University Of Washington Press: 541 books
Living Sharia
Law and Practice in Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Drawing on ethnographic research, Living Sharia examines the role of sharia in the sociopolitical processes of contemporary Malaysia. The book traces the contested implementation of Islamic family and criminal laws and sharia economics to provide cultural frameworks for understanding sharia among...
Writing the South Seas
Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Postcolonial literature about the South Seas, or Nanyang, examines the history of Chinese migration, localization, and interethnic exchange in Southeast Asia, where Sinophone settler cultures evolved independently by adapting to their "New World" and mingling with native cultures. Writing...
The Drunken Man's Talk
Tales from Medieval China
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This collection of short stories, anecdotes, and poems was likely compiled during the 13th century. Tales of romantic love—including courtship, marriage, and illicit affairs—unify the collection and make it an essential primary source for literary and social history, since official Chinese history...
Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China
Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Across eighteenth-century China a wide range of common people forged government documents or pretended to be officials or other agents of the state. This examination of case records and law codes traces the legal meanings and social and political contexts of small-time swindles that were punished as grave political transgressions.
by C. Claire Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg's searing film Festen (�The Celebration�) was the first film from the Dogme 95 stable. Adhering to Dogme's cinematic purity � no artificial lighting, no superficial action, no credit for the director, and only handheld cameras for equipment � Festen was a...
by Noriko Kawamura
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
This reexamination of the controversial role Emperor Hirohito played during the Pacific War gives particular attention to the question: If the emperor could not stop Japan from going to war with the Allied Powers in 1941, why was he able to play a crucial role in ending the war in 1945? Drawing on...
by Solveig Torvik
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
As a child, Solveig Torvik heard stories of a lost, mysterious great-grandfather who left Finland for America to make his fortune - leaving Torvik�s great-grandmother and his unborn daughter behind. As a reporter, Torvik determined to discover the fate of the man who followed his dreams to Oregon....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea 1910-1945 highlights the complex interaction between indigenous activity and colonial governance, emphasizing how Japanese rule adapted to Korean and missionary initiatives, as well as how Koreans found space within the colonial system to show agency. Topics...
Land in the American West
Private Claims and the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Throughout the history of the United States, the concepts of �land� and �the West� have fired the American imagination and fueled controversy. The essays in Land in the American West deal with complex, troublesome, and interrelated questions regarding land: Who owns it? Who has access to it?...
Making Salmon
An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Award, American Society for Environmental History
Forests Are Gold
Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Forests Are Gold examines the management of Vietnam's forests in the tumultuous twentieth century�from French colonialism to the recent transition to market-oriented economics�as the country united, prospered, and transformed people and landscapes. Forest policy has rarely been about ecology or...
by Robert A. Kann, Zdenek David
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Peoples of the Eastern Habsburg Lands, 1526-1918
The Economic Contract Law of China
Legitimation and Contract Autonomy in the PRC
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Economic Contract Law of China: Legitimation and Contract Autonomy in the PRC
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
Upon coming to power in 1949, the Chinese Communist government proclaimed that its stance toward ethnic minorities--who comprise approximatelyeight percent of China’s population--differed from that of previous regimes and that it would help preserve the linguistic and cultural heritage of the fifty-five...