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2012 New Books in
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D ENG X IAOPING
AND THE
T RANSFORMATION
OF
C HINA
EZRA F. VOGEL
★
Winner, Lionel Gelber Prize
Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
★ A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
★ A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
★ An Economist Best Book of the Year
★ A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
★ A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year
★
“Vogel has gone to enormous lengths to document his subject…Vogel’s painstaking research provides plenty of fascinating detail…On the ways through which Deng set about the
enormous task of rebuilding the gutted economy, shattered by decades of turmoil under Mao Zedong,
Vogel is exhaustive.”
—SIMON ELEGANT, TIME
“Deng led a long and remarkable life, packed with drama and global significance, one that deserves to
be dissected in detail…There’s no question that Vogel has gone farther than anyone else to date in
telling Deng’s story. For that he is to be applauded; there is a whole hoard of valuable material here
that we probably would not have gained otherwise.”
—CHRISTIAN CARYL, FOREIGN POLICY
“Ezra Vogel’s encyclopedic Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China is the most exhaustive
English retelling of Deng’s life. Vogel, an emeritus professor at Harvard, seems to have interviewed or
found the memoirs of nearly every person who spoke with Deng, and has painstakingly re-created a
detailed and intimate chronology of Deng’s roller-coaster career.”
—JOSHUA KURLANTZICK, THE NATION
“From arguably the most important scholar of East Asia, this is an important book on the force behind China’s transformation in the late twentieth century, whose full fruits are visible only today.
Deng ordered the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, but he was also the person most responsible for modernizing China and opening it to trade with the West. Again and again he survived threatening challenges in the Chinese political bureaucracy, to emerge at the top in the late 1970s. His role in
subverting Chinese orthodoxy from the inside is comparable to that of Gorbachev with respect to the
Soviet Union—and he deserves sustained attention such as this landmark book offers.”
—ANIS SHIVANI, HUFFINGTON POST
Belknap 2011 39 halftones 928 pp. Cloth $39.95 / £29.95
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978-0-674-05544-5
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History of Imperial China Series ........................8
Harvard East Asian Monographs ........................9
Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series ..12
Harvard Graduate School of Design .................13
Also from Harvard...........................................14
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Cover art: Kushan period (2nd century BCE–3rd century CE). Mathura,
Uttar Pradesh, India. Seated Buddha 2nd century. National Gallery of
Australia, Canberra. Purchased with the generous assistance of Roslyn
Packer AO 2007. See A Bull of a Man by John Powers on page 7.
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M ORE
THAN
R EAL
A History of the
Imagination in
South India
DAVID SHULMAN
“More than Real provides a thorough, coherent, and extremely
perceptive historical
analysis of the nature
and inner workings of
imagination in India. It is hard to compare Shulman’s work with any other book because nobody has ever tried to accomplish anything
remotely similar. I doubt very much that a comparable history of imagination in the West or
the Muslim civilization exists, although More
than Real lays the foundations for such work.
The book is exhilarating, and readers will learn
something new from it not only about South
Asian civilization but also about themselves.”
—YIGAL BRONNER,
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
“With extraordinary range across languages,
texts, and thought worlds, but with a special attention to south India in the early modern period, David Shulman shows us how the
imagination works and how it has changed
across space and time: in one place as pathological, for example, in another as therapeutic; at
one time fictive and hence false, in another, fictive and hence real. This is mind-opening—and
astonishingly imaginative—scholarship.”
—SHELDON POLLOCK,
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
“A work of great learning, insight, and maturity.
Shulman displays the pleasures that come with
the reading of Indian literature as he works from
the inside out to teach us what imagination is
and what it entails. More than Real is a tour de
force that moves confidently through literary
and religious texts and through South Indian
languages, listening carefully to learn about
something that we already care about, what
imagination teaches us about ourselves, and the
world we live in.”
—CHARLES HALLISEY,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
2012 352 pp.
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978-0-674-05991-7
N O E NEMIES ,
N O H ATRED
Selected Essays and Poems
LIU XIAOBO
Edited by Perry Link,
Tienchi Martin-Liao,
and Liu Xia
Foreword by Vaclav Havel
★
A Wall Street Journal
Book of the Year
When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in December 2010, its recipient, Liu Xiaobo, was serving an eleven-year sentence in a Chinese prison for
“incitement to subvert state power.” These essays
and poems not only chronicle a leading dissident’s
struggle against tyranny but enrich the record of
universal longing for freedom and dignity.
“It is scarcely credible that the government of a
country of 1.4 billion people, one of the largest
economies, an emergent great power that is flexing its muscle in all directions, can be so scared
of one individual, a writer whose crime is to
write about what is happening in China and to
disseminate his ideas online. What has [Liu]
done that is so bad? Only by reading his work
can we find out.”
—NICHOLAS JOSE,
THE AUSTRALIAN
“Bookshops are now submerged by a tidal wave
of new publications attempting to provide information about China, and yet there is (it seems
to me) one new book whose reading should be
of urgent and essential importance, both for the
specialist and for the general reader alike—the
new collection of essays by Liu Xiaobo, judiciously selected, translated, and presented by
very competent scholars, whose work greatly
benefited from their personal acquaintance with
the author.”
—SIMON LEYS,
NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
“Offers a glimpse into the coruscating mind of
one of China’s greatest dissident thinkers…The
best chance yet for those who cannot read Chinese to hear the voice of China’s conscience.”
—JAMIL ANDERLINI,
FINANCIAL TIMES
“Although the Nobel Peace Prize recipient Liu
has been unable to publish anything since his
most recent detention, which began in late
2008, Link, his co-editors, and a superb group
of translators have assembled an impressive sampling of Liu’s courageous and insightful writings
from the past two decades in this remarkable,
highly readable new book. Liu’s critical essays
and moving prison poetry combine to form a
fascinating portrait of China during a period of
rapid development and political change.”
—JEROME A. COHEN,
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Belknap 2012 400 pp.
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C OLORED
C OSMOPOLITANISM
A L ONG
G OODBYE
The Shared Struggle for
Freedom in the United
States and India
The Soviet Withdrawal
from Afghanistan
NICO SLATE
“Colored Cosmopolitanism
is a testament to a solidarity that thrived despite
painful contradictions.
A detailed, compelling history that is also
an example of effortless storytelling.”
—AMITAVA KUMAR, AUTHOR OF
A FOREIGNER CARRYING IN THE
CROOK OF HIS ARM A TINY BOMB
“Deeply researched, subtly argued, and written
with verve and clarity, Colored Cosmopolitanism
demonstrates the porousness of national borders—and the importance of international connections for social justice movements. This is
superior transnational history.”
—THOMAS BORSTELMANN, AUTHOR OF
THE COLD WAR AND THE COLOR LINE
“Slate exhaustively charts the liberation movements of the world’s two largest democracies
from the 19th century to the 1960s. There’s
more to this connection than the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr.’s debt to Mahatma Gandhi, and
Slate tells this fascinating tale better than anyone
ever has.”
—TONY NORMAN,
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE
2012 17 halftones 344 pp.
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ARTEMY M.
KALINOVSKY
“The Soviet war in
Afghanistan (1979–89)
has passed from being
the subject of angry international debate to the object of calm historical inquiry, but given the current conflict there,
the period retains a certain urgent resonance.
[This] new book sheds useful light on those
days…[A] highly detailed study of the Soviet
withdrawal.”
—BRIAN M. DOWNING,
WALL STREET JOURNAL
“A Long Goodbye, by Russian historian Artemy
Kalinovsky, is an excellent account of the Gorbachev administration’s handling of the actual
withdrawal process and the futile Soviet search
for a peace settlement.”
—ANATOL LIEVEN,
NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
“[Kalinovsky’s] account is meticulously documented and supplemented by interviews with
surviving Russian protagonists. Though further
documents will no doubt come to light, it is unlikely his lucid and elegant narrative will soon be
bettered.”
—RODRIC BRAITHWAITE,
FINANCIAL TIMES
2011 11 halftones, 3 maps 320 pp.
Cloth $27.95 / £20.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05866-8
New
U NDER
THE
D RONES
Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands
EDITED BY SHAHZAD BASHIR AND ROBERT D. CREWS
Western media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan paints a simplistic picture of
ageless barbarity, terrorist safe havens, and peoples in need of either punishment or
salvation. Under the Drones looks beyond this limiting view to investigate real people on the ground, and analyze the political, social, and economic forces that shape
their lives.
“The subject of this volume requires no justification given the extraordinary
global ramifications of political events in this area. The contributions assembled
by the distinguished editors substantially advance understanding of ongoing wars and violence in this
troubled region. They also bring to the discussion both a historical perspective and a human dimension that is simply invaluable.”
—BARBARA METCALF, AUTHOR OF ISLAMIC CONTESTATIONS
2012 9 halftones, 3 line illus., 2 maps 336 pp. Cloth $27.95 / £19.95
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I N A S EA OF
B ITTERNESS
C HURCH M ILITANT
Refugees during the
Sino-Japanese War
Bishop Kung and
Catholic Resistance in
Communist Shanghai
R. KEITH SCHOPPA
PAUL P. MARIANI
“The brutal Japanese invasion of China in 1937
forced more than 30
million Chinese to flee
their homes and subsist
in regions of their country unfamiliar to them
as refugees until the end of World War II.
Schoppa retraces the stories of these refugees,
produced from oral histories, journals, and
memoirs chronicling a turbulent period in one
particular province—Zhejiang, on the central
Chinese coast. The terrorizing offensives of
mass murder, rape, and germ warfare launched
by the Japanese militarists brought about the
most demoralizing sense of political, cultural,
and psychological dislocation in Chinese history…A moving narrative for serious readers in
Chinese or Japanese history and in the history
of 20th-century warfare in East Asia.”
—ALLAN CHO, LIBRARY JOURNAL
“Makes a signal contribution to the understanding of warfare in China by examining the
refugee experience comprehensively…Schoppa
takes an important step towards fulfilling the
call, made by the eminent historian Parks Coble,
for scholars to explore more deeply the traumatic effects of this war on civilians.”
“[An] enlightening and
depressing book…What
distinguishes Paul Mariani’s
account from earlier ones
on Chinese Catholics is his
use of recently available
Communist documents that make
clear the regime’s goals and methods.”
—JONATHAN MIRSKY,
HONG KONG ECONOMIC JOURNAL
“An original and insightful study of the conflicts
between the Catholic Church and Communist
state in Shanghai during the Maoist period.
Mariani challenges the widespread conception
that the Communist state was able to consolidate its rule with little resistance in the 1950s,
sheds light on some intriguing aspects of the
Catholic Church under Communist rule, and
reconceptualizes the overall Catholic experience
in Shanghai. Full of insightful details, often
emotionally moving, this is an outstanding contribution.”
—JOSEPH TSE-HEI LEE,
PACE UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK
2011 19 halftones, 1 map 310 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06153-8
—REBECCA NEDOSTUP, AUTHOR OF
SUPERSTITIOUS REGIMES
2011 12 maps, 6 tables 368 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05988-7
New
H AJJ
Journey to the Heart of Islam
EDITED BY VENETIA PORTER
The Hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam, is the largest pilgrimage in the
world today and a sacred duty for all Muslims. Each year, millions of the
faithful from around the world make the pilgrimage to Makkah, the birthplace of Islam where the Prophet Muhammad received his revelation.
With contributions from renowned experts, this fascinating book pulls together the rituals, history, and modern manifestations of the Hajj. Travel was
once a hazardous gamble, yet devoted Muslims undertook the journey to Makkah, documenting their
experiences in manuscripts, wall paintings, and early photographs, many of which are presented here
along with personal objects, souvenirs, and maps. Hajj does not, however, merely trace pilgrimages of
the past. The Hajj is a living tradition, influenced by new conveniences and obstacles. Graffiti, consumerism, and state lotteries all now play a role in this time-honored practice. This book opens out onto
the full sweep of the Hajj: as a sacred path walked by early Islamic devotees and pre-Islamic Arabians; as
a sumptuous site of worship under the care of sultans; and as an expression of faith in the modern world.
2012 200 color illus. 254 pp. Cloth $39.95 / NA
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978-0-674-06218-4
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T HE B UDDHAS
OF B AMIYAN
T HE F ORBIDDEN
C ITY
LLEWELYN MORGAN
For 1,400 years, two colossal figures of the Buddha
overlooked the fertile
Bamiyan Valley on the Silk
Road in Afghanistan. Witness to a melting pot of
passing monks, merchants,
and armies, the Buddhas
embodied the intersection of East and West, and
their destruction by the Taliban in 2001 provoked
international outrage. Llewelyn Morgan excavates
the layers of meaning these vanished wonders
hold for Afghanistan.
Carved in the sixth and seventh centuries, the
Buddhas represented a confluence of religious and
artistic traditions from India, China, Central
Asia, and Iran, and even an echo of Greek influence brought by Alexander the Great’s armies. By
the time Genghis Khan destroyed Bamiyan six
centuries later, Islam had replaced Buddhism as
the local religion, and the Buddhas were celebrated as wonders of the Islamic world. Not until
the nineteenth century did these figures come to
the West’s attention. That is also when the
ground was laid for many of Afghanistan’s current problems, including the rise of the Taliban
and the oppression of the Hazara people. Incorporating the voices of the holy men, adventurers,
and hostages throughout history who set eyes on
the Bamiyan Buddhas, Morgan tells the history of
this region of paradox and heartache.
GEREMIE R. BARMÉ
“This Rolls-Royce of a
guidebook covers almost
every conceivable physical and historical nook
of the 72-hectare imperial enclave in Beijing
first constructed by the 15th-century Yongle emperor, Zhu Di. Barmé’s history packs a veritable
palace of information into its pages from the
story of the sadistic Jiajing emperor, nearly
strangled to death by his concubines, to the tale
of the clandestine plundering of the city’s treasures during the cultural revolution.”
—ROBERT COLLINS, SUNDAY TIMES
“The latest in an excellent series from Harvard
University Press…An ideal and elegant history,
good for keeping in the hand while visiting the
vast extraordinary complex.”
—THE ECONOMIST
Wonders of the World 2012; 2008
32 halftones, 1 map 288 pp.
Paper $14.95 / NA ISBN 978-0-674-06396-9
Wonders of the World 2012
24 halftones, 1 map 206 pp.
Cloth $19.95 / NA ISBN 978-0-674-05788-3
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A N A ESTHETIC E DUC ATION IN
THE E RA OF G LOBALIZATION
GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK
“[A] rewarding series of meditations on the possibility of reading, learning,
and teaching that would encourage the full flowering of cultural, sexual, and
linguistic diversity and resist the homogenizing force of globalization.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“This captivating collection of lectures delivered over the course of a quarter
century asks us to attend to the profoundly democratic possibilities of the imagination…At a time when the humanities are expected to genuflect before the
sciences and privatization and professionalization displace knowledge, Spivak urges us not only to
stand tall but to insist that ethical solidarities are only possible through the rigorous training of the
imagination.”
—ANGELA Y. DAVIS, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ
2012 42 halftones 624 pp. Cloth $35.00 / £25.95
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F RACTURED
R EBELLION
A B ULL
OF A M AN
Images of Masculinity,
Sex, and the Body in
Indian Buddhism
JOHN POWERS
“Powers plots the ways
in which masculinity
and the Indian Buddhist
path are discursively intertwined, and he offers
explanations for an Indian Buddhist discourse
of masculinity that many have ignored or found
counterintuitive… A Bull of a Man is a solid
and worthy study that will be revelatory to
many.”
—AMY PARIS LANGENBERG,
JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES
“For the first time, Powers’s study presents
us with a new perspective on the Buddha
as an ideal, perfect man for others to emulate
through his careful examination of masculinity
in Indian Buddhist literatures.”
—GUANG XING,
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
“An exceptional contribution to the field of
Indian Buddhist Studies…Powers has managed
to put his finger on a central theme in Buddhist
literature that has evaded the majority of us.”
—VANESSA SASSON,
JOURNAL OF BUDDHIST ETHICS
2012; 2009 10 halftones 336 pp.
Paper $22.50 / £16.95 OISC ISBN 978-0-674-06403-4
The Beijing Red
Guard Movement
ANDREW G. WALDER
★
Barrington Moore
Book Award, American
Sociological Association
★ A Choice Outstanding
Academic Title of
the Year
“The book is without doubt one
of the greatest breakthroughs in research
on the Cultural Revolution published during
the past three decades and should be read by
anyone interested in the history of mass movements and modern Chinese history.”
—DANIEL LEESE, CHINA QUARTERLY
“Too little research has been conducted about
the fascinating, confusing upheavals that shook
China during the Great Proletarian Cultural
Revolution of 1966–68. Now, four decades
after the mass fighting was suppressed, Andrew
Walder helps to fill important gaps in our
knowledge.”
—JONATHAN UNGER, CHINA JOURNAL
2012; 2009 12 tables 416 pp.
Paper $22.50 / £16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06413-3
New in paperback
S HI ’ ISM
A Religion of Protest
HAMID DABASHI
New in paperback
I NVISIBLE W AR
The United States and the Iraq Sanctions
JOY GORDON
★
A Foreign Policy Best Book of the Year
on the Middle East
“The devastation of much of Iraqi society between 1990 and 2003 through [UN economic]
sanctions, driven by the U.S. and to a lesser extent the UK, is a story that has been buried for
the most part under layer on layer of diplomatic
technicalities, obfuscation and sheer indifference…[Joy Gordon’s] book deserves to be read
and discussed widely.”
★
A Marginal Revolution Best Book of the Year
“[A] challenging and brilliant new book…
Dabashi’s extraordinarily rich and powerful
book takes Shiism out of the sectarian ghettos
where it was largely confined when it became an
ideological weapon of the Persian Empire in its
rivalry with the Sunni Ottomans. By emancipating Shiism from its instrumental use by the Islamic Republic of Iran, he has performed a vital
cultural—and political—service.”
—MALISE RUTHVEN,
NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Belknap 2012; 2011 13 halftones; 1 map 448 pp.
Paper $18.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06428-7
—ERIC HERRING,
TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
“Gordon’s important book is a cautionary tale
of what happens to a state when the full mechanisms of international sanctions are placed upon
it regardless of consequence. Gordon admits that
U.S. policy was not calculated to destroy the
Iraqi population but rather was “deeply indifferent” to the consequences of its actions.”
—JAMES DENSELOW, HUFFINGTON POST
2012; 2010 376 pp.
Paper $21.95 / £16.95
ISBN
978-0-674-06408-9
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History of Imperial China Series
General Editor, Timothy Brook
“This series on China, brilliantly overseen by Timothy Brook, is a credit to
Harvard University Press. Above all, it encourages us to think of China in different ways.”
—JONATHAN MIRSKY, LITERARY REVIEW
New in paperback
T HE A GE
OF
C ONFUCIAN R ULE
The Song Transformation of China
DIETER KUHN
“A book that everyone who teaches Chinese history should have on his or her shelf and consult
frequently…The attention [Kuhn] gives material
culture is refreshing and helps him to make his case
for the importance of China in Song times.”
—PATRICIA EBREY, INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES
Belknap / History of Imperial China
2011; 2009 23 halftones, 10 maps 368 pp.
Cloth $38.50 / £28.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03146-3
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06202-3
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C HINA ’ S C OSMOPOLITAN E MPIRE
The Tang Dynasty
MARK EDWARD LEWIS
“An impressive volume on the history of the
Tang dynasty.”
—ANTHONY DEBLASI,
JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES
Belknap / History of Imperial China
2012; 2009 24 illus., 17 maps 368 pp.
Cloth $37.00 / £27.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03306-1
Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06401-0
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CHINA BETWEEN EMPIRES
The Northern and Southern Dynasties
MARK EDWARD LEWIS
Belknap / History of Imperial China
2011; 2009 25 halftones, 16 maps 352 pp.
Cloth $33.00 / £24.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02605-6
Paper $18.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06035-7
THE EARLY CHINESE EMPIRES
Qin and Han
MARK EDWARD LEWIS
★ Stanislas Julien Prize,
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Belknap / History of Imperial China
2010; 2007 23 halftones, 16 maps 336 pp.
Paper $18.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05734-0
CHINA’S LAST EMPIRE
The Great Qing
WILLIAM T. ROWE
★ Honorable Mention, World History &
Biography / Autobiography, The Association
of American Publishers PROSE Award
Belknap / History of Imperial China
2009 17 halftones, 5 maps 368 pp.
Cloth $37.00 / £27.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03612-3
THE TROUBLED EMPIRE
China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties
TIMOTHY BROOK
Belknap / History of Imperial China
2010 18 halftones, 7 maps, 3 tables 336 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04602-3
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T HE P EOPLE ’ S
P OST O FFICE
A C ONTINUOUS
R EVOLUTION
The History and Politics
of the Japanese Postal
System, 1871–2010
Making Sense
of Cultural
Revolution Culture
PATRICIA L.
MACLACHLAN
BARBARA MITTLER
Patricia L. Maclachlan
analyzes the interplay
among the institutions,
interest groups, and leaders involved in the system’s evolution from the early Meiji period until
2010. Exploring the postal system’s remarkable
range of economic, social, and cultural functions
and its institutional relationship to the Japanese
state, this study shows how the post office came
to play a leading role in the country’s political development. At the crux of her analysis is Prime
Minister Koizumi Jun’ichiro’s crusade to privatize
Japan’s postal services, one of the most astonishing political achievements in postwar Japanese
history. It also looks into the future to assess the
resilience of Koizumi’s reforms and consider the
significance of lingering opposition to the privatization of one of Japan’s most enduring social and
political sanctuaries.
Harvard East Asian Monographs
2012 13 halftones, 7 tables 378 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06245-0
Cultural Revolution Culture, often denigrated as
nothing but propaganda,
not only was liked in its
heyday but continues to be enjoyed today. A Continuous Revolution sets out to explain its legacy.
By considering Cultural Revolution propaganda
art—music, stage works, prints and posters,
comics, and literature—from the point of view of
its longue durée, Barbara Mittler suggests that
Cultural Revolution propaganda art was able to
build on a tradition of earlier art works, and this
allowed for its sedimentation in cultural memory
and its proliferation in contemporary China.
Harvard East Asian Monographs
2012 125 black-and-white photos 500 pp.
Cloth $59.95 / £44.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06581-9
New
P ICTURING
THE
T RUE F ORM
Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China
SHIH-SHAN SUSAN HUANG
New
T HE M ONEY D OCTORS
FROM J APAN
Finance, Imperialism, and the Building
of the Yen Bloc, 1895–1937
MICHAEL SCHILTZ
Money and finance have been among the most
potent tools of colonial power. This study investigates the Japanese experiment with financial imperialism—or “yen diplomacy”—at several key
moments between the acquisition of Taiwan in
1895 and the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War
in 1937. Through authoritarian monetary reforms and lending schemes, government officials
and financial middlemen served as “money doctors” who steered capital and expertise to Japanese
official and semi-official colonies in Taiwan,
Korea, China, and Manchuria. Through their efforts to implement their policies and contribute
to the expansion of the Japanese empire, the
“money doctors” brought to the colonies a series of banking institutions and a corollary
capitalist ethos, which would all have a formidable impact on the development of the receiving countries, eventually affecting their
geopolitical position in the postcolonial world.
Picturing the True Form investigates the longneglected visual culture of Daoism, China’s
primary indigenous religion, from the tenth
through thirteenth centuries with references to
earlier and later times. In this richly illustrated
book, Susan Huang provides a comprehensive
mapping of Daoist images in various media, including Dunhuang manuscripts, funerary artifacts, paintings, and other charts, illustrations,
and talismans preserved in the fifteenth-century
Daoist Canon. True form (zhenxing), the key
concept behind Daoist visuality, is not a static
picture but entails an active journey of “seeing”
underlying and secret phenomena through a
series of metamorphoses.
Harvard East Asian Monographs
2012 80 color illus., 46 halftones, 242 line illus. 500 pp.
Cloth $69.95 / £51.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06573-4
Harvard East Asian Monographs
2012 12 halftones, 1 map, 18 tables 300 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06249-8
H A r vA r d e A S t A S i A n m o n o g r A P H S
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New
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B ROKERS
OF E MPIRE
P ICTURING
H EAVEN IN
E ARLY C HINA
Japanese Settler
Colonialism in Korea,
1876–1945
JUN UCHIDA
Between 1876 and 1945,
thousands of Japanese civilians left their homeland for
a new life on the Korean
peninsula. Drawing on previously unused materials in multi-language archives, Jun Uchida looks
behind the official organs of state and military
control to focus on the obscured history of these
settlers, especially the first generation of “pioneers”
between the 1910s and 1930s who actively mediated the colonial management of Korea as its
grassroots movers and shakers. By uncovering the
downplayed but dynamic role played by settler
leaders who operated among multiple parties, this
study examines how these “brokers of empire” advanced their commercial and political interests
while contributing to the expansionist project of
imperial Japan.
Harvard East Asian Monographs
2011 12 halftones, 4 maps, 6 tables 500 pp.
Cloth $49.95 / £36.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06253-5
LILLIAN LAN-YING
TSENG
“This remarkable book
readably represents a
formidable effort of research, drawing on the
rich studies of history,
art, and paleography that have
accumulated over centuries, and particularly
on the last forty years of archeology. Lillian
Lan-ying Tseng colligates images that no one
earlier has studied side by side, and draws from
them quite original conclusions. I find her arguments ambitious, ingenious, and persuasive…
They show once and for all that pictures are as
important as verbal records for understanding
the history of cosmology and astronomy.”
—NATHAN SIVIN,
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
“An extremely important contribution to the
history of Chinese art, culture, and science…Its
cogent narrative and conceptual scheme make it
the most convenient and reliable go-to volume
on the subject.”
—EUGENE WANG, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
New
T OWARD A H ISTORY
B EYOND B ORDERS
Harvard East Asian Monographs
2011 131 line drawings, 161 halftones,
123 color illus., 4 tables 480 pp.
Cloth $69.95 / £51.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06069-2
Contentious Issues in Sino-Japanese Relations
EDITED BY DAQING YANG, JIE LIU,
HIROSHI MITANI, AND ANDREW GORDON
This volume brings to English-language readers
the results of an important long-term project of
historians from China and Japan addressing contentious issues in their shared modern histories.
Originally published simultaneously in Chinese
and Japanese in 2006, the thirteen essays in this
collection focus renewed attention on a set of political and historiographical controversies that
have steered and stymied Sino-Japanese relations
from the mid-nineteenth century through World
War II to the present.
Harvard East Asian Monographs
2012 2 black-and-white illus., 16 tables 450 pp.
Cloth $49.95 / £36.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06256-6
New
E MPIRE
OF THE
D HARMA
Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912
HWANSOO ILMEE KIM
Empire of the Dharma explores the dynamic relationship between Korean and Japanese Buddhists
in the years leading up to the Japanese annexation
of Korea. Conventional narratives cast this relationship in politicized terms, with Korean Buddhists portrayed as complicit in the “religious
annexation” of the peninsula. However, this view
fails to account for the diverse visions, interests,
and strategies that drove both sides.
Hwansoo Ilmee Kim complicates this politicized
account of religious interchange by reexamining
the “alliance” forged in 1910 between the Japanese Soto sect and the Korean Wonjong order.
The author argues that their ties involved not so
much political ideology as mutual benefit. This
strategic alliance pushed both sides to confront
new ideas about the place of religion in modern
society and framed the way that many Korean
and Japanese Buddhists came to think about the
future of their shared religion.
Harvard East Asian Monographs
2012 19 halftones, 1 black-and-white illus.,
2 maps, 10 tables 350 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06575-8
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R EADING
N ORTH K OREA
D ETECTIVE
F ICTION AND
THE R ISE OF THE
J APANESE N OVEL ,
1880–1930
An Ethnological Inquiry
SONIA RYANG
In this innovative book,
Sonia Ryang casts new
light onto the study of
North Korean culture
and society by reading
literary texts as sources of
ethnographic data. Analyzing and interpreting the
rituals and language embodied in a range of literary works published in the 1970s and 1980s,
Ryang focuses critical attention on three central
themes—love, war, and self—that reflect the
nearly complete overlap of the personal, social,
and political realms in North Korean society. The
ideology embedded in these propagandistic works
laid the cultural foundation for the nation as a
“perpetual ritual state,” where social structures
and personal relations are suspended in tribute to
Kim Il Sung, the political and spiritual leader
who died in 1994 but lives eternally in the hearts
of his people and still weaves the social fabric of
present-day North Korea.
Harvard East Asian Monographs
2012 320 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06586-4
A N I MPERIAL PATH
TO M ODERNITY
Yoshino Sakuzo and a New Liberal
Order in East Asia, 1905–1937
New
OF
In Detective Fiction and the
Rise of the Japanese Novel,
Satoru Saito sheds light on
the deep structural and conceptual similarities between detective
fiction and the novel in prewar Japan.
Arguing that the interactions between the two
genres were not marginal occurrences but instead
critical moments of literary engagement, Saito
demonstrates how detective fiction provided
Japanese authors with the necessary frameworks
through which to examine and critique the nature
and implications of Japan’s literary formations
and its modernizing society.
New
Harvard East Asian Monographs
2012 4 black-and-white illus. 244 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06247-4
R EALMS
SATORU SAITO
L ITERAC Y
JUNG-SUN N. HAN
Early Japan and the History of Writing
DAVID B. LURIE
In the world history of writing, Japan presents an
unusually detailed record of transition to literacy.
Extant materials attest to the social, cultural, and
political contexts and consequences of the advent
of writing and reading, from the earliest appearance of imported artifacts with Chinese inscriptions in the first century BCE, through the
production of texts within the Japanese archipelago in the fifth century, to the widespread literacies and the simultaneous rise of a full-fledged
state in the late seventh and eighth centuries.
David B. Lurie explores the complex processes of
adaptation and invention that defined the early
Japanese transition from orality to textuality.
Drawing on archaeological and archival sources
varying in content, style, and medium, this book
highlights the diverse modes and uses of writing
that coexisted in a variety of configurations among
different social groups. It offers new perspectives
on the pragmatic contexts and varied natures of
multiple simultaneous literacies, the relations between languages and systems of inscription, and
the aesthetic dimensions of writing. Lurie’s investigation into the textual practices of early Japan illuminates not only the cultural history of East
Asia but also the broader comparative history of
writing and literacy in the ancient world.
An Imperial Path to Modernity examines the
role of liberal intellectuals in reshaping transnational ideas and internationalist aspirations into
national values and imperial ambitions in early
twentieth-century Japan. In tracing the interconnections between liberalism and the imperial
project, Jung-Sun N. Han focuses on the ideas
and activities of Yoshino Sakuzo (1878–1933),
who was and is remembered as a champion of
prewar Japanese liberalism and Taisho democracy.
Drawing insights from intellectual history, cultural studies, and international relations, this
study argues that prewar Japanese liberalism grew
out of the efforts of intellectuals such as Yoshino
who worked to devise a transnational institution
to govern the Japanese empire.
Harvard East Asian Monographs
2011 10 black-and-white photos 350 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06571-0
Harvard East Asian Monographs
2011 27 halftones 524 pp.
Cloth $59.95 / £44.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06065-4
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New
V ISIONARY
J OURNEYS
A N ORTHERN
A LTERNATIVE
Travel Writings from
Early Medieval and
Nineteenth-Century China
Xue Xuan (1389–1464)
and the Hedong School
XIAOFEI TIAN
Conventional portraits of
Neo-Confucianism in
China are built on studies of scholars active in
the south, yet Xue Xuan
(1389–1464), the first Ming Neo-Confucian to
be enshrined in the Temple to Confucius, was a
northerner. Why has Xue been so overlooked in
the history of Neo-Confucianism? In this first systematic study in English of the highly influential
thinker, author Khee Heong Koh seeks to redress
Xue’s marginalization while showing how a study
interested mainly in “ideas” can integrate social
and intellectual history to offer a broader picture
of history.
This book explores the parallel and yet profoundly different ways of seeing the
outside world and engaging
with the foreign at two important moments of
dislocation in Chinese history, namely, the early
medieval period commonly known as the Northern and Southern Dynasties (317–589 CE), and
the nineteenth century. Xiaofei Tian juxtaposes
literary, historical, and religious materials from
these two periods in comparative study, bringing
them together in their unprecedentedly largescale interactions, and their intense fascination,
with foreign cultures.
Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
2012 398 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06252-8
New
T EN T HOUSAND S CROLLS
Reading and Writing in the Poetics of Huang
Tingjian and the Late Northern Song
YUGEN WANG
The Northern Song (960–1126) was one of the
most transformative periods in Chinese literary
history, characterized by the emergence of printing and an ensuing proliferation of books. The
poet Huang Tingjian (1045–1105), writing at the
height of this period, both defined and was defined by these changes. The first focused study on
the cultural consequences of printing in Northern
Song China, this book examines how the nascent
print culture shaped the poetic theory and practice of Huang Tingjian and the Jiangxi School of
Poetry he founded.
Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
2011 300 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06255-9
KHEE HEONG KOH
Koh first provides in-depth analysis of Xue’s philosophy, as well as his ideas on kinship organizations, educational institutions, and intellectual
networks, and then places them in the context of
Xue’s life and the actual practices of his descendants and students. Through this new approach
to intellectual history, Koh demonstrates the
complexity of the Neo-Confucian tradition and
gives voice to a group of northern scholars who
identified themselves as Neo-Confucians but had
a vision that was distinctly different from their
southern counterparts.
Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
2011 2 maps, 24 tables 370 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06244-3
New
M AKING P ERSONAS
Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan
HIDEAKI FUJIKI
This book analyzes the establishment and transformation of the transnational film star system
and the formations of historically important film
stars—Japanese and non-Japanese—and casts
new light on Japanese modernity as it unfolded
between the 1910s and 1930s. Hideaki Fujiki
illustrates how film stardom and the star system
emerged and evolved, touching on such facets as
the production, representation, circulation, and
reception of performers’ images in films and other
media. Examining several individual performers,
as well as certain aspects of different star systems
that bolstered individual stardom, this study foregrounds the associations of contradictory, multivalent social factors that constituted modernity in
Japan, such as industrialization, capitalism, colonialism, nationalism, and consumerism.
Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
2012 50 black-and-white photos 350 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-06569-7
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M ANIFEST
IN W ORDS ,
W RITTEN
ON PAPER
Producing and
Circulating Poetry
in Tang Dynasty
China
CHRISTOPHER M. B.
NUGENT
★
Joseph Levenson Book Prize,
Pre-1900 Category, China and Inner Asia
Council of the Association for Asian Studies
This study aims to engage the textual realities
of medieval literature by shedding light on the
material lives of poems during the Tang, from
their initial oral or written instantiation through
their often lengthy and twisted paths of circulation. Tang poems exist today in stable written
forms assumed to reflect their creators’ original
intent. Yet Tang poetic culture was based on
hand-copied manuscripts and oral performance.
We have almost no access to this poetry as it was
experienced by contemporaries. This is no trivial
matter, the author argues. If we do not understand how Tang people composed, experienced,
and transmitted this poetry, we miss something
fundamental about the roles of memory and
copying in the circulation of poetry as well as
readers’ dynamic participation in the creation
of texts.
Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
2011 4 halftones 360 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05603-9
A NCESTORS ,
V IRGINS ,
AND F RIARS
Christianity as a
Local Religion in
Late Imperial China
EUGENIO MENEGON
★
Joseph Levenson Book
Prize, Pre-1900
Category, China and
Inner Asia Council of
the Association for Asian Studies
“In this elegant and erudite book Menegon uncovers the lost history of a four-hundred-yearold Catholic community in China, showing
brilliantly how Christianity has become localized, how it has become Chinese, how it has become part of local life. The book convincingly
undermines the widespread notion that what is
most important about Christianity in China is
its foreignness.”
—MICHAEL SZONYI,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
“Combining a thorough mastery of Spanish
missionary records and profound knowledge of
Chinese sites and their sources, this book sets a
new standard for the study of Catholic missions
and cultural encounter in Late Imperial China.”
—R. PO-CHIA HSIA,
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
2010 5 halftones, 3 maps 450 pp.
Cloth $49.95 / £36.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03596-6
New
D ECONSTRUCTION /C ONSTRUCTION
The Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project in Seoul
EDITED BY JOAN BUSQUETS
The restoration of the Cheonggyecheon River that runs through Seoul,
Korea, in a mere twenty-nine months—transitioning from an outmoded
highway into a multipurpose performative infrastructure piece of unprecedented size—merits recognition as a seminal project in contemporary
urban design. This remarkable achievement recovers the biological and social ecology of the city and
demonstrates the profound ability of design at the urban scale to provoke positive transformation effectively over large territories. The project also signifies a broader sea change in Asian attitudes toward city
design, from a quantitative model concerned primarily with growth to a more qualitative program that
incorporates quality of life and environmental sustainability into strategies for economic development.
In this well-illustrated volume, contributors consider the ecological, infrastructural, and urban impacts
of this exceptional project at the heart of the city. For its many merits, the Cheonggyecheon restoration
was awarded the Tenth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design by the Harvard Graduate School
of Design.
Green Prize 2011 40 color photographs, 5 color illus., 12 black-and-white photographs,
3 black-and-white illus., 19 maps 86 pp. Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-1-934510-31-5
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CAIRO
Histories of a City
NEZAR ALSAYYAD
Belknap 2011 352 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95
ISBN 978-0-674-04786-0
THE PARK CHUNG
HEE ERA
The Transformation
of South Korea
EDITED BY
BYUNG-KOOK KIM
AND EZRA F. VOGEL
2011 744 pp.
Cloth $55.00 / £40.95
ISBN 978-0-674-05820-0
CAPITALISM
FROM BELOW
Markets and Institutional
Change in China
VICTOR NEE
AND SONJA OPPER
2012 424 pp.
Cloth $45.00 / £33.95
ISBN 978-0-674-05020-4
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OPPONENT
Subhas Chandra Bose
and India’s Struggle
against Empire
SUGATA BOSE
Belknap 2011 448 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95
OISC
ISBN 978-0-674-04754-9
AWAKENING ISLAM
The Politics of Religious
Dissent in Contemporary
Saudi Arabia
STÉPHANE LACROIX
Translated by
George Holoch
2011 384 pp.
Cloth $29.95 / £22.95
ISBN 978-0-674-04964-2
BEFORE AND
BEYOND
DIVERGENCE
The Politics of Economic
Change in China and Europe
JEAN-LAURENT ROSENTHAL
AND R. BIN WONG
2011 290 pp.
Cloth $45.00 / £33.95
ISBN 978-0-674-05791-3
MAKERS OF
MODERN INDIA
EDITED BY
RAMACHANDRA GUHA
Belknap 2011 512 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95
OISC
ISBN 978-0-674-05246-8
FRAMING MUSLIMS
Stereotyping and
Representation after 9/11
PETER MOREY
AND AMINA YAQIN
2011 256 pp.
Cloth $27.95 / £20.95
ISBN 978-0-674-04852-2
THE ESSENTIAL
TAGORE
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Edited by Fakrul Alam
and Radha Chakravarty
Foreword by
Amit Chaudhuri
Belknap 2011 864 pp.
Cloth $39.95 / £29.95
OISC
ISBN 978-0-674-05790-6
THE POLITICS OF
IMAGINING ASIA
WANG HUI
Edited by Theodore Huters
2011 368 pp.
Cloth $35.00 / £25.95
ISBN 978-0-674-05519-3
CHANGING
HOMELANDS
Hindu Politics and the
Partition of India
NEETI NAIR
2011 356 pp.
Cloth $55.00 / £40.95
OISC
ISBN 978-0-674-05779-1
THE GENERALISSIMO
Chiang Kai-shek and the
Struggle for Modern China
JAY TAYLOR
Belknap 2011; 2009
752 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £14.95
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