In Transit: The Formation of a Colonial East Asian Cultural Sphere

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295 About the Author Faye Yuan Kleeman is associate professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations of the University of Colorado . Educated at Ochanomizu University (MA) and the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D.), she is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright-Hays, the Japan Foundation, and the Chiang Chingkuo Foundation. She is the author of Under an Imperial Sun: Japanese Colonial Literature in Taiwan and the South (2003) and numerous articles in English, Japanese, and Chinese on topics ranging from modern Japanese literature, East Asian colonial and postcolonial literature, and Japanophone literature, to transculturation and modern cultural history. Production Notes for Kleeman / In Transit: The Formation of the Colonial East Asian Cultural Sphere Jacket design by Julie Matsuo-Chun Composition by Westchester Publishing Services with display type in Examiner NF and text in New Baskerville Hawn TT. Printing and binding by Sheridan Books, Inc. Printed on 60 lb. House White, 444 ppi. Postcard issued in1930s in commemoration of telephone connections being established throughout the Japanese Empire. from shi shuyi ed., witness: the colonial taiwan 1895-1945, vol. 2 (taipei: lihong, 1996). Tang China in Multi-polar Asia A HISTORY OF DIPLOMACY AND WAR Zhenping Wang 2013, 480 pages, illus. cloth isbn: 978-0-8248-3644-3 “This is a major work of Tang scholarship, such as we shall not see for a long time to come. It strives to reconceptualize our understanding of imperial China’s foreign relations in a way that neither privileges the tribute system nor dismisses it as an affront to Westphalian principles. In doing so, the book is in perfect sync with the flood of current interest in retheorizing the history of Chinese foreign policy in more recent centuries. It is also an engagingly written narrative about a fascinating time and place in human history.” —Timothy Brook, Republic of China Chair, Department of History, University of British Columbia Remote Homeland, Recovered Borderland MANCHUS, MANCHOUKUO, AND MANCHURIA, 1907–1985 Shao Dan 2011, 440 pages, illus., maps cloth isbn: 978-0-8248-3445-6 “Shao is to be commended for producing a book of such conceptual and empirical sophistication. It is the most significant book to have come out on Manchuria for some time, as well as a uniquely comprehensive statement on race, ethnicity and territory in twentieth-century China.” —Pacific Affairs “An outstanding reference volume replete with provocative case studies and newly discovered materials begging further analysis for scholars and graduate students that cannot be overlooked in a new body of recent scholarship on northeast China and Manchukuo.” —H-Net Reviews Also in the World of East Asia EAST ASIAN HISTORY ...