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Appearing for the first time in English, the writings in this collection reflect some of the most innovative and influential work by Japanese intellectuals in recent years. The volume offers a rare and much-needed window into the crucial ideas and positions currently shaping Japanese thought (shiso).In addressing the political, historical, and cultural issues that have dominated Japanese society, these essays cross a range of disciplines, including literary theory, philosophy, history, gender studies, and cultural studies. Contributors examine Japan's imperialist and nationalist past as well as representations and remembrances of this history. They also critique recent efforts in Japanese right-wing circles to erase or obscure the more troubling aspects of Japan's colonial enterprise in East Asia. Other essays explore how Japan has viewed itself in regard to the West and the complex influence of Western thought on Japanese intellectual and political life. The volume's groundbreaking essays on issues of gender and the contested place of feminist thought in Japan discuss the similarities between the emotional bullying of women who do not accept traditional gender roles and teasing in schools; how the Japanese have adopted elements of Western orientalism to discredit feminism; and historical constructions of Japanese motherhood.

Japan --- Civilization --- HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia.

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In Making Uzbekistan, Adeeb Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution. Traumatic upheavals-war, economic collapse, famine-transformed local society and brought new groups to positions of power and authority in Central Asia, just as the new revolutionary state began to create new institutions that redefined the nature of power in the region. This was also a time of hope and ambition in which local actors seized upon the opportunity presented by the revolution to reshape their society. As the intertwined passions of nation and revolution reconfigured the imaginations of Central Asia's intellectuals, the region was remade into national republics, of which Uzbekistan was of central importance. Making use of archival sources from Uzbekistan and Russia as well as the Uzbek- and Tajik-language press and belles lettres of the period, Khalid provides the first coherent account of the political history of the 1920s in Uzbekistan. He explores the complex interaction between Uzbek intellectuals, local Bolsheviks, and Moscow to sketch out the flux of the situation in early-Soviet Central Asia. His focus on the Uzbek intelligentsia allows him to recast our understanding of Soviet nationalities policies. Uzbekistan, he argues, was not a creation of Soviet policies, but a project of the Muslim intelligentsia that emerged in the Soviet context through the interstices of the complex politics of the period. The energies unleashed by the revolution also made possible the golden age of modern culture, as authors experimented with new literary forms and the modern Uzbek language took shape. Making Uzbekistan introduces key texts from this period and argues that what the decade witnessed was nothing short of a cultural revolution.

Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Russia & Former Soviet Republics --- Uzbekistan --- Asia, Central --- History --- History. --- Political Science & Political History. --- Uzbekistan, USSR, imperial rule, colonialism, mass media, nationalism, state building. --- HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia. --- Modernisierung. --- Nationalbewusstsein. --- Nationenbildung. --- Sowjetisierung. --- Revolution (Asia, Central : 1917-1921). --- 1917-1991. --- Asia, Central. --- Usbekistan. --- Uzbekistan. --- History of Asia --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1920-1929 --- Russia

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Widely studied and hotly debated, the Silk Road is often viewed as a precursor to contemporary globalization, the merchants who traversed it as early agents of cultural exchange. Missing are the lives of the ordinary people who inhabited the route and contributed as much to its development as their itinerant counterparts. In this book, Kate Franklin takes the highlands of medieval Armenia as a compelling case study for examining how early globalization and everyday life intertwined along the Silk Road. She argues that Armenia-and the Silk Road itself-consisted of the overlapping worlds created by a diverse assortment of people: not only long-distance travelers but also the local rulers and subjects who lived in Armenia's mountain valleys and along its highways. Franklin guides the reader through increasingly intimate scales of global exchange to highlight the cosmopolitan dimensions of daily life, as she vividly reconstructs how people living in and passing through the medieval Caucasus understood the world and their place within it. With its innovative focus on the far-reaching implications of local practices, Everyday Cosmopolitanisms brings the study of medieval Eurasia into relation with contemporary investigations of cosmopolitanism and globalization, challenging persistent divisions between modern and medieval, global and quotidian.

Trade routes --- History --- Silk Road --- Armenia --- Description and travel --- History, Local --- Trade routes - Caucasus - History --- Silk Road - Description and travel - History --- Silk Road - History, Local --- Armenia - History - 428-1522 --- History / Europe / Medieval --- History / World --- History / Asia / Central Asia --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History. --- History, Local. --- Silk Route

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"Judith Beyer presents a finely textured ethnographic study that sheds new light on the legal and moral ordering of everyday life in northwestern Kyrgyzstan. Beyer shows how local Kyrgyz negotiate proper behavior and regulate disputes by invoking custom, known to the locals as salt. While salt is presented as age-old tradition, its invocation needs to be understood as a highly developed and flexible rhetorical strategy that people adapt to suit political, legal, economic, and religious environments"-- "The Force of Custom presents a finely textured ethnographic study that sheds new light on the legal and moral ordering of everyday life in northwestern Kyrgyzstan. Through her extensive fieldwork and firsthand experience, Judith Beyer reveals how Kyrgyz in Talas province negotiate proper behavior and regulate disputes by invoking custom, known to the locals as salt. While salt is presented as age-old tradition, its invocation is shown to be a highly developed and flexible rhetorical strategy that people adapt in order to meet the challenges of contemporary political, legal, economic, and religious environments. Officially, codified state law should take precedence when it comes to dispute resolution, yet the unwritten laws of salt and the increasing importance of Islamic law provide the standards for ordering everyday life. As Beyer further demonstrates, interpretations of both Islamic and state law are also intrinsically linked to salt. By interweaving case studies on kinship, legal negotiations, festive events, mourning rituals, and political and business dealings, Beyer shows how salt is the binding element in rural Kyrgyz social life and how it is used to explain and negotiate moral behavior and to postulate communal identity. In this way, salt provides a time-tested, sustainable source of authentication that defies changes in government and the shifting tides of religious movements"--

HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. --- National characteristics, Kyrgyz. --- Ethnology --- Kyrgyz --- Kyrgyz national characteristics --- Kaisaks --- Kaissaks --- Kirghese --- Kirghiz --- Kirghizes --- Kirgiz --- Kirgizes --- Kirguis --- Kyrgyzes --- Turkic peoples --- Ethnic identity --- History. --- Kyrgyzstan --- Jierjisi gong he guo --- Jumhūrī-i Qirqīzistān --- Kirghizia --- Kirgisia --- Kirgisien --- Kirgisistan --- Kirgizii︠a︡ --- Kirgizistan --- Kirgiziya --- Kirgizstan --- Kirugisu --- Kirugisutan --- Kuruguzu --- Kuruguzusutan --- Kyrghyzstan --- Kyrgyz Republic --- Kyrgyz Respublikasy --- Kyrgyzskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Kyrgyzskaya Respublika --- Kyrgyzstan Respublikasy --- Qirghiz Respublikasi --- Qīrghīzistān --- Qırğız Respublikası --- Qırğızstan --- Qirqīzistān --- Republic of Kyrgyzstan --- Respublika Kyrgyzstan --- Кыргыз Республикасы --- Кыргызстан --- Кыргызская Республика --- Киргизия --- キルギス --- キルギスタン --- クルグズ --- クルグズスタン --- Kirghiz S.S.R. --- Social life and customs. --- Kyrgyzstanis

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On March 17, 1959, the Dalai Lama slipped out of his summer palace, the Norbulingka, in disguise, evading detection both by the Chinese Communist authorities stationed in the city and by the thousands of Tibetan demonstrators who had gathered in the area, fearful that the Chinese were plotting to abduct their beloved leader. After a hair-raising trek across the Himalayas, he re-emerged weeks later in India, where he set up his government in exile. Soon after he left Lhasa, however, the Chinese People's Liberation Army pummeled the city in the savage "Battle of Lhasa." The poorly prepared Tibetans were forced to capitulate, putting Mao in a position to fulfill his long-held dream of imposing Communist rule over Tibet. Partisan politics has tended to overshadow history ever since these fateful developments. For decades, independent scholars have lacked the source materials necessary for evaluating these conflicting allegations and placing them in their proper historical context. Chinese sources, in particular, have remained shrouded in secrecy until quite recently. Meanwhile, unrest has continued to erupt periodically in Lhasa, which had its third major disturbance in 2008. What really happened in Lhasa in March 1959, and why did it happen? Tibet in Agony sets the historical record straight by extensive examination of Chinese and Tibetan sources, many of which are either new or have never before been used by independent scholars. From these sources emerges the first narrative to trace the crisis in Lhasa in March 1959 to its roots in Mao's plan to take over Tibet, and in the fears and suspicions that the step-by-step execution of his plan aroused among Tibetans.--

Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho, --- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) --- China --- Région autonome du Tibet (Chine) --- Chine --- History --- Relations --- Politics and government --- Histoire --- Politique et gouvernement --- S24/0500 --- Tibet--History (incl. Relations with China and England) --- Bstan-ʾdzin-rgya-mtsho, --- Uprising of 1959 (Tibet Autonomous Region, China) --- Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, --- Région autonome du Tibet (Chine) --- Bstan-ʾdzin-rgya-mtsho --- Ngawang Lobsang Yishey Tenzing Gyatso, --- Dalai Lama --- Dantzenjiatso, --- Tenzing Gyatso, --- Lingerh Lamutanchu, --- Dhondup, Lhamo, --- Lhamo Tondrup, --- Tondrup, Lhamo, --- Gyatso, Tenzing, --- Lamutanchu, Lingerh, --- Ta-lai la ma --- Dalai la ma --- Tan-tzêng Chia-tsʻo, --- Tenzin Gyatsho, --- Gyatsho, Tenzin, --- Tenzin Gyatso, --- Gyatso, Tenzin, --- Sakyaʼi Dge-sbyon Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, --- Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Sakyaʼi Dge-sbyon, --- Đạt Lai Lạt Ma, --- Teng-chin-chia-shuo, --- Dengjinjiashuo, --- Tendzin Gyatso, --- Tenzin Gaytso, --- Gaytso, Tenzin, --- בּסתן־דז׳ין־רגיה־מצ׳ו, --- בסטן-ז'ין-רויא-משטו, --- ダライ ·ラマ, --- テンジン·ギャツォ, --- Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, --- Lhamo Dondrub, --- Dondrub, Lhamo, --- 丹增嘉措, --- Danzengjiacuo, --- Тензин Гяцо, --- Гяцо, Тензин, --- Tenzin Gi︠a︡t︠s︡o, --- Gi︠a︡t︠s︡o, Tenzin, --- Tändzin Gjamccho, --- Gjamccho, Tändzin, --- Džampal Ngawang Lozang Ješe Tändzin Gjamccho, --- Tendzin Gyatsho, --- Gyatsho, Tendzin, --- טנזין גיאטסו, --- גיאטסו, טנזין, --- Tenzins Gjaco, --- Gjaco, Tenzins, --- Tendzin Gyaco, --- Gyaco, Tendzin, --- Dzsepcun Dzsampal Ngagvang Loszang Jese Tendzin Gyaco, --- Тенцин Гјацо, --- Гјацо, Тенцин, --- Tencin Gjaco, --- Gjaco, Tencin, --- Tenzin Gjaco, --- Gjaco, Tenzin, --- Тензин Гјатсо, --- Гјатсо, Тензин, --- Tenzin Gjatso, --- Gjatso, Tenzin, --- Tibetan Autonomous Region (China) --- Hsi-tsang tzu chih chʻü (China) --- Xizang Zizhiqu (China) --- 西藏自治区 (China) --- Hsi-tsang tzu chih chʻü jen min cheng fu (China) --- Xizang Zizhiqu ren min zheng fu (China) --- TAR (China) --- Xizang Autonomous Region (China) --- Bod Raṅ-skyoṅ-ljoṅs (China) --- Bod (China) --- Sitsang (China) --- Tibet (China) --- Thibet (China) --- Tibet-Chamdo (China) --- Tübüt (China) --- Xizang (China) --- Tibet --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- Тибет (China) --- Tu̇vd (China) --- Tȯvȯd (China) --- 西藏 (China) --- HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia.