**The definitive account of one of the most important battles of the twentieth century, and the Black River borderlands’ transformation into Northwest Vietnam** This new work of historical and ...political geography ventures beyond the conventional framing of the Battle of Ði?n Biên Ph?, the 1954 conflict that toppled the French empire in Indochina. Tracking a longer period of anticolonial revolution and nation-state formation from 1945 to 1960, Christian Lentz argues that a Vietnamese elite constructed territory as a strategic form of rule. Engaging newly available archival sources, Lentz offers a novel conception of territory as a contingent outcome of spatial contests.
This book examines commercially successful films that depict or are inspired by Chinese martial arts, and that were made by major film artists of the Chinese diaspora—native Chinese that migrated and ...settled in other areas of the world. Specifically, Szeto discusses the work of John Woo, Jackie Chan, and Ang Lee.
Kazuo Ishiguro Sloane, Peter; Shaw, Kristian
2024, 2023
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A comprehensive collection of newly commissioned essays from world-leading Kazuo Ishiguro scholars which offers chapters on each of the novels (including the first publication on Klara and the Sun ...(2021)), short fictions, and screenplays, Kazuo Ishiguro: Twenty First Century Fictions offers a critical reappraisal of the 2017 Nobel Laureate while also uncovering important new thematic and stylistic insights
This book analyzes contemporary Japanese politics, charting the return of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's domestic political dominance and his economic and foreign policy agenda. It is an up-to-date ...account and critique of the progress, obstacles, and far-reaching consequences of one of the most important periods in recent Japanese history.
