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The essays in this groundbreaking book explore the meanings of manhood in Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. Recreating Japanese Men examines a broad range of attitudes regarding properly masculine pursuits and modes of behavior. It charts breakdowns in traditional and conventional societal roles and the resulting crises of masculinity. Contributors address key questions about Japanese manhood ranging from icons such as the samurai to marginal men including hermaphrodites, robots, techno-geeks, rock climbers, shop clerks, soldiers, shoguns, and more. In addition to bringing historical evidence to bear on definitions of masculinity, contributors provide fresh analyses on the ways contemporary modes and styles of masculinity have affected Japanese men's sense of gender as authentic and stable.

Men --- Masculinity --- Sex role --- Identity. --- anthropologists. --- anthropology. --- asia scholars. --- asian studies. --- behavioral studies. --- contemporary japan. --- cultural historians. --- early modern japan. --- essay collection. --- geeks. --- gender identity. --- gender roles. --- gender studies. --- generational. --- hermaphrodites. --- historians. --- historical. --- japan. --- japanese culture. --- japanese history. --- japanese men. --- japanese society. --- manhood. --- masculinity. --- mens issues. --- mens roles. --- nonfiction essays. --- samurai. --- shoguns. --- social science. --- sociologists. --- traditional roles.

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Intended as a reminder of Europe for soldiers and clerks of the empire, the city of Dalat, located in the hills of Southern Vietnam, was built by the French in an alpine locale that reminded them of home. This book uncovers the strange 100-year history of a colonial city that was conceived as a center of power and has now become a kitsch tourist destination famed for its colonial villas, flower beds, pristine lakes, and pastoral landscapes. Eric T. Jennings finds that from its very beginning, Dalat embodied the paradoxes of colonialism-it was a city of leisure built on the backs of thousands of coolies, a supposed paragon of hygiene that offered only questionable protection from disease, and a new venture into ethnic relations that ultimately backfired. Jennings' fascinating history opens a new window onto virtually all aspects of French Indochina, from architecture and urban planning to violence, labor, métissage, health and medicine, gender and ethic relations, schooling, religion, comportments, anxieties, and more.

Đà Lạt (Vietnam) --- France --- History. --- Colonial influence. --- Colonies --- asia scholars. --- asian history. --- asian studies. --- colonial historians. --- colonial villas. --- colonialism. --- cultural anthropology. --- cultural historians. --- cultural perspective. --- dalat. --- ethnic relations. --- ethnographers. --- ethnography. --- europe. --- french empire. --- french indochina. --- gender relations. --- health and medicine. --- historians. --- imperialism. --- nonfiction. --- political science. --- postcolonialism. --- regional history. --- southern vietnam. --- tourist destination. --- world history.

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Land-locked between its giant neighbors, Russia and China, Mongolia was the first Asian country to adopt communism and the first to abandon it. When the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990's, Mongolia turned to international financial agencies-including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank-for help in compensating for the economic changes caused by disruptions in the communist world. Modern Mongolia is the best-informed and most thorough account to date of the political economy of Mongolia during the past decade. In it, Morris Rossabi explores the effects of the withdrawal of Soviet assistance, the role of international financial agencies in supporting a pure market economy, and the ways that new policies have led to greater political freedom but also to unemployment, poverty, increasingly inequitable distribution of income, and deterioration in the education, health, and well-being of Mongolian society. Rossabi demonstrates that the agencies providing grants and loans insisted on Mongolia's adherence to a set of policies that did not generally take into account the country's unique heritage and society. Though the sale of state assets, minimalist government, liberalization of trade and prices, a balanced budget, and austerity were supposed to yield marked economic growth, Mongolia-the world's fifth-largest per capita recipient of foreign aid-did not recover as expected. As he details this painful transition from a collective to a capitalist economy, Rossabi also analyzes the cultural effects of the sudden opening of Mongolia to democracy. He looks at the broader implications of Mongolia's international situation and considers its future, particularly in relation to China.

HistoryzMongolia. --- Mongolia - History - 1990-. --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- East Asia --- Mongolia --- History --- History. --- HISTORY / Asia / General. --- Mongolie --- Economic conditions --- Histoire --- Conditions économiques --- asia scholars. --- asian studies. --- business and industry. --- capitalism. --- capitalist society. --- china. --- civic. --- commissars. --- communism. --- economic growth. --- economic history. --- foreign aid. --- history. --- international financial agencies. --- international relations. --- khans. --- minimalist government. --- modern history. --- money. --- mongolia. --- mongolian history. --- mongolian society. --- political history. --- political science. --- poverty. --- pure market economy. --- retrospective. --- russia. --- soviet union.

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This highly original study provides an entirely new critical perspective on the central importance of ideas about language in the reproduction of gender, class, and race divisions in modern Japan. Focusing on a phenomenon commonly called "women's language," in modern Japanese society, Miyako Inoue considers the history and social effects of this language form. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a contemporary Tokyo corporation to study the everyday linguistic experience of white-collar females office workers and on historical research from the late nineteenth century to 1930, she calls into question the claim that "women's language" is a Japanese cultural tradition of ancient origin and offers a critical geneaology showing the extent to which this language form is, in fact, a cultural construct linked with Japan's national and capitalist modernity. Her theoretically sophisticated, empirically grounded, interdisciplinary work brilliantly illuminates the relationship between culture and language, the nature of power and subject formation in modernity, and how the complex nexus of gender, language, and political economy are experienced in everyday life.

Japanese language --- Women --- Koguryo language --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Sex differences. --- Language. --- Femmes --- Japonais (Langue) --- Langue --- Différences entre sexes --- Sociolinguistics --- Language --- asia scholars. --- asian studies. --- class differences. --- critical analysis. --- cultural traditions. --- ethnographers. --- ethnography. --- fieldwork. --- gender and language. --- gender studies. --- gendered language. --- genealogy. --- japan. --- japanese culture. --- japanese society. --- language and culture. --- linguistic modernity. --- modern japan. --- modernization. --- national identity. --- nonfiction study. --- office workers. --- political economy. --- racial issues. --- social effects. --- theoretical. --- tokyo. --- white collar workers.

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This remarkable book examines the complex history of Japanese colonial and postcolonial interactions with Korea, particularly in matters of cultural policy. E. Taylor Atkins focuses on past and present Japanese fascination with Korean culture as he reassesses colonial anthropology, heritage curation, cultural policy, and Korean performance art in Japanese mass media culture. Atkins challenges the prevailing view that imperial Japan demonstrated contempt for Koreans through suppression of Korean culture. In his analysis, the Japanese preoccupation with Koreana provided the empire with a poignant vision of its own past, now lost--including communal living and social solidarity--which then allowed Japanese to grieve for their former selves. At the same time, the specific objects of Japan's gaze--folk theater, dances, shamanism, music, and material heritage--became emblems of national identity in postcolonial Korea.

Postcolonialism --- Imperialism --- Public opinion --- Social aspects --- History --- Japan --- Korea --- Cultural policy. --- Colonial influence. --- Foreign public opinion, Japanese. --- Relations --- 20th century. --- asia scholars. --- asian studies. --- colonial anthropology. --- colonial gaze. --- colonialism. --- communal living. --- cultural analysis. --- cultural policy. --- cultural suppression. --- folk theater. --- heritage curation. --- japanese colonialism. --- japanese history. --- korea. --- korean culture. --- korean music. --- koreana. --- mass media culture. --- material heritage. --- modern history. --- national identity. --- performance art. --- political history. --- postcolonial korea. --- postcolonialism. --- shamanism. --- social history.