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Ariel Stilerman
Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan

Once the exclusive domain of the aristocracy, classical Japanese poetry (waka ) underwent a remarkable transformation in the medieval period, becoming a dynamic tool for cultural education embraced by war…

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Wen-Chin Chang
Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Grounded in extensive fieldwork and archival research, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands explores the clandestine travel of primarily Yunnanese Chinese migrants during the Cold War. Wen-Chin Chang …

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Wen-Chin Chang
Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Grounded in extensive fieldwork and archival research, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands explores the clandestine travel of primarily Yunnanese Chinese migrants during the Cold War. Wen-Chin Chang …

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Aihe Wang
Painting into Being

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Amid the political turmoil of China's Cultural Revolution, a small group of painters in Beijing defied state control, creating art in secrecy that challenged the ideological constraints of their time. Pai…

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Ashton Lazarus
Performing Transgression

Harvard East Asian Monographs

What happens when performance defies social and political boundaries? Performing Transgression offers a new cultural history of non-elite spectacle in Heian Japan (794-1185), uncovering how performances o…

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Shiuon Chu
Reinventing Examination and the State in Twentieth-Century China and Taiwan

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Reinventing Examination and the State traces the ideological evolution of civil service and state-organized educational examinations in the twentieth-century China and Taiwan, showing how modern examinati…

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Talia Andrei
Sacred Journeys and Institutional Rivalries

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Sacred Journeys and Institutional Rivalries is a detailed and richly illustrated exploration of pilgrimage mandalas (sankei mandara ). These large-scale, brightly colored landscape paintings, which appear…

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Helen Hardacre
Shinto Shrines in Prewar and Wartime Japan

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Shinto Shrines in Prewar and Wartime Japan examines the religious and social history of Shinto shrines, focusing on the economic, social, and ideological implications of State Shinto. Helen Hardacre argue…

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Matthew W. Mosca
The Khan and the Unicorn

Harvard East Asian Monographs

The Mongol Empire changed the world, but early chronicles of its conquests, written from regional perspectives and widely dispersed, could not convey its far-reaching significance. The Khan and the Unicor…

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Russell Burge
The Promised Republic

Harvard East Asian Monographs

In The Promised Republic, Russell Burge offers a bold new history of South Korea's rapid development. By focusing on the experience of rural-to-urban migrants who built and lived in Seoul's shantytowns, B…

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