- Department of Asian Studies
The University of Haifa
199 Abba Khoushy Ave., Mt. Carmel
Haifa 3498838, ISRAEL
Fax: (972) 4828-8539
Rotem KOWNER
University of Haifa, Asian Studies, Faculty Member
- Japanese History, Modern Japanese History, Early Modern History, Modern and Contemporary Japan, East Asian Studies, Race and Ethnicity, and 85 moreColonialism, Race and Racism, East Asia, Dutch East India Company, Naval History, History of Science, History of Medicine, History of Missions, Second World War, Russo-Japanese War, Military History, Japanese Society, Race, Racism, European History, Ethnicity, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Japanese Studies, First World War, Asian Studies, Global History, East Asian History, Identity (Culture), Prisoners of War, Ethnic Studies, Ethnic Identity, Japanese Society and Culture, Israel and Japan, Japan Foreign Policy In the Middle East, Japan's modern wars, Body Image, Body and race in Japan, East West relations, Early Modern Travellers, Early Modern Travel Literature, Edo-period Japan, Meiji Japan, Showa period 昭和時代, Sino-Japanese War, Sino-Japanese relations, Nihonjinron, Japanese Culture, Japanese Linguistics, Japanese Language And Culture, Japan, Russian-Japanese Relations, Naval Warfare, Cultural Studies, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Psychology, Cultural History, Cultural Psychology, Intercultural Communication, Intercultural Competence, Intercultural dialogue, Interculturality, Cross-Cultural Studies, Cross-Cultural Communication, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Atomic Bomb Discourse, World War II, Miscommunication, Communication, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Orientalism, Oriental Studies, Medieval History, East-West Psychology, German History, Russian History, British naval history, Food and Nutrition, History of Technology, History, International Relations, Political Science, Social Sciences, Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Chiune Sugihara, German-Japanese Relations, and Israeli Association of Japanese Studiesedit
- Historian; Professor of Japanese Studies. My background includes an early childhood in a kibbutz, military service as... moreHistorian; Professor of Japanese Studies.
My background includes an early childhood in a kibbutz, military service as a naval officer, extensive travels, and diverse work experiences, such as being a fisherman aboard a trawler in the Mediterranean Sea, working as a cook at an Italian restaurant in Australia, and serving as a psychotherapist in a mental hospital in rural Japan. My active interest in history, particularly modern Japanese history, has developed gradually. After earning degrees in East Asian Studies and Psychology in Jerusalem, I pursued further studies in Berlin and then relocated to Tsukuba, Japan, where I obtained my Ph.D. Following my postdoctoral studies at Stanford, I returned to Israel to embark on a professional academic career.
We are currently living in an era in which East Asia is reclaiming its historical significance. As a scholar, I have been fortunate to witness the growing interest in this region. I played a key role in founding the Department of Asian Studies at my institution and was also involved in the establishment of the Annual Conferences of Asian Studies in Israel and the Israeli Association of Japanese Studies.
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"The bears in Japan have discovered a delicious snack: humans" Haaretz [weekend suppl.] (August 2, 2024), 54–55 שינויי האקלים והדמוגרפיה ביפן מוציאים את הדובים מהיערות, והרשויות מגיבות באטיות מאז 2008, 41 איש מתו בהתקלויות עמם. שנת... more
"The bears in Japan have discovered a delicious snack: humans" Haaretz [weekend suppl.] (August 2, 2024), 54–55
שינויי האקלים והדמוגרפיה ביפן מוציאים את הדובים מהיערות, והרשויות מגיבות באטיות
מאז 2008, 41 איש מתו בהתקלויות עמם. שנת 2023 היתה שנת שיא מבחינה זו והיד עוד נטויה
שינויי האקלים והדמוגרפיה ביפן מוציאים את הדובים מהיערות, והרשויות מגיבות באטיות
מאז 2008, 41 איש מתו בהתקלויות עמם. שנת 2023 היתה שנת שיא מבחינה זו והיד עוד נטויה
One of the most remarkable rescue stories of the Holocaust is the 1940-1941 exodus to East Asia of a few thousand Jewish refugees stranded in Lithuania. The key figure associated with this affair is the Japanese diplomat Sugihara Chiune,... more
One of the most remarkable rescue stories of the Holocaust is the 1940-1941 exodus to East Asia of a few thousand Jewish refugees stranded in Lithuania. The key figure associated with this affair is the Japanese diplomat Sugihara Chiune, who issued transit visas to these refugees, paving the way for their departure. Recognized 44 years later with Yad Vashem's title of the Righteous Among the Nations, Sugihara has become revered figure both in Japan and internationally. However, a careful examination of the prevalent narrative surrounding the refugees, their Japanese benefactor, and their wartime survival, reveals a story that is not only overly simplistic but also contains factual inaccuracies. Formulated around fifty years post-event, this account has primarily spotlighted Sugihara's supposedly life-saving deeds, while overlooking numerous other elements and factors that were instrumental in the refugees' survival. Drawing from a wide range of recently discovered archival sources and a critical examination of existing testimonies, this article presents a new and comprehensive retelling of this historic episode. It aims to provide a more nuanced and accurate understanding of the events and the diverse forces that contributed to the rescue and survival of the refugees.
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"The Japanese Finally Speak Japanese" Haaretz [weekend suppl.] (April 5, 2024), 48–50 איך מתבצע חרקירי אמיתי, באיזה נשק ירו הסמוראים והיכן מתרחצים בני האצולה? פרופ' פרדריק קריינס, היועץ להפקה החדשה של "שוגון", מספר כיצד הפכו את רב המכר... more
"The Japanese Finally Speak Japanese" Haaretz [weekend suppl.] (April 5, 2024), 48–50
איך מתבצע חרקירי אמיתי, באיזה נשק ירו הסמוראים והיכן מתרחצים בני האצולה? פרופ' פרדריק קריינס, היועץ להפקה החדשה של "שוגון", מספר כיצד הפכו את רב המכר הישן לסדרת להיט שמקפידה על אחרוני הפרטים ההיסטוריים
איך מתבצע חרקירי אמיתי, באיזה נשק ירו הסמוראים והיכן מתרחצים בני האצולה? פרופ' פרדריק קריינס, היועץ להפקה החדשה של "שוגון", מספר כיצד הפכו את רב המכר הישן לסדרת להיט שמקפידה על אחרוני הפרטים ההיסטוריים
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Guns, Navigators, and a Short Blade in the Abdomen (podcast) https://omny.fm/shows/world/shogun-cut-3?in_playlist=podcast Haaretz, podcasts (March 7, 2024) בחודש שעבר עלתה לאוויר סדרה חדשה: שוגון. הסדרה מבוססת על ספר מצליח וסוחף שיצא... more
Guns, Navigators, and a Short Blade in the Abdomen (podcast)
https://omny.fm/shows/world/shogun-cut-3?in_playlist=podcast
Haaretz, podcasts (March 7, 2024)
בחודש שעבר עלתה לאוויר סדרה חדשה: שוגון. הסדרה מבוססת על ספר מצליח וסוחף שיצא ב-1975 בעל אותו השם ובו סיפור על נווט אנגלי, שמגיע עם ספינתו אל חופי יפן בשנת 1600 ונופל אל סדרת אירועים שתשנה את ההיסטוריה היפנית ותשפיע לא מעט גם על ההיסטוריה העולמית.
התקופה המדוברת היתה סוערת מאוד ביפן. ראשים נערפו בה, סמוראים שמו דגש על חרבם ולעתים גם השתמשו בפגיון כדי לשסף את בטנם בשם הכבוד. זו גם היתה תקופה של מתירנות מינית ונזילות מגדרית שהסתיימה רק במאה ה-19 כשהקודים השמרניים של המערב החלו להיתפס כמודרניים.
בפרק הזה ננסה להבין עד כמה הסיפור של הנווט הבריטי נאמן למציאות, איך התפתחו קודים כל כך קשוחים ואלימים ביפן ואיך כל זה קשור להפיכת המדינה המבודדת למעצמה צבאית עולמית ולאחר מכן לאימפריה כלכלית?
מנחה: חן ליברמן
אורח: פרופ' רותם קובנר מאוניברסיטת חיפה
https://omny.fm/shows/world/shogun-cut-3?in_playlist=podcast
Haaretz, podcasts (March 7, 2024)
בחודש שעבר עלתה לאוויר סדרה חדשה: שוגון. הסדרה מבוססת על ספר מצליח וסוחף שיצא ב-1975 בעל אותו השם ובו סיפור על נווט אנגלי, שמגיע עם ספינתו אל חופי יפן בשנת 1600 ונופל אל סדרת אירועים שתשנה את ההיסטוריה היפנית ותשפיע לא מעט גם על ההיסטוריה העולמית.
התקופה המדוברת היתה סוערת מאוד ביפן. ראשים נערפו בה, סמוראים שמו דגש על חרבם ולעתים גם השתמשו בפגיון כדי לשסף את בטנם בשם הכבוד. זו גם היתה תקופה של מתירנות מינית ונזילות מגדרית שהסתיימה רק במאה ה-19 כשהקודים השמרניים של המערב החלו להיתפס כמודרניים.
בפרק הזה ננסה להבין עד כמה הסיפור של הנווט הבריטי נאמן למציאות, איך התפתחו קודים כל כך קשוחים ואלימים ביפן ואיך כל זה קשור להפיכת המדינה המבודדת למעצמה צבאית עולמית ולאחר מכן לאימפריה כלכלית?
מנחה: חן ליברמן
אורח: פרופ' רותם קובנר מאוניברסיטת חיפה
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"Miss Nippon 2024 Sparked a Lively Public Debate." Haaretz [weekend suppl.] (February 2, 2024), 44–45. קרולינה שיאינו נולדה באוקראינה ומתגוררת ביפן מגיל 5. בינואר השנה, היא זכתה בתואר מיס ניפון - הראשונה ששני הוריה אינם ממוצא יפני.... more
"Miss Nippon 2024 Sparked a Lively Public Debate."
Haaretz [weekend suppl.] (February 2, 2024), 44–45.
קרולינה שיאינו נולדה באוקראינה ומתגוררת ביפן מגיל 5. בינואר השנה, היא זכתה בתואר מיס ניפון - הראשונה ששני הוריה אינם ממוצא יפני. אולם למרות הצטמקות האוכלוסייה והמחסור בידיים עובדות, רבים במדינה עדיין רואים בה ובמהגרים אחרים איום על טוהר הגזע המקומי (וככלות הדיון הציבורי אודותיה, כשבועיים לאחר הבחירה, שיאינו נאלצה לוותר על כתרה בשל קשר קודם עם גבר נשוי)
Haaretz [weekend suppl.] (February 2, 2024), 44–45.
קרולינה שיאינו נולדה באוקראינה ומתגוררת ביפן מגיל 5. בינואר השנה, היא זכתה בתואר מיס ניפון - הראשונה ששני הוריה אינם ממוצא יפני. אולם למרות הצטמקות האוכלוסייה והמחסור בידיים עובדות, רבים במדינה עדיין רואים בה ובמהגרים אחרים איום על טוהר הגזע המקומי (וככלות הדיון הציבורי אודותיה, כשבועיים לאחר הבחירה, שיאינו נאלצה לוותר על כתרה בשל קשר קודם עם גבר נשוי)
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East Asia is a region of ever-growing importance. Its global significance is evident in every aspect, ranging from politics and economy to culture. The view that antisemitism is rife in present-day East Asia is based on various sources,... more
East Asia is a region of ever-growing importance. Its global significance is evident in every aspect, ranging from politics and economy to culture. The view that antisemitism is rife in present-day East Asia is based on various sources, ranging from newspaper reports and academic analyses to personal impressions. The regional outlook and the relatively high level of antisemitism it contains are not the outcome of extended contacts with Jewish population or a conflict with Judaism, let alone with the state of Israel. At first glance, the East Asian views of Jews and attitude toward them seem somewhat contradictory.
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This chapter explores Israel’s growing interaction with various sub-regions of East Asia since the 1990s. By the onset of this period, Israel had relations with no more than seven states in this region, but within mere three years, their... more
This chapter explores Israel’s growing interaction with various sub-regions of East Asia since the 1990s. By the onset of this period, Israel had relations with no more than seven states in this region, but within mere three years, their number rose to 18. By the early 2020s, the number of Asian states with whom Israel has diplomatic relations rose further to 21. Indeed, during this period Israel and many of these countries have seized new opportunities and engaged in more cooperation, reshaping their mutual perceptions and policies. Concurrently, interactions between non-state players have increased as well. Companies and entrepreneurs, academic institutions and religious groups, tourists, and NGOs from Israel and Asian countries have shown mounting mutual interest and willingness to interact, thereby increasing the diversity and complexity of these relations. Yet, coupled with these ample new opportunities have come challenges. Asian countries have needed to adopt sophisticated policies that allowed them to get closer to Israel without violating their traditional support of the Palestinian cause. Israel had to learn to navigate in the rough seas of inter-Asian rivalries and relations with third parties. To explain these complexities,this chapter offers an analysis of the opportunities, dilemmas, learning processes, and policy adaptations that Israel faces in the region.
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On the eve of the twenty-first century, analysts and the media alike projected that the coming era would be dominated by Asia. They referred to it as the “Asian Century.” However, the term “Asia” is often misleading since this vast... more
On the eve of the twenty-first century, analysts and the media alike projected that the coming era would be dominated by Asia. They referred to it as the “Asian Century.” However, the term “Asia” is often misleading since this vast continent, the world’s largest both in land mass and population, is far from a single entity. It is diverse in terms of geo-political sub-regions, each with specific cultural, social, political, economic, and demographic characteristics. Intending to start filling this void, this chapter deals with the current relations between East and West Asia, or put differently, between the Middle East and the rest of Asia.
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This book examines the changing relations between the Asian part of the Middle East and the rest of the continent during the 21st century. Written by leading experts, this ground-breaking volume utilizes a comprehensive and... more
This book examines the changing relations between the Asian part of the Middle East and the rest of the continent during the 21st century. Written by leading experts, this ground-breaking volume utilizes a comprehensive and multi-dimensional perspective to offer a novel and unique outlook on the evolving shape of East-West Asia relations and their global impact. Critically, it demonstrates that the intensification and diversification of East-West Asia relations since the 1990s have altered them from a set of separated bilateral ties into complex interregional relations.
The book presents a nuanced, comparative look at Asian countries’ responses to global developments, and China’s rise in particular, and offers a new perspective on the very concept of Asia itself. It will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners working in the fields of International Relations, Asian Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies.
ENDORSEMENTS
With its impressively expansive and detailed sweep, this volume makes an extremely valuable contribution to our understanding of the rapidly changing dynamics between East and West Asia. Situating them in the wider strategic context of great power rivalry, the volume looks at key actors’ approaches not through the usual bilateral or functional prisms but through a genuinely cross-regional approach – making for an innovative reframing of even familiar issues. Including most of the best scholars in the field, this is a book that will be of great use to academics and policy practitioners alike.”
— Andrew Small, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, Indo-Pacific Program, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and the author of The China-Pakistan Axis (Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2015)
“This volume provides a rich and multifaceted examination of the complex interregional relationship between East and West Asia in the twenty-first century. With contributions from leading scholars and experts, it offers a thorough and insightful examination of the strategic, economic, and political aspects of bilateral and multilateral relations between the two regions. It also contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the challenges and opportunities for China-West Asia cooperation during a period of intense great power competition in the region. Overall, this volume adds significantly to the literature and is a must-read for anyone interested in the shifting contours of today’s global landscape.”
— Sujata Ashwarya, Professor of Western Asian Studies at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, and the author of India-Iran Relations (Routledge, 2017) and co-editor of Contemporary West Asia (Routledge, 2017)
“This is a very fruitful and thought-provoking book. After the rise of Western powers in the 19th century, East Asia and West Asia drifted apart and formed their respective sub-regions. In the process of globalization and, in particular, Asia’s rise, East-West Asian countries have rediscovered their historical affinities and have built closer political, economic, energy, and cultural ties. At present, their relations are shifting from “back-to-back” to “face-to-face.” Based on multilingual sources, inter-disciplinary methodologies, and rigorous research, this book sheds light on domains, features, and trends of East-West Asia complex relations bilaterally and inter-regionally.”
— Degang Sun, Professor and Director of Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
“East-West Asia Complex Relations in the Twenty-First Century offers a comprehensive assessment of the complex interregional, multifunctional interactions between the Middle East and East Asia. Written by a diverse collection of leading scholars with deep expertise in these economic, political, and strategic relations, this book contributes significantly to the scholarly literature by broadening understanding of the two-way interactions between various countries in these sub-regions. This empirically rich, up-to-date analysis will be welcomed by scholars and students alike for its novel approach to examining relations between these critical sub-regions in an increasingly interconnected world.”
— Dawn C. Murphy, Associate Professor of National Security Strategy, US National War College, and the author of China’s Rise in the Global South (Stanford University Press, 2022)
The book presents a nuanced, comparative look at Asian countries’ responses to global developments, and China’s rise in particular, and offers a new perspective on the very concept of Asia itself. It will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners working in the fields of International Relations, Asian Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies.
ENDORSEMENTS
With its impressively expansive and detailed sweep, this volume makes an extremely valuable contribution to our understanding of the rapidly changing dynamics between East and West Asia. Situating them in the wider strategic context of great power rivalry, the volume looks at key actors’ approaches not through the usual bilateral or functional prisms but through a genuinely cross-regional approach – making for an innovative reframing of even familiar issues. Including most of the best scholars in the field, this is a book that will be of great use to academics and policy practitioners alike.”
— Andrew Small, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, Indo-Pacific Program, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and the author of The China-Pakistan Axis (Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2015)
“This volume provides a rich and multifaceted examination of the complex interregional relationship between East and West Asia in the twenty-first century. With contributions from leading scholars and experts, it offers a thorough and insightful examination of the strategic, economic, and political aspects of bilateral and multilateral relations between the two regions. It also contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the challenges and opportunities for China-West Asia cooperation during a period of intense great power competition in the region. Overall, this volume adds significantly to the literature and is a must-read for anyone interested in the shifting contours of today’s global landscape.”
— Sujata Ashwarya, Professor of Western Asian Studies at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, and the author of India-Iran Relations (Routledge, 2017) and co-editor of Contemporary West Asia (Routledge, 2017)
“This is a very fruitful and thought-provoking book. After the rise of Western powers in the 19th century, East Asia and West Asia drifted apart and formed their respective sub-regions. In the process of globalization and, in particular, Asia’s rise, East-West Asian countries have rediscovered their historical affinities and have built closer political, economic, energy, and cultural ties. At present, their relations are shifting from “back-to-back” to “face-to-face.” Based on multilingual sources, inter-disciplinary methodologies, and rigorous research, this book sheds light on domains, features, and trends of East-West Asia complex relations bilaterally and inter-regionally.”
— Degang Sun, Professor and Director of Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
“East-West Asia Complex Relations in the Twenty-First Century offers a comprehensive assessment of the complex interregional, multifunctional interactions between the Middle East and East Asia. Written by a diverse collection of leading scholars with deep expertise in these economic, political, and strategic relations, this book contributes significantly to the scholarly literature by broadening understanding of the two-way interactions between various countries in these sub-regions. This empirically rich, up-to-date analysis will be welcomed by scholars and students alike for its novel approach to examining relations between these critical sub-regions in an increasingly interconnected world.”
— Dawn C. Murphy, Associate Professor of National Security Strategy, US National War College, and the author of China’s Rise in the Global South (Stanford University Press, 2022)
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Despite their number in East Asia never exceeding 36,000 (currently around 10,000), Jews there are the subject of both distinctly strong positive and negative views. The presence of these attitudes is astounding not only because most of... more
Despite their number in East Asia never exceeding 36,000 (currently around 10,000), Jews there are the subject of both distinctly strong positive and negative views. The presence of these attitudes is astounding not only because most of those who hold them have never come across a Jew, but also because the region misses most of the 'classical' motives for either philosemitism or antisemitism. An analysis of contemporary attitudes towards Jews in China, Japan and South Korea, including reactions to the still ongoing Israel-Hamas war, reveals that the distinctions between antisemitism and philosemitism are more blurred and nuanced than is often acknowledged. In East Asia, these two attitudes tend to reflect similar functions, and people often express both views without being aware of their historical and religious context elsewhere. Accordingly, this study by Kowner, Ainslie and Podoler calls for a reassessment of antisemitism beyond the Christian and Islamic spheres, to address this new and changing world.
Research Interests: History, Japanese Studies, Jewish Studies, Chinese Studies, Race and Racism, and 14 moreKorean Studies, Political Science, Race and Ethnicity, Antisemitism (Prejudice), Prejudice, Stereotypes, Japanese History, Jewish History, East Asian Studies, Korean History, Chinese history (History), Chinese Society, Contemporary Korean Society and Culture, and Japanese Society
During the summer of 1940, Sugihara Chiune (1900–1986), the Japanese consul in Lithuania, issued transit visas to several thousand Polish-citizen refugees, mostly Jews. His willingness to do so was instrumental in their departure overseas... more
During the summer of 1940, Sugihara Chiune (1900–1986), the Japanese consul in Lithuania, issued transit visas to several thousand Polish-citizen refugees, mostly Jews. His willingness to do so was instrumental in their departure overseas shortly after the country was taken over by Soviet forces. Almost a year later, as Operation Barbarossa unfolded, the Jewish community in Lithuania, along with the remaining refugees, was brutally annihilated. Decades later, the Israeli state memorial Yad Vashem conferred the title of Righteous Among the Nations on Sugihara, thereby initiating his commemoration as a Holocaust rescuer. Today, Sugihara has become a national hero in Japan and is considered a paragon of virtue in a number of other countries too. This article examines the way Sugihara was transformed from a completely unknown figure into a world-famous symbol of Holocaust-era heroism. It focuses on the transnational mechanisms that facilitated this transformation as well as on the divergent but often also complementary motives in three of the countries most involved in the commemoration: Japan, Israel, and Lithuania. By so doing, this article seeks to uncover the theoretical underpinning of heroism and its memory and the way they are manipulated across cultures.
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For years, Japan avoided involvement in crises in the Middle East. The War in Gaza led it to reconsider its policy. Haaretz, digital (November 4, 2023)... more
For years, Japan avoided involvement in crises in the Middle East. The War in Gaza led it to reconsider its policy.
Haaretz, digital (November 4, 2023)
https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/world/asia/2023-11-04/ty-article/.premium/0000018b-9a97-db71-a7df-ffdf549b0000
התגובה המיידית של יפן למתקפת חמאס ב־7 באוקטובר ולמלחמה היתה הימנעות זהירה, בלא אזכור הטבח, אך אחר כך הפגינה אמפתיה לישראל והכריזה עיצומים על אישים וחברות שבקשר עם חמאס. ביקור שרת החוץ היפנית באזור בסוף השבוע מפגין את רצון טוקיו במעורבות פעילה יותר
Haaretz, digital (November 4, 2023)
https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/world/asia/2023-11-04/ty-article/.premium/0000018b-9a97-db71-a7df-ffdf549b0000
התגובה המיידית של יפן למתקפת חמאס ב־7 באוקטובר ולמלחמה היתה הימנעות זהירה, בלא אזכור הטבח, אך אחר כך הפגינה אמפתיה לישראל והכריזה עיצומים על אישים וחברות שבקשר עם חמאס. ביקור שרת החוץ היפנית באזור בסוף השבוע מפגין את רצון טוקיו במעורבות פעילה יותר
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This chapter argues that despite a considerable expansion of bilateral relations in the early 1990s, these relations have not taken off and remained confined to the economic sphere. This is largely due to the conviction on the Japanese... more
This chapter argues that despite a considerable expansion of bilateral relations in the early 1990s, these relations have not taken off and remained confined to the economic sphere. This is largely due to the conviction on the Japanese side that comprehensive contact with Israel could be detrimental to the nation’s interests in the long run. However, recent developments strongly indicate the potential for a significant breakthrough in diplomatic relations, particularly within the military domain.
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This chapter assesses and confirms the five premises put forward in this introductory chapter in light of the showcases presented in the twelve thematic chapters. It then seeks to draw broad conclusions and offer pertinent generalizations... more
This chapter assesses and confirms the five premises put forward in this introductory chapter in light of the showcases presented in the twelve thematic chapters. It then seeks to draw broad conclusions and offer pertinent generalizations about Israel’s contemporary ties with Asia and its future venues.
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By the early 2020s, Israel came to regard Asia as a vital pillar of its international relations as well as a crucial element in its future development. It currently maintains diplomatic relations with no fewer than 21 Asian countries... more
By the early 2020s, Israel came to regard Asia as a vital pillar of its international relations as well as a crucial element in its future development. It currently maintains diplomatic relations with no fewer than 21 Asian countries beyond the confines of the Middle East, including the largest and most populous ones. Asia also makes up about a quarter of Israel’s international trade, and some three-quarters of its arms export. This is a rather new situation, as this continent had heretofore never occupied a significant place in Israel’s economic affairs, let alone in its future vision. Incredibly, it was only some thirty years ago that this state of affairs was entirely different. At that point, Israel had no diplomatic relations with either China or India, whereas other significant players in this continent largely ignored it. This chapter seeks to lay the groundwork for the entire volume by presenting the main developments of these relations; inquiring into and theorizing about their nature at present; and presenting the aims and structure of the book as a whole.
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This book examines Israel's growing interaction with Asia's sub-regions and countries since the 1990s. It shows how these interactions have increased in recent years, both at government level and for companies, entrepreneurs, academic... more
This book examines Israel's growing interaction with Asia's sub-regions and countries since the 1990s. It shows how these interactions have increased in recent years, both at government level and for companies, entrepreneurs, academic institutions, religious groups, tourists, and NGOs. Likewise, it discusses the evolving shared interests between Israel and Asian states and demonstrates how Asian countries adopted sophisticated policies that allowed them to get closer to Israel without compromising their traditional support of the pro-Palestinian position. It also explores how Israel differentiates between different regions, circles of importance, and countries in Asia rather than sees Asia as a monolithic whole. This groundbreaking book concludes by assessing the overall state of relations at present and likely future developments.
TABLE OF CONTENT
List of Maps
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgement
Note on Translations and Conventions
1. A Passage to Asia: The Rise of Israeli-Asian Relations since the 1990s and Their Current Nature
Rotem Kowner and Yoram Evron
I. Israel’s Asian Core Circle
2. Relationship under a Glass Ceiling: A Framework for China-Israel Relations
Yoram Evron
3. Chinese Investment in Israel under the Shadow of the United States: A Precarious Success?
Wang Yu
4. The Indo-Israeli Connection: From Years of Rejection to Growing Partnership
Shalom Salomon Wald and Evgenia Rozenfeld
5. India-Israel Security, Defense Ties, and the Iranian Dimension
Sujata Ashwarya
II. Israel’s Asian Secondary Circle
6. Israel-Japan Relations: A Recent Promise that Has Yet to Materialize
Rotem Kowner
7. Israel and the Two Koreas: Between Sentiments and Pragmatism
Guy Podoler
8. Israel-Taiwan Relations in a Changing Geopolitical Environment
Mor Sobol
9. Israel and Singapore: An Old-New Affinity Between Nations under Siege
Kevjn Lim and Mattia Tomba
III. Israel’s Asian Peripheral Circle
10. Central Asian Republics and Israel: Relations on a Firm but Low Fire
Zeev Levin
11. Israel-Myanmar Relations and the Rohingya Mass Killings
Chen Bram and Ran Shauli
12. Israel-Indonesia Relations: An Ongoing Saga of Unrecognition and Backroom Contacts
Giora Eliraz and Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat
13. The Role of Israel and Anti-Zionism in Malaysian Political and Cultural Life
Mary Ainslie
Conclusions
14. Asia's Place in 21st-Century Israel and Its Diplomatic Network: Conclusions and Implications
Rotem Kowner and Yoram Evron
Bibliography
Index
ENDORSEMENTS
"Israel-Asia Relations in the Twenty-First Century is a groundbreaking book. It tells the rise of Israel from a state on the verge of isolation some three decades ago to a country with a complex network and extensive economic and military relations in contemporary Asia. Solidly grounded in a nuanced analysis of written sources and data in various languages as well as numerous interviews, this volume is going to be the standard work on this topic for years to come."
― P.R. Kumaraswamy is Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India, and the author of India’s Israel Policy (Columbia University Press, 2010)
"Israel’s growing position in twenty-first-century Asia is a spectacular story. Two long-time observers of Israel-Asia relations, Yoram Evron and Rotem Kowner offer an astute assessment and much elucidating analysis of Israel’s Asian strategy, its motives, and its success. As the first in two decades to bring all the parts of Israel’s diplomacy in Asia together, this judicious and deeply researched volume is a must-read for anyone interested in Israel’s foreign relations in general and its Asian ties in particular."
― Ambassador Nissim Ben-Shitrit, General Director of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2013–15) and former Ambassador to Japan (2007–13)
"Deeper levels of engagement between countries in Asia and the Middle East is a fascinating field of study, and this volume is a very welcome addition to the literature. Yoram Evron and Rotem Kowner have led a diverse set of contributors to cover Israel’s most consequential Asian bilateral relationships as well as issues that will shape the trajectory of Israel-Asia ties. Highly recommended!"
― Jonathan Fulton is Professor of Political Science at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, the author of China's Relations with the Gulf Monarchies (Routledge, 2019), and the editor of Routledge Handbook on China–Middle East Relations (Routledge, 2022)
"In the last three decades, some far-reaching changes have occurred in Asia which enhanced Israel’s diplomatic, strategic, and economic relations with the continent’s main actors. Edited by two leading Israeli scholars of Asian affairs, this volume offers a wide range of chapters which explore in thoughtful and comprehensive ways the dramatic changes which took place in Israel’s ties with various Asian countries. This book is a must reading for scholars, students, and practitioners who are interested in the diplomacy and economics of Asia and Israel. Moreover, it is also a very useful book for anyone interested more generally in understanding the sources and processes of important changes in the diplomatic and economic relations among states."
― Benny Miller is Professor of International Relations at the University of Haifa, Israel, and the author of States, Nations, and the Great Powers (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and of Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump (University of Chicago Press, 2020)
TABLE OF CONTENT
List of Maps
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgement
Note on Translations and Conventions
1. A Passage to Asia: The Rise of Israeli-Asian Relations since the 1990s and Their Current Nature
Rotem Kowner and Yoram Evron
I. Israel’s Asian Core Circle
2. Relationship under a Glass Ceiling: A Framework for China-Israel Relations
Yoram Evron
3. Chinese Investment in Israel under the Shadow of the United States: A Precarious Success?
Wang Yu
4. The Indo-Israeli Connection: From Years of Rejection to Growing Partnership
Shalom Salomon Wald and Evgenia Rozenfeld
5. India-Israel Security, Defense Ties, and the Iranian Dimension
Sujata Ashwarya
II. Israel’s Asian Secondary Circle
6. Israel-Japan Relations: A Recent Promise that Has Yet to Materialize
Rotem Kowner
7. Israel and the Two Koreas: Between Sentiments and Pragmatism
Guy Podoler
8. Israel-Taiwan Relations in a Changing Geopolitical Environment
Mor Sobol
9. Israel and Singapore: An Old-New Affinity Between Nations under Siege
Kevjn Lim and Mattia Tomba
III. Israel’s Asian Peripheral Circle
10. Central Asian Republics and Israel: Relations on a Firm but Low Fire
Zeev Levin
11. Israel-Myanmar Relations and the Rohingya Mass Killings
Chen Bram and Ran Shauli
12. Israel-Indonesia Relations: An Ongoing Saga of Unrecognition and Backroom Contacts
Giora Eliraz and Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat
13. The Role of Israel and Anti-Zionism in Malaysian Political and Cultural Life
Mary Ainslie
Conclusions
14. Asia's Place in 21st-Century Israel and Its Diplomatic Network: Conclusions and Implications
Rotem Kowner and Yoram Evron
Bibliography
Index
ENDORSEMENTS
"Israel-Asia Relations in the Twenty-First Century is a groundbreaking book. It tells the rise of Israel from a state on the verge of isolation some three decades ago to a country with a complex network and extensive economic and military relations in contemporary Asia. Solidly grounded in a nuanced analysis of written sources and data in various languages as well as numerous interviews, this volume is going to be the standard work on this topic for years to come."
― P.R. Kumaraswamy is Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India, and the author of India’s Israel Policy (Columbia University Press, 2010)
"Israel’s growing position in twenty-first-century Asia is a spectacular story. Two long-time observers of Israel-Asia relations, Yoram Evron and Rotem Kowner offer an astute assessment and much elucidating analysis of Israel’s Asian strategy, its motives, and its success. As the first in two decades to bring all the parts of Israel’s diplomacy in Asia together, this judicious and deeply researched volume is a must-read for anyone interested in Israel’s foreign relations in general and its Asian ties in particular."
― Ambassador Nissim Ben-Shitrit, General Director of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2013–15) and former Ambassador to Japan (2007–13)
"Deeper levels of engagement between countries in Asia and the Middle East is a fascinating field of study, and this volume is a very welcome addition to the literature. Yoram Evron and Rotem Kowner have led a diverse set of contributors to cover Israel’s most consequential Asian bilateral relationships as well as issues that will shape the trajectory of Israel-Asia ties. Highly recommended!"
― Jonathan Fulton is Professor of Political Science at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, the author of China's Relations with the Gulf Monarchies (Routledge, 2019), and the editor of Routledge Handbook on China–Middle East Relations (Routledge, 2022)
"In the last three decades, some far-reaching changes have occurred in Asia which enhanced Israel’s diplomatic, strategic, and economic relations with the continent’s main actors. Edited by two leading Israeli scholars of Asian affairs, this volume offers a wide range of chapters which explore in thoughtful and comprehensive ways the dramatic changes which took place in Israel’s ties with various Asian countries. This book is a must reading for scholars, students, and practitioners who are interested in the diplomacy and economics of Asia and Israel. Moreover, it is also a very useful book for anyone interested more generally in understanding the sources and processes of important changes in the diplomatic and economic relations among states."
― Benny Miller is Professor of International Relations at the University of Haifa, Israel, and the author of States, Nations, and the Great Powers (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and of Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump (University of Chicago Press, 2020)
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"When the Catastrophe Struck, They Unsheathed Their Swords against Anyone who Appeared Different." Haaretz [weekend suppl.] (September 1, 2023), 50–51. יפן מציינת בימים אלה מאה שנים לרעידת האדמה הקטלנית בתולדותיה. טבח שהתרחש בצִלה... more
"When the Catastrophe Struck, They Unsheathed Their Swords against Anyone who Appeared Different." Haaretz [weekend suppl.] (September 1, 2023), 50–51.
יפן מציינת בימים אלה מאה שנים לרעידת האדמה הקטלנית בתולדותיה. טבח שהתרחש בצִלה מלמד על המהירות שבה ההמון עלול לאבד כל רסן
יפן מציינת בימים אלה מאה שנים לרעידת האדמה הקטלנית בתולדותיה. טבח שהתרחש בצִלה מלמד על המהירות שבה ההמון עלול לאבד כל רסן
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On August 5, we lost a remarkable scholar, mentor, and friend. It is with deep sorrow and heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Ehud Harari, an esteemed Emeritus Professor of Asian Studies and Political Science at the Hebrew... more
On August 5, we lost a remarkable scholar, mentor, and friend. It is with deep sorrow and heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Ehud Harari, an esteemed Emeritus Professor of Asian Studies and Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a cherished member of this community. From 2015 to 2018, he served as the Honorary President of the Israel Association for Japanese Studies (IAJS).
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从海军的视角来看，日俄战争是自从拿破仑战争以来最为重要的一次战争，它具有深远的影响，尽管主要是在海战的发展史上。它所导致的最大的改变显然是对俄国和日本的海军舰队本身。前者作为世界第三大海军，在战后已经被大幅削弱；而后者迅速扩张进入了世界各大主要海军势力的名列。另外，主要是英国皇家海军，当时的海军力量的领头羊，对这场战争中的海战展现了浓厚的兴趣。在这场战争中汲取的经验，对之后第一次世界大战前十年的海军技术发展和军备竞赛——特别是英国和德国之间——产生了关键的影响。
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The Battle of Tsushima, in which the Japanese Imperial Navy defeated the Russian Imperial Navy, was unprecedented in many ways. It marks the first naval victory of an Asian power over a major European power; the most devastating defeat... more
The Battle of Tsushima, in which the Japanese Imperial Navy defeated the Russian Imperial Navy, was unprecedented in many ways. It marks the first naval victory of an Asian power over a major European power; the most devastating defeat suffered by the Imperial Russian Navy in its entire history; and the only truly decisive engagement between two battleship fleets in modern times. In addition, the Battle of Tsushima was also the most decisive naval engagement of the Russo-Japanese War and one that exerted a major impact on the course of that war. Its impact was so dramatic, in fact, that the two belligerents concluded a peace agreement within three months of the battle's conclusion. Beyond the military and diplomatic realms, being the first great defeat of a “Western” “power” by a non-Western modern military the battle had profound implications across Asia and the colonial world.
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参加将兵３万人、艦艇１５０隻を超える日本海海戦は史上最大の艦隊決戦であり、近代技術を駆使した〝東洋の力〟がヨーロッパ有数の軍事力に海上で勝利した最初の戦いだった。日本海軍の勝利は西洋世界では畏怖され、植民地世界では祝福された。しかし、この戦いの勝利の要因であった「艦隊決戦」と「大艦巨砲主義」に日本海軍はその後も囚われ続け、太平洋戦争の最後の日まで状況の変化に適応できなかった。日露英米独の資料をもとに、海戦を包括的に分析し、世界がこの戦いをどう評価し、その後の世界にどのような影... more
参加将兵３万人、艦艇１５０隻を超える日本海海戦は史上最大の艦隊決戦であり、近代技術を駆使した〝東洋の力〟がヨーロッパ有数の軍事力に海上で勝利した最初の戦いだった。日本海軍の勝利は西洋世界では畏怖され、植民地世界では祝福された。しかし、この戦いの勝利の要因であった「艦隊決戦」と「大艦巨砲主義」に日本海軍はその後も囚われ続け、太平洋戦争の最後の日まで状況の変化に適応できなかった。日露英米独の資料をもとに、海戦を包括的に分析し、世界がこの戦いをどう評価し、その後の世界にどのような影響を与えたかを明らかにする！
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This chapter examines the underlying commonalities, demographic features, and distinctive characteristics of the Jewish settlement in modern Asia as they appear in this volume and analyzes them along the ten lines of investigation... more
This chapter examines the underlying commonalities, demographic features, and distinctive characteristics of the Jewish settlement in modern Asia as they appear in this volume and analyzes them along the ten lines of investigation presented in the Introduction. It provides also estimates for the size of the various communities since 1850 and offers illuminating insights into the contribution of the Jewish communities to Asia on the one hand and the place of Asia in modern Jewish history on the other hand.
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This chapter explores the history of the Jewish community in Japan and its ups and downs since its emergence in the latter half of the nineteenth century until today. Although a small community of usually no more than a thousand souls, it... more
This chapter explores the history of the Jewish community in Japan and its ups and downs since its emergence in the latter half of the nineteenth century until today. Although a small community of usually no more than a thousand souls, it has been a home for diverse Jewish groups and a large number of talented individuals.
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This chapter deals with Shanghai and its Jewish community—once East Asia’s biggest. It tracks the origins of the Jewish settlement in the city; examines the reasons for its rise and decline, and explores the emergence of a new community... more
This chapter deals with Shanghai and its Jewish community—once East Asia’s biggest. It tracks the origins of the Jewish settlement in the city; examines the reasons for its rise and decline, and explores the emergence of a new community of Jewish professionals and ex-pats during the last three decades.
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This chapter explores the life of Jews in Indonesia before and after its independence. Emerging in the nineteenth century, the local Jewish community throve in small and remote settlements under the rule of Dutch colonialism and reached... more
This chapter explores the life of Jews in Indonesia before and after its independence. Emerging in the nineteenth century, the local Jewish community throve in small and remote settlements under the rule of Dutch colonialism and reached its apex in 1941 with the influx of European refugees. Many of the Jews were detained during the Japanese occupation and following the country’s independence, the vast majority of them migrated to other countries. Since the Reformation era (1998 onward), however, Indonesia has witnessed the emergence of new Jewish identification whose leaders and motives the chapter examines.
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Jewish settlement in Asia, beyond the Middle East, is largely a modern phenomenon. Imperial expansion and adventurism by Great Britain and Russia were the chief motors that initially drove Jewish settlers to move eastwards, in the... more
Jewish settlement in Asia, beyond the Middle East, is largely a modern phenomenon. Imperial expansion and adventurism by Great Britain and Russia were the chief motors that initially drove Jewish settlers to move eastwards, in the nineteenth century, combined as this was with the rise of port cities and general development of the global economy. The new immigrants soon become centrally involved, in ways quite disproportionate to their numbers, in Asian commerce. Their role and centrality finished with the outbreak of World War II, the chaos that resulted from the fighting, and the consequent collapse of Western imperialism. This unique, groundbreaking book charts their rise and fall while pointing to signs of these communities' postwar resurgence and revival. Fourteen chapters by many of the most prominent authorities in the field, from a range of perspectives, explore questions of identity, society, and culture across several Asian locales. It is essential reading for scholars of Asian Studies and Jewish Studies.
ENDORSEMENTS
“A formidable feat of transnational scholarship, this volume offers a both sweeping and richly detailed historical overview of Jewish Communities in Modern Asia, reconstructing a mostly lost and still too little known world of Jewish life stretching from Central Asia and Siberia to India, China, Southeast Asia, and Japan, from Bukhara to Yemen and Singapore, and even into the myths of “ten lost tribes” from the 18th into the 21rst century. This study is a major contribution to current debates about multiple and hybrid Jewish identities in relation to histories of colonialism and post-colonialism.”
— Atina Grossmann, Professor of History, Cooper Union, New York, author of Jews,
Germans, and Allies (2009) and coeditor of Shelter from the Holocaust (2017)
“This highly engaging and richly varied volume will be important reading for a wide range of audiences and disciplines, including global history, anthropology and religious studies. As a whole it resonates with work on all of the covered Asian regions and contributes fresh ways of thinking through the themes of ethnicity and race, histories of minorities and economics.”
— William Gould, Professor of Indian History, University of Leeds, author of Boundaries of Belonging Localities, Citizenship and Rights in India and Pakistan (2019)
“Jewish Communities in Modern Asia not only surveys vividly Jewish hubs in various parts of Asia but also provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date meta-narrative of the Jewish presence eastward of the much researched Middle East. At present, this is the most significant contribution to the emerging field of Jewish Asian studies.”
— Ber Kotlerman, Professor of Jewish Studies, Bar Ilan University, editor of Mizrekh: Jewish Studies in the Far East (2009–11)
“This is an excellent collection of original, engaging, and carefully researched chapters which shed light on the multiple ways in which the history of Jewish communities intersects with the histories of colonialism and global economy. A must read for anyone interested in modern Jewish Studies and the history of modern Asia.”
— Yulia Egorova, Professor of Anthropology, Durham University, author of Jews and Muslims in South Asia (2018)
“With the growth of scholarly interest in the subject of historical and emerging Jewish communities in Asia and the Pacific region, this excellent volume will be more than welcome.”
— Tudor Parfitt, Distinguished University Professor, Florida International University, author of Judaising Movements: Studies in the Margins of Judaism (2013) and The Lost Tribes of Israel (2002)
ENDORSEMENTS
“A formidable feat of transnational scholarship, this volume offers a both sweeping and richly detailed historical overview of Jewish Communities in Modern Asia, reconstructing a mostly lost and still too little known world of Jewish life stretching from Central Asia and Siberia to India, China, Southeast Asia, and Japan, from Bukhara to Yemen and Singapore, and even into the myths of “ten lost tribes” from the 18th into the 21rst century. This study is a major contribution to current debates about multiple and hybrid Jewish identities in relation to histories of colonialism and post-colonialism.”
— Atina Grossmann, Professor of History, Cooper Union, New York, author of Jews,
Germans, and Allies (2009) and coeditor of Shelter from the Holocaust (2017)
“This highly engaging and richly varied volume will be important reading for a wide range of audiences and disciplines, including global history, anthropology and religious studies. As a whole it resonates with work on all of the covered Asian regions and contributes fresh ways of thinking through the themes of ethnicity and race, histories of minorities and economics.”
— William Gould, Professor of Indian History, University of Leeds, author of Boundaries of Belonging Localities, Citizenship and Rights in India and Pakistan (2019)
“Jewish Communities in Modern Asia not only surveys vividly Jewish hubs in various parts of Asia but also provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date meta-narrative of the Jewish presence eastward of the much researched Middle East. At present, this is the most significant contribution to the emerging field of Jewish Asian studies.”
— Ber Kotlerman, Professor of Jewish Studies, Bar Ilan University, editor of Mizrekh: Jewish Studies in the Far East (2009–11)
“This is an excellent collection of original, engaging, and carefully researched chapters which shed light on the multiple ways in which the history of Jewish communities intersects with the histories of colonialism and global economy. A must read for anyone interested in modern Jewish Studies and the history of modern Asia.”
— Yulia Egorova, Professor of Anthropology, Durham University, author of Jews and Muslims in South Asia (2018)
“With the growth of scholarly interest in the subject of historical and emerging Jewish communities in Asia and the Pacific region, this excellent volume will be more than welcome.”
— Tudor Parfitt, Distinguished University Professor, Florida International University, author of Judaising Movements: Studies in the Margins of Judaism (2013) and The Lost Tribes of Israel (2002)
Research Interests: History, Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Russian Studies, International Relations, and 13 moreJewish Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, Chinese Studies, Refugee Studies, Indian studies, South Asian Studies, World History, Jewish History, East Asian Studies, Minority Studies, History of the Jews, Jewish historiography, and Sephardic Jews
Notwithstanding the flurry of bilateral visits, conclusion of several agreements and the flow of Japanese investments on an unprecedented scale to Israel in recent years, Israel-Japan relations remain largely confined to the economic... more
Notwithstanding the flurry of bilateral visits, conclusion of several agreements and the flow of Japanese investments on an unprecedented scale to Israel in recent years, Israel-Japan relations remain largely confined to the economic sphere. The relationship is determined largely by the Japanese side, based on cold calculation of the assets and liabilities that it brings to Japan. Despite the recent change in the economic and geopolitical situation in the Middle East, Japanese policy is still aimed at finding a comfortable balance between the risks that relations with Israel entail in terms of Japan’s energy supply from the Gulf states and the political and economic advantages that the relationship may bring.
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保守派の思想の柱として知られ、故・安倍晋三元⾸相にも多⼤な影響を及ぼしたと⾔われる外交評論家の故・加瀬英明⽒。「慰安婦問題」を検証した映画『主戦場』で強烈な印象を残した加瀬⽒の死去の数ヵ⽉前、イスラエルの⽇本近代史研究者ロテム・コーネル教授が彼を取材していた。
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In Response to the War in Ukraine and China's Threats, Japan Adopts a Proactive Stance. Haaretz (January 15, 2023), 8. אסטרטגיית הביטחון הלאומי החדשה של יפן כוללת חיזוק היכולות ההתקפיות מעבר לים ועמידה עצמאית מול אתגרים עולמיים, ומעידה... more
In Response to the War in Ukraine and China's Threats, Japan Adopts a Proactive Stance.
Haaretz (January 15, 2023), 8.
אסטרטגיית הביטחון הלאומי החדשה של יפן כוללת חיזוק היכולות ההתקפיות מעבר לים ועמידה עצמאית מול אתגרים עולמיים, ומעידה יותר מהכל על התרחקותה של המדינה מפציפיזם
Haaretz (January 15, 2023), 8.
אסטרטגיית הביטחון הלאומי החדשה של יפן כוללת חיזוק היכולות ההתקפיות מעבר לים ועמידה עצמאית מול אתגרים עולמיים, ומעידה יותר מהכל על התרחקותה של המדינה מפציפיזם
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The late writer and journalist Kase Hideaki was long involved in shaping public opinion in Japan. Espousing a conservative and nationalist worldview, he chaired several major associations that sought to revise Japan's constitution and... more
The late writer and journalist Kase Hideaki was long involved in shaping public opinion in Japan. Espousing a conservative and nationalist worldview, he chaired several major associations that sought to revise Japan's constitution and embellish its history. In an interview shortly before he passed away last November, Kase discussed his upbringing and his political and social outlook. This article offers a brief obituary of Kase and explores his worldview.
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תכנית המרחב האסיאני מציעה הזדמנות יחודית לסטודנטים מצטיינים להצטרף ללימודים מתקדמים רב-תחומיים ובין-אוניברסיטאיים ברמת המאסטר (במסלול מחקרי בלבד) והדוקטורט המתמקדים ביבשת אסיה. תכנית המרחב האסיאני משותפת לאוניברסיטת חיפה ולאוניברסיטה... more
תכנית המרחב האסיאני מציעה הזדמנות יחודית לסטודנטים מצטיינים להצטרף ללימודים מתקדמים רב-תחומיים ובין-אוניברסיטאיים ברמת המאסטר (במסלול מחקרי בלבד) והדוקטורט המתמקדים ביבשת אסיה.
תכנית המרחב האסיאני משותפת לאוניברסיטת חיפה ולאוניברסיטה העברית, וממומנת על ידי קרן יד הנדיב, המועצה להשכלה גבוהה ושתי האוניברסיטאות. זוהי תכנית מובנית הרואה ביבשת אסיה רצף של ציביליזציות והמתמקדת בקשרים ובתהליכים חוצי-איזורים בין ובקרב חברות, תרבויות, ומדיניות אסיאניות, וכן בקשרים בין אסיה ויבשות אחרות, לאורך ההיסטוריה ועד עצם היום הזה. חשוב להדגיש שההשתתפות בתכנית אינה מחליפה הרשמה ולימודים בחוג דיסציפלינרי רגיל באחת משתי האוניברסיטאות, אלא מיועדת לחזק התמחות בנושאים אסייאנים.
תכנית המרחב האסיאני משותפת לאוניברסיטת חיפה ולאוניברסיטה העברית, וממומנת על ידי קרן יד הנדיב, המועצה להשכלה גבוהה ושתי האוניברסיטאות. זוהי תכנית מובנית הרואה ביבשת אסיה רצף של ציביליזציות והמתמקדת בקשרים ובתהליכים חוצי-איזורים בין ובקרב חברות, תרבויות, ומדיניות אסיאניות, וכן בקשרים בין אסיה ויבשות אחרות, לאורך ההיסטוריה ועד עצם היום הזה. חשוב להדגיש שההשתתפות בתכנית אינה מחליפה הרשמה ולימודים בחוג דיסציפלינרי רגיל באחת משתי האוניברסיטאות, אלא מיועדת לחזק התמחות בנושאים אסייאנים.
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When Europeans first landed in Japan they encountered people they perceived as white-skinned and highly civilized, but these impressions did not endure. Gradually the Europeans' positive impressions faded away and Japanese were seen as... more
When Europeans first landed in Japan they encountered people they perceived as white-skinned and highly civilized, but these impressions did not endure. Gradually the Europeans' positive impressions faded away and Japanese were seen as yellow-skinned and relatively inferior. Accounting for this dramatic transformation, From White to Yellow is a pioneering study of the evolution of European interpretations of the Japanese and the emergence of discourses about race in early modern Europe. Transcending the conventional focus on Africans and Jews within the rise of modern racism, Rotem Kowner demonstrates that the invention of race did not emerge in a vacuum in eighteenth-century Europe, but rather was a direct product of earlier discourses of the "Other." This compelling study indicates that the racial discourse on the Japanese, alongside the Chinese, played a major role in the rise of the modern concept of race. While challenging Europe's self-possession and sense of centrality, the discourse delayed the eventual consolidation of a hierarchical worldview in which Europeans stood immutably at the apex. Drawing from a vast array of primary sources, From White to Yellow traces the racial roots of the modern clash between Japan and the West.
ENDORSEMENTS
“This magisterial work by Rotem Kowner fills an important gap in contemporary scholarship about racial history and European perceptions of the Japanese during the age of maritime explorations, beginning with the voyages of Marco Polo. The author approaches a delicate and complex topic with a breadth of knowledge and erudition based on the careful analysis of primary documents from a wide variety of both printed and manuscript sources in numerous languages.”
M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J. Director of the Ricci Institute, University of San Francisco
“Rotem Kowner has written an extraordinary book which will be must-reading for anyone interested in Western perceptions of the Japanese from the beginning (Marco Polo’s account) to the 18th century, and to anyone interested in the history of the very concept of ‘race.’"
Gary Leupp, Department of History, Tufts University
“Erudite, comprehensive, and clearly-written, From White to Yellow offers the reader a panorama of the Euro-Japanese encounter in the pre-modern period that is unsurpassed in previous scholarship.”
Ronnie Hsia, Department of History, Pennsylvania State University
REVIEWS
“This is a path-breaking book, rich in insights and extraordinary well researched. ... This is a dense book, exhaustive in its treatment of European writings on Japan and duly aware of the need to keep in mind how Europeans wrote about Others. There are fascinating explorations of topics such as slavery, miscegenation, and George Psalmanazar, the self-styled Japanese. … [T]he text of this volume covers only slightly more than half of the pages and most of the rest is taken up by endnotes, many of them as long as a paragraph and some filling half a page, together with a huge bibliography covering works in twelve languages. Not only do the notes testify to the prodigious labor that has gone into this book, but they also show how meticulously Kowner has explored the ramifications and details of encounters between Europeans and the various Others they encountered. … This book is, though, unsurpassed in its careful examination of European writings on Japan, and the efficient index makes Kowner’s analyses and coverage of the literature easily accessible”
Peter Kornicki, Journal of World History 27 (2016): 347–350
“From White to Yellow is a big book in every way. The product of immense research, it is an exceptionally ambitious work that makes a string of innovative and far-reaching arguments. Even more strikingly, it is simply the first of a planned two-volume series that, once completed, will span over six hundred years of European interactions with Japan. ... The scale of the task and the depth of the research invite a comparison to Donald Lach’s Asia in the Making of Europe, a groundbreaking series that can best be described as an almost supernatural feat of scholarship. … Overall the work is a significant achievement that should be read by anyone working in the field. It moves Japan from the margins to the very center of discussions over the development of early modern racial discourse, making a powerful case for the importance of the European encounter with Japan. Japan represented a problem for Europeans, and Kowner brilliantly dissects the varied ways in which they struggled to deal with it in the early modern period.”
Adam Clulow, Monumenta Nipponica 71 (2016): 140–143
“The book is a remarkable scholarly achievement and in some ways almost too detailed in its exposition. It throws valuable light on evolving European attitudes to race and to racial hierarchies and demonstrates how they were filtered through different social mechanisms – religion, trade, power – and how despite empirical evidence, few Europeans could actually ‘see’ racial differences in the case of the Japanese, even depicting their clothing in a quasi-European style in paintings and engravings. … Kowner’s book is the outcome of years of scholarly investigation in many languages including Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Latin, Spanish, German, English and yet others and is exhaustively documented with fully half of its almost 700 pages being devoted to sources, notes and bibliography. Its essential theme is the tracing of the transformation and images that slowly moved the Japanese from being seen as ‘white race’ to re-classification as a ‘yellow’ one, along it may be said with the Chinese and the Koreans, whose racial history in relation to the West is inevitably part of the larger story of the transformation of perceptions as they applied to East Asia as a whole, and the light that this sheds on the roots of racial and racialist thought in the West. ….”
John Clammer, Ethnic and Racial Studies 39 (2016): 1500–1502
“In this erudite, complex, and ambitious work, Rotem Kowner examines how Europeans came to see the Japanese nation as “yellow” and inferior, after initially perceiving them as “white” equals. ... Kowner’s work complicates the history of the construction and development of the idea of race by examining the European encounter with the Japanese, whom Europeans initially found different but not culturally or materially inferior ... A short review cannot do justice to Kowner’s rich, multilayered work. The concluding chapter offers a prologue for the forthcoming second volume, which will examine how the Japanese were relegated to inferiority in the eighteenth century, and how a virulently racial discourse ensued.”
Robert Entenmann, Journal of Jesuit Studies (2016): 132–134.
"It is an unsurpassable analysis redolent of superb scholarship. In the end, Kowner makes a strong case that, from 1300 to 1735, Europeans slowly arrived at a system that enabled them to present a universal hierarchical taxonomy of humankind--based on rudimentary notions of race--with themselves at its apex. ... From White to Yellow does help us to understand ''the mechanisms that govern[ed] the rise and evolution of the concept of race in early modern times.'' In doing so, it richly expands our perspective on the origins of race and racism." Nam-lin Hur, University of Toronto Quarterly 85:3 (2016): 533-534.
“Kowner’s work is unique in that, unlike the majority of studies that focus on race in East Asia, it aims to elucidate the emergence of these distinctions at a much earlier point in Euro-Japanese relations—in fact, from their origin, if such can be found. … Focusing on the five centuries between Marco Polo’s first report of a mysterious island called Cipangu and Linnaeus’s categorization of the Japanese as a “yellow” race in 1735, Kowner builds a compelling argument that traces the development of racism from Europeans’ earliest imaginings of the Japanese people to the heart of Enlightenment thought. ... From Yellow to White is also notable for the breadth of its source materials, which, despite spanning several languages and centuries, are housed within a sound and well-organized theoretical framework; I can think of many other works that attempt to do the same but lack the clarity found here. The discussion of Japanese slavery, which tends to be a less-discussed topic in Japanese historiography, as well as of the cultural similarities between Japanese and their European observers, receive remarkably nuanced treatments as points of comparison between Japan and other countries within Europe’s purview. This work is therefore both timely and adds something new to the contemporary debate on the birth of race in Western thought.”
Christina Ghanbarpour, Itinerario 40 (2016): 318–320
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Figures xi
Note on Translations and Conventions xv
Acknowledgments xix
Preface xxiii
Introduction 3
PHASE ONE SPECULATION: Pre-Encounter Knowledge of the Japanese (1300-1543) 33
1 The Emergence of “Cipangu” and Its Precursory Ethnography 35
2 The “Cipanguese” at the Opening of the Age of Discovery 50
PHASE TWO OBSERVATION: A Burgeoning Discourse of Initial Encounters (1543-1640) 65
3 Initial Observations of the Japanese 67
4 The Japanese Position in Contemporary Hierarchies 101
5 Concrete Mirrors of a New Human Order 143
6 “Race” and Its Cognitive Limits during the Phase of Observation 181
PHASE THREE RECONSIDERATION: Antecedents of a Mature Discourse (1640-1735) 201
7 Dutch Reappraisal of the Japanese Body and Origins 209
8 Power, Status, and the Japanese Position in the Global Order 224
9 In Search of a New Taxonomy: Botany, Medicine, and the Japanese 251
10 “Race” and Its Perceptual Limits during the Phase of Reconsideration 283
Conclusion: The Discourse of Race in Early Modern Europe and the Japanese Case 309
Notes 345
Bibliography 511
Index 617
ENDORSEMENTS
“This magisterial work by Rotem Kowner fills an important gap in contemporary scholarship about racial history and European perceptions of the Japanese during the age of maritime explorations, beginning with the voyages of Marco Polo. The author approaches a delicate and complex topic with a breadth of knowledge and erudition based on the careful analysis of primary documents from a wide variety of both printed and manuscript sources in numerous languages.”
M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J. Director of the Ricci Institute, University of San Francisco
“Rotem Kowner has written an extraordinary book which will be must-reading for anyone interested in Western perceptions of the Japanese from the beginning (Marco Polo’s account) to the 18th century, and to anyone interested in the history of the very concept of ‘race.’"
Gary Leupp, Department of History, Tufts University
“Erudite, comprehensive, and clearly-written, From White to Yellow offers the reader a panorama of the Euro-Japanese encounter in the pre-modern period that is unsurpassed in previous scholarship.”
Ronnie Hsia, Department of History, Pennsylvania State University
REVIEWS
“This is a path-breaking book, rich in insights and extraordinary well researched. ... This is a dense book, exhaustive in its treatment of European writings on Japan and duly aware of the need to keep in mind how Europeans wrote about Others. There are fascinating explorations of topics such as slavery, miscegenation, and George Psalmanazar, the self-styled Japanese. … [T]he text of this volume covers only slightly more than half of the pages and most of the rest is taken up by endnotes, many of them as long as a paragraph and some filling half a page, together with a huge bibliography covering works in twelve languages. Not only do the notes testify to the prodigious labor that has gone into this book, but they also show how meticulously Kowner has explored the ramifications and details of encounters between Europeans and the various Others they encountered. … This book is, though, unsurpassed in its careful examination of European writings on Japan, and the efficient index makes Kowner’s analyses and coverage of the literature easily accessible”
Peter Kornicki, Journal of World History 27 (2016): 347–350
“From White to Yellow is a big book in every way. The product of immense research, it is an exceptionally ambitious work that makes a string of innovative and far-reaching arguments. Even more strikingly, it is simply the first of a planned two-volume series that, once completed, will span over six hundred years of European interactions with Japan. ... The scale of the task and the depth of the research invite a comparison to Donald Lach’s Asia in the Making of Europe, a groundbreaking series that can best be described as an almost supernatural feat of scholarship. … Overall the work is a significant achievement that should be read by anyone working in the field. It moves Japan from the margins to the very center of discussions over the development of early modern racial discourse, making a powerful case for the importance of the European encounter with Japan. Japan represented a problem for Europeans, and Kowner brilliantly dissects the varied ways in which they struggled to deal with it in the early modern period.”
Adam Clulow, Monumenta Nipponica 71 (2016): 140–143
“The book is a remarkable scholarly achievement and in some ways almost too detailed in its exposition. It throws valuable light on evolving European attitudes to race and to racial hierarchies and demonstrates how they were filtered through different social mechanisms – religion, trade, power – and how despite empirical evidence, few Europeans could actually ‘see’ racial differences in the case of the Japanese, even depicting their clothing in a quasi-European style in paintings and engravings. … Kowner’s book is the outcome of years of scholarly investigation in many languages including Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Latin, Spanish, German, English and yet others and is exhaustively documented with fully half of its almost 700 pages being devoted to sources, notes and bibliography. Its essential theme is the tracing of the transformation and images that slowly moved the Japanese from being seen as ‘white race’ to re-classification as a ‘yellow’ one, along it may be said with the Chinese and the Koreans, whose racial history in relation to the West is inevitably part of the larger story of the transformation of perceptions as they applied to East Asia as a whole, and the light that this sheds on the roots of racial and racialist thought in the West. ….”
John Clammer, Ethnic and Racial Studies 39 (2016): 1500–1502
“In this erudite, complex, and ambitious work, Rotem Kowner examines how Europeans came to see the Japanese nation as “yellow” and inferior, after initially perceiving them as “white” equals. ... Kowner’s work complicates the history of the construction and development of the idea of race by examining the European encounter with the Japanese, whom Europeans initially found different but not culturally or materially inferior ... A short review cannot do justice to Kowner’s rich, multilayered work. The concluding chapter offers a prologue for the forthcoming second volume, which will examine how the Japanese were relegated to inferiority in the eighteenth century, and how a virulently racial discourse ensued.”
Robert Entenmann, Journal of Jesuit Studies (2016): 132–134.
"It is an unsurpassable analysis redolent of superb scholarship. In the end, Kowner makes a strong case that, from 1300 to 1735, Europeans slowly arrived at a system that enabled them to present a universal hierarchical taxonomy of humankind--based on rudimentary notions of race--with themselves at its apex. ... From White to Yellow does help us to understand ''the mechanisms that govern[ed] the rise and evolution of the concept of race in early modern times.'' In doing so, it richly expands our perspective on the origins of race and racism." Nam-lin Hur, University of Toronto Quarterly 85:3 (2016): 533-534.
“Kowner’s work is unique in that, unlike the majority of studies that focus on race in East Asia, it aims to elucidate the emergence of these distinctions at a much earlier point in Euro-Japanese relations—in fact, from their origin, if such can be found. … Focusing on the five centuries between Marco Polo’s first report of a mysterious island called Cipangu and Linnaeus’s categorization of the Japanese as a “yellow” race in 1735, Kowner builds a compelling argument that traces the development of racism from Europeans’ earliest imaginings of the Japanese people to the heart of Enlightenment thought. ... From Yellow to White is also notable for the breadth of its source materials, which, despite spanning several languages and centuries, are housed within a sound and well-organized theoretical framework; I can think of many other works that attempt to do the same but lack the clarity found here. The discussion of Japanese slavery, which tends to be a less-discussed topic in Japanese historiography, as well as of the cultural similarities between Japanese and their European observers, receive remarkably nuanced treatments as points of comparison between Japan and other countries within Europe’s purview. This work is therefore both timely and adds something new to the contemporary debate on the birth of race in Western thought.”
Christina Ghanbarpour, Itinerario 40 (2016): 318–320
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Figures xi
Note on Translations and Conventions xv
Acknowledgments xix
Preface xxiii
Introduction 3
PHASE ONE SPECULATION: Pre-Encounter Knowledge of the Japanese (1300-1543) 33
1 The Emergence of “Cipangu” and Its Precursory Ethnography 35
2 The “Cipanguese” at the Opening of the Age of Discovery 50
PHASE TWO OBSERVATION: A Burgeoning Discourse of Initial Encounters (1543-1640) 65
3 Initial Observations of the Japanese 67
4 The Japanese Position in Contemporary Hierarchies 101
5 Concrete Mirrors of a New Human Order 143
6 “Race” and Its Cognitive Limits during the Phase of Observation 181
PHASE THREE RECONSIDERATION: Antecedents of a Mature Discourse (1640-1735) 201
7 Dutch Reappraisal of the Japanese Body and Origins 209
8 Power, Status, and the Japanese Position in the Global Order 224
9 In Search of a New Taxonomy: Botany, Medicine, and the Japanese 251
10 “Race” and Its Perceptual Limits during the Phase of Reconsideration 283
Conclusion: The Discourse of Race in Early Modern Europe and the Japanese Case 309
Notes 345
Bibliography 511
Index 617
Research Interests: Discourse Analysis, Christianity, History, European History, Cultural History, and 107 moreBotany, European Studies, Japanese Studies, Visual Studies, 17th Century & Early Modern Philosophy, Art History, Sex and Gender, Travel Writing, Thai Studies, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Early Modern History, Ethnography, Chinese Studies, Portuguese Studies, History of Medicine, Critical Race Studies, History of Christianity, Portuguese History, Race and Racism, Anthropology of the Body, History of Science, Physiognomy, Iberian Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Anthropology of Japan, Japanese Ethnography, Critical Race Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Discourse, Japanese History, Mongolian Studies, History of Slavery, World History, Jewish History, Early Modern (Japanese History), Spanish History, Discrimination, Taxonomy, The Body, Early Modern Europe, Jesuit history, Racial Identity, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Franciscan Studies, Imposter Phenomenon, Jewish - Christian Relations, Racism, History of the Mongol Empire, Slave Trade, Global History, History of Art, Sociology of the Body, Social History, Critical Race Theory and Whiteness theory, Dutch West India Company, Race and ethnicity (Anthropology), History of Physiognomy, Racialization, Martyrdom, Gender and Race, Ethnicity, Indian Ocean World, 17th Century Dutch Republic, European intellectual history, Medieval Slavery, Racial and ethnic discrimination, History of Race and Ethnicity, Beauty, theories of, Critical Mixed Race Studies, Pacific History, Edo-period Japan, Portugal (History), Evangelism, Dutch History, Orientalism, Plant Taxonomy, Race, Travel, East Asian History, Jesuits, Racismo y discriminación, Knowledge Discovery, Dutch East India Company, Beauty, Edouard Glissant, Muromachi period, Privateering in the Pacific Ocean to 1820, Christopher Columbus, MARCO POLO, Limpieza De Sangre, Dutch overseas history, Edo, Sailing and Maritime history and archaeology, Christian Studies, International Marriages, International Commerce, Dutch Golden Age, Social and Cultural Anthoropology, Early Modern Travel Literature, Dutch colonial history in Indonesia, International Marriage, Botanical Gardens, Yuan and Ming Dynasty China, Mongol Invasions, Engelbert Kaempfer, history of medicine, Japanese medicine, Edo period, and Dejima
https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/gp/product/4750352942/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i2 マルコ・ポーロの日本についての言及以降、ヨーロッパ人の東アジアへの旅行の機会が増し、その存在を知覚によって認識するようになる。その後の400年間、人種という概念がいかに形成され、日本人の捉え方がどう変化していったか、その過程を膨大な資史料から解明する。... more
https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/gp/product/4750352942/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i2
マルコ・ポーロの日本についての言及以降、ヨーロッパ人の東アジアへの旅行の機会が増し、その存在を知覚によって認識するようになる。その後の400年間、人種という概念がいかに形成され、日本人の捉え方がどう変化していったか、その過程を膨大な資史料から解明する。
黄色人種は、ヨーロッパ人の創作である。白と黒を上下にして、その中間を占める地位に置いたのである。（中略）本書は、“黄色人種”という概念の登場に至ったイメージと受け止め方の変容を扱う。東アジア全般そして特に日本に関する論議を通して、前近代及び近世のヨーロッパで人種主義がいかに展開してきたかを検討する。本論は、ヨーロッパが日本人そして二義的には中国人との出会いをきっかけとして起きた論議のケーススタディであり、現代人種思想の起源だけでなく、その発想の動機について、新しい光を当てる。（本書より）
目次 --
第１局面 推測段階―出会い以前の日本に関する知識（一三〇〇年‐一五四三年）（ジパングの浮上とその先駆的民族誌；大航海時代の幕開けと“ジパング”）
第２局面 観察―初期の出会いと論議の始まり（一五四三年‐一六四〇年）（日本人に関する初期の観察；当代のヒエラルキーにおける日本人の位置；新人類秩序の鏡像；観察局面期の“人種”とその認識上の限界）
第３局面 再検討―議論の到達点（一六四〇年‐一七三五年）（日本人の体型と起源に関するオランダの再評価；力、地位そして世界秩序における日本人の位置；新しい分類学を求めて―植物、医術そして日本人；“人種”と「再検討段階」における認識上の限界）むすび―近世ヨーロッパにおける人種論議と日本人のケース
マルコ・ポーロの日本についての言及以降、ヨーロッパ人の東アジアへの旅行の機会が増し、その存在を知覚によって認識するようになる。その後の400年間、人種という概念がいかに形成され、日本人の捉え方がどう変化していったか、その過程を膨大な資史料から解明する。
黄色人種は、ヨーロッパ人の創作である。白と黒を上下にして、その中間を占める地位に置いたのである。（中略）本書は、“黄色人種”という概念の登場に至ったイメージと受け止め方の変容を扱う。東アジア全般そして特に日本に関する論議を通して、前近代及び近世のヨーロッパで人種主義がいかに展開してきたかを検討する。本論は、ヨーロッパが日本人そして二義的には中国人との出会いをきっかけとして起きた論議のケーススタディであり、現代人種思想の起源だけでなく、その発想の動機について、新しい光を当てる。（本書より）
目次 --
第１局面 推測段階―出会い以前の日本に関する知識（一三〇〇年‐一五四三年）（ジパングの浮上とその先駆的民族誌；大航海時代の幕開けと“ジパング”）
第２局面 観察―初期の出会いと論議の始まり（一五四三年‐一六四〇年）（日本人に関する初期の観察；当代のヒエラルキーにおける日本人の位置；新人類秩序の鏡像；観察局面期の“人種”とその認識上の限界）
第３局面 再検討―議論の到達点（一六四〇年‐一七三五年）（日本人の体型と起源に関するオランダの再評価；力、地位そして世界秩序における日本人の位置；新しい分類学を求めて―植物、医術そして日本人；“人種”と「再検討段階」における認識上の限界）むすび―近世ヨーロッパにおける人種論議と日本人のケース
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Race and Racism in Modern East Asia juxtaposes Western racial constructions of East Asians with constructions of race and their outcomes in modern East Asia. It is the first endeavor to explicitly and coherently link constructions of race... more
Race and Racism in Modern East Asia juxtaposes Western racial constructions of East Asians with constructions of race and their outcomes in modern East Asia. It is the first endeavor to explicitly and coherently link constructions of race and racism in both regions. These constructions have not only played a decisive role in shaping the relations between the West and East Asia since the mid nineteenth century, but also exert substantial influence on current relations and mutual images in both the East-West nexus and East Asia. Written by some of the field's leading authorities, this groundbreaking 21-chapter volume offers an analysis of these constructions, their evolution and their interrelations.
REVIEWS
"In the field of race studies, race and racism in East Asia has generally been little explored. These two books [Michael Keevak’s Becoming Yellow as well] each works to address that gap in scholarship. As a pair they go a long ways toward furthering our understanding of the historical, political, and social significance of the role of race in East Asia. Most significantly, these books help us to understand how prominent a factor race was in armed conflicts in twentieth-century East Asia. The volume is divided into two parts. Part One deals with Western conceptions of East Asians. Part Two, fully half of the volume, deals with questions of race and racism from perspectives located within East Asia, whether China, Korea, or Japan. The format of an edited volume allows for a large scope of overall inquiry as well as a significant degree of specificity within individual essay. …The juxtaposition of essays in Part One brings to light a number of important topics for reflection and future research, not least the large and thorny question of just how inextricably intertwined the connections between racism and rear of decline actually are. … Part two “East Asia Race Theories, Racial Policies and Racism” breaks new ground in the field of race studies in that it is devoted to race from entirely East Asian perspectives (and there are many!)."
— Laura Hostetler, Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal 37 (2015): 74-84.
"Within the historical research on the topic of racism, East Asia has barely played any role. This volume, the outcome of a multi-year project closes this research lacuna. ... Overall, the volume is superbly edited and easy to read and will undoubtedly remain, until further notice, the standard work on the subject of race in East Asia. For those interested in the historical development of the concept of race and wish to go beyond the European framework, this volume is highly recommended."
— Sven Saaler, Historische Zeitschrift (2014)
"A gigantic volume, its real strong point is its variety, with papers probing such interesting and understudied topics ... The scholarly summaries are very accomplished and provide a wealth of material for understanding that race is neither a fixed nor an atemporal construct, nor is it one that can be simply transferred from Western contexts into Eastern ones. ... The essays represent starting points for a variety of new work as such they are very valuable contributions to the burgeoning field. Highly recommended."
— Michael Keevak, Asian Ethnicity (2014)
"This collection of scholarly works explores racial constructions of East Asians from both external and internal perspectives. ... Not only does this book help readers understand how racial constructions of the West and East Asia interacted in shaping their relationships in the past, but also, more importantly, how these constructions still influence their current relationships in the 21st century. Summing up: Recommended. All levels/libraries."
— A.Y. Lee, Choice, 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations and Tables
Conventions
Preface
1. Modern East Asia and the Rise of Racial Thought: Possible Links, Unique Features, and Unsettled Issues
Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel
PART I: WESTERN RACE THEORIES, RACIAL IMAGES AND RACISM
2. Early Modern European Divisions of Mankind and East Asians, 1500-1750 50
Walter Demel and Rotem Kowner
3. How the “Mongoloid Race” Came into Being: Late Eighteenth-Century Constructions of East Asians in Europe
Walter Demel
4. Between Contempt and Fear: Western Racial Constructions of East Asians since 1800
Rotem Kowner
5. “A Very Great Gulf”: Late Victorian British Diplomacy and Race in East Asia
T.G. Otte
6. Pan-Mongolians at Twilight: East Asia and Race in Russian Modernism, 1890-1921
Susanna Soojung Lim
7. National Identity and Race in Post-Revolutionary Russia: Pil’niak’s Travelogues from Japan and China
Alexander Bukh
8. Class, Race, Floating Signifier: American Media Imagine the Chinese, 1870-1900
Lenore Metrick-Chen
9. Racism for Beginners: Constructions of Chinese in Twentieth Century Belgian Comics
Idesbald Goddeeris
10. Race, Imperialism, and Reconstructing Selves: Late Nineteenth Century Korea in European Travel Literature
Huajeong Seok
11. Race, Culture and the Reaction to the Japanese Victory of 1905 in the English-Speaking World
Philip Towle
PART II: EAST ASIAN RACE THEORIES, RACIAL POLICIES AND RACISM
12. A Certain Whiteness of Being: Chinese Perceptions of Self by the Beginning of European Contact
Don J. Wyatt
13. Racial Discourse and Utopian Visions in Nineteenth Century China
Sufen Sophia Lai
14. The Discourse of Race in Twentieth-Century China
Frank Dikötter
15. Racist South Korea? Diverse but not Tolerant of Diversity
Gi-Wook Shin
16. Skin Color Melancholy in Modern Japan: Male Elites' Racial Experiences Abroad, 1880s-1950s
Ayu Majima
17. Anatomically Speaking: The Kubo Incident and the Paradox of Race in Colonial Korea
Hoi-eun Kim
18. Who Classified Whom, and for What Purpose? The “Japanese” in Northeast China in the Age of Empire
Mariko Asano Tamanoi
19. Race and International Law in Japan’s New Order in East Asia, 1938-1945
Urs Matthias Zachmann
20. East Asia’s “Melting-Pot”: Reevaluating Race Relations in Japan’s Colonial Empire 583
Yukiko Koshiro
21. Categorical Confusion: President Obama as a Case Study of Racialized Practices in Contemporary Japan
Christine R. Yano
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
REVIEWS
"In the field of race studies, race and racism in East Asia has generally been little explored. These two books [Michael Keevak’s Becoming Yellow as well] each works to address that gap in scholarship. As a pair they go a long ways toward furthering our understanding of the historical, political, and social significance of the role of race in East Asia. Most significantly, these books help us to understand how prominent a factor race was in armed conflicts in twentieth-century East Asia. The volume is divided into two parts. Part One deals with Western conceptions of East Asians. Part Two, fully half of the volume, deals with questions of race and racism from perspectives located within East Asia, whether China, Korea, or Japan. The format of an edited volume allows for a large scope of overall inquiry as well as a significant degree of specificity within individual essay. …The juxtaposition of essays in Part One brings to light a number of important topics for reflection and future research, not least the large and thorny question of just how inextricably intertwined the connections between racism and rear of decline actually are. … Part two “East Asia Race Theories, Racial Policies and Racism” breaks new ground in the field of race studies in that it is devoted to race from entirely East Asian perspectives (and there are many!)."
— Laura Hostetler, Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal 37 (2015): 74-84.
"Within the historical research on the topic of racism, East Asia has barely played any role. This volume, the outcome of a multi-year project closes this research lacuna. ... Overall, the volume is superbly edited and easy to read and will undoubtedly remain, until further notice, the standard work on the subject of race in East Asia. For those interested in the historical development of the concept of race and wish to go beyond the European framework, this volume is highly recommended."
— Sven Saaler, Historische Zeitschrift (2014)
"A gigantic volume, its real strong point is its variety, with papers probing such interesting and understudied topics ... The scholarly summaries are very accomplished and provide a wealth of material for understanding that race is neither a fixed nor an atemporal construct, nor is it one that can be simply transferred from Western contexts into Eastern ones. ... The essays represent starting points for a variety of new work as such they are very valuable contributions to the burgeoning field. Highly recommended."
— Michael Keevak, Asian Ethnicity (2014)
"This collection of scholarly works explores racial constructions of East Asians from both external and internal perspectives. ... Not only does this book help readers understand how racial constructions of the West and East Asia interacted in shaping their relationships in the past, but also, more importantly, how these constructions still influence their current relationships in the 21st century. Summing up: Recommended. All levels/libraries."
— A.Y. Lee, Choice, 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations and Tables
Conventions
Preface
1. Modern East Asia and the Rise of Racial Thought: Possible Links, Unique Features, and Unsettled Issues
Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel
PART I: WESTERN RACE THEORIES, RACIAL IMAGES AND RACISM
2. Early Modern European Divisions of Mankind and East Asians, 1500-1750 50
Walter Demel and Rotem Kowner
3. How the “Mongoloid Race” Came into Being: Late Eighteenth-Century Constructions of East Asians in Europe
Walter Demel
4. Between Contempt and Fear: Western Racial Constructions of East Asians since 1800
Rotem Kowner
5. “A Very Great Gulf”: Late Victorian British Diplomacy and Race in East Asia
T.G. Otte
6. Pan-Mongolians at Twilight: East Asia and Race in Russian Modernism, 1890-1921
Susanna Soojung Lim
7. National Identity and Race in Post-Revolutionary Russia: Pil’niak’s Travelogues from Japan and China
Alexander Bukh
8. Class, Race, Floating Signifier: American Media Imagine the Chinese, 1870-1900
Lenore Metrick-Chen
9. Racism for Beginners: Constructions of Chinese in Twentieth Century Belgian Comics
Idesbald Goddeeris
10. Race, Imperialism, and Reconstructing Selves: Late Nineteenth Century Korea in European Travel Literature
Huajeong Seok
11. Race, Culture and the Reaction to the Japanese Victory of 1905 in the English-Speaking World
Philip Towle
PART II: EAST ASIAN RACE THEORIES, RACIAL POLICIES AND RACISM
12. A Certain Whiteness of Being: Chinese Perceptions of Self by the Beginning of European Contact
Don J. Wyatt
13. Racial Discourse and Utopian Visions in Nineteenth Century China
Sufen Sophia Lai
14. The Discourse of Race in Twentieth-Century China
Frank Dikötter
15. Racist South Korea? Diverse but not Tolerant of Diversity
Gi-Wook Shin
16. Skin Color Melancholy in Modern Japan: Male Elites' Racial Experiences Abroad, 1880s-1950s
Ayu Majima
17. Anatomically Speaking: The Kubo Incident and the Paradox of Race in Colonial Korea
Hoi-eun Kim
18. Who Classified Whom, and for What Purpose? The “Japanese” in Northeast China in the Age of Empire
Mariko Asano Tamanoi
19. Race and International Law in Japan’s New Order in East Asia, 1938-1945
Urs Matthias Zachmann
20. East Asia’s “Melting-Pot”: Reevaluating Race Relations in Japan’s Colonial Empire 583
Yukiko Koshiro
21. Categorical Confusion: President Obama as a Case Study of Racialized Practices in Contemporary Japan
Christine R. Yano
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
Research Interests: History, European History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Sociology, and 48 moreEthnic Studies, Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Humanities, Social Sciences, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Chinese Studies, Critical Race Studies, Race and Racism, History of Science, Korean Studies, Critical Race Theory, Race and Ethnicity, East Asia, Nationalism, Japanese History, Colonialism, Racist Theories, Discrimination, East Asian Studies, Racial Identity, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Racism, Ethnic Identity, Ethnic minorities, Modern Chinese History, Everyday Racism, Social History, Korean History, Ethnic Conflict, Race and ethnicity (Anthropology), Racialization, Gender and Race, Ethnicity, Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Identities, Chinese history (History), Racial and ethnic discrimination, History of Race and Ethnicity, Anti-Racism, Race, Imperialism, East Asian History, Critical Race Theory, Anti-Racist Education, Social Justice Education, Xenophobia, East West relations, Ethnicity and National Identity, and Race and Skin Colour
A sequel to the groundbreaking volume Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Western and Eastern Constructions, the present volume examines in depth interactions between Western racial constructions of East Asians and local constructions of... more
A sequel to the groundbreaking volume Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Western and Eastern Constructions, the present volume examines in depth interactions between Western racial constructions of East Asians and local constructions of race and their outcomes in modern times. Focusing on China, Japan and the two Koreas, it also analyzes the close ties between race, racism and nationalism, as well as the links race has had with gender and lineage in the region. Written by some of the field's leading authorities, this insightful and engaging 23-chapter volume offers a sweeping overview and analysis of racial constructions and racism in modern and contemporary East Asia that is unsurpassed in previous scholarship.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations and Tables
Conventions
Preface
1. Introduction: The Synthesis of Foreign and Indigenous Constructions of Race in Modern East Asia and Its Actual Operation, Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel
I. Antecedents: A Detailed Examination of Early Western Racial Constructions of East Asians
II. Interactions: The Fusion of European and Asian Constructions of Race
III. Nationalism: Interactions between Race and Ethnic Nationalism in East Asia
IV. Gender and Lineage: The Impact of Domestic and Foreign Racial Constructions
PART I: ANTECEDENTS
2. East Asians in the Linnaean Taxonomy: Sources and Implications of a Racial Image, Rotem Kowner and Christina Skott
The Linnaean Revolution and View of Humankind
Sources of Linnaeus’ Racial Perspective on East Asians
The Essence of Asia: Swedish Views of China
Swedish Reports and Linnaeus’ Revision of His Human Taxonomy
Linnaeus’ Legacy and the Unfolding Racial View of East Asians
3. Constructing Racial Theories on East Asians as a Transnational “Western” Enterprise, 1750-1850, Walter Demel
The Founding Fathers of Racial Theories: Linnaeus, Buffon, Kant and Camper
The Second Generation: Multiple Directions
4. The ‘Races’ of East Asia in Nineteenth-Century European Encyclopaedias, Georg Lehner
Classifying the Peoples of Asia
The Encyclopedias' Main Sources for Remarks on the “Races” of East Asia
Chinese, Japanese and Koreans: Descriptions of East Asian peoples
Stereotypes of East Asians in General Knowledge
Visual Representations of Race in Works of General Knowledge
Concluding Remarks
5. The Racial Image of the Japanese in the Western Press Published in Japan, 1861-1881, Olavi K. Fält
Background
The Oldest People on Earth
The Shining Japanese Race
Weak and Inferior Race
Praising the Endeavors of a Poor Race
Conclusion
PART II: INTERACTIONS
6. The Propagation of Racial Thought in Nineteenth-Century China, Daniel Barth
The Background: Imperial China and the “Other”
Stage I (1846-1851): Marques and Wei Yuan
Stage II (1851-1855): Hobson and Muirhead
Stage III (1855-1872): The Self-Strengthening Movement
Stage IV (1872-1892): John Fryer and the Chinese Scientific and Industrial Magazine
Conclusion: Chinese Intellectuals, Social Darwinism and Race
7. Learning from the South: Japan's Racial Construction of Southern Chinese, 1895-1941, Huei-Ying Kuo
The South Seas as Japan’s Backyard, 1895-1914
Japan's Expansion into the Southern Chinese Networks, 1914-1928
Chinese Anti-Japanese Nationalism and Japanese Discourses on South Seas Chinese, 1928-1936
Southern Chinese as Non-Han Races, 1936-1941
Conclusions
8. “The Great Question of the World Today”: Britain, the Dominions, East Asian Immigration and the Threat of Race War, 1905-11, Antony Best
Immigration and “the Awakening of Asia”
The Prophets of Race War
Critics of White Solidarity
Finessing the Racial Divide
Conclusions
9. “Uplifting the Weak and Degenerated Races of East Asia”: American and Indigenous Views of Sport and Body in Early Twentieth-Century East Asia, Stefan Hübner
Sportive Citizenship Training in the Philippines
Chinese Cooperation and Acceptance of American-Style Modernization
Japanese Resistance and its Defeat by American Style Modernization
Conclusion
10. Racism under Negotiation: The Japanese Race in the Nazi-German Perspective, Gerhard Krebs
Early Nazi Views on the Japanese Racial Position
Becoming More Aryan
The Problem with the Japanese in the Nazi Worldview
Continuing Mutual Mistrust
The End
11. Discourses of Race and Racism in Modern Korea, 1890s-1945 , Vladimir Tikhonov
Race and Its Uncertainties
The Emergence of Race Theories in Modern Korea: One of the Logics of the “Civilized World”
“Race” and “Ethnic Nation” in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945
Conclusion: Race as a Path to Modernist Self-assertion?
12. The United States Arrives: Racialization and Racism in Post-1945 South Korea, Nadia Y. Kim
Contextual Background: America Marches In and Mass Mediates
The American Military, Whiteness, and Imperialist Racial Formation
American Mass Media, White Heroes, and Counter-Hegemony
Blackness and Imperialist Racial Formation
Racism and Invisibility in Korean “America”
Concluding Remarks
13. A Post-Communist Coexistence in Northeast Asia? Mutual Racial Attitudes among Russians and Indigenous Peoples of Siberia, David Lewis
Discrimination against Siberian Peoples as an Outcome of Racial Prejudice
The Origin and Legacy of Russian Attitudes to Asians
Racial Attitudes among Indigenous Siberian Peoples
The Communist Model of Racial Modus Vivendi
The Impact of Prolonged Racism on Indigenous Siberian Peoples
Marriage as an Anti-Racist Means in a Multi-Racial Society
PART III: NATIONALISM
14. Nationalism and Internationalism: Sino-American Racial Perceptions of the Korean War, Lü Xun
Descendants of the Mongolian Hordes: American Perceptions of the Chinese
The Ambitious Wolf: Chinese Perceptions of Americans
The Mirrored Self: A Nation-State in the Making
15. Gangtai Patriotic Songs and Racialized Chinese Nationalism, Yinghong Cheng
Gangtai Patriotic Songs: A “Colored” Political Genre of Pop Music
A Tacit Collaboration between the Party-State and Capitalist Cultural Producers in Hong Kong and Taiwan
The Interaction between Gangtai Patriotic Songs and Chinese Popular Nationalism
Analyses
Concluding Remarks
16. Japanese as Both a “Race” and a “Non-Race”: The Politics of Jinshu and Minzoku and the Depoliticization of Japaneseness, Yuko Kawai
The Historical Trajectories of Jinshu and Minzoku
Being a “Race” and a “Non-Race” in Present-day Japan: An Empirical Study
Conclusions and Implications
17. Ethnic Nationalism in Postwar Japan: Nihonjinron and Its Racial Facets, Rotem Kowner and Harumi Befu
Premises of Nihonjinron
Nihonjinron as a Manifestation of Japanese Nationalism
Nihonjinron and Its Concern with Origin, Blood and Racial Hierarchy
The Impact of Race-Related Tenets on Everyday Life
Functions of Ethnic Nationalism in Contemporary Japan
Concluding Remarks
18. Ethnic Nationalism and Internationalism in the North Korean Worldview, Tatiana Gabroussenko
The Soviet Discourse of the Outside World: Conditional Internationalism
The North Korean Worldview in the “Soviet Era”: Echoing the Soviet Paradigm
Mono-Ethnicity as a Special Korean Virtue: The Evolution of the North Korean World Vision under the Influence of Juche
North Korean Propaganda about Foreigners from Inclusive and Alienating Perspectives
Conclusion
PART IV: GENDER AND LINEAGE
19. In the Name of the Master: Race, Nationalism and Masculinity in Chinese Martial Arts Cinema, Kai-man Chang
From Anti-imperialist Nationalism to Cultural Nationalism
Masculinities That Matter
Conclusion
20. Sexualized Racism, Gender and Nationalism: The Case of Japan’s Sexual Enslavement of Korean “Comfort Women”, Bang-soon Yoon
Korean “Comfort Women”: Drawn in as Substitutes
The Nature of Victimization
Colonial Policies and the Mobilization of Korean Women
Treatment of Korean “Comfort Women”
Lives under Sexual Slavery
Nationalism, Gender and Sexual Violence
Conclusion
21. “The Guilt Feeling That You Exist”: War, Racism and Indisch-Japanese Identity Formation, Aya Ezawa
Power, Discourse, and “Mixed Blood”
The Indisch and the Dutch East Indies
The Indisch Community under Japanese Occupation
Indisch-Japanese Relationships
Indisch-Japanese Descendants
Conclusion
22. ‘The “Amerasian” Knot: Transpacific Crossings of “GI Babies” from Korea to the United States, W. Taejin Hwang
“An Act of Both Humanity and Patriotism”: The Amerasian Immigration Act of 1982
“Confucius’ Outcasts”: The Korean Amerasian “Plight”
Inter-country Adoption of Korean “GI Babies”
Living as a “Mixed-Blood Child” (Honhyeola) in Cold War Korea
“Half-American Also is American”: Towards Migration
Conclusion and Postscript
PART V: CONCLUSIONS
23. The Essence and Mechanisms of Race and Racism in Modern East Asia, Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel
The East Asian Contribution to the Study of Race and Racism
East Asia’s Role within the Rise of Racial Theory and the Resulting Hybridity
Sources and Manifestations of Racism
The Close Links between Racism and Nationalism
The Role of Gender and Lineage in Constructions of Race and Racism
East Asia and the Future of Race and Racism
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations and Tables
Conventions
Preface
1. Introduction: The Synthesis of Foreign and Indigenous Constructions of Race in Modern East Asia and Its Actual Operation, Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel
I. Antecedents: A Detailed Examination of Early Western Racial Constructions of East Asians
II. Interactions: The Fusion of European and Asian Constructions of Race
III. Nationalism: Interactions between Race and Ethnic Nationalism in East Asia
IV. Gender and Lineage: The Impact of Domestic and Foreign Racial Constructions
PART I: ANTECEDENTS
2. East Asians in the Linnaean Taxonomy: Sources and Implications of a Racial Image, Rotem Kowner and Christina Skott
The Linnaean Revolution and View of Humankind
Sources of Linnaeus’ Racial Perspective on East Asians
The Essence of Asia: Swedish Views of China
Swedish Reports and Linnaeus’ Revision of His Human Taxonomy
Linnaeus’ Legacy and the Unfolding Racial View of East Asians
3. Constructing Racial Theories on East Asians as a Transnational “Western” Enterprise, 1750-1850, Walter Demel
The Founding Fathers of Racial Theories: Linnaeus, Buffon, Kant and Camper
The Second Generation: Multiple Directions
4. The ‘Races’ of East Asia in Nineteenth-Century European Encyclopaedias, Georg Lehner
Classifying the Peoples of Asia
The Encyclopedias' Main Sources for Remarks on the “Races” of East Asia
Chinese, Japanese and Koreans: Descriptions of East Asian peoples
Stereotypes of East Asians in General Knowledge
Visual Representations of Race in Works of General Knowledge
Concluding Remarks
5. The Racial Image of the Japanese in the Western Press Published in Japan, 1861-1881, Olavi K. Fält
Background
The Oldest People on Earth
The Shining Japanese Race
Weak and Inferior Race
Praising the Endeavors of a Poor Race
Conclusion
PART II: INTERACTIONS
6. The Propagation of Racial Thought in Nineteenth-Century China, Daniel Barth
The Background: Imperial China and the “Other”
Stage I (1846-1851): Marques and Wei Yuan
Stage II (1851-1855): Hobson and Muirhead
Stage III (1855-1872): The Self-Strengthening Movement
Stage IV (1872-1892): John Fryer and the Chinese Scientific and Industrial Magazine
Conclusion: Chinese Intellectuals, Social Darwinism and Race
7. Learning from the South: Japan's Racial Construction of Southern Chinese, 1895-1941, Huei-Ying Kuo
The South Seas as Japan’s Backyard, 1895-1914
Japan's Expansion into the Southern Chinese Networks, 1914-1928
Chinese Anti-Japanese Nationalism and Japanese Discourses on South Seas Chinese, 1928-1936
Southern Chinese as Non-Han Races, 1936-1941
Conclusions
8. “The Great Question of the World Today”: Britain, the Dominions, East Asian Immigration and the Threat of Race War, 1905-11, Antony Best
Immigration and “the Awakening of Asia”
The Prophets of Race War
Critics of White Solidarity
Finessing the Racial Divide
Conclusions
9. “Uplifting the Weak and Degenerated Races of East Asia”: American and Indigenous Views of Sport and Body in Early Twentieth-Century East Asia, Stefan Hübner
Sportive Citizenship Training in the Philippines
Chinese Cooperation and Acceptance of American-Style Modernization
Japanese Resistance and its Defeat by American Style Modernization
Conclusion
10. Racism under Negotiation: The Japanese Race in the Nazi-German Perspective, Gerhard Krebs
Early Nazi Views on the Japanese Racial Position
Becoming More Aryan
The Problem with the Japanese in the Nazi Worldview
Continuing Mutual Mistrust
The End
11. Discourses of Race and Racism in Modern Korea, 1890s-1945 , Vladimir Tikhonov
Race and Its Uncertainties
The Emergence of Race Theories in Modern Korea: One of the Logics of the “Civilized World”
“Race” and “Ethnic Nation” in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945
Conclusion: Race as a Path to Modernist Self-assertion?
12. The United States Arrives: Racialization and Racism in Post-1945 South Korea, Nadia Y. Kim
Contextual Background: America Marches In and Mass Mediates
The American Military, Whiteness, and Imperialist Racial Formation
American Mass Media, White Heroes, and Counter-Hegemony
Blackness and Imperialist Racial Formation
Racism and Invisibility in Korean “America”
Concluding Remarks
13. A Post-Communist Coexistence in Northeast Asia? Mutual Racial Attitudes among Russians and Indigenous Peoples of Siberia, David Lewis
Discrimination against Siberian Peoples as an Outcome of Racial Prejudice
The Origin and Legacy of Russian Attitudes to Asians
Racial Attitudes among Indigenous Siberian Peoples
The Communist Model of Racial Modus Vivendi
The Impact of Prolonged Racism on Indigenous Siberian Peoples
Marriage as an Anti-Racist Means in a Multi-Racial Society
PART III: NATIONALISM
14. Nationalism and Internationalism: Sino-American Racial Perceptions of the Korean War, Lü Xun
Descendants of the Mongolian Hordes: American Perceptions of the Chinese
The Ambitious Wolf: Chinese Perceptions of Americans
The Mirrored Self: A Nation-State in the Making
15. Gangtai Patriotic Songs and Racialized Chinese Nationalism, Yinghong Cheng
Gangtai Patriotic Songs: A “Colored” Political Genre of Pop Music
A Tacit Collaboration between the Party-State and Capitalist Cultural Producers in Hong Kong and Taiwan
The Interaction between Gangtai Patriotic Songs and Chinese Popular Nationalism
Analyses
Concluding Remarks
16. Japanese as Both a “Race” and a “Non-Race”: The Politics of Jinshu and Minzoku and the Depoliticization of Japaneseness, Yuko Kawai
The Historical Trajectories of Jinshu and Minzoku
Being a “Race” and a “Non-Race” in Present-day Japan: An Empirical Study
Conclusions and Implications
17. Ethnic Nationalism in Postwar Japan: Nihonjinron and Its Racial Facets, Rotem Kowner and Harumi Befu
Premises of Nihonjinron
Nihonjinron as a Manifestation of Japanese Nationalism
Nihonjinron and Its Concern with Origin, Blood and Racial Hierarchy
The Impact of Race-Related Tenets on Everyday Life
Functions of Ethnic Nationalism in Contemporary Japan
Concluding Remarks
18. Ethnic Nationalism and Internationalism in the North Korean Worldview, Tatiana Gabroussenko
The Soviet Discourse of the Outside World: Conditional Internationalism
The North Korean Worldview in the “Soviet Era”: Echoing the Soviet Paradigm
Mono-Ethnicity as a Special Korean Virtue: The Evolution of the North Korean World Vision under the Influence of Juche
North Korean Propaganda about Foreigners from Inclusive and Alienating Perspectives
Conclusion
PART IV: GENDER AND LINEAGE
19. In the Name of the Master: Race, Nationalism and Masculinity in Chinese Martial Arts Cinema, Kai-man Chang
From Anti-imperialist Nationalism to Cultural Nationalism
Masculinities That Matter
Conclusion
20. Sexualized Racism, Gender and Nationalism: The Case of Japan’s Sexual Enslavement of Korean “Comfort Women”, Bang-soon Yoon
Korean “Comfort Women”: Drawn in as Substitutes
The Nature of Victimization
Colonial Policies and the Mobilization of Korean Women
Treatment of Korean “Comfort Women”
Lives under Sexual Slavery
Nationalism, Gender and Sexual Violence
Conclusion
21. “The Guilt Feeling That You Exist”: War, Racism and Indisch-Japanese Identity Formation, Aya Ezawa
Power, Discourse, and “Mixed Blood”
The Indisch and the Dutch East Indies
The Indisch Community under Japanese Occupation
Indisch-Japanese Relationships
Indisch-Japanese Descendants
Conclusion
22. ‘The “Amerasian” Knot: Transpacific Crossings of “GI Babies” from Korea to the United States, W. Taejin Hwang
“An Act of Both Humanity and Patriotism”: The Amerasian Immigration Act of 1982
“Confucius’ Outcasts”: The Korean Amerasian “Plight”
Inter-country Adoption of Korean “GI Babies”
Living as a “Mixed-Blood Child” (Honhyeola) in Cold War Korea
“Half-American Also is American”: Towards Migration
Conclusion and Postscript
PART V: CONCLUSIONS
23. The Essence and Mechanisms of Race and Racism in Modern East Asia, Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel
The East Asian Contribution to the Study of Race and Racism
East Asia’s Role within the Rise of Racial Theory and the Resulting Hybridity
Sources and Manifestations of Racism
The Close Links between Racism and Nationalism
The Role of Gender and Lineage in Constructions of Race and Racism
East Asia and the Future of Race and Racism
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
Research Interests: Ethnic Studies, Japanese Studies, Gender Studies, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Chinese Studies, and 34 moreMasculinity Studies, Race and Racism, Korean Studies, South Korea, Race and Ethnicity, Nationalism, Adoption, Discrimination, Gender, East Asian Studies, Siberia, Ethnic and Racial Studies, National Identity, Racism, China, Masculinities, Modern Chinese History, Modern Japanese History, Japan, Ethnicity, Chinese history (History), Racial and ethnic discrimination, History of Race and Ethnicity, Minority Rights, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Race, North Korea (politics and society), Ethnic Nationalism, Ethnicity and National Identity, Ethnic politics, Lineage, Modern Korean History, North Korean Studies, and Racial nationalism
When Portuguese traders arrived in Japan during the mid sixteenth century, they came across a vibrant local market of slavery and bondage. With no apparent prohibitions, they soon began to export thousands of Japanese to other parts of... more
When Portuguese traders arrived in Japan during the mid sixteenth century, they came across a vibrant local market of slavery and bondage. With no apparent prohibitions, they soon began to export thousands of Japanese to other parts of Asia and even further afield. There was nothing unique about this Lusitanian trade. In many other parts of Asia, such as in the Indian sub-continent, Southeast Asia and even in south China, the Portuguese and subsequently Dutch were involved in precisely the same activity. On the Japanese side, however, certain features of the slaves and the ways in which the local regime responded to this foreign trade made the phenomenon not only short-lived but also without the negative impact it had on the image of local communities in other parts of Asia and—needless to say—in Africa and the Americas. This chapter explores the European use of East Asian, Southeast Asian, and South Asian slaves in seventeenth-century Asia, examines the reasons this trade collapsed within several decades in certain parts of Asia, and discusses its effect on the preliminary conceptualization of race.
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Sociology, Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, and 19 moreSoutheast Asian Studies, Early Modern History, Chinese Studies, Portuguese Studies, Portuguese History, Race and Racism, Slavery, Race and Ethnicity, East Asia, Japanese History, History of Slavery, Early Modern (Japanese History), Southeast Asia, Jesuit history, East Asian Studies, Cultural Encounters, Racism, Jesuits In Japan, and Asian slavery
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Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Systematics (Taxonomy), European Studies, and 28 moreHistory of Ideas, French History, Early Modern History, Chinese Studies, British History, Race and Racism, History of Science, Critical Race Theory, Race and Ethnicity, East Asia, Early Modern (Japanese History), Taxonomy, Early Modern Europe, Jesuit history, East Asian Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Racism, Philosophy Of Race, European identity, Race and ethnicity (Anthropology), Ethnicity, History of Race and Ethnicity, Historia, Race, East Asian History, East West relations, Linnean Classification Systems, and Carl Linnaeus
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Research Interests: European History, European Studies, Chinese Studies, Race and Racism, History of Science, and 18 moreRace and Ethnicity, Taxonomy, East Asian Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Racism, Scandinavian Studies, Chinese history (History), Swedish History, Sweden, History of European Expansion, East Asian History, Chinese history, 18th century Swedish history, Guangzhou, East West relations, Linnean Classification Systems, Carl Linnaeus, and Canton Trade
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Research Interests: Intellectual History, Ethnic Studies, Japanese Studies, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Chinese Studies, and 19 moreRace and Racism, Korean Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Nationalism, Modern and Contemporary Japan, Discrimination, East Asian Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, National Identity, Racism, Modern Chinese History, Chinese Politics, Ethnicity, Chinese history (History), Racial and ethnic discrimination, Orientalism, East Asian History, Ethnicity and National Identity, and Ethnicity and Nationality
Interview de Rotem Kowner au sujet de l'importation des théories scientifiques raciales occidentales au Japon au 19e siècle : esclavage et formes de discrimination antérieures au 19e siècle, intégration des idées racistes considérées... more
Interview de Rotem Kowner au sujet de l'importation des théories scientifiques raciales occidentales au Japon au 19e siècle : esclavage et formes de discrimination antérieures au 19e siècle, intégration des idées racistes considérées comme scientifiques au cours de l'ère Meiji, sentiment de dévalorisation et de rejet de l'Occident exprimés par les Japonais, apparition de la doctrine de l'asiatisme, expression de cette idéologie durant la Première Guerre mondiale et la guerre du Pacifique, conséquences de l'adoption du modèle raciste occidental sur les relations entre le Japon et ses pays voisins, état des lieux du racisme dans le Japon contemporain.
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Research Interests: American History, European History, European Studies, German Studies, American Studies, and 19 moreTravel Writing, French History, French Studies, German History, British History, Prejudice, Stereotypes, Japanese History, Stereotypes and Prejudice, Discrimination, Racism, Global History, Modern Japanese History, 19th Century (History), Travel Literature, Racial and ethnic discrimination, Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination, East West relations, and National Stereotypes
The German physician Erwin Baelz (1849-1913) was one of a few physicians who placed the “Mongolian spot” in the fin-de-siècle consciousness of the medical and anthropological worlds. These bluish patches found temporarily on the bodies of... more
The German physician Erwin Baelz (1849-1913) was one of a few physicians who placed the “Mongolian spot” in the fin-de-siècle consciousness of the medical and anthropological worlds. These bluish patches found temporarily on the bodies of certain infants soon acquired more than mere medical significance. While corresponding to Baelz’s theories on Japan’s ethnic composition, the racial implications of the “spot” were not welcomed by Japanese scholars. By focusing on this negligible physiological phenomenon, This chapter illuminates the unique interaction between foreign and Japanese scientists in the construction of theories of race during the late-Meiji era and the rise of indigenous knowledge and authority in this field.
Research Interests: History, History of Science and Technology, German Studies, Japanese Studies, Anthropology, and 15 moreMedical Anthropology, History of Medicine, Race and Racism, History of Science, Race and Ethnicity, Japanese History, Modern and Contemporary Japan, Racism, Modern Japanese History, Japan, Japanese History - Meiji era, Medicine, Meiji Japan, Race, and Skin Color
Research Interests: History, Personality Psychology, Japanese Studies, Russian Studies, Anthropology, and 32 moreInternational Relations, Decision Making, International Studies, Political Psychology, Personality, Race and Racism, History of Science, History of Anthropology, Stereotypes, Japanese History, Stereotypes and Prejudice, National Identity, Absolutism, Racism, Body Image, Russian History, Modern Japanese History, Russo-Japanese War, Monarchy, Authoritarianism, Russia, Tsarist Empire, Russian Intellectual History, Tsar Nikolai II, Emperor Nicholas II, Images, Historical Psychology, Tsarist Regime, Skin Color, Physical Attractiveness, Russian Tsar, National Stereotypes, and Tsarist Russia
The notion of race, and notably the anxiety over the global hierarchy of the races alongside doubts about the capacity for survival of the Japanese ‘race’, were a matter of unprecedented concern in Meiji-era Japan. It was essentially a... more
The notion of race, and notably the anxiety over the global hierarchy of the races alongside doubts about the capacity for survival of the Japanese ‘race’, were a matter of unprecedented concern in Meiji-era Japan. It was essentially a mere chance that the forced opening of Japan and the subsequent process of modernization carried out according to the Western model coincided with the rise of scientific racism in the West. Nonetheless, Japan had had its share of rudimental racial worldviews much earlier, including a certain degree of ethnographic knowledge of the Other and an indigenous sense of xenophobia. This chapter seeks to examine the interaction between the domestic and foreign views of race in Japan during the Meiji era (1868–1912) and the way in which they amalgamated to form a national discourse surrounding self and the Other.
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This chapter examines the question of race in modern Japan and traces the development of indigenous strains of racism. It argues that race and racism have been powerful factors in the history of modern Japan, even if their impact varied... more
This chapter examines the question of race in modern Japan and traces the development of indigenous strains of racism. It argues that race and racism have been powerful factors in the history of modern Japan, even if their impact varied considerably at different times. Although Japan entered the modern era without a well-defined outlook on the question of race, in the late nineteenth century it was forcibly exposed to this question, and soon began to adopt certain aspects of it. As a concept, race held powerful appeal in Japan because it was associated with the West, modernization, and the quest for a greater national status. This appeal was double-edged as the Western race-based Weltanschauung caused considerable frustration, while stimulating endeavours for civilizational attainment and facilitating imperial expansion. Following World War II and the demise of the Japanese empire, the issue of race lost its earlier importance but its reverberations still linger today. As for racism, certain strains of it that had their origins in premodern Japan had remained dormant and undeveloped for centuries. After the opening of Japan, they developed rapidly once the concept of race was introduced and crucially when the unified state acquired a colonial empire of its own. Imperial Japan also had its own share of racist attitudes toward other groups, although this does not necessarily mean it developed a unique form of racism. After 1945 racism remained largely an internal issue directed against indigenous ethnic groups and immigrants.
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Research Interests: Ethnic Studies, Japanese Studies, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Identity (Culture), Race and Ethnicity, and 22 moreNationalism, East Asian Studies, Cultural Identity, Ethnic and Racial Studies, National Identity, Nationalism And State Building, Racism, Ethnic Identity, Language and Identity, Japanese Culture, Ethnicity, Racial and ethnic discrimination, History of Nationalism and Nation-Building, Japanese Sociocultural Studies, Japanese Society, Ethnicity and National Identity, Ethnic politics, Blood Type Studies, Nihonjinron, Ethnicity and Identity Politics, Japanese Nationalism, and Nationalism and Decolonization
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The Battle of Tsushima was fought between Japan and Russia in 1905 and has left a deep and indelible mark on both. The two belligerents have used different names for this naval clash, and have ascribed varying degrees of importance to it... more
The Battle of Tsushima was fought between Japan and Russia in 1905 and has left a deep and indelible mark on both. The two belligerents have used different names for this naval clash, and have ascribed varying degrees of importance to it through the years. After all, one of them won and the other lost. But in both, this largest naval engagement of the Russo–Japanese War is still debated, still devotedly commemorated, and still triggers pride or pain more than a century after it ended. At the same time, the Battle of Tsushima has exerted an unmistakable significance far beyond the realm of these two nations. Among other things, the strong echoes of this first modern naval victory of an Asian power over a major European power were heard across the entire colonial world and shocked its rulers. Likewise, from a naval perspective, this most devastating defeat suffered by the Imperial Russian Navy in its entire history was also the only decisive engagement between two battleship fleets in modern times.
On the eve of the battle, both sides believed that an engagement of their fleets would determine the final outcome of the war. A Russian victory could lead to Tsarist control of the seas around the Japanese home islands and to an immediate interruption of the flow of personnel and materials to the Asian mainland. This, in turn, might have allowed the Imperial Russian Army to crush the Japanese land forces in Manchuria and thus decide the war. A defeat, however, could end any Russian hope of altering the course of the war and possibly oblige the Russians to negotiate peace. And indeed, the Russian government’s hopes of reversing the military situation in East Asia were dashed in the battle’s aftermath. It was now compelled to enter into peace negotiations, which resulted in the Treaty of Portsmouth, signed just over three months later. In the subsequent years, the influence of this battle was commemorated and the symbolic victory of an “Eastern” power over Tsarist Russia using modern technology was celebrated in both the Western and Colonial Worlds. Similarly, and in both Japan and Russia, the Battle of Tsushima had a prolonged impact on the fates of these nations’ respective navies and on their ambitions, which lasted for at least four decades.
This is not the first attempt to tell the story of the battle. It has been told over and over again since 1905 in many languages and forms. However, these endeavours rarely relied on archival and primary sources associated with both belligerents alongside sources originating from contemporary neutral powers, let alone the vast repository of digital sources that are presently available to scholars. The present book seeks to provide a broad and balanced picture of the battle while employing an extensive and diverse array of sources. Moreover, it is the first scholarly account to evaluate the battle’s short- and long-term consequences in the political, social, and naval spheres, as well as the way it has been commemorated by the two nations involved. The main argument of this book is that the battle has exerted wide and lasting impact far beyond its immediate arena. It brought about the end of the Russo–Japanese War and affected dramatically the two belligerents’ geopolitical vision and naval outlook for decades. Likewise, its shock waves affected European affairs, American strategic plans, and the naval development during the decade before the First World War. For this profound impact, as well as for its scale and decisive results, the Battle of Tsushima deserves to be considered one of the greatest naval battles in history.
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REVIEWS
“It is often said that good things come in small packages, and in the case of Tsushima by Professor Rotem Kowner this is the literal truth… Not only does this excellent book provide a good treatment of the battle itself and the events which led up to it, but a great deal of consideration is also given to its long-term effect in naval, political, and cultural spheres… The author writes with an easy engaging style that gives this book a very broad appeal, achieving that delicate balance between clear explanation of events and historical factors that makes for a good introduction to a reader exploring the subject for the first time, while including enough detail to satisfy even demanding Tsushima aficionados. If this reviewer were to make a favourable comparison with another work, Kowner’s book does for Tsushima what H. P. Wilmott’s The Second World War in The Far East achieved for 1931–45 in Asia and the Pacific. Overall, this book is an excellent all-round treatment of the battle and its impact on world history and is strongly recommended to anyone with an interest in this subject.”
— Andrew Choong Han Lin, The Mariner's Mirror 109:1 (2023): 114-116
“Kowner provides essential insights into combat operations from the tactical to the strategic level. The detail, clarity, and accuracy of his analyses contribute to the field of military history and are a model for future academic pursuits. He provides validated sources to bring accuracy to the historical events. All of the author’s accounts are described in a compelling manner that is enticing to readers, regardless of their background."
— John C. Hanley, The Journal of Military History 87, no. 3 (2023): 795–797
“The story of the Battle of Tsushima … is a tale that has been told often, and usually at great length. This is not what Rotem Kowner is up to. What he offers here is one of the most analytical and balanced accounts of the Battle of Tsushima. … It provides a balanced account of the battle based on primary sources from both sides. It evaluates the short- and long-term consequences of the battle across a wide spectrum; and Kowner’s argument that ‘the battle has exerted wide and lasting impact far beyond its immediate arena … and dramatically affected the two belligerents’ geopolitical vision and naval outlook for decades’ (p. xiv) is convincing. Those interested in modern naval history owe themselves a quick read, at least.”
— Timothy C. Dowling, The Journal of Military History 87, no. 3 (2023): 797–799
“This book is very readable and informative and gives an excellent insight into how naval tactics changed and developed after the battle. A must-read for anyone interested I early-twentieth century naval warfare.”
— Chris May, Battlefield (Autumn, 2022): 30
ENDORSEMENTS
"A penetrating and comprehensive study of the most consequential naval battle fought between Trafalgar (1805) and Pearl Harbor (1941). Where Kowner's work shines brightest is his insightful analysis of this battle's military, political, and cultural legacy for both participants and the wider world. Tsushima is masterful."
— J. Charles Schencking, Professor of Japanese History, Hong Kong University, author of Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy
"Rotem Kowner's Tsushima constitutes a tour de force treatment of this epic battle and its multiple legacies. He establishes remote and immediate con- texts, provides accurate description and informed analysis, and delves deeply into aftermath."
— Bruce W. Menning, Professor of Strategy (ret.), U. S. Army Command and General Staff College, co-editor of The Russo-Japanese War In Global Perspective: World War Zero
"Rotem Kowner's Tsushima presents a comprehensive account of the Battle of Tsushima Strait in 1905. It skilfully describes how and why it occurred and ended with a decisive and one-sided victory by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Kowner, as a true historian, re-enacts the days of the big battleships and guns, and beckons us all to return to the seas again."
— Naoyuki Agawa, Professor of Constitutional Law, Doshisha University, Japan, author of Friendship Across the Seas: The US Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
"A book of remarkable originality, daring, and openness of mind. Professor Kowner presents a skilful account of Tsushima which for the first time equally embraces Japanese and Russian sides of the battle and its consequences."
— Dmitrii V. Likharev, Professor of History, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Background
The Battle
Japan’s Rise to Naval Prominence
Russia’s Shattered Naval Dream
Worldwide Reactions and Assessments
The Battle and Naval Development: Lessons Learned and Unlearned
Conclusions
On the eve of the battle, both sides believed that an engagement of their fleets would determine the final outcome of the war. A Russian victory could lead to Tsarist control of the seas around the Japanese home islands and to an immediate interruption of the flow of personnel and materials to the Asian mainland. This, in turn, might have allowed the Imperial Russian Army to crush the Japanese land forces in Manchuria and thus decide the war. A defeat, however, could end any Russian hope of altering the course of the war and possibly oblige the Russians to negotiate peace. And indeed, the Russian government’s hopes of reversing the military situation in East Asia were dashed in the battle’s aftermath. It was now compelled to enter into peace negotiations, which resulted in the Treaty of Portsmouth, signed just over three months later. In the subsequent years, the influence of this battle was commemorated and the symbolic victory of an “Eastern” power over Tsarist Russia using modern technology was celebrated in both the Western and Colonial Worlds. Similarly, and in both Japan and Russia, the Battle of Tsushima had a prolonged impact on the fates of these nations’ respective navies and on their ambitions, which lasted for at least four decades.
This is not the first attempt to tell the story of the battle. It has been told over and over again since 1905 in many languages and forms. However, these endeavours rarely relied on archival and primary sources associated with both belligerents alongside sources originating from contemporary neutral powers, let alone the vast repository of digital sources that are presently available to scholars. The present book seeks to provide a broad and balanced picture of the battle while employing an extensive and diverse array of sources. Moreover, it is the first scholarly account to evaluate the battle’s short- and long-term consequences in the political, social, and naval spheres, as well as the way it has been commemorated by the two nations involved. The main argument of this book is that the battle has exerted wide and lasting impact far beyond its immediate arena. It brought about the end of the Russo–Japanese War and affected dramatically the two belligerents’ geopolitical vision and naval outlook for decades. Likewise, its shock waves affected European affairs, American strategic plans, and the naval development during the decade before the First World War. For this profound impact, as well as for its scale and decisive results, the Battle of Tsushima deserves to be considered one of the greatest naval battles in history.
Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/tsushima-9780198831075?lang=en&cc=il
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B5HGRTHP/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0
Google Books: https://books.google.co.il/books?id=vZ91EAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=rotem+kowner&hl=iw&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=rotem%20kowner&f=false
REVIEWS
“It is often said that good things come in small packages, and in the case of Tsushima by Professor Rotem Kowner this is the literal truth… Not only does this excellent book provide a good treatment of the battle itself and the events which led up to it, but a great deal of consideration is also given to its long-term effect in naval, political, and cultural spheres… The author writes with an easy engaging style that gives this book a very broad appeal, achieving that delicate balance between clear explanation of events and historical factors that makes for a good introduction to a reader exploring the subject for the first time, while including enough detail to satisfy even demanding Tsushima aficionados. If this reviewer were to make a favourable comparison with another work, Kowner’s book does for Tsushima what H. P. Wilmott’s The Second World War in The Far East achieved for 1931–45 in Asia and the Pacific. Overall, this book is an excellent all-round treatment of the battle and its impact on world history and is strongly recommended to anyone with an interest in this subject.”
— Andrew Choong Han Lin, The Mariner's Mirror 109:1 (2023): 114-116
“Kowner provides essential insights into combat operations from the tactical to the strategic level. The detail, clarity, and accuracy of his analyses contribute to the field of military history and are a model for future academic pursuits. He provides validated sources to bring accuracy to the historical events. All of the author’s accounts are described in a compelling manner that is enticing to readers, regardless of their background."
— John C. Hanley, The Journal of Military History 87, no. 3 (2023): 795–797
“The story of the Battle of Tsushima … is a tale that has been told often, and usually at great length. This is not what Rotem Kowner is up to. What he offers here is one of the most analytical and balanced accounts of the Battle of Tsushima. … It provides a balanced account of the battle based on primary sources from both sides. It evaluates the short- and long-term consequences of the battle across a wide spectrum; and Kowner’s argument that ‘the battle has exerted wide and lasting impact far beyond its immediate arena … and dramatically affected the two belligerents’ geopolitical vision and naval outlook for decades’ (p. xiv) is convincing. Those interested in modern naval history owe themselves a quick read, at least.”
— Timothy C. Dowling, The Journal of Military History 87, no. 3 (2023): 797–799
“This book is very readable and informative and gives an excellent insight into how naval tactics changed and developed after the battle. A must-read for anyone interested I early-twentieth century naval warfare.”
— Chris May, Battlefield (Autumn, 2022): 30
ENDORSEMENTS
"A penetrating and comprehensive study of the most consequential naval battle fought between Trafalgar (1805) and Pearl Harbor (1941). Where Kowner's work shines brightest is his insightful analysis of this battle's military, political, and cultural legacy for both participants and the wider world. Tsushima is masterful."
— J. Charles Schencking, Professor of Japanese History, Hong Kong University, author of Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy
"Rotem Kowner's Tsushima constitutes a tour de force treatment of this epic battle and its multiple legacies. He establishes remote and immediate con- texts, provides accurate description and informed analysis, and delves deeply into aftermath."
— Bruce W. Menning, Professor of Strategy (ret.), U. S. Army Command and General Staff College, co-editor of The Russo-Japanese War In Global Perspective: World War Zero
"Rotem Kowner's Tsushima presents a comprehensive account of the Battle of Tsushima Strait in 1905. It skilfully describes how and why it occurred and ended with a decisive and one-sided victory by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Kowner, as a true historian, re-enacts the days of the big battleships and guns, and beckons us all to return to the seas again."
— Naoyuki Agawa, Professor of Constitutional Law, Doshisha University, Japan, author of Friendship Across the Seas: The US Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
"A book of remarkable originality, daring, and openness of mind. Professor Kowner presents a skilful account of Tsushima which for the first time equally embraces Japanese and Russian sides of the battle and its consequences."
— Dmitrii V. Likharev, Professor of History, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Background
The Battle
Japan’s Rise to Naval Prominence
Russia’s Shattered Naval Dream
Worldwide Reactions and Assessments
The Battle and Naval Development: Lessons Learned and Unlearned
Conclusions
Research Interests: History, Military History, Japanese Studies, Russian Studies, Strategy (Military Science), and 12 moreNaval Tactics (Military Science), International Relations, Naval Warfare, Naval History, Japanese History, First World War, Russian History, Modern Japanese History, Russo-Japanese War, Military and Politics, Russia, and Tsushima
This book is the first endeavor devoted solely to providing a broad comprehensive assessment of the international impact of the war. From a centennial perspective, It is evident how far reaching and pervasive have been the ramifications... more
This book is the first endeavor devoted solely to providing a broad comprehensive assessment of the international impact of the war. From a centennial perspective, It is evident how far reaching and pervasive have been the ramifications of the Russo-Japanese War. Some of its repercussions lasted only a decade, as in the case of the European balance of power, although they led indirectly to the outbreak of a still more pivotal event — World War I. Other repercussions of the war lasted four decades, as in the case of the continental grip of the Japanese empire; whereas some resonate even now, as in the case of the divided Korean peninsula.
REVIEWS
“There has been a flood of books dealing with the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 published since the centenary. The distinctive feature of the book edited by Professor Kowner is that is deals with the impact the war had on Japan and Russia and on practically all the countries worldwide. … It is not possible to make individual comments on the many insights in the book except for one general observation …. War and navies are still with us; and [this volume] covering the first half of the twentieth century still have much relevance.”
— Ian Nish, Japan Society: Japan-UK Review 2 (2007), 5.
“[The book] proceeds to emphasize the war’s world-wide implications and impact, foreshadowing in many ways the “great” one that would follow in less than ten years. The focus of the book is on the impact of the war on subsequent military strategy and tactics and on political, social, and economic affairs in various world areas. … The scholarship is on the whole of a very high level, and the editor kept most of the contributions focused and brief. There is little overlap and the editing is excellent ...”
— Saul E. Norman, The Russian Review 67 (2008), 137-138.
“Two related things distinguish this conference volume: its specific attempt to assess the repercussions of the conflict and the span of the papers presented. … the book as a whole does make a useful attempt to come to grips with the war’s complicated effects. … What is fresh in this book is a real sense of how far afield the repercussions of the conflict were felt and of the extent to which it was enmeshed with the major global trends of the time. … [T]his book provides a good foundation for further inquiry into the significance of the Russo- Japanese War.”
— Sandra Wilson, The Journal of Japanese Studies 34 (2008), 513.
“The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War asks, and answers, the question, "Why, more than a century after its end, should we care about the Russo-Japanese War?" … All of the essays are thought-provoking, and some break new ground, notably the war’s effect the rise of Asian nationalism, and the rise of Japanese-American rivalry… A volume in the Routledge series, “Studies in the Modern History of Asia,” The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War is a valuable read for anyone with an interest in the era of the First World War or the history of East Asia.”
— A.A. Nofi, Strategy Page (2009) The NYMAS Review, The New York Military Affairs Symposium
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Between a colonial clash and World War Zero : The impact of the Russo-Japanese War in a global perspective / Rotem Kowner
2. The war as a turning point in modern Japanese history / Rotem Kowner
3. If Japan had lost the war ... / Peter Duus
4. The war and the fate of the tsarist autocracy / Jonathan Frankel
5. From enemies to allies : the war and Russo-Japanese relations / Peter Berton
6. The fragmenting of the old world order : Britain, the Great Powers, and the war / T.G. Otte
7. Germany, the Russo-Japanese War and the road to the Great War / Matthew S. Seligman
8. The impact of the war on the French political scene / Patrick Beillevaire
9. America's first cold war : the emergence of a new rivalry / Tal Tovy and Sharon Halevi
10. White Mongols? : the war and American discourses on race and religion / Joseph M. Henning
11. The impact of the war on China / Harold Z. Schiffrin
12. On the confluence of history and memory : the significance of the war for Korea / Guy Podoler and Michael Robinson
13. Ironies of history : the war and the origins of East Asian radicalism / Yitzhak Shichor
14. Tokyo as a shared Mecca of modernity : war echoes in the colonial Malay world / Michael Laffan
15. India and the war / T.R. Sareen
16. A model not to follow : the European armies and the lessons of the war / Yigal Sheffy
17. The impact of the war on naval warfare / Rotem Kowner
18. The road to Jutland? : the war and the Imperial German Navy / Cord Eberspaecher
REVIEWS
“There has been a flood of books dealing with the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 published since the centenary. The distinctive feature of the book edited by Professor Kowner is that is deals with the impact the war had on Japan and Russia and on practically all the countries worldwide. … It is not possible to make individual comments on the many insights in the book except for one general observation …. War and navies are still with us; and [this volume] covering the first half of the twentieth century still have much relevance.”
— Ian Nish, Japan Society: Japan-UK Review 2 (2007), 5.
“[The book] proceeds to emphasize the war’s world-wide implications and impact, foreshadowing in many ways the “great” one that would follow in less than ten years. The focus of the book is on the impact of the war on subsequent military strategy and tactics and on political, social, and economic affairs in various world areas. … The scholarship is on the whole of a very high level, and the editor kept most of the contributions focused and brief. There is little overlap and the editing is excellent ...”
— Saul E. Norman, The Russian Review 67 (2008), 137-138.
“Two related things distinguish this conference volume: its specific attempt to assess the repercussions of the conflict and the span of the papers presented. … the book as a whole does make a useful attempt to come to grips with the war’s complicated effects. … What is fresh in this book is a real sense of how far afield the repercussions of the conflict were felt and of the extent to which it was enmeshed with the major global trends of the time. … [T]his book provides a good foundation for further inquiry into the significance of the Russo- Japanese War.”
— Sandra Wilson, The Journal of Japanese Studies 34 (2008), 513.
“The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War asks, and answers, the question, "Why, more than a century after its end, should we care about the Russo-Japanese War?" … All of the essays are thought-provoking, and some break new ground, notably the war’s effect the rise of Asian nationalism, and the rise of Japanese-American rivalry… A volume in the Routledge series, “Studies in the Modern History of Asia,” The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War is a valuable read for anyone with an interest in the era of the First World War or the history of East Asia.”
— A.A. Nofi, Strategy Page (2009) The NYMAS Review, The New York Military Affairs Symposium
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Between a colonial clash and World War Zero : The impact of the Russo-Japanese War in a global perspective / Rotem Kowner
2. The war as a turning point in modern Japanese history / Rotem Kowner
3. If Japan had lost the war ... / Peter Duus
4. The war and the fate of the tsarist autocracy / Jonathan Frankel
5. From enemies to allies : the war and Russo-Japanese relations / Peter Berton
6. The fragmenting of the old world order : Britain, the Great Powers, and the war / T.G. Otte
7. Germany, the Russo-Japanese War and the road to the Great War / Matthew S. Seligman
8. The impact of the war on the French political scene / Patrick Beillevaire
9. America's first cold war : the emergence of a new rivalry / Tal Tovy and Sharon Halevi
10. White Mongols? : the war and American discourses on race and religion / Joseph M. Henning
11. The impact of the war on China / Harold Z. Schiffrin
12. On the confluence of history and memory : the significance of the war for Korea / Guy Podoler and Michael Robinson
13. Ironies of history : the war and the origins of East Asian radicalism / Yitzhak Shichor
14. Tokyo as a shared Mecca of modernity : war echoes in the colonial Malay world / Michael Laffan
15. India and the war / T.R. Sareen
16. A model not to follow : the European armies and the lessons of the war / Yigal Sheffy
17. The impact of the war on naval warfare / Rotem Kowner
18. The road to Jutland? : the war and the Imperial German Navy / Cord Eberspaecher
Research Interests: History, European History, History of Science and Technology, Military History, German Studies, and 34 moreJapanese Studies, Russian Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, French History, German History, Indonesian History, British History, Indian studies, History of Technology, Korean Studies, Naval History, Indonesian Studies, World History, Colonialism, Southeast Asia, Modern British History, Global History, Modern Chinese History, World War I, British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - ), First World War, Russian History, Korean History, Modern Japanese History, History of Imperialism, Russo-Japanese War, China studies, Chinese history (History), Imperialism, Russo-Japanese relations 19th/20th century, Indian History, History of Colonialism, Modern Korean History, and Imperial German Navy
Despite the growing number of publications on the Russo-Japanese War, an abundance of questions and issues related to this topic remain unsolved, or call for a reexamination. This 30-chapter volume, the first in the two-volume project... more
Despite the growing number of publications on the Russo-Japanese War, an abundance of questions and issues related to this topic remain unsolved, or call for a reexamination. This 30-chapter volume, the first in the two-volume project Rethinking the Russo-Japanese War, provides a comprehensive reexamination of the origins of the conflict, the various dimensions of the nineteen-month conflagration, the legacy of the war, and its place in the history of the twentieth century. Such an enterprise is not only timely but unique. It has benefited from a multinational team of thirty-two scholars from twelve nations representing a broad disciplinary background. The majority of them focus on topics never researched before and without exception provide a novel and critical view of the war. This reexamination is, of course, facilitated by a century-long perspective as well as an impressive assortment of primary and secondary sources, many of them unexplored and, in a number of cases, unavailable earlier.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; List of Maps, Tables, Figures; List of Illustrations; Conventions; Introduction; 1 The Memory and Significance of the Russo-Japanese War from a Centennial Perspective; PART I: ORIGINS; I. Geopolitical, Economic, and Intellectual Background; 2 Guarding the Gates of Our East Asia: Japanese Reactions to the Far Eastern Crisis (1897–98) as a Prelude to the War; 3 An Invitation to the Aquarium: Sergei Witte and the Origins of Russia’s War with Japan; 4 “The Unknown Enemy”: The Siberian Frontier and the Russo-Japanese Rivalry, 1890s–1920s; PART II: THE WAR; II. The Military Dimension; 5 The Clash of Two Continental Empires: The Land War Reconsidered; 6. The Secret Factor: Japanese Network of Intelligence gathering on Russia during the War; 7 Chaos versus Cruelty: Sakhalin as a Secondary Theater of Operations; III. The Economic Dimension; 8 The War and the Perception of Japan by British Investors; 9 Realpolitik or Jewish Solidarity? Jacob Schiff’s Financial Support for Japan Revisited; 10 The War, Military Expenditures and Postbellum Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Japan; IV. The Cultural Dimension; 11 The Widow’s Tears and the Soldier’s Dream: Gender and Japanese Wartime Visual Culture; 12 School Songs, the War and Nationalist Indoctrination in Japan; 13 Forgotten Heroes: Russian Women in the War; 14 The Dress Rehearsal? Russian Realism and Modernism through War and Revolution; 15 The Scepter of the Far East and the Crown of the Third Rome: The War in the Mirror of Russian Poetry; ; PART III: REACTIONS AND POSTWAR REPERCUSSIONS; V. The Belligerents: Consequences in Japan and Russia; 16 The Impact of the War on the Constitutional Government in Japan; 17 The Legacy of the War and the World of Islam in Japanese Pan-Asian Discourse: Wakabayashi Han’s Kaikyo Sekai to Nihon ; 18 Soldiers’ Unrest Behind the Front after the End of the War; 19 Imperial Russian War Planning for the Eurasian Space and the Impact of the War; VI. Divided Onlookers: Europe and the War; 20 The War and British Strategic Foreign Policy; 21 British War Correspondents and the War; 22 Participant Observation: Germany, the War, and the Road to a European Clash; 23 Perceptions of Russia in German Military Leadership during the War; 24 A Different View: The War in Austro-Hungarian Political Cartoons; 25 A Reinterpretation of the Ottoman Neutrality during the War; 26 The Jewish Response to the War; VII. Rude Awakening? Asia and the Colonial World; 27 Russo-Japanese Negotiations and the Japanese Annexation of Korea; 28 Japan’s Victory in Philippine, Vietnamese, and Burmese Perspectives; 29 The War and the British Invasion of Tibet, 1904; 30 Distant Echoes: The Reflection of the War in the Middle East; Bibliography; Index
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; List of Maps, Tables, Figures; List of Illustrations; Conventions; Introduction; 1 The Memory and Significance of the Russo-Japanese War from a Centennial Perspective; PART I: ORIGINS; I. Geopolitical, Economic, and Intellectual Background; 2 Guarding the Gates of Our East Asia: Japanese Reactions to the Far Eastern Crisis (1897–98) as a Prelude to the War; 3 An Invitation to the Aquarium: Sergei Witte and the Origins of Russia’s War with Japan; 4 “The Unknown Enemy”: The Siberian Frontier and the Russo-Japanese Rivalry, 1890s–1920s; PART II: THE WAR; II. The Military Dimension; 5 The Clash of Two Continental Empires: The Land War Reconsidered; 6. The Secret Factor: Japanese Network of Intelligence gathering on Russia during the War; 7 Chaos versus Cruelty: Sakhalin as a Secondary Theater of Operations; III. The Economic Dimension; 8 The War and the Perception of Japan by British Investors; 9 Realpolitik or Jewish Solidarity? Jacob Schiff’s Financial Support for Japan Revisited; 10 The War, Military Expenditures and Postbellum Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Japan; IV. The Cultural Dimension; 11 The Widow’s Tears and the Soldier’s Dream: Gender and Japanese Wartime Visual Culture; 12 School Songs, the War and Nationalist Indoctrination in Japan; 13 Forgotten Heroes: Russian Women in the War; 14 The Dress Rehearsal? Russian Realism and Modernism through War and Revolution; 15 The Scepter of the Far East and the Crown of the Third Rome: The War in the Mirror of Russian Poetry; ; PART III: REACTIONS AND POSTWAR REPERCUSSIONS; V. The Belligerents: Consequences in Japan and Russia; 16 The Impact of the War on the Constitutional Government in Japan; 17 The Legacy of the War and the World of Islam in Japanese Pan-Asian Discourse: Wakabayashi Han’s Kaikyo Sekai to Nihon ; 18 Soldiers’ Unrest Behind the Front after the End of the War; 19 Imperial Russian War Planning for the Eurasian Space and the Impact of the War; VI. Divided Onlookers: Europe and the War; 20 The War and British Strategic Foreign Policy; 21 British War Correspondents and the War; 22 Participant Observation: Germany, the War, and the Road to a European Clash; 23 Perceptions of Russia in German Military Leadership during the War; 24 A Different View: The War in Austro-Hungarian Political Cartoons; 25 A Reinterpretation of the Ottoman Neutrality during the War; 26 The Jewish Response to the War; VII. Rude Awakening? Asia and the Colonial World; 27 Russo-Japanese Negotiations and the Japanese Annexation of Korea; 28 Japan’s Victory in Philippine, Vietnamese, and Burmese Perspectives; 29 The War and the British Invasion of Tibet, 1904; 30 Distant Echoes: The Reflection of the War in the Middle East; Bibliography; Index
Research Interests: History, Military History, Diplomatic History, Japanese Studies, Russian Studies, and 26 moreInternational Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, German History, British History, Tibetan Studies, War Studies, Naval History, East Asia, Japanese History, World History, Modern and Contemporary Japan, Asian History, East Asian Studies, Global History, Conflict Resolution, Modern Chinese History, First World War, Russian History, Korean History, Modern Japanese History, Russo-Japanese War, Peace Studies, Chinese history (History), East Asian History, Images, and Sino-Japanese relations
This second edition of the Historical Dictionary/Lexicon of the Russo-Japanese War offers a major revision of the highly praised first edition, which, by all accounts, has been the standard work on this conflict in any language during the... more
This second edition of the Historical Dictionary/Lexicon of the Russo-Japanese War offers a major revision of the highly praised first edition, which, by all accounts, has been the standard work on this conflict in any language during the last decade. The book contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. Moreover, the dictionary section has more than 800 new or fully revised cross-referenced entries on the battles, weaponry, and major personalities of the war, as well as various international events and conflicts, agreements, schemes, and projects that led to the war. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Russo-Japanese War.
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It has been a decade since the publication of the first edition of this book. At the time it was published, shortly after the centennial of the Russo-Japanese War, there was much interest in the war and its impact--an almost a rediscovery of this event. Timing, however, was not the only reason for the significance of the first edition. The dearth of scholarly literature on the war, let alone well-referenced and systematic monographs, meant that even basic facts about the war were missing at the time.To fill in this lacuna, a book in the form of a lexicon was much in need. No wonder, then, that the first edition became an instant tool for scholars and lay history buffs alike, providing not only the basic facts about the war, such as the personalities that took part in it and weapons they used alongside a detailed description of each campaign, but also a novel view of various related topics deriving from the conflict. The place where the impact and contribution of the first edition have been most evident is the Internet whose spectacular book in the past decade does not require elaboration. Within this medium, Wikipedia has become a nature consumer of the wealth of information this book provides and the coherent organization it offers. In fact, at present there are several hundreds of entries in Wikipedia's English version alone that refer to this book and rely on its content. Likewise, there are probably several thousands additional entries in other languages that rely directly on the book or on the entries found in the English Wikipedia.
The second edition has emanated from a decade of intensive writing and cutting-edge scholarship on the Russo-Japanese War. Tens of new books and hundreds of articles that have been published in recent years shed new light on the conflict, its origins and consequences. As such, this second edition offers not only a sweeping revision of every single entry that appeared in the first edition, but also more than 200 completely new entries. For these reasons, the present edition can be regarded as an entirely new book, that, by all likelihood, will remain the standard reference source on the Russo-Japanese War for many years to come.
REVIEWS
The author, the world's leading authority on the subject, contributed all the entries, rewriting every one of the original 600 in the first edition and adding more than 200 new ones for this edition. The essays range from 200 to 2000 words. With its equally impressive data in the appendixes, no question exists that this is a monumental accomplishment.
— American Reference Books Annual (2017)
This revised and expanded edition of a volume originally published in 2006 deals not only with the Russo-Japanese War itself but also strives--successfully--to put it into the broader context of 20th-century political, military, and diplomatic history. Kowner, who coauthored with Walter Demel Race and Racism in Modern East Asia, added around 200 new entries to the 600 from the first edition. The volume includes an introductory essay on the war along with a chronology, a number of appendixes, and an extensive, invaluable bibliography; most of these features appear to have been updated....[T]his is an indispensable resource on the subject, and libraries owning the first edition will want this new one, particularly those whose collections support research in Russian and East Asian studies, military history, and maritime studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended.
— CHOICE (2017)
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It has been a decade since the publication of the first edition of this book. At the time it was published, shortly after the centennial of the Russo-Japanese War, there was much interest in the war and its impact--an almost a rediscovery of this event. Timing, however, was not the only reason for the significance of the first edition. The dearth of scholarly literature on the war, let alone well-referenced and systematic monographs, meant that even basic facts about the war were missing at the time.To fill in this lacuna, a book in the form of a lexicon was much in need. No wonder, then, that the first edition became an instant tool for scholars and lay history buffs alike, providing not only the basic facts about the war, such as the personalities that took part in it and weapons they used alongside a detailed description of each campaign, but also a novel view of various related topics deriving from the conflict. The place where the impact and contribution of the first edition have been most evident is the Internet whose spectacular book in the past decade does not require elaboration. Within this medium, Wikipedia has become a nature consumer of the wealth of information this book provides and the coherent organization it offers. In fact, at present there are several hundreds of entries in Wikipedia's English version alone that refer to this book and rely on its content. Likewise, there are probably several thousands additional entries in other languages that rely directly on the book or on the entries found in the English Wikipedia.
The second edition has emanated from a decade of intensive writing and cutting-edge scholarship on the Russo-Japanese War. Tens of new books and hundreds of articles that have been published in recent years shed new light on the conflict, its origins and consequences. As such, this second edition offers not only a sweeping revision of every single entry that appeared in the first edition, but also more than 200 completely new entries. For these reasons, the present edition can be regarded as an entirely new book, that, by all likelihood, will remain the standard reference source on the Russo-Japanese War for many years to come.
REVIEWS
The author, the world's leading authority on the subject, contributed all the entries, rewriting every one of the original 600 in the first edition and adding more than 200 new ones for this edition. The essays range from 200 to 2000 words. With its equally impressive data in the appendixes, no question exists that this is a monumental accomplishment.
— American Reference Books Annual (2017)
This revised and expanded edition of a volume originally published in 2006 deals not only with the Russo-Japanese War itself but also strives--successfully--to put it into the broader context of 20th-century political, military, and diplomatic history. Kowner, who coauthored with Walter Demel Race and Racism in Modern East Asia, added around 200 new entries to the 600 from the first edition. The volume includes an introductory essay on the war along with a chronology, a number of appendixes, and an extensive, invaluable bibliography; most of these features appear to have been updated....[T]his is an indispensable resource on the subject, and libraries owning the first edition will want this new one, particularly those whose collections support research in Russian and East Asian studies, military history, and maritime studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended.
— CHOICE (2017)
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Research Interests: History, Military History, Diplomatic History, Japanese Studies, Russian Studies, and 29 moreMilitary Science, Military Intelligence, Strategy (Military Science), International Relations, International Studies, Chinese Studies, War Studies, Korean Studies, Naval History, East Asia, Japanese History, World History, Russian Foreign Policy, East Asian Studies, Prisoners of War, Global History, World War I, First World War, Russian History, 20th century (History), Korean History, Russo-Japanese War, Russian Revolution, Military and Politics, 20th Century, Chinese history (History), East Asian History, Russian Revolution 1905, and History of Montenegro
Every war leaves an imprint in history, but few have had such a pervasive impact in so many respects as the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. Politically, it fatally weakened the Russian Empire while allowing Japan to follow more dangerous... more
Every war leaves an imprint in history, but few have had such a pervasive impact in so many respects as the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. Politically, it fatally weakened the Russian Empire while allowing Japan to follow more dangerous paths. Diplomatically, it shook the power balance in Europe and reshaped it in the form of two coalitions, leading to World War I. With regard to the art of warfare, it emphasized the use of trench warfare and machine guns on land and the deployment of battleships and the use of torpedoes at sea.
Yet, despite its importance at the time, it has become very much a forgotten war. The A to Z of the Russo-Japanese War provides considerable breadth and depth of coverage based on Japanese, Russian, and Western sources. The breadth is accomplished through a wide-ranging introduction, a detailed chronology and an extensive bibliography. The depth comes in the hundreds of entries on military and political leaders, major battles and lesser encounters, tactics and strategy as well as the weaponry and of course the causes and consequences. The result is the first major reference work on the Russo-Japanese War in English and the largest in any language.
REVIEWS
The centrality of the 1905 Russo-Japanese war in modern history, believes Jowner, is still not sufficiently recognized. He aims to correct that problem with this historical dictionary, which not only covers the battles, weaponry, and personalities of the war, but also the international events and conflicts, agreements, schemes, and projects that led to the war, as well as the political, social, and military consequences of the conflict in the years leading up to World War I and occasionally beyond.
— Reference and Research Book News, November 2009
The war history volumes of the "A to Z" series will prove useful references for both amateur and professional historians, and would make a valuable addition to any library, particularly as they cost less than other similar, often less comprehensive historical dictionaries.
— Strategy Page
Yet, despite its importance at the time, it has become very much a forgotten war. The A to Z of the Russo-Japanese War provides considerable breadth and depth of coverage based on Japanese, Russian, and Western sources. The breadth is accomplished through a wide-ranging introduction, a detailed chronology and an extensive bibliography. The depth comes in the hundreds of entries on military and political leaders, major battles and lesser encounters, tactics and strategy as well as the weaponry and of course the causes and consequences. The result is the first major reference work on the Russo-Japanese War in English and the largest in any language.
REVIEWS
The centrality of the 1905 Russo-Japanese war in modern history, believes Jowner, is still not sufficiently recognized. He aims to correct that problem with this historical dictionary, which not only covers the battles, weaponry, and personalities of the war, but also the international events and conflicts, agreements, schemes, and projects that led to the war, as well as the political, social, and military consequences of the conflict in the years leading up to World War I and occasionally beyond.
— Reference and Research Book News, November 2009
The war history volumes of the "A to Z" series will prove useful references for both amateur and professional historians, and would make a valuable addition to any library, particularly as they cost less than other similar, often less comprehensive historical dictionaries.
— Strategy Page
Research Interests:
Every war leaves an imprint in history, but few have had such a pervasive impact in so many respects as the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. Politically, it fatally weakened the Russian Empire while allowing Japan to follow more dangerous... more
Every war leaves an imprint in history, but few have had such a pervasive impact in so many respects as the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. Politically, it fatally weakened the Russian Empire while allowing Japan to follow more dangerous paths. Diplomatically, it shook the power balance in Europe and reshaped it in the form of two coalitions, leading to World War I. With regard to the art of warfare, it emphasized the use of trench warfare and machine guns on land and the deployment of battleships and the use of torpedoes at sea.
Yet, despite its importance at the time, it has become very much a forgotten war. So now, about a century after it took place, is a very appropriate time to remind us with a Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War that provides considerable breadth and depth of coverage based on Japanese, Russian and Western sources. The breadth is accomplished through a wide-ranging introduction, a detailed chronology and an extensive bibliography. The depth comes in the hundreds of entries on military and political leaders, major battles and lesser encounters, tactics and strategy as well as the weaponry and of course the causes and consequences. The result is the first major reference work on the Russo-Japanese War in English and the largest in any language.
REVIEWS
“… as a standard reference, Kowner’s dictionary does an admirable job of providing readers with balanced readable reference work on the Russo-Japanese War.”
John W. Steinberg, Journal of Military History 70 (2006), 1149.
“… Kowner provides what must be the most thorough reference account of the Russo-Japanese War produced in the English language. … The Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War will be the reference source of choice for any library where the conflict is the subject of study or research. It also belongs in libraries specializing in military history or East Asian or Russian/Slavic studies.”
Tony Chalcraft, Reference Reviews 20, no. 7 (2006), 52.
“An effort is made to cover the historical significance of the war in terms of both the causes and effects. Not only people, battleships, weapons, and events, but also special topics such as “prisoners of war,” “propaganda,” “military intelligence, and “medical treatment” are found among the entries. Recommended for college and research libraries.”
Junko Stuveras, College and Research Libraries 67 (2006), 474.
“One of the great merits of this book is the editor’s ability to extract and define these current [that will profoundly impact later events], which suddenly places the war in a new, more meaningful context. … The Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War will be an indispensable addition to libraries of colleges, universities, and communities seeking to expand their titles in military history. It is especially important because, as noted above, the work is the first such reference volume in English.”
John B. Romeiser, ARBA (2007), 271.
“Kowner has worked prodigiously over the past decade to mark the conflict’s centenary by organizing an international conference, writing a 600-page history and several articles, as well as editing two volumes on the topic, and he is therefore well suited to the task. … Kowner’s dictionary provides balanced and accurate coverage. He is also careful to point out questions that remain contentious among historians. … It is also unfortunate that the dictionary was unavailable 15 years ago, when I began my own research on the topic. It would have saved me a lot of work.”
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Journal of Slavic Military Studies 20 (2007), 775-776.
“Among the [fourteen] works reviewed, R. Kowner's Dictionary treats the events of 1904-05 most extensively. Based on Western, Russian and Japanese sources, the author approaches the topic very widely. … Such an extensive work from the pen of a single author, even if this could be based on the advice of numerous colleagues, is an almost a superhuman accomplishment.”
Gerhard Krebs, Nachrichten der Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens/Hamburg (OAG) 183-184 (2008), 193.
Yet, despite its importance at the time, it has become very much a forgotten war. So now, about a century after it took place, is a very appropriate time to remind us with a Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War that provides considerable breadth and depth of coverage based on Japanese, Russian and Western sources. The breadth is accomplished through a wide-ranging introduction, a detailed chronology and an extensive bibliography. The depth comes in the hundreds of entries on military and political leaders, major battles and lesser encounters, tactics and strategy as well as the weaponry and of course the causes and consequences. The result is the first major reference work on the Russo-Japanese War in English and the largest in any language.
REVIEWS
“… as a standard reference, Kowner’s dictionary does an admirable job of providing readers with balanced readable reference work on the Russo-Japanese War.”
John W. Steinberg, Journal of Military History 70 (2006), 1149.
“… Kowner provides what must be the most thorough reference account of the Russo-Japanese War produced in the English language. … The Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War will be the reference source of choice for any library where the conflict is the subject of study or research. It also belongs in libraries specializing in military history or East Asian or Russian/Slavic studies.”
Tony Chalcraft, Reference Reviews 20, no. 7 (2006), 52.
“An effort is made to cover the historical significance of the war in terms of both the causes and effects. Not only people, battleships, weapons, and events, but also special topics such as “prisoners of war,” “propaganda,” “military intelligence, and “medical treatment” are found among the entries. Recommended for college and research libraries.”
Junko Stuveras, College and Research Libraries 67 (2006), 474.
“One of the great merits of this book is the editor’s ability to extract and define these current [that will profoundly impact later events], which suddenly places the war in a new, more meaningful context. … The Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War will be an indispensable addition to libraries of colleges, universities, and communities seeking to expand their titles in military history. It is especially important because, as noted above, the work is the first such reference volume in English.”
John B. Romeiser, ARBA (2007), 271.
“Kowner has worked prodigiously over the past decade to mark the conflict’s centenary by organizing an international conference, writing a 600-page history and several articles, as well as editing two volumes on the topic, and he is therefore well suited to the task. … Kowner’s dictionary provides balanced and accurate coverage. He is also careful to point out questions that remain contentious among historians. … It is also unfortunate that the dictionary was unavailable 15 years ago, when I began my own research on the topic. It would have saved me a lot of work.”
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Journal of Slavic Military Studies 20 (2007), 775-776.
“Among the [fourteen] works reviewed, R. Kowner's Dictionary treats the events of 1904-05 most extensively. Based on Western, Russian and Japanese sources, the author approaches the topic very widely. … Such an extensive work from the pen of a single author, even if this could be based on the advice of numerous colleagues, is an almost a superhuman accomplishment.”
Gerhard Krebs, Nachrichten der Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens/Hamburg (OAG) 183-184 (2008), 193.
Research Interests: History, Military History, Japanese Studies, Russian Studies, Military Intelligence, and 15 moreStrategy (Military Science), War Studies, Naval History, Japanese History, World History, East Asian Studies, Global History, First World War, Russian History, Korean History, Modern Japanese History, Russo-Japanese War, Chinese history (History), Military, and East Asian History
With expert scholars and great sensitivity, Out of Line, Out of Place illuminates and analyzes how the proliferation of internment camps emerged as a biopolitical tool of governance. Although the internment camp developed as a technology... more
With expert scholars and great sensitivity, Out of Line, Out of Place illuminates and analyzes how the proliferation of internment camps emerged as a biopolitical tool of governance. Although the internment camp developed as a technology of containment, control, and punishment in the latter part of the nineteenth century mainly in colonial settings, it became universal and global during the Great War.
Mass internment has long been recognized as a defining experience of World War II, but it was a fundamental experience of World War I as well.
More than eight million soldiers became prisoners of war, more than a million civilians became internees, and several millions more were displaced from their homes, with many placed in securitized refugee camps. For the first time, Out of Line, Out of Place brings these different camps together in conversation. Rotem Kowner and Iris Rachamimov emphasize that although there were differences among camps and varied logic of internment in individual countries, there were also striking similarities in how camps operated during the Great War.
LINKS
Cornell University Press: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501765902/out-of-line-out-of-place/#bookTabs=1
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Out-Line-Place-History-Internments/dp/1501765906/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
CONTENTS
Introduction: Military, Civilian, and Political Internments: Examining Great War Internments Together, by Iris Rachamimov and Rotem Kowner
Part I: Internments in Europe
1. (Dis)entangling the Local, the National, and the International: Civilian Internment in Germany and in German-Occupied France and Belgium in Global Context, by Matthew Stibbe
2. The Captives of the Kaiser: Schutzhaft and Political Prisoners in Germany, by André Keil
3. Securitized Protection: Health Work in Wartime Austria-Hungary and the Making of Refugee Camps, by Doina Anca Cretu
4. Alexandra Palace: A Concentration Camp in the Heart of London, by Assaf Mond
5. Prisoner-of-War Civilian Experience: The Role of Profession among POWs, by Lena Radauer
6. The Face and Race of the Enemy: German POW Photographs as a Weapon of War, by Nancy Fitch
Part II: Internments Beyond Europe
7. "Enemies of Our Country": Internment in Canada's Rocky Mountains National Park, 1915–1917, by Bohdan S. Kordan
8. Globalizing Captivity: "Little Germany in China", by Naoko Shimazu
9. German Propaganda and the African and Asian Theaters of the War, by Mahon Murphy
Part III: Interwar Repurcussions and Beyond
10. Internment after the War's End: "Humanitarian Camps" in the POW Repatriation Process, 1918–1923, by Hazuki Tate
11. POWs, Civilians, and the Postwar Development of International Humanitarian Law, by Neville Wylie and Sarina Landefeld
Conclusion: World War I and Its Internments: Final Remarks, by Iris Rachamimov and Rotem Kowner
REVIEWS
"This volume changes the picture on the significance of this internment history in several respects. First, internment should be considered one of the core dimensions of the First World War experience, alongside such experiences as trench warfare on the Western Front, and as such calls for examination both on a global and the local level. Clearing up prevailing misconceptions about the rigidity of distinctions between military prisoners of war (POW) and civilian internees, the authors emphasise the fluidity in the use of these terms by camp administrators and internees alike. The authors also provide a helpful overview of the sheer range of social categories of civilians interned by different regimes … This is a landmark study in the field, and a book which will be indispensable for the teaching of the First World War.”
— Dina Gusejnova, First World War Studies (2023)
"Rotem Kowner and Iris Rachamimov emphasize the blurring of boundaries between the classic types of internment and the global system of camps first introduced during the First World War, as well as their exemplary effect in the decades after 1918. … This attractively illustrated volume does justice to its aim to draw a nuanced picture of well-known processes and, on the other hand, to shed light on topics and regions that have received little attention to date.”
— Martin Moll, Militaergeschichtliche Zeitschrift 82, no 2 (2023): 493–6
"This collective work presents the results of an international research project on the issue of prisoners of war (POWs), interned enemy civilians (IECs), and 'suspicious' citizens imprisoned during the First World War. … In their introduction, Rotem Kowner and Iris Rachamimov point out that between 1914 and 1920, captivity and internment assumed massive proportions: over eight million POWs, one to two million IECs, and tens of thousands of suspect nationals were living in camps, alongside millions of displaced persons. … We commend the excellent coordination and synthesis work carried out, acknowledging that it could not be exhaustive on such a broad subject.”
— Jean-Noël Grandhomme, Francia Recensio (July, 2023)
"This book has great merit. It compares various case studies in Europe and beyond and, thus, offers a broad picture of internment operations. Such a wide-ranging approach presents the multiple categories of individuals interned, including combatants, enemy aliens, and political prisoners; widespread camp locations; and connections among state practices. The reflections that chapters propose on the global character r of this wartime phenomena also helps foster an understanding of the First World War beyond the battlefield and beyond the period of 1914–18. … These essays will encourage other researchers to pursue work in this direction as many questions remain opened. … For all these reasons, this book is necessary reading for anyone interested in the history of internment and war captivity.”
— Jean-Michel Turcotte, H-War (July, 2023)
ENDORSEMENTS
"Out of Line, Out of Place is a major contribution to the history of captivity and its immense consequences throughout the 20th century. The editors overcome the complex challenge of encompassing the thousands of camps and millions of people who experienced internment by implementing a global focus with diverse perspectives."
— Sarah Kovner, Columbia University, author of Prisoners of the Empire
"Out of Line, Out of Place is an important addition to the social and cultural history of war. The editors show that the First World War was only the beginning of the creation of l'univers concentrationnaire with impressive, well-knit essays addressing internment camps and a vast range of internee experiences."
— Jay Winter, Yale University, author of War beyond Words
Mass internment has long been recognized as a defining experience of World War II, but it was a fundamental experience of World War I as well.
More than eight million soldiers became prisoners of war, more than a million civilians became internees, and several millions more were displaced from their homes, with many placed in securitized refugee camps. For the first time, Out of Line, Out of Place brings these different camps together in conversation. Rotem Kowner and Iris Rachamimov emphasize that although there were differences among camps and varied logic of internment in individual countries, there were also striking similarities in how camps operated during the Great War.
LINKS
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CONTENTS
Introduction: Military, Civilian, and Political Internments: Examining Great War Internments Together, by Iris Rachamimov and Rotem Kowner
Part I: Internments in Europe
1. (Dis)entangling the Local, the National, and the International: Civilian Internment in Germany and in German-Occupied France and Belgium in Global Context, by Matthew Stibbe
2. The Captives of the Kaiser: Schutzhaft and Political Prisoners in Germany, by André Keil
3. Securitized Protection: Health Work in Wartime Austria-Hungary and the Making of Refugee Camps, by Doina Anca Cretu
4. Alexandra Palace: A Concentration Camp in the Heart of London, by Assaf Mond
5. Prisoner-of-War Civilian Experience: The Role of Profession among POWs, by Lena Radauer
6. The Face and Race of the Enemy: German POW Photographs as a Weapon of War, by Nancy Fitch
Part II: Internments Beyond Europe
7. "Enemies of Our Country": Internment in Canada's Rocky Mountains National Park, 1915–1917, by Bohdan S. Kordan
8. Globalizing Captivity: "Little Germany in China", by Naoko Shimazu
9. German Propaganda and the African and Asian Theaters of the War, by Mahon Murphy
Part III: Interwar Repurcussions and Beyond
10. Internment after the War's End: "Humanitarian Camps" in the POW Repatriation Process, 1918–1923, by Hazuki Tate
11. POWs, Civilians, and the Postwar Development of International Humanitarian Law, by Neville Wylie and Sarina Landefeld
Conclusion: World War I and Its Internments: Final Remarks, by Iris Rachamimov and Rotem Kowner
REVIEWS
"This volume changes the picture on the significance of this internment history in several respects. First, internment should be considered one of the core dimensions of the First World War experience, alongside such experiences as trench warfare on the Western Front, and as such calls for examination both on a global and the local level. Clearing up prevailing misconceptions about the rigidity of distinctions between military prisoners of war (POW) and civilian internees, the authors emphasise the fluidity in the use of these terms by camp administrators and internees alike. The authors also provide a helpful overview of the sheer range of social categories of civilians interned by different regimes … This is a landmark study in the field, and a book which will be indispensable for the teaching of the First World War.”
— Dina Gusejnova, First World War Studies (2023)
"Rotem Kowner and Iris Rachamimov emphasize the blurring of boundaries between the classic types of internment and the global system of camps first introduced during the First World War, as well as their exemplary effect in the decades after 1918. … This attractively illustrated volume does justice to its aim to draw a nuanced picture of well-known processes and, on the other hand, to shed light on topics and regions that have received little attention to date.”
— Martin Moll, Militaergeschichtliche Zeitschrift 82, no 2 (2023): 493–6
"This collective work presents the results of an international research project on the issue of prisoners of war (POWs), interned enemy civilians (IECs), and 'suspicious' citizens imprisoned during the First World War. … In their introduction, Rotem Kowner and Iris Rachamimov point out that between 1914 and 1920, captivity and internment assumed massive proportions: over eight million POWs, one to two million IECs, and tens of thousands of suspect nationals were living in camps, alongside millions of displaced persons. … We commend the excellent coordination and synthesis work carried out, acknowledging that it could not be exhaustive on such a broad subject.”
— Jean-Noël Grandhomme, Francia Recensio (July, 2023)
"This book has great merit. It compares various case studies in Europe and beyond and, thus, offers a broad picture of internment operations. Such a wide-ranging approach presents the multiple categories of individuals interned, including combatants, enemy aliens, and political prisoners; widespread camp locations; and connections among state practices. The reflections that chapters propose on the global character r of this wartime phenomena also helps foster an understanding of the First World War beyond the battlefield and beyond the period of 1914–18. … These essays will encourage other researchers to pursue work in this direction as many questions remain opened. … For all these reasons, this book is necessary reading for anyone interested in the history of internment and war captivity.”
— Jean-Michel Turcotte, H-War (July, 2023)
ENDORSEMENTS
"Out of Line, Out of Place is a major contribution to the history of captivity and its immense consequences throughout the 20th century. The editors overcome the complex challenge of encompassing the thousands of camps and millions of people who experienced internment by implementing a global focus with diverse perspectives."
— Sarah Kovner, Columbia University, author of Prisoners of the Empire
"Out of Line, Out of Place is an important addition to the social and cultural history of war. The editors show that the First World War was only the beginning of the creation of l'univers concentrationnaire with impressive, well-knit essays addressing internment camps and a vast range of internee experiences."
— Jay Winter, Yale University, author of War beyond Words
Research Interests: History, Military History, German Studies, Russian Studies, International Relations, and 13 moreGerman History, British History, Canadian History, Legal History, Political Prisoners, Prisoners of War, World War I, First World War, Russian History, Modern Japanese History, Modern European History, Internment Camps, and Austro-Hungarian History
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Research Interests: Military History, Psychology, Personality Psychology, Japanese Studies, Russian Studies, and 15 moreInternational Relations, Decision Making, Personality, War Studies, Stereotypes and Prejudice, East Asian Studies, History of International Relations, Russian History, Russo-Japanese War, Orientalism, Psychohistory, Tsarist Empire, Russian Intellectual History, Images, Russian Orientalism, and Tsar St. Nicholas II
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El Ejército Imperial japonés (Dai-Nippon teikoku rikugun) y la Marina fueron los responsables de la espectacular victoria japonesa sobre Rusia y se convirtieron tras la contienda en las fuerzas armadas más poderosas de Extremo Oriente y... more
El Ejército Imperial japonés (Dai-Nippon teikoku rikugun) y la Marina fueron los responsables de la espectacular victoria japonesa sobre Rusia y se convirtieron tras la contienda en las fuerzas armadas más poderosas de Extremo Oriente y entre las más importantes del mundo. Sin embargo, unos años antes tanto su tamaño como su reputación habían sido mucho más limitados. El presente artículo desgrana la fuerza, el armamento, la filosofía y la organización no solo de las unidades básicas que lo formaban, sino también de las grandes formaciones.
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Research Interests: Military History, Japanese Studies, Media Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Censorship, and 11 moreJournalism, Public Opinion, Globalization, Political Psychology, War Studies, Japanese History, Global History, Censorship (History), Russo-Japanese War, History of Journalism, and Journalism And Mass communication
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Research Interests: History, Military History, Japanese Studies, Russian Studies, International Relations, and 13 moreFrench History, German History, British History, Japanese History, World History, Global History, World War I, First World War, Russian History, Modern Japanese History, Russo-Japanese War, Japanese History - Meiji era, and Meiji Japan
Research Interests: Naval Architecture, History, Military History, Diplomatic History, Japanese Studies, and 19 moreInternational Relations, Chinese Studies, History of Japan, War Studies, Japanese History, World History, Colonialism, Modern and Contemporary Japan, East Asian Studies, Global History, Modern Japanese History, History of Imperialism, Imperial Russia, Japanese Culture, Colonial Discourse, Imperialism, Japanese Imperialism, Colonial Studies, and Colonialism and Imperialism
Research Interests: Naval Architecture, American History, Military History, Military Science, British History, and 13 moreNaval Warfare, Naval History, Japanese History, World History, World War I, First World War, Russian History, Russo-Japanese War, Imperial Japanese Navy, Military, United States Naval History, British naval history, and Russian Navy
A finales de mayo, una vez que se conoció el desastre naval de la batalla de Tsushima, tanto Rusia como Japón estaban dispuestos a terminar con la guerra. La iniciativa que puso a ambos beligerantes alrededor de la mesa de negociaciones... more
A finales de mayo, una vez que se conoció el desastre naval de la batalla de Tsushima, tanto Rusia como Japón estaban dispuestos a terminar con la guerra. La iniciativa que puso a ambos beligerantes alrededor de la mesa de negociaciones fue concebida por el presidente de los Estados Unidos, Theodore Roosevelt, quien posteriormente recibiría el premio Nobel de la Paz por sus esfuerzos. Sin embargo, nadie podía imaginarse entonces que las ondas de choque producidas por esta paz, que certificaba la victoria de una potencia asiática contra los todopoderosos europeos occidentales, llevarían a un nuevo proceso de conflictos y revoluciones que marcarían la segunda mitad del siglo XX.
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The Battle of Tsushima was fought between Japan and Russia in 1905. It was the most notable naval battle during the century before the First World War and one of the most decisive naval clashes ever. Although it has left a deep and... more
The Battle of Tsushima was fought between Japan and Russia in 1905. It was the most notable naval battle during the century before the First World War and one of the most decisive naval clashes ever. Although it has left a deep and indelible mark on both belligerents, it was only natural that the battle would remain a center point in the collective memory of the country that won it. Indeed, throughout the years before Japan's surrender in 1945, and to a lesser extent even after, the battle continued to be the focus of commemoration and pride, possibly more than any other single battle the country had ever won or lost. Nonetheless, with the passing of time and changing circumstances, attitudes toward the battle witnessed their ups and downs much like the attitudes toward the entire war against Russia, empire, and militarism. Accordingly, the history of the battle's collective memory can be divided into four distinct phases: the immediate response; the subsequent forty years of imperialistic expansion; the era of Allied occupation; and the years since a democratic Japan regained its sovereignty. This article aims to examine the winding road of this memory, its sources and repercussions.
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Research Interests: Diplomatic History, Japanese Studies, Russian Studies, International Relations, International Relations Theory, and 9 moreInternational Studies, Japanese History, History of International Relations, World War I, First World War, Russian History, Modern Japanese History, Reconciliation, and Peace & Reconciliation
Review "... In the final article and section of volume II, Kowner posits the grand synthesis of the collection. Stating that the Russo-Japanese War was not the main cause of World War I, Kowner uses the work in this collection to argue... more
Review
"... In the final article and section of volume II, Kowner posits the grand synthesis of the collection. Stating that the Russo-Japanese War was not the main cause of World War I, Kowner uses the work in this collection to argue that the Russo-Japanese War further “accelerated a number of existing processes” (2:308). ... In sum, Rethinking the Russo-Japanese War, 1904–05, concludes that the Russo- Japanese War helped cement the world on its path toward the catastrophe that was World War I. These types of conclusions are well grounded in this research, making this collection a significant contribution to the literature on the Russo-Japanese War.”
John Steinberg, The Russian Review 68 (2009): 342, 344.
"... In the final article and section of volume II, Kowner posits the grand synthesis of the collection. Stating that the Russo-Japanese War was not the main cause of World War I, Kowner uses the work in this collection to argue that the Russo-Japanese War further “accelerated a number of existing processes” (2:308). ... In sum, Rethinking the Russo-Japanese War, 1904–05, concludes that the Russo- Japanese War helped cement the world on its path toward the catastrophe that was World War I. These types of conclusions are well grounded in this research, making this collection a significant contribution to the literature on the Russo-Japanese War.”
John Steinberg, The Russian Review 68 (2009): 342, 344.
Research Interests: European History, Military History, Eastern European Studies, International Relations, French History, and 14 moreGerman History, British History, Political Science, Japanese History, World History, East Asian Studies, Global History, 20th Century German History, World War I, First World War, Russian History, Modern Japanese History, Russo-Japanese War, and Austro-Hungarian History
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Among those nations who defied the new gospel of humaneness to POWs in modern times, Imperial Japan seems to hold a special but not necessarily unique place. During the Second World War in particular, Japanese treatment of Allied POWs was... more
Among those nations who defied the new gospel of humaneness to POWs in modern times, Imperial Japan seems to hold a special but not necessarily unique place. During the Second World War in particular, Japanese treatment of Allied POWs was notorious for its cruelty and inhumanity. Ever since that war negative images of the Japanese attitude to POWs have been sustained through scholarly books, personal memoirs, and above all countless popular films and novels. There is more than a grain of truth in these images, but it is less known that they emerged rather late and do not necessarily reflect earlier military conduct of the Japanese. Surprisingly, before the eight-year conflict that encompasses the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45) and the Pacific War (1941-5), Japanese treatment of POWs, Europeans in particular, was regarded as benevolent and even chivalrous. The transformation of these images is intriguing but so is the reality.
This article focuses on the actual behavior and attitude to POWs held by Japan, rather than on its images. It is based on a systematic analysis of the treatment of POWs in six major wars fought by Imperial Japan from 1894 to 1945. With these data at hand, this chapter aims to uncover the determinants of the Japanese treatment of POWs, the motives for the above transformation, and their implications for national identity and attitude to self and others.
This article focuses on the actual behavior and attitude to POWs held by Japan, rather than on its images. It is based on a systematic analysis of the treatment of POWs in six major wars fought by Imperial Japan from 1894 to 1945. With these data at hand, this chapter aims to uncover the determinants of the Japanese treatment of POWs, the motives for the above transformation, and their implications for national identity and attitude to self and others.
Research Interests: History, Military History, Japanese Studies, Ethics, Applied Ethics, and 34 moreMoral Psychology, Peace and Conflict Studies, Sociology of the Military, International Law, Human Rights, Humanitarianism, Conflict, War Studies, Political Science, International Human Rights Law, Japanese History, International Humanitarian Law, Second World War, War Crimes, Prisoners of War, Sino-Japanese War, First World War, Modern Japanese History, World War II, Russo-Japanese War, Military and Politics, Civil-military relations, Peace Studies, Chinese history (History), Military, Punishment and Prisons, Humanity, Sino-Japanese relations 19th/20th century, Nanjing Massacre, Sino-Japanese relations, Prisoners, Historical and Comparative Sociology, History of Sino-Japanese Relations, and Second Sino-Japanese War
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It was only in the early 20th century that the Jews living in the Dutch East Indies began to form a substantial community. On the eve of the Pacific War it comprised a few thousands members, mostly of Dutch origin, several hundred... more
It was only in the early 20th century that the Jews living in the Dutch East Indies began to form a substantial community. On the eve of the Pacific War it comprised a few thousands members, mostly of Dutch origin, several hundred ‘Baghdadis’ as well as refugees escaping Nazi persecution in Europe. The Japanese occupation of the archipelago in early 1942 triggered the disintegration of the community. Within a few months the greater part of the Jewish community was interned, together with their fellow gentiles, for being Dutch civilians. In the latter half of 1943, however, most of the Jews who remained outside the camps were also detained, now for being Jews. This study offers the first detailed account of the fate of the community during the war together with an analysis of the abrupt Japanese change in attitude in 1943. All in all, unique circumstances led to this Japanese persecution: German pressure for harsher measures; determination to mobilise local support using, inter alia, an anti-Semitic campaign; and the earlier experience of the Java Kempeitai with a Jewish minority. As a result, the Jews of Indonesia experienced harsher treatment than that any other Jewish community received in the Asian territories under Japanese occupation.
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Japan’s relations with Germany and Italy during the Second World War were rather limited. Nevertheless, there were some regional nuances and growing cooperation as the war drew to its close. In the Indian Ocean, at least, and especially... more
Japan’s relations with Germany and Italy during the Second World War were rather limited. Nevertheless, there were some regional nuances and growing cooperation as the war drew to its close. In the Indian Ocean, at least, and especially in the area around the Straits of Malacca and the Java Sea, the Japanese and German empires, and to a lesser extent the Italian empire too, did develop a rather intensive cooperation during the final two years of the war (1943–45). This cooperation encompassed several domains, such as the exchange of vital raw materials and military technology, coordinated naval activity, and even an ideological affinity that materialized in pressures to implement harsher racial policies towards Jewish communities in the region. This article examines the scope of this unique inter-Axis collaboration, the specific reasons for why which came into being in this region in particular, and the lessons we may draw from it.
Research Interests: History, Military History, Japanese Studies, International Relations, Jewish Studies, and 15 moreSoutheast Asian Studies, Naval Warfare, Indonesian Studies, Jewish History, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean History, Global History, Modern Japanese History, World War II, Imperial Japanese Navy, Second World War (History), Nazi Germany, Indian Ocean, German-Japanese Relations, and Submarine Warfare
World War II marks the eclipse of the battleship as a symbol of naval dominance and the rise of the aircraft carrier in its stead. The medium for this shift was the Asian theater of war, namely the Pacific and the Indian Oceans, where the... more
World War II marks the eclipse of the battleship as a symbol of naval dominance and the rise of the aircraft carrier in its stead. The medium for this shift was the Asian theater of war, namely the Pacific and the Indian Oceans, where the two major belligerents—Japan and the United States—employed a large number of carriers. It was only here that carriers were used as capital ships from the outbreak of the conflict, engaged each other in fierce duels, and ended up becoming a crucial weapon for victory. In contrast, carriers played a limited role in the European theater, partially due to the fact that Germany and Italy did not commission even a single carrier before or during the war. The naval warfare in the Asian theater demonstrates that the bilateral use of a new weapon system is likely to push its development forward rapidly. This article explores the reasons that made the Asian theater rather than the European theater become the arena in which the carrier reached maturity, and the impact this prominence has exerted on the naval arena ever since.
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Research Interests: History, Military History, Japanese Studies, International Relations, Indonesian History, and 15 moreIndonesian Studies, Collaboration, Japanese History, Prisoners of War, Modern Japanese History, World War II, Japanese politics, Postwar Japanese History, Chinese history (History), Southeast Asian history, East Asian History, Japanese Foreign Policy, Decolonization, Repatriation, and Modern East Asian History
One of the seminal artistic works that established the name of Hiroshima in humanity’s collective memory, let alone in the West, was the French film Hiroshima mon amour (1959). This chapter focuses on the way this film contains the... more
One of the seminal artistic works that established the name of Hiroshima in humanity’s collective memory, let alone in the West, was the French film Hiroshima mon amour (1959). This chapter focuses on the way this film contains the tragedy of Hiroshima and analyses its role in reshaping the place of the city in various collective memories. Hiroshima mon amour, it is argued, avoided both the physical aspects of Hiroshima and the historical context of the city’s tragedy. Paradoxically, this perspective has fit not only the Eurocentric agenda of its author, Marguerite Duras, but also the contemporary narrative of victimization in Japan.
Reviews
"... The introduction places emphasis on the comparative nature of the project. Despite asserting the value of a comparative approach, most of the comparison happens by way of the juxtaposition of articles rather than through the content itself. One clear exception to this rule is Rotem Kowner’s “Hiroshima as Personal and National Allegory: Revisiting Hiroshima mon amour and H Story,” which offers us a nuanced analysis of the role Hiroshima in both Japanese and European memory, and the interaction between the two as mediated through film. Kowner explores the representation of Hiroshima in film, looking at the complex interplay between European memory and representation, while recreating Japanese memory as it positions itself against the dominant position of the European modes of cultural production. Kowner’s contribution makes the strongest case for a comparative approach and establishes a model for film analysis as a comparative mode of examining national identity, collective memory, and the writing of fiction."
Kate Costello
Oxford Comparative Criticism & Translation (February 2015)
http://www.occt.ox.ac.uk/cct-review/february-issue-book-review-broken-narratives-2014#sthash.s6a1NdKa.dpuf
Reviews
"... The introduction places emphasis on the comparative nature of the project. Despite asserting the value of a comparative approach, most of the comparison happens by way of the juxtaposition of articles rather than through the content itself. One clear exception to this rule is Rotem Kowner’s “Hiroshima as Personal and National Allegory: Revisiting Hiroshima mon amour and H Story,” which offers us a nuanced analysis of the role Hiroshima in both Japanese and European memory, and the interaction between the two as mediated through film. Kowner explores the representation of Hiroshima in film, looking at the complex interplay between European memory and representation, while recreating Japanese memory as it positions itself against the dominant position of the European modes of cultural production. Kowner’s contribution makes the strongest case for a comparative approach and establishes a model for film analysis as a comparative mode of examining national identity, collective memory, and the writing of fiction."
Kate Costello
Oxford Comparative Criticism & Translation (February 2015)
http://www.occt.ox.ac.uk/cct-review/february-issue-book-review-broken-narratives-2014#sthash.s6a1NdKa.dpuf
Research Interests: Japanese Studies, French Literature, Film Studies, French Cinema, Race and Racism, and 19 moreFilm Analysis, Japanese Cinema, Film Adaptation, Memory Studies, Racism, Japanese Film, Film History, Second World War, Modern Japanese History, Postwar Japanese History, Japanese Culture, Film Aesthetics, Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Atomic Bomb Discourse, postwar Japanese art, War memory, Hiroshima Mon Amour, and Japanese Culture and Society In a Global Context
Research Interests: Military History, Japanese Studies, International Relations, Naval History, Political Science, and 10 moreModern Japanese History, Imperial Japanese Navy, East Asian Security, Japanese Society, Japanese Militarism, Japanese Navy, Japanese Society and Culture, Japanese Re-militarization, Japanese war memory, and Japanese Military History
This volume accounts for the motives for contemporary lexical borrowing from English, using a comparative approach and a broad cross-cultural perspective. It investigates the processes involved in the penetration of English vocabulary... more
This volume accounts for the motives for contemporary lexical borrowing from English, using a comparative approach and a broad cross-cultural perspective. It investigates the processes involved in the penetration of English vocabulary into new environments and the extent of their integration into twelve languages representing several language families, including Icelandic, Dutch, French, Russian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic, Persian, Japanese, Taiwan Chinese, and several languages spoken in southern India. Some of these languages are studied here in the context of borrowing for the first time ever. All in all, this volume suggests that the English lexical 'invasion', as it is often referred to, is a natural and inevitable process. It is driven by psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, and socio-historical factors, of which the primary determinants of variability are associated with ethnic and linguistic diversity.
REVIEWS
"[This] book is a welcome addition to the literature on the global impact of English and to the research on lexical borrowing. ... [T]he overall value of this excellent book as a solid contribution to the systematization of the ongoing global process of lexical borrowing from English in the contemporary world and as a basis for enquiries concerning other languages to test and develop the model further."
Päivi Pahta, World Englishes 30 (2011), 160.
"This book compares the use and impact of English lexical items in a dozen other languages around the world. The goal is to determine which items are taken in and why, noting as appropriate secondary effects such as the introduction of new phonemes or syntactic patterns. The common term for such a phenomenon is borrowing... This volume is a good introduction to the diversity of linguistic situations concerning this phenomenon."
Douglas A. Kibbee, The Modern Language Journal 95 (2011): 149.
“... [T]his volume provides a substantial and important contribution to the research of language borrowing side by side with many adjacent fields, such as the global status of the English language, language policy and planning and historical-linguistic research. A reader unfamiliar with linguistic-theoretical conceptualization may face difficulties with several parts of the book, but undoubtedly would highly benefit from the sociolinguistic aspects that are presented usually in an accessible and thought-provoking manner.”
Dafna Yitzhaki, Israel Studies in Language and Society 2 (2009), 135.
“As a whole, the general theoretical outline of this book is novel, particularly the discussion on mechanism of adoption which have not been dealt earlier, and here is its great uniqueness. … This edited volume offers its readers a great deal of material and insightful distinctions that one must rely on in order to develop a balanced opinion on the eco-linguistic state of affaires of world languages, our language included. Every linguist and those who deal with languages contact in particular, but also scholars in other disciplines interested in the cultural phenomenon of the English impact on global culture and languages, would benefit from perusing this great wealth that only little of it was reviewed here.”
Y. Newman, Helkat Lashon: A Journal for Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 41 (2009-10), 195.
REVIEWS
"[This] book is a welcome addition to the literature on the global impact of English and to the research on lexical borrowing. ... [T]he overall value of this excellent book as a solid contribution to the systematization of the ongoing global process of lexical borrowing from English in the contemporary world and as a basis for enquiries concerning other languages to test and develop the model further."
Päivi Pahta, World Englishes 30 (2011), 160.
"This book compares the use and impact of English lexical items in a dozen other languages around the world. The goal is to determine which items are taken in and why, noting as appropriate secondary effects such as the introduction of new phonemes or syntactic patterns. The common term for such a phenomenon is borrowing... This volume is a good introduction to the diversity of linguistic situations concerning this phenomenon."
Douglas A. Kibbee, The Modern Language Journal 95 (2011): 149.
“... [T]his volume provides a substantial and important contribution to the research of language borrowing side by side with many adjacent fields, such as the global status of the English language, language policy and planning and historical-linguistic research. A reader unfamiliar with linguistic-theoretical conceptualization may face difficulties with several parts of the book, but undoubtedly would highly benefit from the sociolinguistic aspects that are presented usually in an accessible and thought-provoking manner.”
Dafna Yitzhaki, Israel Studies in Language and Society 2 (2009), 135.
“As a whole, the general theoretical outline of this book is novel, particularly the discussion on mechanism of adoption which have not been dealt earlier, and here is its great uniqueness. … This edited volume offers its readers a great deal of material and insightful distinctions that one must rely on in order to develop a balanced opinion on the eco-linguistic state of affaires of world languages, our language included. Every linguist and those who deal with languages contact in particular, but also scholars in other disciplines interested in the cultural phenomenon of the English impact on global culture and languages, would benefit from perusing this great wealth that only little of it was reviewed here.”
Y. Newman, Helkat Lashon: A Journal for Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 41 (2009-10), 195.
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Languages and Linguistics, Globalization, Hebrew Language, Japanese Language And Culture, and 15 moreArabic Language and Linguistics, English language, English, English as a Lingua Franca, Chinese Language and Culture, Linguistics, Lexicography, Chinese Language, Hungarian language, Lexical and Grammatical Borrowing, Cultural Globalization, Indian languages, Loanwords, Islandic language, and English As a Second Language (ESL)
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history. With twelve thematically-arranged chapters, it examines the diverse roles that beasts, livestock, and fish ― real... more
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history. With twelve thematically-arranged chapters, it examines the diverse roles that beasts, livestock, and fish ― real and metaphorical--have played in Asian history, society, and culture.
Ranging from prehistory to the present day, the authors address a wealth of topics including the domestication of animals, dietary practices and sacrifice, hunting, the use of animals in war, and the representation of animals in literature and art. Providing a unique perspective on human interaction with the environment, this volume is cross-disciplinary in its reach, offering enriching insights to the fields of animal ethics, Asian studies, world history and more.
CONTENT
1. Animals and Human Society in Asia: An Overview and Premises
PART I: HUNTING AND DOMESTICATION
2. When Elephants Roamed Asia: The Significance of Proboscideans in Diet, Culture and Cosmology in Paleolithic Asia (by Ran Barkai)
3. Hunting to Herding to Trading to Warfare: A Chronology of Animal Exploitation in the Negev (by Steven A. Rosen)
4. Domestication of the Donkey (Equus asinus) in the Southern Levant: Archaeozoology, Iconography and Economy (by Ianir Milevski and Liora Kolska Horwitz)
PART II: ANIMALS AS FOOD
5. Spilling Blood: Conflict and Culture over Animal Slaughter in Mongol Eurasia (by Timothy May)
6. China’s Dairy Century: Making, Drinking and Dreaming of Milk (by Thomas David DuBois)
7. Tuna as Economic Resource and Symbolic Capital in Japan’s “Imperialism of the Sea” (by Nadin Heé)
PART III: ANIMALS AT WAR
8. Elephants in Mongol History: From Military Obstacles to Symbols of Buddhist Power (by William G. Clarence-Smith)
9. The Mamluk's Best Friend: The Mounts of the Military Elite of Egypt and Eurasian Steppe in the Late Middle-Ages (by Reuven Amitai and Gila Kahila Bar-Gal)
10. A Million Horses: Raising Government Horses in Early Ming China (by Noa Grass)
PART IV: ANIMALS IN CULTURE AND RELIGION
11. From Lion to Tiger: The Changing Buddhist Images of Apex Predators in Trans-Asian Contexts (by Xing Zhang and Huaiyu Chen)
12. The Chinese Cult of the Horse King, Divine Protector of Equines (by Meir Shahar)
13. Animal Signs: Theriomorphic Intercession between Heaven and Imperial Mongolian History (by Brian Baumann)
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
ENDORSEMENT (BACK COVER)
"Animal studies is a vibrant field that renews humanities by breaking many barriers. This intense and beautiful volume exemplifies such breaking and renewing, as it connects Far-eastern and Near-eastern areas and the steppe world in between, and develops an engaged dialogue between archeology, history, religion, visual studies, economics, law, and more."
―Vincent Goossaert, Professor of Daoism and Chinese religions, EPHE, PSL, Paris
"An ambitious volume, as broad, diverse, and interconnected as Asia. A significant interdisciplinary contribution to the history of human-animal relations."
―Aaron Skabelund, Associate Professor of History, Brigham Young University, USA,
author of Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
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Ranging from prehistory to the present day, the authors address a wealth of topics including the domestication of animals, dietary practices and sacrifice, hunting, the use of animals in war, and the representation of animals in literature and art. Providing a unique perspective on human interaction with the environment, this volume is cross-disciplinary in its reach, offering enriching insights to the fields of animal ethics, Asian studies, world history and more.
CONTENT
1. Animals and Human Society in Asia: An Overview and Premises
PART I: HUNTING AND DOMESTICATION
2. When Elephants Roamed Asia: The Significance of Proboscideans in Diet, Culture and Cosmology in Paleolithic Asia (by Ran Barkai)
3. Hunting to Herding to Trading to Warfare: A Chronology of Animal Exploitation in the Negev (by Steven A. Rosen)
4. Domestication of the Donkey (Equus asinus) in the Southern Levant: Archaeozoology, Iconography and Economy (by Ianir Milevski and Liora Kolska Horwitz)
PART II: ANIMALS AS FOOD
5. Spilling Blood: Conflict and Culture over Animal Slaughter in Mongol Eurasia (by Timothy May)
6. China’s Dairy Century: Making, Drinking and Dreaming of Milk (by Thomas David DuBois)
7. Tuna as Economic Resource and Symbolic Capital in Japan’s “Imperialism of the Sea” (by Nadin Heé)
PART III: ANIMALS AT WAR
8. Elephants in Mongol History: From Military Obstacles to Symbols of Buddhist Power (by William G. Clarence-Smith)
9. The Mamluk's Best Friend: The Mounts of the Military Elite of Egypt and Eurasian Steppe in the Late Middle-Ages (by Reuven Amitai and Gila Kahila Bar-Gal)
10. A Million Horses: Raising Government Horses in Early Ming China (by Noa Grass)
PART IV: ANIMALS IN CULTURE AND RELIGION
11. From Lion to Tiger: The Changing Buddhist Images of Apex Predators in Trans-Asian Contexts (by Xing Zhang and Huaiyu Chen)
12. The Chinese Cult of the Horse King, Divine Protector of Equines (by Meir Shahar)
13. Animal Signs: Theriomorphic Intercession between Heaven and Imperial Mongolian History (by Brian Baumann)
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
ENDORSEMENT (BACK COVER)
"Animal studies is a vibrant field that renews humanities by breaking many barriers. This intense and beautiful volume exemplifies such breaking and renewing, as it connects Far-eastern and Near-eastern areas and the steppe world in between, and develops an engaged dialogue between archeology, history, religion, visual studies, economics, law, and more."
―Vincent Goossaert, Professor of Daoism and Chinese religions, EPHE, PSL, Paris
"An ambitious volume, as broad, diverse, and interconnected as Asia. A significant interdisciplinary contribution to the history of human-animal relations."
―Aaron Skabelund, Associate Professor of History, Brigham Young University, USA,
author of Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
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Research Interests: History, Zoology, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, and 15 moreArchaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Zooarchaeology, Middle East Studies, Chinese Studies, Animal Studies, World History, East Asian Studies, Food and Nutrition, Global History, Cultural Anthropology, Animals in Culture, Prehistory, East Asian History, and Anthopology
The humanities and the social sciences have become increasingly aware of the significance of the interactions between animals and humans in the course of the past few decades. Anthropologists in particular have referred to this growing... more
The humanities and the social sciences have become increasingly aware of the significance of the interactions between animals and humans in the course of the past few decades. Anthropologists in particular have referred to this growing interest in the human–animal relationship as the “animal turn,” the “trans-species turn,” or the “post-human turn.” This new perspective is transforming our understanding of animals’ effect on the development of human society and culture as well as challenging our rigid hierarchy that places humans as rulers and the rest of the natural world as subordinates. While the “animal turn” itself began with a Western-centered bias, it has recently become evident in Asian Studies too, with monographs and articles published on this subject from an Asian perspective.
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Research Interests: Social Psychology, Health Psychology, Japanese Studies, Anthropology, Anthropology of the Body, and 17 moreCultural Psychology, Identity (Culture), Cross-Cultural Psychology, Culture, The Body, Cross-Cultural Studies, Social Comparison, Body Image, Sociology of the Body, Eating Disorders and Body Image, InterCultural Studies, Self-Esteem, Beauty, Japanese Sociocultural Studies, Female body, Physical Appearance, and East Asian Psychology
Research Interests: Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Japanese Studies, Self and Identity, and 32 moreAnthropology of the Body, Cognition, Social Cognition, Identity (Culture), Cross-Cultural Psychology, The Body, Cross-Cultural Studies, The Self, Social Comparison, Racial Identity, Satisfaction, Body Image, Sociology of the Body, Eating Disorders and Body Image, Cross-cultural studies (Culture), Taijin-Kyofusho, Happiness and Well Being, Self-Esteem, Beauty, Bodily Awareness, Body dissatisfaction, Skin Color Politics, Attractiveness, Race and Skin Colour, Stature, Dissatisfaction, Physical Appearance, Skin Color, Self-Discrepancy Theory, Skin Whitening, Bodily Self-consciousness, and Ideal Image
Research Interests: Evolutionary Biology, Sociology, Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, and 14 moreEvolutionary Psychology, Japanese Studies, Psychological Anthropology, Social Sciences, Sociobiology, Social Cognition, Beauty, Attractiveness, Attraction, Japanese Society, Evolutionary Sociobiology, Stature, Skin Color, and Physical Attractiveness
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Research Interests: Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Japanese Studies, Communication, and 10 moreIntercultural Communication, Identity (Culture), Culture, Misconceptions, Miscommunication, Communication and Miscommunication, Japanese Society, International & Intercultural Communication/Marketing, Japan-West, and Japanese Communication with Foreigners
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Japanese Studies, Cultural Policy, Languages and Linguistics, Hebrew Language, and 16 moreJapanese Language And Culture, Japanese Linguistics, Israel Studies, Linguistic Anthropology, English language, Identity (Culture), English, Applied Linguistics, Linguistics, Israeli Society, Loanword Phonology, Japanese Language, Lexical and Grammatical Borrowing, Japanese Society, Loanwords, and History of Japanese Language
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Research Interests: Cultural Studies, International Relations, English for Specific Purposes, English for Academic Purposes, Teaching English as a Second Language, and 21 moreLanguages and Linguistics, Borrowing, Globalization, Arabic Language and Linguistics, Arabic, English language, Vocabulary, English, Lingua Franca, English as a Lingua Franca, Internationalization, World Englishes, Global History, Teaching English As A Foreign Language, Linguistics, Lexicography, Globalization And Higher Education, Hegemony, Lexical and Grammatical Borrowing, Cultural Globalization, and English As a Second Language (ESL)
Research Interests: Languages, Russian Studies, Languages and Linguistics, Lexicology, Borrowing, and 27 moreGlobalization, French Studies, Hebrew Language, Semantics, Japanese Language And Culture, Arabic Language and Linguistics, Arabic, English language, Vocabulary, English, Applied Linguistics, French language, English as a Lingua Franca, Chinese Language and Culture, Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL), Corpus Linguistics, Linguistics, English historical linguistics, Arabic Dialects, Russian Language, Hebrew, English language and linguistics, Lexicon, Lexical and Grammatical Borrowing, Cultural Globalization, Compartive Linguistics, and Arabic Language and Literature
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Haaretz, English Weekend edition, p. 8, 4 September 2020
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Haaretz (July 10, 2022), 1, 4.
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Interview with Rotem Kowner about his initial interest in Japan, his view of Japanese attitudes to Jews, and the future of Japanese-Israeli cooperation.
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The racial views of Jews in prewar Japan and the racist policies of the Japanese state during the Second World War constitute a special case in the modern history of racism, and of East Asian racism in particular. This is because Japanese... more
The racial views of Jews in prewar Japan and the racist policies of the Japanese state during the Second World War constitute a special case in the modern history of racism, and of East Asian racism in particular. This is because Japanese attitudes towards Jews were constructed with no real presence of the target group, and because they lacked genuine political, religious or ethnic basis associated with the Jews. While quite a few countries in Asia and elsewhere have developed substantial idiosyncratic discourses surrounding Jews, virtually without their presence, by and large they have been far more benign and limited. By the same token, the Japanese views were imported en bloc, like many other European ideologies, fashions and technologies willingly adopted during this period. However, these views were modified consequently to fit traditional cultural conventions, to suit the changing needs of the state and to help reshape a national discourse on identity primarily directed at the West. Thus, Japanese attitudes towards Jews should be seen as a hybrid product that reflects an interaction between divergent foreign and domestic views.
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Research Interests: History, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Japanese Studies, Anthropology, and 16 moreJewish Studies, Race and Racism, Political Science, Race and Ethnicity, Antisemitism (Prejudice), Japanese History, World History, Jewish History, Modern and Contemporary Japan, Culture, Racism, Second World War, World War II, Ethnicity, Antisemitism, and Nihonjinron
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This article focuses on the reception in Israel of Sugihara Chiune, a Japanese diplomat who served in Kaunas in 1939-40 and granted transit visa to several thousands of refugees, mostly Jews. The article explains the mechanisms that... more
This article focuses on the reception in Israel of Sugihara Chiune, a Japanese diplomat who served in Kaunas in 1939-40 and granted transit visa to several thousands of refugees, mostly Jews. The article explains the mechanisms that influenced the recognition of Sugihara in Yad Vashem during a 16-year hiatus since his name first reached this institution. It also argues that the key for the reception of Sugihara in Israel was his recognition by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations. Once this recognition was made, it allowed further tokens of recognition that affected his status overseas too.
KEYWORDS: Sugihara Chiune, World War II, Holocaust, visa granting, Jewish refugees, Yad Vashem.
KEYWORDS: Sugihara Chiune, World War II, Holocaust, visa granting, Jewish refugees, Yad Vashem.
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The exodus of Jewish refugees from Lithuania to East Asia in late 1940 has become one of the most remarkable stories of rescue during the Holocaust. The largest group among these refugees was the Mir Yeshiva—one of Europe’s most notable... more
The exodus of Jewish refugees from Lithuania to East Asia in late 1940 has become one of the most remarkable stories of rescue during the Holocaust. The largest group among these refugees was the Mir Yeshiva—one of Europe’s most notable Jewish educational institutions at the time, and the only Lithuanian yeshiva to survive the war in its entirety. Recent studies of this story have emphasized the role of the rescuers—particularly the Japanese vice consul Sugihara Chiune, who issued visas to the Jews—while neglecting the perspectives of the rescued. Nevertheless, the Mir Yeshiva has produced numerous accounts of its wartime ordeal over the past seventy years. Overlooked for the most part by the historiography of this period, the Mir testimonies and writings shed new light on the experiences of the Jewish refugees in Lithuania (1939–1940) and East Asia (1941–1945). Considering these accounts within their broader historical and international context, this article highlights their contribution to our understanding of this episode and Japanese wartime attitudes toward Jewish refugees.
Research Interests: History, Japanese Studies, Jewish Studies, Refugee Studies, Historiography, and 12 moreJapanese History, Jewish History, Second World War, Holocaust Studies, Modern Japanese History, Jewish historiography, Religious History, Religious Studies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Orthodox Judaism, Shanghai, and Jewish-Japanese Relations
For the full article: https://www.fccj.or.jp/number-1-shimbun-article/questionable-heroism Japan’s revisionists label Lieutenant General Higuchi Kiichiro a hero for saving wartime refugees, but their tenuous account is a willful... more
For the full article: https://www.fccj.or.jp/number-1-shimbun-article/questionable-heroism
Japan’s revisionists label Lieutenant General Higuchi Kiichiro a hero for saving wartime refugees, but their tenuous account is a willful misuse of Jewish suffering before and during WWII
Japan’s revisionists label Lieutenant General Higuchi Kiichiro a hero for saving wartime refugees, but their tenuous account is a willful misuse of Jewish suffering before and during WWII
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The terrorist attack at Israel's Lod airport in May 1972 claimed the lives of 26 people and changed the civil aviation forever. Fifty years on, the lone surviving terrorist, who expected to die and become a celestial body, is a free man... more
The terrorist attack at Israel's Lod airport in May 1972 claimed the lives of 26 people and changed the civil aviation forever. Fifty years on, the lone surviving terrorist, who expected to die and become a celestial body, is a free man in Lebanon and the leader of the group is set to be released from prison.
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1972年にイスラエルのテルアビブ空港で、日本赤軍のメンバーが26人を殺害したテロから半世紀。事件の背景と、唯一生き残った実行犯である岡本公三の知られざるその後について、イスラエル紙「ハアレツ」が報じている。
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The Asian Sphere offers a unique opportunity for outstanding candidates at the PhD level to enroll in a multidisciplinary and inter-university graduate program that deals with the Asian continent. The Asian Sphere is a joint Israeli... more
The Asian Sphere offers a unique opportunity for outstanding candidates at the PhD level to enroll in a multidisciplinary and inter-university graduate program that deals with the Asian continent. The Asian Sphere is a joint Israeli program between the Hebrew University and the University of Haifa, funded by the Humanities Fund and Yad Hanadiv. It is a structured graduate program of excellence that deals with the entire Asian continent as a continuous civilizational zone and addresses cross-regional contacts and processes among Asian societies, cultures and states and to a lesser extent between Asia and other continents throughout history until present time. Apart from a dynamic and exceptional environment of learning and research, the program offers a large number of scholarships for outstanding graduate students. The scholarships for PhD students are in the amount of 60,000 NIS per year + full tuition for three years. The Asian Sphere accepts students from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, such as Asian Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Art History,
Research Interests: History, Geography, Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Archaeology, and 15 moreInternational Relations, Southeast Asian Studies, Chinese Studies, Indian studies, South Asian Studies, Korean Studies, Political Science, Indonesian Studies, East Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asian Studies, China, Japan, Scholarships for Master and Phd Degree, and Archeology
We are delighted to share with you the program of the forthcoming symposium ‘A Decade to the Great East Japan Disaster’. The symposium will take place online, through Zoom, on March 11, 2021 from 10-am Israel time / 5-pm Japan time.... more
We are delighted to share with you the program of the forthcoming symposium ‘A Decade to the Great East Japan Disaster’.
The symposium will take place online, through Zoom, on March 11, 2021 from 10-am Israel time / 5-pm Japan time.
Please join with the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9170009735
The symposium will take place online, through Zoom, on March 11, 2021 from 10-am Israel time / 5-pm Japan time.
Please join with the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9170009735
Research Interests: History, Sociology, Psychology, Japanese Studies, Political Science, and 13 moreChild Development, Renewable Energy Policies, East Asian Studies, Modern Japanese History, Japan, Nuclear Energy, Tsunami, Japanese economy, Earthquakes, Japanese Society, Crisis/disaster Management, Great East Japan (Tohoku) Earthquake, and Contemporary Japanese Architecture
We are delighted to announce that the fifth annual conference of the Asian Sphere Program will take place on Monday-Wednesday, 16-18 December 2019, at the University of Haifa, Israel. The Asian Sphere Program takes a fresh look at the... more
We are delighted to announce that the fifth annual conference of the Asian Sphere Program will take place on Monday-Wednesday, 16-18 December 2019, at the University of Haifa, Israel.
The Asian Sphere Program takes a fresh look at the continent of Asia as a concept and as a reality. It aims at exploring and analyzing the numerous interconnections that have tied its people, cities, and nations. Our fifth conference is devoted to the complex relations between West Asia, also known as the Middle East, and other parts of the continent in the past and present. We are interested in particular in the political, military, economic and cultural aspects of the relations, their determinants, undercurrents, and trajectories, as well as in other external players in the region.
The Asian Sphere Program takes a fresh look at the continent of Asia as a concept and as a reality. It aims at exploring and analyzing the numerous interconnections that have tied its people, cities, and nations. Our fifth conference is devoted to the complex relations between West Asia, also known as the Middle East, and other parts of the continent in the past and present. We are interested in particular in the political, military, economic and cultural aspects of the relations, their determinants, undercurrents, and trajectories, as well as in other external players in the region.
Research Interests: Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Archaeology, International Relations, Political Economy, and 14 moreSoutheast Asian Studies, Middle East Studies, Middle East History, Israel Studies, Indian studies, Strategic Studies, Political Science, Energy, Southeast Asia, Chinese Politics, China studies, Central Asia, Conferences, and Obor
Anthropology, history, and political science approach India-Japan connections in different and complementary ways. This one-day workshop offers insights on and inspires discussions of these approaches. A group of anthropologists,... more
Anthropology, history, and political science approach India-Japan connections in different and complementary ways. This one-day workshop offers insights on and inspires discussions of these approaches. A group of anthropologists, historians, and political scientists will share experiences from their own research and encourage a conversation on the approaches, the topic, and the influence of various geographic perspectives including from Denmark, Israel, India, and Japan. Students and seasoned scholars alike are invited to participate in discussions that address the question of how multiple approaches and perspectives contribute to our understanding of Asia and what is still missing.
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Research Interests: History, Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Jewish Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, and 16 moreEthnography, Chinese Studies, Indian studies, Immigration, Indonesian Studies, South Asia, Jewish History, Southeast Asia, East Asian Studies, Indonesia, Philippines, Minority Studies, Hong Kong, Burma Studies, Modern Jewish History, and Jewish Cultural Studies
Conducted in Haifa and Tel Aviv, this workshop will examine the following themes: • Patterns of military and civilian internment during WWI and their relevance to contemporary norms. • Motives and determinants of differential treatment of... more
Conducted in Haifa and Tel Aviv, this workshop will examine the following themes: • Patterns of military and civilian internment during WWI and their relevance to contemporary norms. • Motives and determinants of differential treatment of POWs and interned civilians during WWI (specific case studies or comparisons). • Gendered, sexual and emotional aspects of long-term internment. • The impact of WWI on subsequent wartime treatment of POWs. • Is WWI a turning point in the treatment of POWs and interned civilians in modern times?
Research Interests: History, American History, European History, Military History, Anthropology, and 17 moreInternational Relations, French History, German History, British History, War Studies, Political Science, Japanese History, World History, International Humanitarian Law, Prisoners of War, World War I, Russian History, 20th century (History), World War II, Interwar Period History, WWI, and Geneva Conventions
By focusing on spaces “in-between” empires - their connectivity, cooperation, and competition - this workshop aims at establishing a trans-imperial approach to the history of empires. Imperial history has been booming for quite a while.... more
By focusing on spaces “in-between” empires - their connectivity, cooperation, and competition - this workshop aims at establishing a trans-imperial approach to the history of empires.
Imperial history has been booming for quite a while. Along the way, innovative approaches such as post-colonial history, global history, or new imperial history have provided us with thrilling insights into the omnipresence and the everydayness of the human experience of empires. Amidst all this diversity, many studies have focussed on entanglements between colonies and metropoles, but much less is known about trans-imperial dimensions of the game. On an empirical basis, inter-imperial perspectives, which compare several empires or consider competition between them, have become more important lately. Yet, such studies are scattered and this kind of research remains in its infancy. We still lack an overarching theoretical-methodological framework with which to address the spaces in-between empires. In other words: whereas national history has been transnationalized in the past decades, the same does not hold true for the history of empires. Thus, we would like to address the current state of research and at the same time ask how a future trans-imperial history could look.
In this sense, we seek to decentralize the history of empires both on the level of empirical research and historiographical narratives. Our questions are as follows: do narratives for each empire change with such an approach? Do they appear less unique? To illustrate this: does the thesis about continuity in German colonialism from the late 19th century to the Nazi regime appear in another light if we discuss German expansion in trans-imperial contexts? Does the notion of the uniqueness of Japanese imperialism, which is often seen as a reaction to or even a mimicry of Western imperialism, still hold true? And, to add a final question: was the British empire the all-defining model for all the others or are the imperial processes of the various nations examples of mutual learning?
By discussing such concrete questions we also seek to address more overarching questions. How can we systemize such an approach in methodological and theoretical terms? Are recent concepts dealing with dissemination and practices of knowledge helpful? How can we integrate studies on anti-imperial agency or violence into the approach? And who were the brokers of trans-imperial interactions?
Research has shown that transnational approaches do not make the nation disappear. We would like to take the same stance in relation to empire. Therefore, in this workshop we will focus on specific cases. The workshop, to be held in Berlin in September 2017, will bring together an international group of scholars who have focused on one or more imperial dimensions of one of the following empires: British, French, Russian, Austria-Hungary, Japanese, German, Italian, Spanish, Ottoman, Chinese, as well as the US-American empire. Their contributions should discuss how transcending perspectives can change the perception of the empires they are specialized in, but also discuss possibilities and limits of a trans-imperial approach for the historiography per se. The focus will be on the years between 1850 and 1945.
Imperial history has been booming for quite a while. Along the way, innovative approaches such as post-colonial history, global history, or new imperial history have provided us with thrilling insights into the omnipresence and the everydayness of the human experience of empires. Amidst all this diversity, many studies have focussed on entanglements between colonies and metropoles, but much less is known about trans-imperial dimensions of the game. On an empirical basis, inter-imperial perspectives, which compare several empires or consider competition between them, have become more important lately. Yet, such studies are scattered and this kind of research remains in its infancy. We still lack an overarching theoretical-methodological framework with which to address the spaces in-between empires. In other words: whereas national history has been transnationalized in the past decades, the same does not hold true for the history of empires. Thus, we would like to address the current state of research and at the same time ask how a future trans-imperial history could look.
In this sense, we seek to decentralize the history of empires both on the level of empirical research and historiographical narratives. Our questions are as follows: do narratives for each empire change with such an approach? Do they appear less unique? To illustrate this: does the thesis about continuity in German colonialism from the late 19th century to the Nazi regime appear in another light if we discuss German expansion in trans-imperial contexts? Does the notion of the uniqueness of Japanese imperialism, which is often seen as a reaction to or even a mimicry of Western imperialism, still hold true? And, to add a final question: was the British empire the all-defining model for all the others or are the imperial processes of the various nations examples of mutual learning?
By discussing such concrete questions we also seek to address more overarching questions. How can we systemize such an approach in methodological and theoretical terms? Are recent concepts dealing with dissemination and practices of knowledge helpful? How can we integrate studies on anti-imperial agency or violence into the approach? And who were the brokers of trans-imperial interactions?
Research has shown that transnational approaches do not make the nation disappear. We would like to take the same stance in relation to empire. Therefore, in this workshop we will focus on specific cases. The workshop, to be held in Berlin in September 2017, will bring together an international group of scholars who have focused on one or more imperial dimensions of one of the following empires: British, French, Russian, Austria-Hungary, Japanese, German, Italian, Spanish, Ottoman, Chinese, as well as the US-American empire. Their contributions should discuss how transcending perspectives can change the perception of the empires they are specialized in, but also discuss possibilities and limits of a trans-imperial approach for the historiography per se. The focus will be on the years between 1850 and 1945.
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The Asian Sphere offers a unique opportunity for outstanding candidates, at the MA and PhD level, to enroll in a multidisciplinary and inter-university graduate program that deals with the Asian continent. The Asian Sphere is a joint... more
The Asian Sphere offers a unique opportunity for outstanding candidates, at the MA and PhD level, to enroll in a multidisciplinary and inter-university graduate program that deals with the Asian continent. The Asian Sphere is a joint Israeli program between the University of Haifa and the Hebrew University, funded by the Humanities Fund of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education in Israel (VATAT) and Yad Hanadiv. It is a structured graduate program of excellence that deals with the entire Asian continent as a continuous civilizational zone and addresses cross-regional contacts and processes among Asian societies, cultures and states and to a lesser extent between Asia and other continents throughout history until present time. Apart from a dynamic and exceptional environment of learning and research, the program offers a large number of scholars hips for outstanding graduate students. The scholarships for PhD students are in the amount of 60,000 NIS per year + full tuition for three years. The Asian Sphere accepts students from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, such as Asian Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Art
Research Interests: History, Geography, Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Archaeology, and 13 moreInternational Relations, Art History, Southeast Asian Studies, Middle East Studies, Chinese Studies, Indian studies, South Asian Studies, Central Asian Studies, Mongolian Studies, Asian History, East Asian Studies, Migration Studies, and Central Asia
The Third Biennial IAJS Conference Call for proposals for an international conference on The Heisei Era in Retrospect: Major Trends in Post-Industrial and Post-Consumer Japan The University of Haifa and Bezalel Academy of Arts and... more
The Third Biennial IAJS Conference
Call for proposals for an international conference on
The Heisei Era in Retrospect: Major Trends in Post-Industrial and Post-Consumer Japan
The University of Haifa and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem 11–13 June 2017
The Biennial Conference of the Israeli Association of Japanese Studies will be held at the University of Haifa and the Bezalel Academy of Arts, Jerusalem on 11–13 June 2017. In this conference we wish to reflect on the Heisei era as this era approaches its thirtieth anniversary and may even draw to a close soon. Focusing on this relatively short but eventful era, this conference aims at creating an outline for a retrospective on the historical, social, economic, political and cultural developments in Heisei Japan. We especially welcome interdisciplinary studies of the creative industries within their social or economic contexts.
Call for proposals for an international conference on
The Heisei Era in Retrospect: Major Trends in Post-Industrial and Post-Consumer Japan
The University of Haifa and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem 11–13 June 2017
The Biennial Conference of the Israeli Association of Japanese Studies will be held at the University of Haifa and the Bezalel Academy of Arts, Jerusalem on 11–13 June 2017. In this conference we wish to reflect on the Heisei era as this era approaches its thirtieth anniversary and may even draw to a close soon. Focusing on this relatively short but eventful era, this conference aims at creating an outline for a retrospective on the historical, social, economic, political and cultural developments in Heisei Japan. We especially welcome interdisciplinary studies of the creative industries within their social or economic contexts.
Research Interests: Japanese Studies, Japanese Philosophy, Japanese Literature, Japanese Language And Culture, Japanese Religions, and 27 moreHistory of Japan, Japanese Anime, Anthropology of Japan, Japanese History, Modern and Contemporary Japan, Japanese Cinema, Japanese Art, Japanese, Japanese education, Modern Japanese Literature, Japanese Literature and Culture, Modern Japanese History, Japan, Japanese politics, Japanese Culture, Contemporary Japanese Literature, Japanese Popular Culture, Japanese Art History, Japanese Architecture, Japanese Foreign Policy, Japan Studies, Japanese Society, Japanese culture. Anime and manga., Japanese Design, Modern and Contemporary Japanese Art History, Japanese Anthropology, and Heisei era
Program of the conference "Animals and Human Society in the Asian Sphere." The conference will take place from February 27 to March 2nd, 2017, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Workshops in Haifa, Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem will... more
Program of the conference "Animals and Human Society in the Asian Sphere."
The conference will take place from February 27 to March 2nd, 2017, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Workshops in Haifa, Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem will take place on February 26.
The conference will take place from February 27 to March 2nd, 2017, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Workshops in Haifa, Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem will take place on February 26.
Research Interests: Human Ecology, Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Middle East Studies, Chinese Studies, and 15 moreMiddle East History, Israel Studies, Sinology, Animal Studies, Animal Ethics, South Asian Studies, Archaeology of Ancient Israel, South Asian History, East Asian Studies, East Asian Archaeology, China, Animals in Culture, Chinese archaeology, Ancient Israel, and Philosophy and Sociology of Human/animal Relations
We are delighted to announce the second conference of the
Asian Sphere Program. The conference will take place from
26 February to 2 March 2017, at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Israel.
Asian Sphere Program. The conference will take place from
26 February to 2 March 2017, at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Israel.
Research Interests: Asian Studies, Archaeology, Anthropology, Art History, Southeast Asian Studies, and 16 moreAnimal Science, Human-Animal Relations, Animal Studies, Critical Animal Studies, South Asian Studies, Anthropology of Food, Neolithic Archaeology, Central Asia, Chinese archaeology, Chinese history (History), Archaeology of Central Asia, Religious Studies, History of Animals, Asian Art, Anthropology of Religion, and Sociology and Anthropology of Agriculture and Food
The University of Haifa will host the Second Israeli Symposium on Language, Culture and Society in Asia on 20-21 December, 2016. Our understanding of Asia (which, in the context of this conference includes all the languages of the Asian... more
The University of Haifa will host the Second Israeli Symposium on Language, Culture and Society in Asia on 20-21 December, 2016. Our understanding of Asia (which, in the context of this conference includes all the languages of the Asian Sphere, except for the Middle East region) is based upon our knowledge and understanding of the local languages and their subtleties. Furthermore, language in Asia, same as everywhere else, constitutes a cultural cornerstone and a source of local and national identity. However, despite the obvious importance of this subject, we tend to overlook it and do not accord it with the appropriate recognition. This Conference, as its predecessor, seeks to change this status quo and to provide a platform for exchange of ideas and for research collaborations in the field of Language, Culture and Society in Asia.
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The Asian Sphere offers a unique opportunity for outstanding candidates, at the MA and PhD level, to enroll in a multidisciplinary and inter-university graduate program that deals with the Asian continent.
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Research Interests: Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Chinese Philosophy, Southeast Asian Studies, Indian Philosophy, and 19 moreMiddle East Studies, Chinese Studies, Tibetan Studies, Indian studies, South Asian Studies, Korean Studies, South Asia, Japanese History, Mongolian Studies, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Indian Politics, China studies, Central Asia, Chinese history (History), India, Korean popular culture, and Call for Papers
We are delighted to announce that the following symposium will take place on Friday-Saturday, 29-30 January 2016, in cooperation with the Graduate School for East and South East European Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of... more
We are delighted to announce that the following symposium will take place on Friday-Saturday, 29-30 January 2016, in cooperation with the Graduate School for East and South East European Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.
In a seventy-year hindsight, August 1945 emerges as an epoch-making month and by far the most crucial turning point in the twentieth-century history of East Asia. But how exactly did Japan’s surrender affect the various processes that came to an end or began in that date? Is it possible to construct a meta-narrative of the various events and processes that occurred in 1945 and the subsequent decade? In this symposium we seek to examine these and other questions by offering a broad international perspective and relying on new materials and approaches. We are looking in particular for novel (and unconventional) perspectives which represent either one or more of the powers involved (i.e., China, Japan, the two Koreas, Soviet Union/Russia, and the United States) but transcend national historiographies.
In a seventy-year hindsight, August 1945 emerges as an epoch-making month and by far the most crucial turning point in the twentieth-century history of East Asia. But how exactly did Japan’s surrender affect the various processes that came to an end or began in that date? Is it possible to construct a meta-narrative of the various events and processes that occurred in 1945 and the subsequent decade? In this symposium we seek to examine these and other questions by offering a broad international perspective and relying on new materials and approaches. We are looking in particular for novel (and unconventional) perspectives which represent either one or more of the powers involved (i.e., China, Japan, the two Koreas, Soviet Union/Russia, and the United States) but transcend national historiographies.
Research Interests: History, Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Russian Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, and 18 moreSoviet History, Chinese Studies, War Studies, Korean Studies, Cold War, East Asian Studies, Second World War, Modern Chinese History, Russian History, Modern Japanese History, World War II, Soviet Union (History), Northeast Asia, Korean War, Call for Papers, US occupations of Japan and Okinawa, Chinese Revolution, and Impact of the Korean War
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Haaretz [weekend suppl.] (November 18, 2022), 40–45. הוא מייחל לנפילתה של סין, מזלזל בסכנה אפשרית מקוריאה הצפונית, קורא לפתח נשק גרעיני ומחזיק בהיסטוריה חלופית לגבי יהודים. קסה הידאקי הוא מהאידאולוגים החשובים ביותר של הימים הלאומני... more
Haaretz [weekend suppl.] (November 18, 2022), 40–45.
הוא מייחל לנפילתה של סין, מזלזל בסכנה אפשרית מקוריאה הצפונית, קורא לפתח נשק גרעיני ומחזיק בהיסטוריה חלופית לגבי יהודים. קסה הידאקי הוא מהאידאולוגים החשובים ביותר של הימים הלאומני ביפן, ושל מפלגת השלטון במדינה ששואפת לעצב מחדש את מקומה בעולם. ראיון.
הוא מייחל לנפילתה של סין, מזלזל בסכנה אפשרית מקוריאה הצפונית, קורא לפתח נשק גרעיני ומחזיק בהיסטוריה חלופית לגבי יהודים. קסה הידאקי הוא מהאידאולוגים החשובים ביותר של הימים הלאומני ביפן, ושל מפלגת השלטון במדינה ששואפת לעצב מחדש את מקומה בעולם. ראיון.
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Haaretz [weekend suppl.] (May 27, 2022), 48–49.
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Haaretz [weekend suppl.] (April 15, 2022), 72–3.
A Slight Derailment: The Shinkansen, the Japanese Public Transportation, and What
We Can Learn from Them
A Slight Derailment: The Shinkansen, the Japanese Public Transportation, and What
We Can Learn from Them
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Rotem Kowner, "Spectacular Success That Ended in a Reverberating Failure." Haaretz [weekend suppl.], (December 10, 2021), 54-55.
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Rotem Kowner, "The Olympic Games Were Meant to Save Japan from the Abyss. This Has not Happened." Haaretz [weekend suppl.], (July 23, 2021), 39.
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Rotem Kowner, The Unbearable Lightness of the Bribe. Haaretz [weekend suppl.], (December 25, 2020), 46-47.
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את ההפצצה האווירית חסרת האבחנה על אזרחים, כשיטה אסטרטגית, ארצות הברית לא המציאה, אך ללא ספק היא זו שהביאה אותה לשיאים של חורבן והרג. רבים מציינים את שתי פצצות האטום על הירושימה ונגסקי כנקודת מפנה בתחום הלוחמה האנושית, אך לאמיתו של דבר... more
את ההפצצה האווירית חסרת האבחנה על אזרחים, כשיטה אסטרטגית, ארצות הברית לא המציאה, אך ללא ספק היא זו שהביאה אותה לשיאים של חורבן והרג. רבים מציינים את שתי פצצות האטום על הירושימה ונגסקי כנקודת מפנה בתחום הלוחמה האנושית, אך לאמיתו של דבר הפצצת טוקיו, חמישה חודשים קודם לכן, היתה נקודה חשובה לא פחות ברצף שתרם לעיצוב דמותה של המלחמה בעידן המודרני. אבני דרך בהיסטוריה של הטירוף
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אתמול זה מחר, מחר זה היום
https://twitter.com/terrill/status/1466383240223207429
https://twitter.com/terrill/status/1466383240223207429
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הישראלי והישראלית אוכלים סושי, נוהגים במזדה, צופים בסרטים יפניים ושומעים מוסיקה במכשירים ממוזערים. היפנים כאן, מציעים תחליף לאימפריאליזם התרבותי האמריקאי.
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Rotem Kowner, Collective Rashomon in Hiroshima. Haaretz (August 11, 2000), b10.
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Rotem Kowner, "A Suicide Which Ignites the Imagination." Haaretz (January 2, 1998), b6.
The Japanese film director Itami Jūzō's suicide and its cultural background
The Japanese film director Itami Jūzō's suicide and its cultural background
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Rotem Kowner, Japan's Lebanese Quagmire. Haaretz (July 25, 1997), b7. Marking sixty years to the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War. כיום, במלאת שישים שנה למלחמתן האכזרית של סין ויפן, שאיפותיהם של הסינים מטרידות את העולם יותר מאלו... more
Rotem Kowner, Japan's Lebanese Quagmire. Haaretz (July 25, 1997), b7.
Marking sixty years to the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
כיום, במלאת שישים שנה למלחמתן האכזרית של סין ויפן, שאיפותיהם של הסינים מטרידות את העולם יותר מאלו של היפנים
Marking sixty years to the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
כיום, במלאת שישים שנה למלחמתן האכזרית של סין ויפן, שאיפותיהם של הסינים מטרידות את העולם יותר מאלו של היפנים
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תכנית המרחב האסיאני מציעה הזדמנות יחודית לסטודנטים מצטיינים להצטרף ללימודים מתקדמים רב-תחומיים ובין-אוניברסיטאיים ברמת המאסטר (במסלול מחקרי בלבד) והדוקטורט המתמקדים ביבשת אסיה. תכנית המרחב האסיאני משותפת לאוניברסיטת חיפה ולאוניברסיטה... more
תכנית המרחב האסיאני מציעה הזדמנות יחודית לסטודנטים מצטיינים להצטרף ללימודים מתקדמים רב-תחומיים ובין-אוניברסיטאיים ברמת המאסטר (במסלול מחקרי בלבד) והדוקטורט המתמקדים ביבשת אסיה.
תכנית המרחב האסיאני משותפת לאוניברסיטת חיפה ולאוניברסיטה העברית, וממומנת על קרן יד הנדיב, המועצה להשכלה גבוהה ושתי האוניברסיטאות. זוהי תכנית מובנית הרואה ביבשת אסיה רצף של ציביליזציות והמתמקדת בקשרים ובתהליכים חוצי-איזורים בין ובקרב חברות, תרבויות, ומדיניות אסיאניות, וכן בקשרים בין אסיה ויבשות אחרות, לאורך ההיסטוריה ועד עצם היום הזה.
פרט לסביבת לימודים ומחקר דינמית ויחודית, התכנית מציעה מספר רב של מלגות לתלמידים מתקדמים מצטיינים. מלגת הדוקטורט (מלגת מחיה) הינה לשלוש שנים על סך 60,000 ₪ לשנה, בנוסף לתמיכה בהשתתפות בכנסים בינלאומיים ובמחקר שדה.
תכנית המרחב האסיאני משותפת לאוניברסיטת חיפה ולאוניברסיטה העברית, וממומנת על קרן יד הנדיב, המועצה להשכלה גבוהה ושתי האוניברסיטאות. זוהי תכנית מובנית הרואה ביבשת אסיה רצף של ציביליזציות והמתמקדת בקשרים ובתהליכים חוצי-איזורים בין ובקרב חברות, תרבויות, ומדיניות אסיאניות, וכן בקשרים בין אסיה ויבשות אחרות, לאורך ההיסטוריה ועד עצם היום הזה.
פרט לסביבת לימודים ומחקר דינמית ויחודית, התכנית מציעה מספר רב של מלגות לתלמידים מתקדמים מצטיינים. מלגת הדוקטורט (מלגת מחיה) הינה לשלוש שנים על סך 60,000 ₪ לשנה, בנוסף לתמיכה בהשתתפות בכנסים בינלאומיים ובמחקר שדה.
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הכנס הדו-שנתי של האגודה הישראלית ללימודי יפן יערך באוניברסיטת חיפה ובאקדמיה לאמנות ועיצוב בצלאל, ירושלים, במהלך הימים 11-13 ביוני 2017. בכנס זה נתבונן בתקופת הייסיי המתקרבת ליובל השלושים לתחילתה ועומדת יתכן בפני סיום קרוב. תוך התמקדות... more
הכנס הדו-שנתי של האגודה הישראלית ללימודי יפן יערך באוניברסיטת חיפה ובאקדמיה לאמנות ועיצוב בצלאל, ירושלים, במהלך הימים 11-13 ביוני 2017. בכנס זה נתבונן בתקופת הייסיי המתקרבת ליובל השלושים לתחילתה ועומדת יתכן בפני סיום קרוב. תוך התמקדות בתקופה זו, הקצרה יחסית אולם עשירה באירועים, הכנס שואף לבחון את ההתפתחויות ההיסטוריות, חברתיות, כלכליות, פוליטיות ותרבותיות שאירעו ביפן במהלכה. בד בבד עם מבט רחב על התקופה, נשים הפעם דגש מיוחד על נושאים בינתחומיים הקשורים בתעשיות היצירתיות ובתרבות החזותית ביפן, כגון אופנה, עיצוב, אדריכלות, אמנות, וקולנוע, וההקשרים החברתים והכלכליים שלהן.
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Drugs and Backpackers in East Asia: A Global Problem from an Israeli Perspective
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In the Aftermath of the War in Iraq: Asian Perspectives
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Fifty Years to Israeli-Japanese Diplomatic Relations
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The Asian Sphere offers a unique opportunity for outstanding candidates at the PhD level to enroll in an international multidisciplinary inter-university graduate program focusing on the Asian continent. The Asian Sphere is a joint... more
The Asian Sphere offers a unique opportunity for outstanding candidates at the PhD level to enroll in an international multidisciplinary inter-university graduate program focusing on the Asian continent. The Asian Sphere is a joint Israeli program of the Hebrew University and the University of Haifa funded by the Humanities Fund of the Council for Higher Education in Israel and Yad Hanadiv. It is a structured graduate program of excellence that focuses on various aspects of the entire Asian continent as a continuous civilizational zone. It addresses cross-regional contacts and processes among Asian societies, cultures and states, as well as between Asia and other continents throughout history until present time. The program's courses are taught in English. Apart from a dynamic and exceptional environment of learning and research, the program offers scholarships for outstanding graduate students. The scholarships for PhD students are of the amount of 60,000 NIS per year for three years. The Asian Sphere accepts students from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences,
Research Interests: Japanese Studies, Middle East Studies, Chinese Studies, Japanese Language And Culture, Indian studies, and 11 moreSouth Asian Studies, Iranian Archaeology, Korean Studies, Central Asian Studies, Mongolian Studies, Cross-Cultural Studies, East Asian Studies, Islamic Studies, Chinese archaeology, Chinese history (History), and Mongolian history
The First World War unleashed a wave of anti-colonial unrest stretching from North Africa to the Far East and lasting roughly until the mid-1920s. Often, opponents of European rule complemented insurgency with international petitioning... more
The First World War unleashed a wave of anti-colonial unrest stretching from North Africa to the Far East and lasting roughly until the mid-1920s. Often, opponents of European rule complemented insurgency with international petitioning and press campaigns. My paper will follow the mobilization of two nationalist movements from the interwar Middle East—the Egyptian Wafd and the leaders of the self-proclaimed Tripolitan Republic—in the trans-imperial public sphere. I will trace their attempts to gain sympathy among the French government and public opinion through petitions, memoranda and pamphlets. Skilled entrepreneurs of inter-imperial rivalry, both Egyptian and Libyan nationalists adjusted their rhetoric to the discursive and ideological background of their addressees—for example, by justifying their claims through the values of the French Revolution, the French republican tradition, etc. In parallel, by denouncing the excesses and brutality of British and Italian counter-insurgency, petitioners gratified Paris’s superiority complex vis-à-vis other imperial powers.
Recent international history has emphasized the galvanizing effect of global ideologies, institutional arenas and mobilization channels on interwar anti-imperial movements (see, for example, Erez Manela’s The Wilsonian Moment or Susan Pedersen’s work on the mandates system). Conversely, Andrew Arsan and other scholars have linked Middle-East interwar internationalism to pre-existing traditions of transnational mobilization typical of late-Ottoman political life. While the metropolis-colony binary remains the most appropriate framework to interpret the post-WWI arch of anti-imperial insurgency, I argue, the imperial spaces of the various European powers should be seen in interaction with each other, as they made up an osmotic and interconnected humus. Not only did anti-colonial movements played with inter-imperial rivalry to challenge metropolitan authorities; imperial powers also monitored troubles in each other’s colonial peripheries in search for parallels and contrasts with their own, as the confidential comments by French politicians and bureaucrats on Egyptian and Libyan complaints reveal.
Recent international history has emphasized the galvanizing effect of global ideologies, institutional arenas and mobilization channels on interwar anti-imperial movements (see, for example, Erez Manela’s The Wilsonian Moment or Susan Pedersen’s work on the mandates system). Conversely, Andrew Arsan and other scholars have linked Middle-East interwar internationalism to pre-existing traditions of transnational mobilization typical of late-Ottoman political life. While the metropolis-colony binary remains the most appropriate framework to interpret the post-WWI arch of anti-imperial insurgency, I argue, the imperial spaces of the various European powers should be seen in interaction with each other, as they made up an osmotic and interconnected humus. Not only did anti-colonial movements played with inter-imperial rivalry to challenge metropolitan authorities; imperial powers also monitored troubles in each other’s colonial peripheries in search for parallels and contrasts with their own, as the confidential comments by French politicians and bureaucrats on Egyptian and Libyan complaints reveal.
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The Asian Sphere offers a unique opportunity for outstanding candidates at the PhD level to enroll in a multidisciplinary and inter-university graduate program that deals with the Asian continent. The Asian Sphere is a joint Israeli... more
The Asian Sphere offers a unique opportunity for outstanding candidates at the PhD level to enroll in a multidisciplinary and inter-university graduate program that deals with the Asian continent. The Asian Sphere is a joint Israeli program between the Hebrew University and the University of Haifa, funded by the Humanities Fund of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education in Israel (VATAT) and Yad Hanadiv. It is a structured graduate program of excellence that deals with the entire Asian continent as a continuous civilizational zone and addresses cross-regional contacts and processes among Asian societies, cultures and states and to a lesser extent between Asia and other continents throughout history until present time. Apart from a dynamic and exceptional environment of learning and research, the program offers a large number of scholarships for outstanding graduate students. The scholarships for PhD students are in the amount of 60,000 NIS per year + full tuition for three years. The Asian Sphere accepts students from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, such as Asian Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Art History,
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The Asian Sphere offers a unique opportunity for outstanding candidates at the PhD level to enroll in a multidisciplinary and inter-university graduate program that deals with the Asian continent. The Asian Sphere is a joint Israeli... more
The Asian Sphere offers a unique opportunity for outstanding candidates at the PhD level to enroll in a multidisciplinary and inter-university graduate program that deals with the Asian continent. The Asian Sphere is a joint Israeli program between the Hebrew University and the University of Haifa, funded by the Humanities Fund of the Council for Higher Education in Israel and Yad Hanadiv. It is a structured graduate program of excellence that deals with the entire Asian continent as a continuous civilizational zone and addresses cross-regional contacts and processes among Asian societies, cultures and states and to a lesser extent between Asia and other continents throughout history until present time. The program's courses are taught in English. Apart from a dynamic and exceptional environment of learning and research, the program offers a large number of scholarships for outstanding graduate students. The scholarships for PhD students are in the amount of 60,000 NIS per year for three years. The Asian Sphere accepts students from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, such as Asian Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
DEADLINE: March 31, 2020
https://eacenter.huji.ac.il/news/asian-sphere-trans-cultural-flows-program
DEADLINE: March 31, 2020
https://eacenter.huji.ac.il/news/asian-sphere-trans-cultural-flows-program
Research Interests: Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Economics, and 15 moreSoutheast Asian Studies, Social Sciences, Middle East Studies, Chinese Studies, South Asian Studies, Inner Asian Studies, Mongolian Studies, Eurasian Nomads, East Asian Studies, Islamic Studies, History of the Mongol Empire, Migration Studies, Social History, Central Asia, and Korean popular culture
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history. With twelve thematically-arranged chapters, it examines the diverse roles that beasts, livestock, and fish ― real... more
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history. With twelve thematically-arranged chapters, it examines the diverse roles that beasts, livestock, and fish ― real and metaphorical--have played in Asian history, society, and culture.
Ranging from prehistory to the present day, the authors address a wealth of topics including the domestication of animals, dietary practices and sacrifice, hunting, the use of animals in war, and the representation of animals in literature and art. Providing a unique perspective on human interaction with the environment, this volume is cross-disciplinary in its reach, offering enriching insights to the fields of animal ethics, Asian studies, world history and more.
CONTENT
1. Animals and Human Society in Asia: An Overview and Premises
PART I: HUNTING AND DOMESTICATION
2. When Elephants Roamed Asia: The Significance of Proboscideans in Diet, Culture and Cosmology in Paleolithic Asia (by Ran Barkai)
3. Hunting to Herding to Trading to Warfare: A Chronology of Animal Exploitation in the Negev (by Steven A. Rosen)
4. Domestication of the Donkey (Equus asinus) in the Southern Levant: Archaeozoology, Iconography and Economy (by Ianir Milevski and Liora Kolska Horwitz)
PART II: ANIMALS AS FOOD
5. Spilling Blood: Conflict and Culture over Animal Slaughter in Mongol Eurasia (by Timothy May)
6. China’s Dairy Century: Making, Drinking and Dreaming of Milk (by Thomas David DuBois)
7. Tuna as Economic Resource and Symbolic Capital in Japan’s “Imperialism of the Sea” (by Nadin Heé)
PART III: ANIMALS AT WAR
8. Elephants in Mongol History: From Military Obstacles to Symbols of Buddhist Power (by William G. Clarence-Smith)
9. The Mamluk's Best Friend: The Mounts of the Military Elite of Egypt and Eurasian Steppe in the Late Middle-Ages (by Reuven Amitai and Gila Kahila Bar-Gal)
10. A Million Horses: Raising Government Horses in Early Ming China (by Noa Grass)
PART IV: ANIMALS IN CULTURE AND RELIGION
11. From Lion to Tiger: The Changing Buddhist Images of Apex Predators in Trans-Asian Contexts (by Xing Zhang and Huaiyu Chen)
12. The Chinese Cult of the Horse King, Divine Protector of Equines (by Meir Shahar)
13. Animal Signs: Theriomorphic Intercession between Heaven and Imperial Mongolian History (by Brian Baumann)
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
ENDORSEMENT (BACK COVER)
"Animal studies is a vibrant field that renews humanities by breaking many barriers. This intense and beautiful volume exemplifies such breaking and renewing, as it connects Far-eastern and Near-eastern areas and the steppe world in between, and develops an engaged dialogue between archeology, history, religion, visual studies, economics, law, and more."
―Vincent Goossaert, Professor of Daoism and Chinese religions, EPHE, PSL, Paris
"An ambitious volume, as broad, diverse, and interconnected as Asia. A significant interdisciplinary contribution to the history of human-animal relations."
―Aaron Skabelund, Associate Professor of History, Brigham Young University, USA,
author of Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World
AMAZON
https://www.amazon.com/Animals-Human-Society-Asia-Perspectives/dp/3030243621/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=animals+and+human+society+in+asia&link_code=qs&qid=1564222263&s=gateway&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-1
Page Numbers: 412
Publication Date: 2019
Publication Name: London: Palgrave Macmillan
Ranging from prehistory to the present day, the authors address a wealth of topics including the domestication of animals, dietary practices and sacrifice, hunting, the use of animals in war, and the representation of animals in literature and art. Providing a unique perspective on human interaction with the environment, this volume is cross-disciplinary in its reach, offering enriching insights to the fields of animal ethics, Asian studies, world history and more.
CONTENT
1. Animals and Human Society in Asia: An Overview and Premises
PART I: HUNTING AND DOMESTICATION
2. When Elephants Roamed Asia: The Significance of Proboscideans in Diet, Culture and Cosmology in Paleolithic Asia (by Ran Barkai)
3. Hunting to Herding to Trading to Warfare: A Chronology of Animal Exploitation in the Negev (by Steven A. Rosen)
4. Domestication of the Donkey (Equus asinus) in the Southern Levant: Archaeozoology, Iconography and Economy (by Ianir Milevski and Liora Kolska Horwitz)
PART II: ANIMALS AS FOOD
5. Spilling Blood: Conflict and Culture over Animal Slaughter in Mongol Eurasia (by Timothy May)
6. China’s Dairy Century: Making, Drinking and Dreaming of Milk (by Thomas David DuBois)
7. Tuna as Economic Resource and Symbolic Capital in Japan’s “Imperialism of the Sea” (by Nadin Heé)
PART III: ANIMALS AT WAR
8. Elephants in Mongol History: From Military Obstacles to Symbols of Buddhist Power (by William G. Clarence-Smith)
9. The Mamluk's Best Friend: The Mounts of the Military Elite of Egypt and Eurasian Steppe in the Late Middle-Ages (by Reuven Amitai and Gila Kahila Bar-Gal)
10. A Million Horses: Raising Government Horses in Early Ming China (by Noa Grass)
PART IV: ANIMALS IN CULTURE AND RELIGION
11. From Lion to Tiger: The Changing Buddhist Images of Apex Predators in Trans-Asian Contexts (by Xing Zhang and Huaiyu Chen)
12. The Chinese Cult of the Horse King, Divine Protector of Equines (by Meir Shahar)
13. Animal Signs: Theriomorphic Intercession between Heaven and Imperial Mongolian History (by Brian Baumann)
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
ENDORSEMENT (BACK COVER)
"Animal studies is a vibrant field that renews humanities by breaking many barriers. This intense and beautiful volume exemplifies such breaking and renewing, as it connects Far-eastern and Near-eastern areas and the steppe world in between, and develops an engaged dialogue between archeology, history, religion, visual studies, economics, law, and more."
―Vincent Goossaert, Professor of Daoism and Chinese religions, EPHE, PSL, Paris
"An ambitious volume, as broad, diverse, and interconnected as Asia. A significant interdisciplinary contribution to the history of human-animal relations."
―Aaron Skabelund, Associate Professor of History, Brigham Young University, USA,
author of Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World
AMAZON
https://www.amazon.com/Animals-Human-Society-Asia-Perspectives/dp/3030243621/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=animals+and+human+society+in+asia&link_code=qs&qid=1564222263&s=gateway&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-1
Page Numbers: 412
Publication Date: 2019
Publication Name: London: Palgrave Macmillan