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The Courtesan's Memory, Voice, and Late Ming Drama

By Peng Xu
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History, Theater and Performance

Tracing the forgotten impact of courtesans in Chinese theater

In the Presence of Gods and Spirits

Hirata Astutane and His Collaborators

By Anne Walthall
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Religion, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

The legacy of Hirata Atsutane’s study of the Way of the Gods

Teamsters Metropolis

By Ryan Patrick Murphy
Subjects: History, Labor History, American History, American Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, History

How an unruly union culture helped workers establish comfortable, suburban living

Commentary on Thucydides, Book 3

By Rachel Bruzzone
Subjects: Foreign Language, Ancient Greek, Classical Studies, Greek, History, European History
Series: Michigan Classical Commentaries

A literary commentary on the History of the Peloponnesian War that brings Thucydides’ ideas to a wider audience

Backstaging Modern Chinese Theatre

Intellectuals, Amateurs, and Cultural Entrepreneurs, 1910s–1940s

By Man He
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History

First comprehensive English-language exploration of huaju during its formative decades, delivered from the perspective of the backstage

Socialist Subjectivities

Queering East Germany under Honecker

Edited by Katharine White, Scott Harrison, and Jeff Hayton
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Reexamining how East Germans constructed their present and future subjectivities

German Empires and Decolonial Fantasies, 1492–1942

By Patricia Anne Simpson
Subjects: History, German History, German Studies, Political Science, Political History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An expansive study of imperial Germany to decolonize colonial narratives and national imaginaries

Under the Campus, the Land

Anishinaabe Futuring, Colonial Non-Memory, and the Origin of the University of Michigan

By Andrew Herscher
Subjects: Native American Studies, History, American History, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Ann Arbor/University of Michigan

A critical examination of the role of U.S. universities in colonization

Theater, War, and Memory in Crisis

Vichy, Algeria, the Aftermath

By John Ireland
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Theater and Performance, History, European History
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Explores how French dramatists addressed violence, conflict, and war trauma after the German occupation and Algerian War

Ugly Productions

An Aesthetics of Greek Drama

By A. C. Duncan
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Theater and Performance, History, Historical Methods and Theory

Charts the historical development and deployment of ugliness in Greek drama

Ancient Bovillae

History, Art, and Archaeology of a Lost City in the Roman Hinterland

Edited by Peter Hatlie
Subjects: Archaeology, Roman, Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History

The first comprehensive study in English of the ancient Roman city and its decline

When Charlie Met Joan

The Tragedy of the Chaplin Trials and the Failings of American Law

By Diane Kiesel
Subjects: Biography, Law, Legal History, History, American History

Exploring the lasting impacts of the Little Tramp’s real-life courtroom drama

The Community of Nuchi Du Takara ("Life Is the Ultimate Treasure") in Postwar Okinawa

Local Subjectivity within and against Empire

By Masamichi (Marro) Inoue
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Political Science, International Relations

Explores the conflict between Okinawans and the post-WWII US-Japan military alliance through the concept of nuchi du takara

The Arcadia of Jacopo Sannazaro

A New Translation with Commentary

By Nicholas R. Jones
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History, Intellectual History, European History, Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature

Translating the foundational text of pastoral fiction and poetry into English for the modern scholar and reader

Listening to the Voices of the Dead

The 3-11 Tohoku Disaster Speaks

By Jun'ichi Isomae
Translated by Lynne E. Riggs & Manabu Takechi
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Cultural Studies, Religion, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An incisive observation of the traumas of loss and marginalization brought to the surface by the 2011 Tōhoku Disaster

In Search of Admiration and Respect

Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974

By Yanqiu Zheng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Cultural Studies, History, Chinese History, Art, Art History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Theater and Performance
Series: China Understandings Today

Reframes cultural diplomacy as part of China's ongoing quest for modernity beyond wealth and power

The Postdevelopmental State

Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea

By Jamie Doucette
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, History, Labor History, Economics, Economic Theory
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

Examining the struggle to align high-growth economic models with the egalitarian promises of democracy

Beyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome

By Timothy C Hart
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, European History

Explores how Roman perceptions of Danubian peoples influenced some of the most politically and socially significant events of Roman antiquity

The South Korean Film Industry

Edited by Sangjoon Lee, Dal Yong Jin, and Junhyung Cho
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Art, Art History, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

A multifaceted exploration of the South Korean film industry

Pleasure Grounds of Death

The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century America

By Joy M. Giguere
Subjects: American Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, History, American History, Cultural Studies, Class Studies

Revealing how landscapes dedicated to the perpetual care of the dead mirrored the transformations and conflicts of the nineteenth century in American society

Corpse Crusaders

The Zombie in American Comics

By Chera Kee
Subjects: American Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Writing, Race and Ethnicity

Unearthing the undead stalking the panels of action/adventure and superhero comics

Performing the Greek Crisis

Navigating National Identity in the Age of Austerity

By Natalie Zervou
Subjects: Dance, History, European History
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

Examining how changes in dance amid the Greek financial crisis altered perceptions and discourses of Greece’s culture and national identity

Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea

Edited by Jesook Song & Michelle Cho
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

An interdisciplinary look at gender and sexuality in contemporary South Korea

Chasing Greatness

On Russia's Discursive Interaction with the West over the Past Millennium

By Anatoly Reshetnikov
Subjects: History, Russian History, Political Science, International Relations, Political Theory
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

How a millennia idealizing political greatness has affected Russia

Seeking a Future for the Past

Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City

By Philipp Demgenski
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

An ethnography that illuminates the political economy of urbanization in contemporary China

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