Harvard University Press

Asian Studies2014

Crossing the Bay of BengalThe Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of MigrantsSunil S. Amrith

H A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceH A Lowy Institute for International Policy Book of the Year

“Fascinating…[Amrith] gives voice—and an identity—to one of the most complex and culturally interesting regions of the world…Amrith’s excavation of this culture is painstaking and meticulous. He digs deep into the archives, drawing on journals, letters and official colonial records to assemble an account that dates back to the first millennium…The result of all this research is a textured biography of a region…A formidable work of scholarship…It is the sheer accumulation of information, and the multiple, interwoven strands in this profoundly interdisciplinary work, that yield such an impres-sive, multifaceted portrait…[A] remarkable book.”

—Akash Kapur, New York Times Book Review2013 22 halftones, 3 maps 368 pp. $29.95 | £22.95 cloth 9780674724839

1971A Global History of the Creation of BangladeshSrinath Raghavan

“[Raghavan’s] superb analysis of the global intricacies of 1971 uses [a wide] lens with great precision to explain the breakup of Pakistan more convincingly than any preceding account…[He] show[s] how the most powerful democracy in the world could become complicit in a mass slaughter, and how in turn India—the world’s largest democracy but also one of its poor-est and militarily weakest—was pushed to intervene to stop the slaughter…Raghavan [has] given us [an] indispensable stud[y] of one of the most sordid and important instances of horror and help.”

—Sunil Khilnani, New Republic2013 2 maps, 2 graphs, 1 table 368 pp. $29.95 | £22.95 cloth 9780674728646 Not for sale in Indian subcontinent

The Annals of King T’aejoFounder of Korea’s Chosŏn DynastyTranslated with commentary by Choi Byonghyon

“Another masterpiece from Choi Byonghyon. Integrating a remarkably wide range of expertise in classic Chinese, Korean history, Confucianism, geography, and East Asian political structures, Choi offers an accessible translation for modern readers and a model for the rest of the vast ‘veritable records’ of the Chosŏn Dynasty…Readers can follow T’aejo and his court through the hopes and challenges of the dy-nasty’s founding era, including national reconstruction, state formation and legitimacy, ideological transformation, and the nature of leadership. The Annals of King T’aejo is a treasure trove for anyone interested in Korean and East Asian history.”

— Byung-Kook Kim, Korea University2014 1 map 1026 pp. $55.00 | £40.95 cloth 9780674281301

Catalog cover: Jesuits at the court of an Indian prince (gouache on paper), Indian School, (16th century) / Private Collection / Otus /Index / The Bridgeman Art Library

2 harvard university press www.hup.harvard.edu 800-405-1619 (US only)

Transforming IndiaChallenges to the World’s Largest Democracy

Sumantra Bose

H A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year

“Bose lucidly analyzes India’s ‘decentered democracy,’ in which power lies increasingly with the state governments… The willingness of most Indians to commit to multiple social identities has produced a distinctive form of democratic poli-tics. In revealing both the violence and the vitality of India’s democracy, Bose sees the country’s future prosperity and stability as anything but assured.”

—Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs2013 10 halftones, 4 maps 352 pp. $35.00 | £25.00 cloth 9780674050662 Not for sale in Indian subcontinent

The Army and DemocracyMilitary Politics in PakistanAqil Shah

“Aside from providing a superb study of Pakistani civil– military relations, Shah makes an important and more general scholarly contribution: he explains why new polities fracture under challenging security environments and identifies the impulses that compel generals to both shift their gaze abroad and intervene in politics.”

— Zoltan Barany, author of The Soldier and the Changing State2014 416 pp. $35.00 | £25.95 cloth 9780674728936

Age of EntanglementGerman and Indian Intellectuals across EmpireKris Manjapra

“A bold and fascinating work. Manjapra moves decidedly and elegantly beyond conventional frameworks by writing a truly global history of intellectual exchange between Germany and India. Age of Entanglement is an ambitious and convincing account of the ways in which both sides were linked to—and enabled and constrained by—the structures and politics of empire.”

—Sebastian Conrad, author of German ColonialismHarvard Historical Studies 2014 454 pp. $49.95 | £36.95 cloth 9780674725140

800-405-1619 (US only) www.hup.harvard.edu harvard university press 3

Emperor HuizongPatricia Buckley Ebrey

“Ebrey, a master historian of this period with an acute sense of the poignant and tragic, shows us, in this first English-language biography of Huizong, one of the most brilliantly cultured monarchs ever to have lived, and recounts his miserable end…Patricia Ebrey’s scholarly powers are amazing. I can think of few historians— Chinese or Western—of traditional China who could exceed or even match her knowledge of the arts so widely patronized and practiced by Huizong, from poetry and brushwork to music and gardening. Her ability to evaluate Song and later sources is a model for all scholars. Such books are an intense pleasure to read.”

—Jonathan Mirsky, Literary Review

2014 15 color illus., 23 halftones, 2 line illus., 3 maps, 11 tables 696 pp. $45.00 | £30.00 cloth 9780674725256

4 harvard university press www.hup.harvard.edu 800-405-1619 (US only)4 harvard university press www.hup.harvard.edu 800-405-1619 (US only)

East Asian DevelopmentFoundations and StrategiesDwight H. Perkins

“Perkins predicts that China’s outsized economic growth will de-cline significantly in the years ahead, perhaps to an annual rate of five percent, which would still be high by world standards. He also helpfully places China in the context of other success-ful Asian countries, in which, Perkins argues, high growth has been aided by a strong emphasis on education. Asian countries’ development of their nonagricultural labor forces has also played an important role, as has their steady engagement with the global economy.”

—Richard N. Cooper, Foreign AffairsThe Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures 2013 6 graphs, 11 tables 222 pp. $35.00 | £25.95 cloth 9780674725300

The Bible and AsiaFrom the Pre-Christian Era to the Postcolonial AgeR. S. Sugirtharajah

“[Sugirtharajah] focuses on how the Bible has been a beacon of colonial and post-colonial exegesis and how it has been utilized for religious and political motives in Asia…[A] fascinating and illuminating survey.”

—Publishers Weekly2013 320 pp. $29.95 | £22.95 cloth 9780674049079

The Land of the Elephant KingsSpace, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid EmpirePaul J. Kosmin

“This fresh and thoroughly enjoyable account of the Seleucid kingdom is dedicated to understanding how one of the great states of the Hellenistic world was formed and how it actually worked. Although [the Seleucid kingdom is] often understood as little more than a placeholder existing in time between Alexander’s conquest of the east and the coming of Rome some three centuries later, Kosmin dispels such facile notions and breathes considerable new life into Seleucid history.”

—Joseph Manning, Yale University 2014 15 halftones, 9 maps 448 pp. $49.95 | £36.95 cloth 9780674728820

Do Muslim Women Need Saving?Lila Abu-Lughod

“This book is destined to unsettle the convictions of those concerned with saving Muslim women. Many will find it shocking for its uncompromising critique of recent moral crusades, while careful readers will doubtless find in it enough ammunition to deconstruct projects that may seem worth pursuing, but ultimately are not as focused on improving women’s lives in faraway places as they first appear. Abu-Lughod dissolves geographical boundaries, exposes the limits of global morality, and deconstructs the international power context that allows Muslim women to remain that distant voiceless other, awaiting intervention.”

— Madawi Al-Rasheed, Times Higher Education

2013 336 pp. $35.00 | £25.95 cloth 9780674725164

800-405-1619 (US only) www.hup.harvard.edu harvard university press 5800-405-1619 (US only) www.hup.harvard.edu harvard university press 5

White Lotus Rebels and South China PiratesCrisis and Reform in the Qing EmpireWensheng Wang

“An impressive history of a critical and little-known period in the Qing dynasty, the first decade of the nineteenth century. Wang shows that the Jiaqing reign was not a time of weakness or de-cline, but a deliberate renunciation of the excessive overreach of his predecessor, the Qianlong emperor. Indeed, the Jiaqing emperor’s reforms left the empire better equipped to meet its many social and political challenges.”

—Peter C. Perdue, Yale University2014 3 maps 352 pp. $39.95 | £33.95 cloth 9780674725317

Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial ChinaBenjamin A. Elman

“Elman has drawn upon his deep learning regarding the Chinese civil service exams and his broad understanding of late imperial history more generally to create a clear picture of the intellectu-al and institutional components of the first political meritocracy in world history, its adaptability to changing political challenges of the nineteenth century, and the system’s unintended nurtur-ing of literati critics of the state.…Rarely has intellectual history been so well grounded in cultural history to yield such funda-mental insights into a non-Western political system.”

—R. Bin Wong, co-author of Before and Beyond Divergence2013 2 halftones, 20 line illus., 2 maps, 14 tables 416 pp. $45.00 | £33.95 cloth 9780674724952

The Cultural Revolution at the MarginsChinese Socialism in CrisisYiching Wu

Mao Zedong envisioned a great struggle to “wreak havoc under the heaven” when he launched the Cultural Revolution in 1966. But as radicalized Chinese youth rose up against Party officials, events quickly slipped from the government’s grasp, and rebel-lion took on a life of its own. The Cultural Revolution at the Mar-gins recaptures these formative moments from the perspective of the disenfranchised and disobedient rebels Mao unleashed and later betrayed.2014 4 halftones, 1 graph, 3 tables 368 pp. $49.95 | £36.95 cloth 9780674728790

BaghdadThe City in VerseEdited and translated by

Reuven Snir

Foreword by Roger AllenAfterword by Abdul Kader El Janabi

“The poems in Baghdad: The City in Verse, an ambitious and enlightening anthology of poetry written in and about that city, date from the first decades after its founding in the 8th century, up to the war that drove Saddam Hussein from power. They capture the vast sweep of the city’s history, its enchantments and its seemingly ever-present tragedy.”

—Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times

2013 384 pp. $29.95 | £20.00 cloth 9780674725218

6 harvard university press www.hup.harvard.edu 800-405-1619 (US only)

Public Spectacles in Roman and Late Antique PalestineZeev Weiss

Public Spectacles in Roman and Late Antique Palestine introduces readers to the panoply of public entertainment that flourished in Palestine from the first century bce to the sixth century ce. Drawing on a trove of original archaeological and textual evidence, Zeev Weiss reconstructs an ancient world where Romans, Jews, and Christians intermixed amid a heady brew of shouts, roars, and applause to watch a variety of typically pagan spectacles.Revealing Antiquity 2014 39 halftones, 15 line illus., 1 map 384 pp. $49.95 | £36.95 cloth 9780674048317

The Past Before UsHistorical Traditions of Early North IndiaRomila Thapar

“From a scholar at the pinnacle of her field comes the much- anticipated book on ancient Indian historiography, The Past Before Us—a rich feast, and a work of the highest scholarship. It will be cited and commented on for years to come. Anyone interested in the question of historical consciousness and historical writings cross-culturally, or in ancient India, will have to read Romila Thapar’s masterpiece, which is destined to be a classic in the field.”

— Thomas Trautmann, author of Aryans and British India2013 7 maps 784 pp. $55.00 | £40.95 cloth 9780674725232 Not for sale in Indian subcontinent

NEW IN PAPER

SaladinAnne-Marie EddéTranslated by Jane Marie Todd

“Profound and impressive…Eddé’s richly textured account not only offers the prospect of non-polemical research but suggests perhaps the beginnings of an Arab Spring in historical scholarship, a fresh in-tellectual openness that, if sustained, cannot but color the burgeon-ing political diversity in the region it studies.”

—Christopher Tyerman, Wall Street JournalBelknap Press 2014 20 color illus., 1 line illus., 9 maps 704 pp. $22.50 | £16.95 paper 9780674283978

Cultures of MilkThe Biology and Meaning of Dairy Products in the United States and IndiaAndrea S. Wiley

“Cultures of Milk is a lucid and concise exploration of two of the world’s great dairying cultures. Wiley’s mastery of the material is evident throughout, as she weaves cultural, biological, historical, and nutritional data into a theoretically coherent narrative. It should be of interest to all students of food, whatever their particular angle is on the topic—nutritionists, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, etc.”

—John S. Allen, University of Southern California

2014 34 halftones 208 pp. $39.95 | £29.95 cloth 9780674729056

800-405-1619 (US only) www.hup.harvard.edu harvard university press 7

NEW IN PAPER

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of ChinaEzra F. Vogel

H Lionel Gelber PrizeH Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award, BiographyH An Esquire China Book of the YearH A Gates Notes Top Read of the YearH An Economist Best Book of the YearH A Financial Times Best Book of the YearH A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceH A Wall Street Journal Book of the YearH A Washington Post Best Book of the Year

“Ezra Vogel’s new biography portrays Deng as not just the maker of modern China, but one of the most substantial figures in modern history…[A] meticulously researched book.”

—The EconomistBelknap Press 2013 39 halftones 928 pp. $22.95 | £16.95 paper 9780674725867

NEW IN PAPER

The Hungry WorldAmerica’s Cold War Battle against Poverty in AsiaNick Cullather

H Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Organization of American HistoriansH Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize,

Society for Historians of American Foreign RelationsH Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize

“Brilliant…Admirable…The Hungry World is an immensely important book…[Cullather] has performed a tremendous service, and written a book not just of interest but of lasting value in showing in detail and with great discernment just how new, and also how radical, development was when it first began to transform the ways powerful nations thought about everything from the specifics of warfighting (it is where the

‘hearts and minds’ doctrine was born, after all) to the broad-est questions of national interest.”

—David Rieff, The Nation2013 9 halftones, 1 map 368 pp. $21.95 | £16.95 paper 9780674725812

NEW IN PAPER

Makers of Modern IndiaEdited by Ramachandra Guha

“Readers in the west will find some familiar personalities here, including Gandhi himself, Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s secular and liberal-minded first prime minister, and Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet and Nobel laureate. But they will also encounter much less well-known and equally distinguished figures, such as BR Ambedkar, the articulate spokesman of formerly untouchable Hindus, or Dalits, and the main architect of India’s extraordinary constitution that in 1949 bestowed equal rights upon all its citizens. As an anthology of Indian political debates, Makers of Modern India makes for instructive reading.”

—Pankaj Mishra, Financial TimesBelknap Press 2013 512 pp. $22.95 | £16.95 paper 9780674725966 Not for sale in Indian subcontinent

8 harvard university press www.hup.harvard.edu 800-405-1619 (US only)

Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji Competition for UniversalityMichel Mohr

In the late 1800s, as Japanese leaders mulled over the useful-ness of religion in modernizing their country, they chose to invite Unitarian missionaries to Japan. Focusing on the cascade of events triggered by the missionary presence of the American Unitarian Association on Japanese soil between 1887 and 1922, Michel Mohr’s study sheds new light on this formative time in Japanese religious and intellectual history.Harvard East Asian Monographs 2014 10 black and white photographs $39.95 | £29.95 cloth 9780674066946 Forthcoming Spring 2014

The Princess NunBunchi, Buddhist Reform, and Gender in Early Edo JapanGina Cogan

The Princess Nun tells the story of Bunchi (1619–1697), daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and founder of Enshoji. Bunchi advo-cated strict adherence to monastic precepts while devoting herself to the posthumous welfare of her family. As the first full-length biographical study of a premodern Japanese nun, this book incorporates issues of gender and social status into its discussion of Bunchi’s ascetic practice and religious reforms to rewrite the history of Buddhist reform and Tokugawa religion.Harvard East Asian Monographs 2014 4 halftones 336 pp. $49.95 | £36.95 cloth 9780674491977

Facing the MonarchModes of Advice in the Early Chinese CourtEdited by Garret P. S. Olberding

Focused on the era between the Spring and Autumn period and the later Han dynasty, this volume examines the dynamic between early Chinese ministers and monarchs at a time when ministers employed manifold innovative rhetorical tactics. The contributors analyze discrete excerpts from classical Chinese works and explore topics of censorship, irony, and dissidence highly relevant for a climate in which ruse and misinformation were the norm. What emerges are original and illuminating perspectives on how the early Chinese political circumstance shaped and phrased—and prohibited—modes of expression.Harvard East Asian Monographs 2013 304 pp. $39.95 | £29.95 cloth 9780674726710

NEW IN PAPER

Brokers of EmpireJapanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876–1945Jun Uchida

H John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History, American Historical Association

H Pacific Coast Branch Book Award, American Historical Association

“This well-researched and elegantly written social history of Japanese settlers in colonial Korea fills a critical void…Drawing on Korean and Japanese primary sources, Uchida crafts a bottom-up narrative of Japanese colonialism in Korea, portraying Japanese settlers as both vanguards of and obstacles to Japanese colonial rule.”

—L. Teh, Choice

Harvard East Asian Monographs 2014 14 halftones, 4 maps, 5 tables 500 pp. $29.95 | £22.95 paper 9780674492028

800-405-1619 (US only) www.hup.harvard.edu harvard university press 9

A Sense of PlaceThe Political Landscape in Late Medieval JapanDavid Spafford

A Sense of Place examines the vast Kantō region as a locus of cultural identity and an object of familial attachment during the political and military turmoil of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries in Japan. Through analysis of memoirs, let-ters, chronicles, poetry, travelogues, lawsuits, land registers, and archeological reports, David Spafford explores the relationships of the eastern elites to the space they inhabited.Harvard East Asian Monographs 2013 4 halftones, 11 maps 332 pp. $39.95 | £29.95 cloth 9780674726734

Meiji Restoration LosersMemory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern JapanMichael Wert

This book is about the “losers” of the Meiji Restoration and the supporters who promoted their legacy. Although the violence of the Meiji Restoration is typically downplayed, the trauma was real, and those who felt marginalized from the mainstream throughout modern Japan looked to these losers as models of action. Using a wide range of sources, from essays by former Tokugawa supporters like Fukuzawa Yukichi to postwar film and

“lost decade” manga, Michael Wert traces the shifting portrayals of Restoration losers.Harvard East Asian Monographs 2013 3 halftones, 1 map 240 pp. $39.95 | £29.95 cloth 9780674726703

Rise of a Japanese ChinatownYokohama, 1894–1972Eric C. Han

The first English-language monograph on the history of a Chinese immigrant community in Japan, this book focuses on the transformations of that population in the Japanese port city of Yokohama from the Sino–Japanese War of 1894–1895 to the normalization of Sino–Japanese ties in 1972 and beyond. Eric C. Han narrates the paradoxical story of how, during periods of war and peace, Chinese immigrants found an enduring place within a monoethnic state.Harvard East Asian Monographs 2014 15 halftones, 2 line illus., 3 maps 270 pp. $39.95 | £29.95 cloth 9780674491984

Lost and FoundRecovering Regional Identity in Imperial JapanHiraku Shimoda

Lost and Found offers a new un-derstanding of modern Japanese regionalism by revealing the tense and volatile historical relation-ship between region and nation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Aizu becomes a case study for how one locale was estranged from nationhood for its treasonous blunder in the Meiji Restoration, yet eventually found a useful place within the imperial landscape.

Harvard East Asian Monographs 2014 1 map 170 pp. $39.95 | £29.95 cloth 9780674492011

10 harvard university press www.hup.harvard.edu 800-405-1619 (US only)

Anarchist ModernityCooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern JapanSho Konishi

“From Bakunin and Kropotkin to Esperanto and dung beetles, Sho Konishi’s compelling exploration of the transnational intellectual net-works linking anarchists in Russia and Japan and the larger meanings of their encounters transforms our understanding of Japan’s global past. In its capacious breadth, theoretical sophistication, and empiri-cal rigor, Anarchist Modernity offers a new model for the writing of East Asian international history.”

— Mark Bradley, University of ChicagoHarvard East Asian Monographs 2013 15 halftones 426 pp. $49.95 | £36.95 cloth 9780674073319

Knowing the Amorous ManA History of Scholarship on Tales of IseJamie L. Newhard

Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari) is traditionally identified as one of the most important Japanese literary texts of the Heian period (794–1185). Jamie Newhard’s study skillfully combines primary-source research with a theoretically framed analysis, exploring commentaries from the medieval period into the early twentieth century, and situating the text’s critical reception within an evolving historical and social context. Harvard East Asian Monographs 2013 21 halftones, 5 tables 312 pp. $39.95 | £29.95 cloth 9780674073357

The Undiscovered CountryText, Translation, and Modernity in the Work of Yanagita KunioMelek Ortabasi

Yanagita Kunio (1875–1962) was a public intellectual who played a piv-otal role in shaping modern Japan’s cultural identity. So extensive was his role that he has been compared with the fabled Grimm Brothers of Germany and the great British folklorist James G. Frazer (1854–1941). This monograph is only the second book-length English-language examination of Yanagita, and it is the first analysis that moves beyond a biographical account of his pioneering work in folk studies.Harvard East Asian Monographs 2014 8 line illus., 1 map 400 pp. $49.95 | £36.95 cloth 9780674492004 Forthcoming Spring 2014

Korean Political and Economic DevelopmentCrisis, Security, and Institutional RebalancingJongryn Mo • Barry R. Weingast

How do poor nations become rich, industrialized, and democratic? And what role does democracy play in this transition? To address these ques-tions, Jongryn Mo and Barry R. Weingast study South Korea’s remarkable transformation since 1960 concentrating on three critical turning points: Park Chung Hee’s creation of the development state beginning in the early 1960s, democratization in 1987, and the genesis of and reaction to the 1997 economic crisis.

Harvard East Asian Monographs 2013 6 line illus., 16 tables 232 pp. $39.95 | £29.95 cloth 9780674726741

3

800-405-1619 (US only) www.hup.harvard.edu harvard university press 11

Government by MourningDeath and Political Integration in Japan, 1603–1912Atsuko Hirai

From the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century, the Tokugawa shogunate enacted and enforced myriad laws and ordi-nances to control nearly every aspect of Japanese life, including observance of a person’s death. In particular, the shoguns Tsunayoshi and Yoshimune issued strict decrees on mourning and abstention that dictated compliance throughout the land and survived the politi-cal upheaval of the Meiji Restoration to persist well into the twentieth century. Atsuko Hirai reveals the pivotal relationship between these shogunal edicts and the legitimacy of Tokugawa rule.Harvard East Asian Monographs 2014 15 black and white photographs, 3 maps, 13 tables $49.95 • £36.95 cloth 9780674066823 Forthcoming Spring 2014

The “Greatest Problem”Religion and State Formation in Meiji JapanTrent E. Maxey

Drawing on an assortment of primary sources, including internal government debates, diplomatic negotiations, and the popular press, Trent E. Maxey documents how the novel category of religion came to be seen as the “greatest problem” by the architects of the modern Japanese state. In Meiji Japan, religion designated a cognitive and social pluralism that resisted direct state control. It also provided the modern state with a means to contain, regulate, and neutralize that plurality.Harvard East Asian Monographs 2014 3 halftones 400 pp. $49.95 | £36.95 cloth 9780674491991 Forthcoming Spring 2014

The Real ModernLiterary Modernism and the Crisis of Representation in Colonial KoreaChristopher P. Hanscom

Christopher P. Hanscom examines the critical and literary production of three prose authors central to 1930s literary circles—Pak T’aewon, Kim Yujong, and Yi T’aejun—whose works confront this crisis by critiquing the concept of transparent or “empiricist” language that formed the basis for both a nationalist literary movement and the legitimizing discourse of assimilatory colonization. Harvard East Asian Monographs 2013 248 pp. $39.95 | £29.95 cloth 9780674073265

Income Inequality in KoreaAn Analysis of Trends, Causes, and AnswersChong-Bum An • Barry Bosworth

Income Inequality in Korea explores the relationship between economic growth and social developments in Korea over the last three decades. Analyzing the forces behind the equalizing trends in the 1980s and early 1990s, and the deterioration evident in the post-crisis years, Chong-Bum An and Barry Bosworth investigate the macroeconomic conditions, gains in educational attainment, demographic changes and conditions in labor markets, and social welfare policies that have contributed to the evolution of income inequality over time.

Harvard East Asian Monographs 2013 36 line illus., 30 tables 188 pp. $39.95 | £29.95 cloth 9780674073197

12 harvard university press www.hup.harvard.edu 800-405-1619 (US only)

Modernity with a Cold War FaceReimagining the Nation in Chinese Literature across the 1949 DivideXiaojue Wang

This book examines the competing, converging, and conflicting modes of envisioning a modern nation in mid-twentieth century Chinese literature. Bridging the 1949 divide in both literary historical periodization and political demarcation, it proposes a new framework to consider Chinese literature beyond national boundaries, as some-thing arising out of the larger global geopolitical and cultural conflict of the Cold War.Harvard East Asian Monographs 2013 376 pp. $39.95 | £29.95 cloth 9780674726727

Cherishing AntiquityThe Cultural Construction of an Ancient Chinese KingdomOlivia Milburn

Cherishing Antiquity describes the commemoration within Chinese literature and culture of the southern kingdom of Wu, which col-lapsed in 473 BCE. The sudden rise and tragic fall of Wu within the space of just over one century would inspire numerous memorials in and around the city of Suzhou, once the capital of this ancient kingdom. Through an analysis first of the history of Wu as recorded in ancient Chinese texts and then of its literary legacy, Olivia Milburn illuminates the remarkable cultural endurance of this powerful but short-lived kingdom.Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 2013 13 halftones 404 pp. $39.95 | £29.95 cloth 9780674726680

Drifting among Rivers and LakesSouthern Song Dynasty Poetry and the Problem of Literary HistoryMichael A. Fuller

What drives literary change? Does literature merely follow shifts in a culture, or does it play a distinctive role in shaping emergent trends? Michael Fuller explores these questions while examining the changes in Chinese shi poetry from the late Northern Song dynasty (960–1127) to the end of the Southern Song (1127–1279), a period of profound social and cultural transformation.Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 2013 538 pp. $59.95 | £44.95 cloth 9780674073227

Martial Spectacles of the Ming CourtDavid M. Robinson

Like most empires, the Ming court sponsored grand displays of dynastic strength and military prowess. Covering the first two centuries of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Martial Spectacles of the Ming Court explores how the royal hunt, polo matches, archery contests, equestrian demonstra-tions, and the imperial menagerie were represented in poetry, prose, and portraiture.

Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 2013 7 color photographs, 1 map 437 pp. $52.95 | £39.95 cloth 9780674073371

3

800-405-1619 (US only) www.hup.harvard.edu harvard university press 13

The Burden of Female TalentThe Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in ChinaRonald C. Egan

“[Egan] replaces the myths with convincing portraits of Li’s thinking and actions that draw on her prose as well as poetry, developing them with sense, sensitivity and erudition…The first work of this kind in any language, The Burden of Female Talent is both grand synthesis and original scholarship, with a clear style that makes a complex story easy to follow.”

—Eva Shan Chou, Times Higher EducationHarvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 2014 4 maps, 2 tables 432 pp. $59.95 | £44.95 cloth 9780674726697

Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese LiteratureWai-yee Li

The Ming–Qing dynastic transition in seventeenth-century China was an epochal event that reverberated in Qing writ-ings and beyond; political disorder was bound up with vibrant literary and cultural production. Wai-yee Li explores how this multivalent presence of women in different genres provides a window into the emotional and psychological turmoil of the Ming-Qing transition and of subsequent moments of national trauma.Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 2014 625 pp. $69.95 | £51.95 cloth 9780674492042 Forthcoming Spring 2014

Modern ArchaicsContinuity and Innovation in the Chinese Lyric Tradition, 1900–1937Shengqing Wu

“A broad reassessment of the place of classical poetry in early twentieth-century China. Shengqing Wu shows how the old lyrical forms were turned to new purposes to help negotiate China’s emergent modernity. This is a story about modern Chinese literature that has not been told before.”

—Ronald Egan, Stanford UniversityHarvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 2014 9 halftones 456 pp. $49.95 | £36.95 cloth 9780674726673

Making PersonasTransnational Film Stardom in Modern JapanHideaki Fujiki

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. Through its nuanced treatment of the production and consumption of film stars, this book shows that modernity is not a simple concept, but an intricate, contested, and paradoxical nexus of diverse social elements emerging in their historical contexts.

Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 2013 8 color photographs, 53 black and white photographs 424 pp. $49.95 | £29.95 cloth 9780674065697

14 harvard university press www.hup.harvard.edu 800-405-1619 (US only)

The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese AristocracyNicolas Tackett

The complete disappearance by the tenth century of the medieval Chinese aristocracy, the “great clans” that had dominated China for centuries, has long perplexed historians. In this book, Nicolas Tackett resolves the enigma of their disappearance by using new, digital methodologies. The book demonstrates that the great Tang aristo-cratic families were far more successful than previously believed in adapting to the social, economic, and institutional transformations of the seventh and eighth centuries.Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 2014 20 line illus., 16 maps, 19 tables 310 pp. $49.95 | £36.95 cloth 9780674492059 Forthcoming Spring 2014

Public Memory in Early ChinaK. E. Brashier

In early imperial China, the dead were remembered by stereotyping them, by relating them to the existing public memory and not by vaunting what made each person individually distinct and extraor-dinary in his or her lifetime. Their posthumous names were chosen from a limited predetermined pool; their descriptors were derived from set phrases in the classical tradition; and their identities were explicitly categorized as being like this cultural hero or that sage official in antiquity. In other words, postmortem remembrance was a process of pouring new ancestors into prefabricated molds or stamp-ing them with rigid cookie cutters. Public Memory in Early China is an examination of this pouring and stamping process. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 2014 10 halftones, 10 line illus., 3 tables 550 pp. $69.95 | £51.95 cloth 9780674492035

Abu-Lughod, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, 4Amrith, Crossing the Bay of Bengal, 2An, Income Inequality in Korea, 11Bose, Transforming India, 3Brashier, Public Memory in Early China, 14Byonghyon, Annals of King T’aejo, 2Cogan, Princess Nun, 8Cullather, Hungry World, 7Ebrey, Emperor Huizong, 3Eddé, Saladin, 6Egan, Burden of Female Talent, 13Elman, Civil Examinations and Meritocracy…, 5Fujiki, Making Personas, 13Fuller, Drifting among Rivers and Lakes, 12Guha, Makers of Modern India, 7Han, Rise of a Japanese Chinatown, 9Hanscom, Real Modern, 11Hein, Earliest Missionary Grammar of Tamil, 16Hirai, Government by Mourning, 11Konishi, Anarchist Modernity, 10Kosmin, Land of the Elephant Kings, 4Kragh, Foundation for Yoga Practitioners, 16Li, Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial…, 13Manjapra, Age of Entanglement, 3Maxey, “Greatest Problem,” 11

Milburn, Cherishing Antiquity, 12Mo, Korean Political and Economic…, 10Mohr, Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji…, 8Newhard, Knowing the Amorous Man, 10Olberding, Facing the Monarch, 8Ortabasi, Undiscovered Country, 10Perkins, East Asian Development, 4Raghavan, 1971, 2Robinson, Martial Spectacles of the Ming Court, 12Shah, Army and Democracy, 3Shimoda, Lost and Found, 9Snir, Baghdad, 5Spafford, Sense of Place, 9Sugirtharajah, Bible and Asia, 4Tackett, Destruction of the Medieval Chinese…, 14Thapar, Past Before Us, 6Uchida, Brokers of Empire, 8Vogel, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation…, 7Wang, White Lotus Rebels and South China Pirates, 5Wang, Modernity with a Cold War Face, 12Weiss, Public Spectacles in Roman and Late…, 6Wert, Meiji Restoration Losers, 9Wiley, Cultures of Milk, 6Wu, Cultural Revolution at the Margins, 5Wu, Modern Archaics, 13

I n d ex

800-405-1619 (US only) www.hup.harvard.edu harvard university press 15

Qty Author/Title ISBN (i.e. 9780674066564) Price

Sign up for HUP News

Stay informed of the latest books in your favorite subjects.Visit www.hup.harvard.edu/news/mailing-list to sign up to receive emails or catalogs of new books.Blog: harvardpress.typepad.comFacebook: www.facebook.com/HarvardPressTwitter: twitter.com/Harvard_Press

Order now—simply complete and mail this order form by April 1, 2015.If paying by credit card, you may call us toll-free at 800-405-1619,

fax your order to 800-406-9145, or order online: www.hup.harvard.edu

Prices subject to change. Offer good in the U.S. and Canada only. All others pay list price plus separate postage. International air: $16.50 for the first book, $3.00 for each additional book. Payable in U.S. funds.

The Harvard Guarantee: You must be completely satisfied with the books you order or you may return them within 30 days of receipt for a full refund or credit to your charge card. Sales Tax: Residents of these states must include sales tax: CA, CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, MI, MN, NJ, NM, NY, OH, PA, RI, TX, VA, WI

Remove address: To remove your address from our mailing list or for a change of address, you must mail this entire page with any corrections marked to Direct Mail Harvard University Press 79 Garden Street Cambridge, MA 02138

Attention Professors: Visit our Resources for Educators on our website to view coursebooks for examination online: www.hup.harvard.edu/ resources/educators

H09450

Subtotal $

(free before April 1, 2015) Postage $

(see list below) Sales tax $

(you won’t be charged Canada Post’s handling fee) 5% GST, Canadian orders only $

Total due $

Name

Address

City

State Zip

Daytime phone ( )

6-digit code from mailing label

Payment details

c Check or money order enclosed c Visa c MasterCard c American Express

c (to Harvard University Press)

Acct. no. cccccccccccccccc

Exp. date ccccSignature

O r d e r F o r m

79 G

arde

n St

. C

ambr

idge

MA

021

38

ww

w.h

up.h

arva

rd.e

du

H09450 / 12M / 0414

The Earliest Missionary Grammar of TamilFr. Henriques’ Arte da Lingua Malabar: Translation, History, and Analysis

Translated with commentary by

Jeanne Hein and V. S. Rajam

Arte da Lingua Malabar is a grammar of the Tamil spoken in the sixteenth century by the Parava pearl fisher community on the east coast of South India between Kanyakumari and Rameswaram. Fr. Henrique Henriques, S.J., a Portuguese Jesuit missionary to South India, was the first diligent student of Tamil from Europe. He wrote this grammar in Portuguese around 1549 ce for the benefit of his colleagues engaged in learning the local language for spreading their religious beliefs. Consequently, Arte da Lingua Malabar reflects the first linguistic contact between India and the West.

Harvard Oriental Series 2013 3 halftones 348 pp.

$50.00 | £36.95 cloth 9780674727236

The Foundation for Yoga PractitionersThe Buddhist Yogācārabhūmi Treatise and Its Adaptation in India, East Asia, and TibetEdited by Ulrich Timme Kragh

The Yogācārabhūmi, a fourth-century Sanskrit treatise, is the largest Indian text on Buddhist meditation. Its enormous scope exhaustively encompasses all yoga instructions on the disciplines and contemplative exercises of śrāvaka, pratyekabuddha, and bodhisattva practitioners. The present edited volume, conceived by Geumgang University in South Korea, brings together the scholarship of thirty-four leading Buddhist specialists on the Yogācārabhūmi from across the globe. The essays elaborate the background and environment in which the Yogācārabhūmi was composed and redacted, provide a detailed summary of the work, raise fundamental and critical issues about the text, and reveal its reception history in India, China, and Tibet.

Harvard Oriental Series 2013 1430 pp. $95.00 | £70.95 cloth 9780674725430