Takamure Itsue Japanese Antiquity And Matricultural Paradigms That Address The Crisis Of Modernity

Author : Yasuko Sato
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031179099

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Takamure Itsue, Japanese Antiquity, and Matricultural Paradigms that Address the Crisis of Modernity by Yasuko Sato Pdf

This book explores Takamure Itsue’s (1894–1964) intellectual odyssey as Japan’s most notable pioneer in the study of women’s history. When she embarked on a series of scholarly projects that investigated marriage patterns and kinship systems in ancient Japan, it was a response to crisis-ridden modernity. Relentless in her quest to dismantle patriarchy, this “woman from the Land of Fire” (a nickname for her birthplace, Kumamoto Prefecture) locked herself away in 1931 and spent the rest of her life conducting research on female-friendly societies with matrilocal arrangements under kinship-based communal systems. While dissecting the patriarchal norms undergirding the capitalist nation-state, she embraced matricultural paradigms that embodied life-sustaining and life-enhancing values through communal childrearing and matrilineal inheritance. Takamure, a visionary thinker, asked big-picture questions and addressed multifarious issues of contemporary relevance, including beauty standards, human trafficking, gross disparities in wealth, war and imperialism, science and religion, and humanity’s relationship with nature.

Author : Thomas S. Mullaney
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262372435

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The Chinese Computer by Thomas S. Mullaney Pdf

The fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing. A standard QWERTY keyboard has a few dozen keys. How can Chinese—a language with tens of thousands of characters and no alphabet—be input on such a device? In The Chinese Computer, Thomas S. Mullaney sets out to resolve this paradox, and in doing so, discovers that the key to this seemingly impossible riddle has given rise to a new epoch in the history of writing—a form of writing he calls “hypography.” Based on fifteen years of research, this pathbreaking history of the Chinese language charts the beginnings of electronic Chinese technology in the wake of World War II up through to its many iterations in the present day. Mullaney takes the reader back through the history and evolution of Chinese language computing technology, showing the development of electronic Chinese input methods—software programs that enable Chinese characters to be produced using alphanumeric symbols—and the profound impact they have had on the way Chinese is written. Along the way, Mullaney introduces a cast of brilliant and eccentric personalities drawn from the ranks of IBM, MIT, the CIA, the Pentagon, the Taiwanese military, and the highest rungs of mainland Chinese establishment, to name a few, and the unexpected roles they played in developing Chinese language computing. Finally, he shows how China and the non-Western world—because of the hypographic technologies they had to invent in order to join the personal computing revolution—“saved” the Western computer from its deep biases, enabling it to achieve a meaningful presence in markets outside of the Americas and Europe. An eminently engaging and artfully told history, The Chinese Computer is a must-read for anyone interested in how culture informs computing and how computing, in turn, shapes culture.

Author : Raichō Hiratsuka
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780231138130

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In the Beginning, Woman was the Sun by Raichō Hiratsuka Pdf

'In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun' presents a personal account of the author's life in late 19th and early 20th century Japanese society. This is a story of a woman at once idealistic and elitist, fearless and vain, perceptive and brilliant.

Author : Yale University. Class of 1836
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN748K

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Historical and Biographical Record by Yale University. Class of 1836 Pdf

Author : Kei Sasuga
Publisher : Kodansha America LLC
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781646592869

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Domestic Girlfriend, Volume 24 by Kei Sasuga Pdf

The scandalous love story from "Good Ending" author Kei Sasuga! Natsuo just found out he's got two new family members... Rui, the girl who took his virginity, and Hina, the high school teacher he can't get off his mind! A pure yet tempestuous love triangle, all under one roof! In Natsuo's hour of need, the Boss appears! After seeing her beloved brother in danger, Hina reaches a decision. Meanwhile, love blossoms both in New York and at college! Kajita gets closer to Rui, and Miyabi steels herself and makes her move! Among this tangled web of romance, one story reaches its conclusion!

Author : Lori Underwood,Dawn Hutchinson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498546409

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The Global Status of Women and Girls by Lori Underwood,Dawn Hutchinson Pdf

This volume examines the complex issues faced by women and girls around the world, both historically and today. Its multidisciplinary focus will appeal to any scholar interested in communication and gender studies.

Author : Herbert Allen Giles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Biography
ISBN : HARVARD:32044036361368

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A Chinese Biographical Dictionary by Herbert Allen Giles Pdf

Author : Herbert Allen Giles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1482 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : UOM:39015086589044

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A Chinese-English Dictionary by Herbert Allen Giles Pdf

Author : Ichiro Hori
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226353340

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Folk Religion in Japan by Ichiro Hori Pdf

Ichiro Hori's is the first book in Western literature to portray how Shinto, Buddhist, Confucian, and Taoist elements, as well as all manner of archaic magical beliefs and practices, are fused on the folk level. Folk religion, transmitted by the common people from generation to generation, has greatly conditioned the political, economic, and cultural development of Japan and continues to satisfy the emotional and religious needs of the people. Hori examines the organic relationship between the Japanese social structure—the family kinship system, village and community organizations—and folk religion. A glossary with Japanese characters is included in the index.

Author : Peggy Reeves Sanday
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0801489067

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Women at the Center by Peggy Reeves Sanday Pdf

Contrary to the declarations of some anthropologists, matriarchies do exist. Peggy Reeves Sanday first went to West Sumatra in 1981, intrigued by reports that the matrilineal Minangkabau--one of the largest ethnic groups in Indonesia--label their society a matriarchy. Numbering some four million in West Sumatra, the Minangkabau are known in Indonesia for their literary flair, business acumen, and egalitarian, democratic relationships between men and women. Sanday uses her repeated visits to West Sumatra in the closing decades of the twentieth century as the basis for a new definition of matriarchy. From the vantage point of daily life in villages, especially one where she developed close personal ties, Sanday's narrative is centered on how the Minangkabau conceive of their world and think humans should behave, along with the practices and rituals they claim uphold their matriarchate. Women at the Center leaves the reader with a solid sense of the respect for women that permeates Minangkabau culture, and gives new life to the concept of matriarchy.

Author : William Wayne Farris
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824864224

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Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures by William Wayne Farris Pdf

The Japanese have long sought inspiration and legitimacy from the written record of their ancient past. The shaping of bygone eras to contemporary agendas began at least by the early eighth century, when the first court histories, namely the Kojiki and the Nihon shoki, were compiled. Since the late nineteenth century, historians have extensively mined these texts and other written evidence and by the late 1970s had nearly exhausted their meager sources. Fortunately for all those interested in uncovering the origins of Japanese civilization, archaeologists have been hard at work. Today, thanks to this postwar "archaeology boom," Japan historians have never been closer to recreating the lives of prehistoric peasants, ancient princes, and medieval samurai. Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures offers substantial new insights into early Japanese history (A.D. 100-800) through an integrated discussion of historical texts and archaeological artifacts. It contends that the rich archaeological discoveries of the past few decades permit scholars to develop far more satisfactory interpretations of ancient Japan than was possible when they were heavily dependent on written sources.

Author : Yasmin Saikia,M. Raisur Rahman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108483872

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The Cambridge Companion to Sayyid Ahmad Khan by Yasmin Saikia,M. Raisur Rahman Pdf

Examines Sayyid Ahmad Khan's life and contribution in the nineteenth century and his legacy in our current times.

Author : Chris Courtney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108417778

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The Nature of Disaster in China by Chris Courtney Pdf

Unearths the forgotten history of a catastrophic flood, examining its profound impact upon the environment and society of modern China.

Author : Heide Göttner-Abendroth
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Matriarchy
ISBN : 1433125129

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Matriarchal Societies by Heide Göttner-Abendroth Pdf

This book presents the results of Heide Goettner-Abendroth's pioneering research in the field of modern matriarchal studies, based on a new definition of «matriarchy» as true gender-egalitarian societies. This new perspective on matriarchal societies is developed step by step by the analysis of extant indigenous cultures in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Author : Joan R. Piggott,Piggott Joan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0804728321

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The Emergence of Japanese Kingship by Joan R. Piggott,Piggott Joan Pdf

This is the first comprehensive study of the sources and nature of classical Japanese kingship and state formation. To draw new insights from the rich body of extant documents and artifacts from early Japan, the author employs the analytical tools of recent Western historiography and anthropology, constructing an "archeology of kingship” that begins by exposing the roots of Japanese monarchy in third-century chieftaincy. The book then traces sovereignty and polity through a series of temporal cross sections, analogous to an archaeologist’s trenches, to reveal artifacts from seven historical epochs, including an array of chieftains, kings, and sovereigns variously styled as Son of Heaven, Polestar Monarch, and Heavenly Sovereign. These sacral and increasingly courtly rulers (both men and women) first presided over confederate chieftaincies, then expansive coalescent polities, and eventually the archipelago’s earliest state formation, Nihon. The book culminates in an account of the reign of the mid-eighth-century monarch Shomu, who represented the zenith of classical Japanese kingship and was supported by a bureaucracy of more than 7,000 people. Shomu’s opulent Chinese-style palace and the unprecedented, monumental Temple of the Great Buddha at Todaiji were replicated in smaller scale by provincial headquarters and temples, all of which functioned as ritual stages for articulating Shomu’s cultural hegemony. Although the forms of classical Japanese kingship--court, fisc, dynasty, and realm--continued to develop in subsequent centuries, all assumed their basic form in the age of Shomu. The author has sought to counter the ahistoricity that characterizes much scholarship concerning early Japanese kingship and to broaden the geographical and disciplinary contexts within which Japanese kingship has been examined. As long as evidence was limited to certain myth-histories compiled in the eighth century, which traced the rule of Heavenly Sovereigns and their realm of Nihon back to prehistory, ahistoricity was inevitable. The author suggests that only when such narratives are reread in the light of evidence from archaeology, continental history, and comparative ethnohistorical research can new scenarios be formulated to trace the emergence of paramount rule.