of remaking the Japanese state along technocratic and fascistic lines and creating a self-sufficient Asian bloc centered on Japan and its puppet state of Manchukuo. In Planning for Empire, Janis Mimura traces the origins and evolution of this ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The New Japanese Woman

    Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan

    by Barbara Sato, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    Presenting a vivid social history of “the new woman” who emerged in Japanese culture between the world wars, The New Japanese Woman shows how images of modern women burst into Japanese life in the midst of the urbanization, growth of the middle class, and explosion of consumerism resulting from the postwar economic boom, particularly in the 1920s. Barbara Sato analyzes the icons that came to ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Erotic Grotesque Nonsense

    The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times

    by Miriam Silverberg ...
    Series Book 1 - Asia Pacific Modern
    This history of Japanese mass culture during the decades preceding Pearl Harbor argues that the new gestures, relationship, and humor of ero-guro-nansensu (erotic grotesque nonsense) expressed a self-consciously modern ethos that challenged state ideology and expansionism. Miriam Silverberg uses sources such as movie magazines, ethnographies of the homeless, and the most famous photographs from ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Neurotic Beauty

    An Outsider Looks at Japan

    by Morris Berman ...
    Neurotic Beauty is a remarkable reevaluation of Japan’s role in the modern world.It includes a new assessment of the events leading up to the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, and of the potential role of Japanese philosophy in creating a dynamicapproach to human nature and our understanding of reality. The book also shows theinterrelatedness of various facets of Japanese history and society, ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD