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A book of essays that tackles key challenges facing scholars studying music of the United States in the early twenty-first century. The book encourages scholars in music circles and beyond to explore the intersections between social responsibility, community engagement, and academic practices through the simple act of working together.

Focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explores the social and cultural disruptions caused by Latin American and Latinx 'locas' and the various forms of violence that queer individuals in Puerto Rico and the US are subjected to.

The common understanding is that honour belongs to a bygone era, whereas civil society belongs to the future and modern society. Heikki Lempa argues that honour was not gone or even in decline between 1700 and 1914, and that civil society was not new but had long roots that stretched into the Middle Ages.

Examines the intersection of race, political sermons, and social justice. Drawing on 44 national and regional surveys conducted between 1941 and 2019, Faith without Works Is Dead explores how racial experiences impact the degree to which religion informs social justice attitudes and political behaviour.

A book about agency. About how, in the face of powerful interests and seemingly insurmountable obstacles - political, psychological, economic, geographical, and physical - a small group of lawyers and survivors navigated a terrain of daunting barriers to begin building, case-by-case, new pathways to justice for those who otherwise would have none.

Identifies key threads in the global comparative discussion that continue to shed light on COVID-19 and shape debates about what it means for scholarship in health and comparative politics. The book's coverage is global, with a wide range of key and exemplary countries, and contains a mixture of comparative, thematic, and templated country studies.

This volume is a manifestation of the continuing interest of scholars at the University of Michigan in Philippine studies. Written by a generation of post-colonial scholars, it unravels some of the historical problems of the colonial era.

Examines the factors that contributed to post-uprising leadership durability in the Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, and Georgia in 2004-12. Using structured, focused comparison and process tracing, Vasili Rukhadze argues that the key independent variable influencing post-mobilization leadership durability is ruling coalition size and cohesion.

The first detailed and comprehensive examination of the role and evolution of the dictatorship as an integral element of the Roman Republic, this work also charts the flexibility of the dictatorship as it adapted to the needs of the Republic, reshaping its role in relation to the consuls, the senate, and the people.

How women playwrights illuminate the contemporary world while also contributing to its reshaping.

Economic development in mainland China during the first two decades of Communist control provides a typical example for the difficult task to transform a vast underdeveloped agrarian economy into a modern industrial one. The Economy of Communist China reviews selected aspects of this economic transformation.

The major research interest in the village under study in this volume was originally in the area of socialization practices, social change and variables related to fertility behaviour. However, the study expanded to include the diffusion of news events and villagers' reactions to them.

The Chinese Communist system was from its very inception based on an inherent contradiction and tension, and the Cultural Revolution is the most violent manifestation of that contradiction. This volume collects papers prepared for a research conference on the topic convened by the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies in March 1968.

This second, revised edition of a pioneering volume, long out of print, presents translations of Japanese Zen poems on sorrow, old age, homesickness, the seasons, the ravages of time, solitude, the scenic beauty of the landscape of Japan, and monastic life.

Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) has long been recognized as one of the most important literary figures of prewar Japan. A major part of her career was devoted to work on the Japanese classics and, in particular, the great Heian period text The Tale of Genji. This study traces for the first time the full range of Akiko's involvement with this text.

Senshi was born in 964 and died in 1035, in the Heian period of Japanese history (794-1185). Most of the poems discussed here are what may loosely be called Buddhist poems, since they deal with Buddhist scriptures, practices, and ideas.

Published in 1906, Essays on the Modern Japanese Church was the first Japanese-language history of Christianity in Meiji Japan. Yamaji Aizan's account describes the reintroduction of Christianity to Japan - its development, rapid expansion, and decline - and its place in the social, political, and intellectual life of the Meiji period.

Shows that overseas Meiji-period travel writers struck out to create a dynamic new type of travel literature, one that had a solid foundation in traditional Japanese kikobungaku yet also displayed influence from the West.

Graduate students have traditionally learned a good part of what they know about sources and research aids on modern China through hearsay and serendipity. It is now possible for beginning researchers to start with some shared basic knowledge of research aids and documentary resources. This research guide is meant to provide that knowledge.

Presents a study in English of Kamo no Chomei, one of the most important literary figures of medieval Japan. The book offers an original reading of his texts, while at the same time casting a light upon intellectual preoccupations that were central to the times.

Traditionally, criticism of plays from the Yuan Dynasty (1260-1368) has been dominated by the so-called poetic and socialist schools. Double Jeopardy instead rigorously evaluates a group of plays by aesthetic criteria generated from within the works themselves.

Argues that while many competing positions can coexist in the same person, the seeds of the positive, instrumental value of individual autonomy in Chinese inquiry are beginning to compete in both scholarly and popular culture with other, older approaches.

Understanding Shanghai's January Revolution provides us with an opportunity to develop better our more abstract, theoretical understanding of the functioning of the Chinese political system and the dynamics of the social system in which it operates.