This interdisciplinary volume asks deceptively simple questions: When did "Japan" and "China" become
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Although we may be aware that China and Japan were not nation-states until relatively recently, we still speak and write
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From before the dawn of recorded history, there has been a rich flow of interaction between Japan and China. Japan has l
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In Parting the Mists, Aida Yuen Wong makes a convincing argument that the forging of a national tradition in modern Chin
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In 1990, China, rich in natural resources but short on technology and managerial skills, offers enormous potential for t
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Countries commencing industrialization with relatively low levels of agricultural productivity, hence low wages, enjoy a
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At the dawn of the 1930s a new empowered and liberated image of the female was taking root in popular culture in the Wes
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A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world. The est
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Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the
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"This work is an examination of teleological attributions i.e. ascriptions of proper functions and natural ends) to
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In the early twenty-first century, China occupies a place on center stage in the international art world. But what does
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