This volume explores the question of pastoral economies that have evolved under Russian, Mongolian and Chinese governance, their current trajectories and differing impact on the steppe environment.

Culture and Environment in Inner Asia: The Pastoral Economy and the Einvironment

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Global Oriental

The vast steppe region of Inner Asia is historically dominated by Mongol culture, Buddhist-shamanist religion and an economy based on mobile pastoralism. Now, as its constituent states China, Russia and Mongolia adapt to market conditions, this long-standing cultural economic zone is seen to be facing more radical change than at any previous time in its past."

The End of Nomadism?: Society, State and the Environment in Inner Asia

Sneath, David

Humphrey, University Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Fellow Caroline

The vast steppe region of Inner Asia is historically dominated by Mongol culture, Buddhist-shamanist religion and an economy based on mobile pastoralism. Now, as its constituent states - China, Russia and Mongolia - adapt to market conditions, this long-standing cultural economic zone is seen to be facing more radical change than at any previous time in its past.

Twentieth Century Mongolia

This is the first history of Mongolia available in English which benefits from access to historic data that only became available following the collapse of the socialist regime in 1990. Accordingly, it highlights the role of international politics, especially the former Soviet Union, Russia, China and Japan, in the shaping of modern Mongolia’s history.

History

Baabar

Asia

Based on the premise that Japanese cultural nationalism has been and is a major cultural/historical force throughout the Asia Pacific this book has dual focus: Part 1 explores Japanese literature, philosophy, education, politics, diplomacy, music; Part 2 extends Japanese role to Asia Pacific at large. Part One explores significant and influential expressions of cultural nationalism in Japanese literature, philosophy, education, politics, diplomacy, music and popular culture. Part Two widens the focus to Asia Pacific at large and examines the role of Japanese cultural nationalist discourse in the island nation's relations with its regional neighbours, China being the main focus. Topics include Meiji racial theory, the varieties of Japanese imperialist ideology, nationalist attitudes towards China, Kyoto School Sinology, resistance to foreign yakozuna in sumo wrestling.

Japanese Cultural Nationalism: At Home and in the Asia-Pacific

To what extent are our futures likely to be determined by our traditions from the past? Asian Futures, Asian Traditions is a collection of conference papers by scholars of Asian Studies, who explore the topics of continuity and change in Asian societies through essays in history, politics, gender studies, language, literature, film, performance and music. Recurring among the themes of the book are the invention and reinvention of tradition, nostalgia, issues of national and ethnic identity, colonial heritage, nationalism, 'reform, ' and the effects of globalizing economies. Both the power and the precariousness of several Asian economies are revealed in studies of the 'Asian Economic Crisis' of the late 1990s and the conversion of some communist states to 'market socialism.'

Asian Futures, Asian Traditions

Edited by Edwina Palmer University of Canterbury

Sir Hugh Cortazzi, one of Britain's most prominent post-war Ambassadors to Japan who was in Tokyo to receive Margaret Thatcher on her historic 'handbagging' visit in 1982, was never a so-called 'traditional' diplomat.Having gained entry to the Foreign Service in 1949 his diplomatic life was hardly 'conventional'; it was most certainly, at times, controversial -- from London to Bonn, to Washington (at the time of Watergate) but principally Japan where he undertook three tours of duty, the last as Ambassador, 1980-84. After retiring from the Diplomatic Service, he became a high-profile Chairman of the Japan Society in 1985, a post he held for ten years. This memoir is a real tour de force, providing the reader with an informed, critical perspective on world affairs in general, but with a particular emphasis on Japan.

Japan and Back: And Places Elsewhere

Biographies & Memoirs

CORTAZZI, Hugh

Historical

Largely ignored hitherto by Western scholars, Plutschow's Edo Period Travel provides the first in-depth study of the subject which is centred on fifteen of the period's most notable travellers, some of whom are well known in other fields - as intellectuals, artists, poets, folklorists and natural scientists, for example - but rarely, if at all, as travellers. The first traveller put in the spotlight is the celebrated intellectual and botanist Kaibara Ekiken (1630-1714) and the last is the explorer of Ezo (now Hokkaido) and government official Matsuura Takeshiro (1818-88). Such was the thirst for knowledge in the Edo period that some travel accounts (estimated to number over 2000) became best-sellers in their day, not least for their voyeuristic appeal, including those of Kaibara Ekiken and Tachibana Nankei, which are included in this volume. This important research on how the Japanese discovered their own country and cultural identity has considerable interdisciplinary appeal. Of particular interest also is the author's discussion on the nature of this new travel writing and the self-centred observation and 'seeing' that developed in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, he calls the 'Japanese Enlightenment'.

A Reader in EDO Period Travel

Literature & Fiction

Plutschow, Herbert

History & Criticism

The Illustrated London News, launched in 1842, was the world s first illustrated newspaper and an immediate success. Its first report on Japan, however, was not until eleven years later when as a result of Commodore Perry s much discussed plan to open Japan it published a substantial piece entitled The United States Expedition to Japan in the issue of 7 May 1853, opening with the portentous words: The presence of a large and powerful American fleet in the Eastern Seas possesses an unexpected interest at the present moment... Various reports by unnamed correspondents continued for the next eight years, until August 1861 when Charles Wirgman s first report with illustrations appeared. Described as Our Special Artist and Correspondent, Wirgman was to be the ILN s principal source for reporting on Japan for many years, and famously reported the attack on the British Legation in July 1861 and the British bombardment of Shimonoseki in 1864. After the mid-1870s Wirgman s input declined and the work of other artists and reporters appeared instead. The ILN s own obituary on Wirgman was published on 28 March 1891. By the late 1880s new photogravure printing technology was in place and the appearance of the paper changed significantly. Furthermore, the reporting from Japan diminished noticeably; indeed, there were a number of years in the period featured in this volume when not a single item on Japan appeared. But in the mid-1890s the ILN carried in-depth reporting on the Sino-Japanese War (1894-5), to the virtual exclusion of any other stories, and then reported nothing for the following two years. This volume concludes in 1899, the year of ratification of the ending of the Unequal Treaties between Japan and the Great Powers, which had major implications for Japan and its nascent empire; yet the ILN failed to make any reference to it. Instead, its one report for the final year of the nineteenth century was on the launch of the British-built battleship Asahi, which was to play a major role in the Imperial Japanese Navy during the forthcoming Russo-Japanese War (1904-5) a war which once again was to preoccupy the ILN pages. Thus, Japan and The Illustrated London News provides readers and researchers for the first time with a one-stop access point to the complete record of reported events relating to Japan in the critical half century following its opening to the West."

Japan and the Illustrated London News: Complete Record of Reported Events, 1853-1899

This volume brings together twenty-six of Professor Doi's principal papers on the subject of the Japanese psyche and the subject of dependency (amae) published in English over the last fifty years, beginning with his paper on Japanese Psychiatry (1955) and concluding with 'Are Psychological Concepts of Japanese Origin Relevent?' (2002), some of which are published here for the first time, Pre-eminent among Japanese psychiatrists, Professor Doi gained international fame with the publication of The Anatomy of Dependence in 1973.

Understanding Amae (collected papers of twentieth-century japanese writers on japan)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Takeo Doi

Psychology & Counseling

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Culture and Environment in Inner Asia: The Pastoral Economy and the Einvironment

The End of Nomadism?: Society, State and the Environment in Inner Asia

The End of Nomadism?: Society, State and the Environment in Inner Asia

Twentieth Century Mongolia

Japanese Cultural Nationalism: At Home and in the Asia-Pacific

Asian Futures, Asian Traditions

Japan and Back: And Places Elsewhere

A Reader in EDO Period Travel

Japan and the Illustrated London News: Complete Record of Reported Events, 1853-1899

Understanding Amae (collected papers of twentieth-century japanese writers on japan)