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Japan Studies

Asian Art

Imperial Portraiture in 18th- and 19th-c. Japan

A review of Political and Ritual Usages of Portraits of Japanese Emperors in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, by Yuki Morishima. This thesis expan...
Asian Archaeology

Keyhole-shaped Tombs and Early Korean-Japanese Relations

A review of Keyhole-shaped Tombs and Unspoken Frontiers: Exploring the Borderlands of Early Korean-Japanese Relations in the 5th-6th Centuries, by Den...
China

Globalization and Consumer Markets in East Asia

A Review of Making East Asian Consumers: Market Formation and Evolution of Demand in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China, by Solee Irene Shin. Over....
China

Prostitution in Postcolonial Taiwan

A review of Governing Sex, Building the Nation: The Politics of Prostitution in Postcolonial Taiwan (1945-1979), by Wan-Chen Yen. Wan-Chen Yen’s docto...
Japan

Seeking Japan Studies Co-Editor

Deadline: March 15, 2015 It is our pleasure to announce an open search for a new Co-Editor for our popular Japan Studies series. We encourage applican...
Japan

Tokugawa Medicine: Writing, Authority and Practice, 1650-1850

A review of Writing, Authority and Practice in Tokugawa Medicine, 1650-1850, by Daniel Trambaiolo. Scholars interested in the history of medicine in e...
Japan

The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in the Early Tokugawa Period

A review of A Vehicle of Social Mobility: Utilitarian Factors in the Rise of Neo-Confucianism in the Early Tokugawa Period, by Doyoung Park. The socia...
Japan

Language, Images, and Representations of Japan in the Kamakura Period (1185-1333)

A review of The Mirror of China: Language Selection, Images of China, and Narrating Japan in the Kamakura Period (1185-1333) by Erin L. Brightwell In....
Japan

Primers, Commentaries, and Kanbun Literacy in Japanese Literary Culture

A review of Primers, Commentaries, and Kanbun Literacy in Japanese Literary Culture, 950-1250 CE, by Jennifer Guest. Although the Heian period is famo...
China

Chinese-style Writing in Japanese Literary Culture, 950-1250

A review of Primers, Commentaries, and Kanbun Literacy in Japanese Literary Culture, 950-1250CE, by Jennifer Guest. Although the Heian period is famou...
Asian Archaeology

Asian Archaeological and Textual Tensions

Understanding Tensions between Hegemonic Texts and Archaeology in East Asia My encounter with the tension between texts and archaeology began with my ...
China

Asian Studies Collections in Japan

A review of Asian Studies Collections in Japan Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia Library, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 東京都文京区本郷7−3−1東京大学東洋文化...
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