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It is widely accepted, both inside China and in the West, that contemporary Chinese history begins with the May Fourth Movement. Vera Schwarcz’s imaginative new study provides China scholars and hist …

An important document in the social history of India, this volume presents the autobiography of a Punjabi family over the three tumultuous generations that spanned years from the Mutiny to Independen …

Gregory Kasza examines state-society relations in interwar Japan through a case study of public policy toward radio, film, newspapers, and magazines. Gregory Kasza examines state-society relations in …

From 1935 to 1945, the Japan Romantic School (Nihon Romanha), a group of major intellectuals and literary figures, explored issues concerning politics, literature, and nationalism in ways that still …

Contending that Japan’s industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, Kären Wigen’s interdisciplinary study analyzes the changing spatial order of the countryside in early m …

Blood Road is a complex mix of social history, literary analysis, political biography, and murder mystery. It explores and analyzes the social and cultural dynamics of the Chinese revolution of the 1 …

When Fatima comes across a few pages out of her late mother’s diary, she finds her way to Zosia Kasanova, an old woman living in Karachi. Together, they live through her experiences as a victim of th …

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach …

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach …

This book explores how modernization has influenced Japan, especially in terms of its people’s quest for enjoyment and leisure within the context of their industrialized and democratic society. The a …