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Halle O'Neal
Dead Letters

In Dead Letters, Halle O'Neal explores how inventive makers in medieval Japan, haunted by love and loss, turned to things left behind in the wake of a loved one's death-specifically, the letters they once…

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Tracy Miller
Harnessing Divinity

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In traditional studies of Chinese architecture, Buddhist halls are often seen as mere variations of imperial palaces and understood primarily as shelters. Harnessing Divinity challenges this view, arguing…

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Ronald C. Po
The Silver Thread of the Deep

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Often gracing the tables of weddings and banquets, shark fin symbolizes opulence and prestige in China and beyond. Yet its rise from offcut to delicacy reveals a complex history of how value is constructe…

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Ronald C. Po
The Silver Thread of the Deep

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Often gracing the tables of weddings and banquets, shark fin symbolizes opulence and prestige in China and beyond. Yet its rise from offcut to delicacy reveals a complex history of how value is constructe…

lieferbar ab 27.11.2026.

Buch

Wen-Chin Chang
Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands

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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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Ashton Lazarus
Performing Transgression

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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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Talia Andrei
Sacred Journeys and Institutional Rivalries - Pilgrimage Mandalas and the Art of Fundraising in Medieval Japan

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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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Aihe Wang
Painting into Being

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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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Wen-Chin Chang
Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands

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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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Helen Hardacre
Shinto Shrines in Prewar and Wartime Japan

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

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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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