The Forgotten Japanese: Encounters with Rural Life and Folklore 161172502X, 9781611725025

Japanese Encounters with Postmodernity 9781136163753, 0710305133, 9780710305138, 1136163751

A systematic study of the sociological debate on postmodernity in the Japanese context. The volume consists of a collect

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The Japanese and Europe: Economic and Cultural Encounters 9781472553560

Japanese investment in Europe has been growing by leaps and bounds and this book charts the course of this phenomenon, l

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The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore 9780520959125

Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Ja

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The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China 0691219885, 9780691219882

From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the

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Encounters with Physicists and Physics

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Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West: Historical Encounters with the East and the West 0765623285, 9780765623287

For centuries the island of Taiwan, 100 miles off the Asian mainland, has been a crossroads for traders and settlers, pi

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The Japanese Yokai Handbook : A Guide to the Spookiest Ghosts, Demons, Monsters and Evil Creatures from Japanese Folklore 9784805317280

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Nature in Translation: Japanese Tourism Encounters the Canadian Rockies 9780822375609

In Nature in Translation Shiho Satsuka studies Japanese tour guides who lead Japanese tourists on trips through the Cana

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The Sociology of Rural Life 9781474215848, 9781845201388

From fox-hunting to farming, the vigour with which rural activities and living are defended overturns received notions o

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Web of Life: Folklore and Midrash in Rabbinic Literature 9780804764049

Web of Life weaves its suggestive interpretation of Jewish culture in the Palestine of late antiquity on the warp of a s

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