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Aphoristic Modernity

1880 to the Present


Edited by Kostas Boyiopoulos and Michael Shallcross


Chinese Research Perspectives on Society, Volume 5

Analysis and Forecast of China's Social Conditions (2016)


Edited by Peilin LI, Guangjin Chen and Yi ZHANG

Denver’s Chinatown 1875-1900

Gone But Not Forgotten


Jingyi Song

Denver’s Chinatown 1875-1900: Gone But Not Forgotten explores the coming of the Chinese to the Western frontier and their experiences in Denver during its early development from a supply station for the mining camps to a flourishing urban center. The complexity of race, class, immigration, politics, and economic policies interacted dynamically and influenced the life of early Chinese settlers in Denver. The Denver Riot, as a consequence of political hostility and racial antagonism against the Chinese, transformed the life of Denver’s Chinese, eventually leading to the disappearance of Denver's Chinatown. But the memory of a neighbored that was part of the colorful and booming urban center remains.


Edited by Xiaofei Kang

This volume includes 14 articles translated from the leading academic history journal in China, Historical Studies of Contemporary China (Dangdai Zhongguo shi yanjiu). It offers a rare window for the English speaking world to learn how scholars in China have understood and interpreted central issues pertaining to women and family from the founding of the PRC to the reform era. Chapters cover a wide range of topics, from women’s liberation, women’s movement and women’s education, to the impact of marriage laws and marriage reform, and changing practices of conjugal love, sexuality, family life and family planning. The volume invites further comparative inquiries into the gendered nature of the socialist state and the meanings of socialist feminism in the global context.

Chinese Research Perspectives on Society, Volume 6

Analysis and Forecast of China's Social Conditions (2017)


Edited by Peilin LI, Guangjin CHEN and Yi ZHANG


Shūhei Hosokawa

Sentiments, Language, and the Arts: The Japanese-Brazilian Heritage explores the complex feelings of Japanese immigrants in Brazil, focusing on their yearning for “home” as a way of interpreting the shifting nature of their identity. To understand the immigrants’ lives and feelings from their own perspective, Hosokawa looks closely at their poetry, linguistic activities such as the borrowing of Portuguese words, amateur speech contests, and a fantasy about the shared origins of Japanese and the Brazilian indigenous language Tupi. He also examines the issue of group identity through the performing arts, analyzing the reception of Japanese sopranos who sang the title role in Madam Butterfly, participation in Carnival parades, and the oral storytelling of their history in popular narratives called rôkyoku. Translated from Japanese by Paul Warham.

Bernhard Wilhelm von Bülow (1885-1936)

Eine politische Biographie

Annette Schmidt-Klügmann

Diese erste umfassende Biographie Bernhard Wilhelm von Bülows, 1930–1936 Staatssekretär im Auswärtigen Amt, eröffnet einen neuen Blick auf die deutsche Haltung zum System internationaler Friedenssicherung vor dem Hintergrund der Bestrebungen, die Folgen des Versailler Vertrags zu revidieren.Das bislang vorherrschende Bild von Bülows als Locarno- und Völkerbundgegner, der als Staatssekretär ab 1930 bewusst die Abkehr von der Verständigungspolitik Stresemanns einleitete, erfährt dabei eine Neubewertung. Weitere Schwerpunkte der Untersuchung bilden von Bülows Verhältnis zu den Systemwechseln von 1918/19 und 1933 und die Frage nach den Handlungsspielräumen des Auswärtigen Amtes unter dem NS-Regime.

Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan

Volume 3: The Iron Age Pottery


Michèle Daviau

In Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan: Volume 3, The Iron Age Pottery, Michèle Daviau presents a detailed typology of the Iron Age pottery excavated from 1989 to 1995. She looks beyond the formal changes to an in-depth analysis of the forming techniques employed to make each type of vessel from bowls to colanders, cooking pots to pithoi. The changes in fabric composition from Iron I to Iron II were more significant than those from Iron IIB to IIC, although changes in surface treatment, especially slip color, were noticeable. Petrographic analysis of Iron I pottery by Stanley Klassen contributes to our growing corpus of fabric types, while Peter Epler documents typical Ammonite painted patterns and Elaine Kirby and Marianne Kraft present a typology of potters’ marks.

Weapons of Words: Intertextual Competition in Babylonian Poetry

A study of Anzû, Enūma Eliš, and Erra and Išum


Selena Wisnom


The first of its kind in Assyriology, Weapons of Words explores the rich nuances of these poems by unravelling complex networks of allusion. Through a sophisticated analysis of literary techniques, Selena Wisnom traces developments in the Akkadian poetic tradition and demonstrates that intertextual readings are essential for a deeper understanding of Mesopotamian literature.