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Buddhism in the Modern World: Adaptations of an Ancient Tradition

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Space, Place and Society

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Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad

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Law and Colonial Cultures

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1998 • 1 Reader

Subversive Seas: Anticolonial Networks across the Twentieth-Century Dutch Empire

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1981 • 1 Reader • 450 pages

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The Wobbling Pivot, China since 1800: An Interpretive History

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Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan

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Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan: The Performing Body During and After the Cold War

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2012 • 1 Reader

It's Madness: The Politics of Mental Health in Colonial Korea

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Meiji Restoration Losers: Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan

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2013 • 1 Reader

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2018 • 1 Reader • 414 pages

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Public Law, Private Practice: Politics, Profit, and the Legal Profession in Nineteenth-Century Japan

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2012 • 1 Reader

Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline

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A Sense of Place: The Political Landscape in Late Medieval Japan

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The Teahouse: Small Business, Everyday Culture, and Public Politics in Chengdu, 1900-1950

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Anarchy in the Pure Land: Reinventing the Cult of Maitreya in Modern Chinese Buddhism

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2017 • 1 Reader • 353 pages

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Monstrous Bodies: The Rise of the Uncanny in Modern Japan

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2015 • 1 Reader • 192 pages

Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism

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2016 • 1 Reader

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Lost and Found: Recovering Regional Identity in Imperial Japan

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2014 • 1 Reader

The Mimic Men

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The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History

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The Undiscovered Country: Text, Translation, and Modernity in the Work of Yanagita Kunio

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2014 • 1 Reader

Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong

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2010 • 1 Reader • 325 pages

Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940-1945

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2015 • 1 Reader

Studies in Environment and History

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2016 • 1 Reader • 339 pages

Public Planet Books

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Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War

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Visible Cities

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2008 • 1 Reader • 156 pages

Asian Connections

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A Cultural History of Modern Science in China

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2006 • 1 Reader

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Global, Area, and International Archive

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2008 • 1 Reader • 244 pages • 4

An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937

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2005 • 1 Reader • 525 pages

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2016 • 1 Reader • 242 pages

The Vimalakirti Sutra

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Imperial Alchemy

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2008 • 2 Readers • 263 pages

Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950

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2006 • 1 Reader • 364 pages

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There Are No Grown-Ups A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

Language and Colonial Power: The Appropriation of Swahili in the Former Belgian Congo 1880-1938

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1986 • 1 Reader • 368 pages

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2011 • 1 Reader • 284 pages

Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work

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2015 • 1 Reader

Frustrated Ambition

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2013 • 184 pages

Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela

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New Lines: Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map

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2017 • 1 Reader • 214 pages

Digital Places

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A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail

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2009 • 1 Reader

The art of memory

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Prose of the Romantic Period: 1780-1830

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Vanguard of the Revolution: The Global Idea of the Communist Party

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Gerhardsens valg

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Inventing the Enemy: Essays

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2011 • 2 Readers • 222 pages • 3

Trauma and Recovery

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1992 • 27 Readers • 247 pages • 4.2

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

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Exit West

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Robledo

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On the Margins of Empire: Buraku and Korean Identity in Prewar and Wartime Japan

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2012 • 1 Reader

Between the World and Me

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2015 • 523 Readers • 166 pages • 4.6

The underground railroad

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494 Readers • 4

Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics

Mobilizing without the Masses: Control and Contention in China

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2017 • 1 Reader • 211 pages

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The Name of the Wind

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The Struggle for Catalonia: Rebel Politics in Spain

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Tokuda Digital Edition The Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government Volume First Warring States

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2015 • 1 Reader

Killing Eratosthenes

Killing Eratosthenes: A True Crime Story From Ancient Athens

ByDebra Hamel

The View from Vesuvius

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The View from Vesuvius: Italian Culture and the Southern Question

ByNelson Moe

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