Download or read book Perilous Wagers written by Klaus K. Y. Hammering and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of the men depicted in Perilous Wagers take place in the squalor of Tokyo's old day-laborer district, San'ya, where they can be found eking out a living from occasional construction work and welfare handouts, permanently displaced from their hometowns to metropolitan Tokyo. Although San'ya has nearly vanished during the past twenty years, its import persists as a black market where its small population of male day-laborers can be contracted for the most undesirable of tasks, without consideration for their health or safety. In this context, Hammering's book examines classic ethnographic themes of labor, exchange, value, honor, shame, temporality, desire, gender, and personhood. It explores how one group of day-laborers embodied a transgressive masculinity intimately intertwined with honorable mobster values of old, and how they created dignity and sociality under abject conditions of life. Perilous Wagers tracks these underdog values across construction sites, non-profit organizations, hospitals, bunkhouses, and illegal gambling dens, giving imaginative life to a stigmatized, forgotten social world.
Download or read book In Search of Admiration and Respect written by Yanqiu Zheng and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2024-09-23 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search of Admiration and Respect examines the institutionalization of Chinese cultural diplomacy in the period between high imperialism and the international ascendance of the People's Republic of China. During these years, Chinese intellectuals and officials tried to promote the idea of China's cultural refinement in an effort to combat negative perceptions of the nation. Yanqiu Zheng argues that, unlike similar projects by more established powers, Chinese cultural diplomacy in this era was not carried out solely by a functional government agency; rather, limited resources forced an uneasy collaboration between the New York-based China Institute and the Chinese Nationalist government. In Search of Admiration and Respect uses the Chinese case to underscore what Zheng calls "infrastructure of persuasion," in which American philanthropy, museums, exhibitions, and show business had disproportionate power in setting the agenda of unequal intercultural encounters. This volume also provides historical insights into China's ongoing quest for international recognition. Drawing upon diverse archival sources, Zheng expands the contours of cultural diplomacy beyond established powers and sheds light on the limited agency of peripheral nations in their self-representation.
Download or read book History of English Literature written by Hippolyte Taine and published by Edinburgh : Edmonston and Douglas. This book was released on 1873 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Class Room Taine History of English Literature Abridged from the Translation of H Van Laun and Edited with Notes by J Fiske written by Hippolyte Taine and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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