The Challenge of Tradition emphasizes the tension between Adorno's critique of tradition as being incompatible with capitalist modernity and his understanding of the need for maintaining aesthetic and cultural connections with the past. Placing the concept of tradition in the larger context of late modernity, Peter Uwe Hohendahl argues that Adorno ......
The Challenge of Tradition emphasizes the tension between Adorno's critique of tradition as being incompatible with capitalist modernity and his understanding of the need for maintaining aesthetic and cultural connections with the past. Placing the concept of tradition in the larger context of late modernity, Peter Uwe Hohendahl argues that Adorno ......
Authoritarian Markets explores the political foundations of China's banking boom and its far-reaching impact on the Chinese economy. In 1978, China had no commercial banks. Today it commands the world's largest banking system, with assets equal to 40% of global GDP. Adam Y. Liu argues that this rise was not the product of market reforms, but of ......
Authoritarian Markets explores the political foundations of China's banking boom and its far-reaching impact on the Chinese economy. In 1978, China had no commercial banks. Today it commands the world's largest banking system, with assets equal to 40% of global GDP. Adam Y. Liu argues that this rise was not the product of market reforms, but of ......
Japan's Foreign Labor Politics in Regional Comparison
States of Admission presents the first comprehensive account of how Japan opened to foreign labor-and why this process took such a convoluted path. Japan's labor migration policy resists easy explanation. Although Japan pioneered foreign labor admission in East Asia in the early 1990s, it relied on side-door channels for select migrants. It was ......
Japan's Foreign Labor Politics in Regional Comparison
States of Admission presents the first comprehensive account of how Japan opened to foreign labor-and why this process took such a convoluted path. Japan's labor migration policy resists easy explanation. Although Japan pioneered foreign labor admission in East Asia in the early 1990s, it relied on side-door channels for select migrants. It was ......
Memoirs of Ph?m Duy, A Vietnamese Musician in a Turbulent Century tells the story of the triumphs, scandals, and adventures of Vietnam's most prolific songwriter. Born in 1921, Ph?m Duy came of age during colonial rule, joined the anti-French resistance, and later became a major voice of the southern Republic before coming to the United States as ......
In Colonial Negatives, Patricia Goldsworthy examines the intertwined histories of French, Moroccan Muslim, and Moroccan Jewish photographers in establishing a photography industry in Morocco. She demonstrates how photography in Morocco became linked to French imperialism when Sultan 'Abd al-'Aziz hired French cinematographer Gabriel Veyre as his ......
Postcolonial Citizenship, Palm Oil, and Land Grabs in Indonesia
Rightless Resistance investigates why resistance to land grabbing so often fails. The rapid expansion of oil palm plantations has triggered widespread conflict across rural Indonesia, as communities lose their land with little compensation. Based on an unprecedented study of 150 such conflicts, this book uncovers how villagers fight back against ......
