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"A Council on Foreign Relations book"--Cover.

The thinking and leadership we need to avoid an irreversible tragedy.

Tracing the canonization through translation of The Tale of Genji from the 1830s to the 1950s, Michael Emmerich rewrites the early modern and modern history of the work, illuminating the intricate process by which it came to be recognized as a classic of both Japanese and world literature.

A revealing study of the sensual tensions powering the period's formal and ideological innovations.

Based on years of field research conducted in the rural highlands, Fear as a Way of Life traces the intricate links between the recent political violence and repression and the long-term systemic violence connected with class inequalities and gender and ethnic oppression--the violence of everyday life.