Critical Readings on the Colonial Period of Korea 1910-1945 (4 Vols. SET)

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Reference Work

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Vol. 1: xii, 304pp., Vol. 2: xii, 358 pp., Vol. 3: xii, 324 pp., Vol. 4: xii, 382 pp.

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BRILL

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English

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Biographical note Readership

Biographical note

Hyung-Gu Lynn, Ph.D. (2001) Harvard University, is the AECL/KEPCO Chair in Korean Research at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of numerous publications on modern Korean history, including Bipolar Orders: The Two Koreas Since 1989 (Zed, 2007).

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Scholars and students of Japanese and Korean history and historians of Colonialism.

€390.00$534.00

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9789004222311

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Critical Readings in the Intellectual History of Early Modern Japan (2 Vols. SET)

W.J. Boot, Leiden University

This volume of Critical Readings provides an overview of recent scholarship about Japanese thought, as it took shape during the Edo Period (1600-1867). It contains articles about all participants in the intellectual debate: Buddhism, Confucianism, National Studies, and Dutch Learning.

€585.00$800.00

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ISBN13:

9789004232587

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Forthcoming Title

Critical Readings on Ageing in East Asia (3 Vols. SET)

Sarah Harper (University of Oxford)

The three volumes of this collection concentrate on ageing in East Asia. The publication features recently published essays from various disciplinary and methodological approaches. Per region attention is given to health care; ageing and society; and ageing and economy.

€780.00$1,068.00

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ISBN13:

9789004235090

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Critical Readings on Chinese Religions (4 Vols. SET)

Vincent Goossaert, Societies-Religions-Secularisms Institute (GSRL, Paris)

The anthologized articles showcase how scholars from different disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds make sense of the variety of religious practices and beliefs to analyze the place of religion in Chinese societies.

€780.00$1,068.00

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ISBN13:

9789004208797

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Critical Readings on Contemporary Japanese Politics (4 Vols. SET)

Jeff Kingston, Temple University (Japan Campus)

Critical Readings on Contemporary Japanese Politics is an interdisciplinary collection that examines various aspects of 21st century Japan ranging from elections, policymaking and foreign policy to history, nationalism, identity, civil society and the March 11, 2011 disasters.

€585.00$800.00

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ISBN13:

9789004235199

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Forthcoming Title

Critical Readings on Ethnic Minorities and Multiculturalism in Japan

€585.00$800.00

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ISBN13:

9789004208605

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Critical Readings on Food in East Asia (3 Vols. SET)

Edited by Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, Leiden University

The culinary cultures of contemporary East Asia (Greater China, Korea and Japan) are a mixture of long-standing traditions and the turbulent transformations of the last century. This selection brings together high-quality scholarship that illuminates key issues in this process.

€780.00$1,068.00

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ISBN13:

9789004229709

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Critical Readings on Japanese Confucianism (4 Vols. SET)

Edited by John A Tucker, East Carolina University

Critical Readings on Japanese Confucianism advances more in-depth understandings of the multifaceted nature of Confucianism in Japan by bringing together important studies from the humanities and works in translation, offering a vision of Confucianism as a dynamic cultural force.

€585.00$800.00

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ISBN13:

9789004208759

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Critical Readings on North and South Korea (3 Vols. SET)

Edited by Jim Hoare

This publication features a wide range of articles concentrating on the Korean peninsula since 1945. The articles are brought together in 3 volumes, which are organized chronologically and thematically. Among the themes discussed are: period from Pacific War until start of Korean war; the Korean ...

€780.00$1,068.00

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ISBN13:

9789004208865

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Critical Readings on the Emperors of Japan (4 Vols. SET)

Edited by Ben-Ami Shillony

This publication concentrates on the emperors of Japan and brings together in 4 volumes the scholarship of a variety of authors addressing Ancient and Medieval Japan; Early Modern Japan; Imperial Japan and Postwar Japan. Brill's Critical Readings publications are a one stop reference resource in ...

€585.00$800.00

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ISBN13:

9789004212299

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Critical Readings on the History of Industrialization in Modern Japan (3 Vols. SET)

Edited by Christopher Gerteis, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

The three volumes of this collection feature essays spanning the past forty years of scholarly discussion of how it was that Japan reached its present status as one of the world’s great industrialized nations.