The Culture of the Quake is first and foremost an exploration of Taishô-era narrative fiction. Every major film studio produced earthquake films, and authors from I-novelists to modernists, proletarian writers to popular...
For more information on the published version, visit Cambridge University Press's Website., He, Keren. "Dying against Democracy: Suicide Protest and the 1905 Anti-American Boycott." The Journal of Asian Studies 80, no. 4...
Neil Diamant is a professor of Asian Law and Society at Dickinson College. , For more information on the published version, visit Rowman and Littlefield's Website....
This interdisciplinary book of essays addresses critical issues arising from the emergence of legal process and legal institutions in contemporary China. The introduction by the editors and the individual chapters attempt, for...
This essay explores two different approaches to disaster found in fiction following the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923: trauma and differential vulnerability., Alex Bates, "Fiction from Unstable Ground: The Imagination of...
In April 2002 a group of approximately twenty thousand veterans --- most of them retired People's Liberation Army (PLA) officers --- descended upon Beijing in order to file a collective petition to the Ministry of Civil Affairs...
This volume is devoted to teaching works of Japanese fiction---novels, short stories, and manga (graphic novels and comics)---produced following the end of Japan's war with China, America, and their allies in 1945. The title is...
In today's China, law matters more than it ever has. Twenty-five years of energetic legislating, both by the National People's Congress (NPC) and local congresses, has created new legal rights and institutions; the courts, the...
Ishigami Genʼichirō was at his apartment in the Kobe foothills when the Great Hanshin Awaji earthquake struck on January 17, 1995. Like most people, he was awakened by the early-morning shaking and rushed outside. From the...
