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Author | : Klaus K. Y. Hammering |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2024-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501776444 |
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The lives of the men depicted in Perilous Wagers take place in the squalor of Tokyo's old day-laborer district, San'ya, where they can be found eking out a living from occasional construction work and welfare handouts, permanently displaced from their hometowns to metropolitan Tokyo. Although San'ya has nearly vanished during the past twenty years, its import persists as a black market where its small population of male day-laborers can be contracted for the most undesirable of tasks, without consideration for their health or safety. In this context, Hammering's book examines classic ethnographic themes of labor, exchange, value, honor, shame, temporality, desire, gender, and personhood. It explores how one group of day-laborers embodied a transgressive masculinity intimately intertwined with honorable mobster values of old, and how they created dignity and sociality under abject conditions of life. Perilous Wagers tracks these underdog values across construction sites, non-profit organizations, hospitals, bunkhouses, and illegal gambling dens, giving imaginative life to a stigmatized, forgotten social world.
Author | : Klaus K. Y. Hammering |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781501776427 |
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"This book depicts the lives of active construction workers in Tokyo's vanishing day-laborer district, San'ya. It asks how one group of men secured sociality and dignity under abject conditions of life, and it shows how they created accountability, dignity, and sociality through the recognition of their peers."--
Author | : Yanqiu Zheng |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2024-09-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472904477 |
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In Search of Admiration and Respect examines the institutionalization of Chinese cultural diplomacy in the period between high imperialism and the international ascendance of the People's Republic of China. During these years, Chinese intellectuals and officials tried to promote the idea of China's cultural refinement in an effort to combat negative perceptions of the nation. Yanqiu Zheng argues that, unlike similar projects by more established powers, Chinese cultural diplomacy in this era was not carried out solely by a functional government agency; rather, limited resources forced an uneasy collaboration between the New York-based China Institute and the Chinese Nationalist government. In Search of Admiration and Respect uses the Chinese case to underscore what Zheng calls "infrastructure of persuasion," in which American philanthropy, museums, exhibitions, and show business had disproportionate power in setting the agenda of unequal intercultural encounters. This volume also provides historical insights into China's ongoing quest for international recognition. Drawing upon diverse archival sources, Zheng expands the contours of cultural diplomacy beyond established powers and sheds light on the limited agency of peripheral nations in their self-representation.
Author | : Hippolyte Taine |
Publisher | : Edinburgh : Edmonston and Douglas |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hippolyte Taine |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 1497 |
Release | : 2023-12-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Download History of English Literature (Vol. 1-3) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The History of the English Literature was an epoch-changing book of its time, as it invested in presenting a scientific analysis and a complete structure overview of this subject. The book starts with the prehistorical notes on the conditions of the British Isles that favored the early development of literary art. A reader gets a systematic account of the Saxon and Norman literature, the Renaissance developments, the life and influence of Shakespeare. The second volume gives an insight into the literature of the early protestant era, featuring such personalities as John Bunyan and Milton. Further, a reader finds an account of the Classic age with Dryden, Sir William Temple, Sir John Denham, Addison, Swift, and numerous novel writers William Hogarth, Samuel Richardson, and others. The third volume deals with the representatives of what was later called the beginning of the Golden Age of British Literature. The author analyzes the works of Byron, Thackeray, Macaulay, and Carlyle.
Author | : Hippolyte Adolphe Taine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1871 |
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ISBN | : |
Download History of English literature, tr. by H. van Laun Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : David Josiah Brewer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : American essays |
ISBN | : |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Crowned Masterpieces of Literature THAT HAVE ADVANCED CIVILIZATION: As Preserved and Presented by The World's Best Essays From the Earliest Period to the Present Time; TEN VOLUMES; VOL. X. Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : H. Taine |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2023-03-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3382148765 |
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author | : David Josiah Brewer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
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