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An anthology of Chinese travel writing from the first century A D through the nineteenth. It is suitable for scholars of Chinese literature, art, and history.

Challenging the long-cherished notion of legal objectivity in the United States, this title argues that Chicano history has been consistently shaped by racially biased, combative legal interactions. It examines the process by which Chicanos have become associated with criminality in both our legal institutions and our mainstream popular culture.

Argues that there are Israeli Jews and Palestinians who can envision an undivided land, where attachment to a common homeland is stronger than militant tribalism and segregation in national ghettos.

In this work - which blends cultural history and cultural studies - the author examines how DeMille articulated middle-class ideology across class and ethnic barriers to appeal to an increasingly female audience. By the 1920s he had become a trendsetter.

These two memoirs provide windows into the Sumatran past, in particular, and the early 20th-century history of south-east Asia, in general. In reconstructing their own passage into adulthood, the writers tell the story of their country's turbulent journey to independence.

Using pagan prose fiction produced in Greek and Latin during the early Christian era, this book investigates the complex relationship among perceived and presented 'historical' and 'fictional' truths. It illuminates social attitudes of the period and argues that fiction of the period was influenced by the emerging Christian Gospel narratives.

A collection of 18 stories that offer a re-creation of Jewish Eastern Europe from a perspective seldom represented in Hebrew and Yiddish literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It brings to life the shtetl experiences of women and other disenfranchised members of the Jewish community.

Chronicles a colourful period in American film history, from the origin of store-front nickleodeons to the establishment of the Motion Picture Patents Company. The study recounts how film companies brought about the emergence of the feature film, and played a role in implementing moral reforms.

Develops a theory of cinematic intertextuality. Building on the insights of semiotics and contemporary film theory, this book defines cinema as a chain of transparent, mimetic fragments intermixed with quotations. It is of interest to film historians and theorists, as well as readers in cultural and literary studies.

In Italy, Ruzante is recognized as the most original of the Italian Renaissance dramatists; but his plays are hardly known in English. This is a translation of his most successful play, "L'Anconitana", set opposite the Italian version of the play.

Exemplifies the diversity of Japanese feminism. This book features feminists including Kanazumi Fumiko, a lawyer who assists women in a legal system that has long discriminated against them; Kora Rumiko, a poet who reclaims and redefines language to convey her experiences as a woman; and Nakanishi Toyoko, founder of the Japanese Women's Bookstore.

This text offers a new statement on the making of national politics. Comparing the popular political cultures and discourses of post-colonial Mexico and Peru, it provides an analysis of their effect on the evolution of these nation states.

Focusing upon Hollywood's portrayal of Asian races, this study describes how social taboos concerning Orientals helped to perpetuate social and racial inequality in the USA. The author's discussion covers early silent films, later classics such as "Shanghai Express" and the recurring geisha movies.

This text uses a single episode - a militant strike at the Kreenholm factory, Europe's largest textile plant - to explore the broad historical moment. In examining this event, it sheds fresh light on local power relations, high politics, the origins of the Russian labour movement and more.

Individuality is often viewed as an exclusively Western value. In non-Western societies, collective identities seem to eclipse those of individuals. This text brings together personal life stories, historical description and theoretical analysis to define individuality in South Asia.

This text focuses on the preacher and the sermon as the single most important medium for propounding the message of Islam. It draws on social history, political commentary, and theological sources to reveal the subtle connections between religious rhetoric and political dissent.

Embracing issues of ethnicity, gender and ideology, this collection of essays demonstrates how California was an important focus for the development of the progressive reform movement in the USA during the early part of the 20th century.

In the spring of 1935, at Snaketown, Arizona, two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. This work comprises thirty-six separate stories. It begins with the creation of the universe out of the void and ends with the establishment in the sixteenth century of present-day villages.

From the pioneer conquest of the native inhabitants to the infamous destruction of the valley's agrarian economy by water-hungry Los Angeles, California's Owens Valley is a microcosm of the development of the American West. This title chronicles more than a hundred years of tumultuous events in the history of this legendary setting.

Bristol is the city that John Cabot sailed from and Thomas Chatterton dreamed, that Hugh Latimer preached to and Oliver Cromwell seized. This book looks at Bristol's connection with the rise of the Atlantic economy in the early modern period and the accompanying transformation of English economic ideas and practices.

Focusing on the city of Norfolk, Virginia, USA, this study describes how American blacks have had to balance competing inclinations for conscious political inaction and purposeful agitation as they sought to promote their own interests at home and in the workplace.

From her perspective as both a participant and an observer, the author of this study examines the nonviolent direct action movement, an offshoot of the American civil rights movement, which flourished in the USA from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s.

Investigates the social and political dimensions of medical pluralism in the rural town of Kachitu, Bolivia. The author explores how local gossip, rumours and opinions surrounding medical care contribute greatly to a sense of religious and ethnic identity.

A series of Chinese commentaries on the USA, including extracts from the travel diaries of 19th-century Chinese diplomats, a first-hand account of Blacks in Alabama in the 1930s and other essays which have been linked chronologically in order to highlight changing Chinese views of the USA.

Uncovers the hidden sexual and racial politics. This title takes the reader on a feminist-inspired road trip, traveling from the thicket of abortion decisions to the revolutions of 1989 to the murky chambers of the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings. It enunciates a wholly original conception of individual privacy and sexual rights.

The Japanese women whose memoirs, journals and essays are collected in this volume constitute a strong current in the history of modern Japanese life from the 1880s to the outbreak of World War II. The women reveal why they joined left-wing groups in order to fight oppression and injustice.

Contending that Japan's industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, this interdisciplinary study analyzes the changing spatial order of the countryside in early modern Japan. Its focus is the Ina Valley, the gateway to Japan's mountainous interior.

This work reconstructs the cultural encounters which led to Mexico's post-revolutionary government. It sets aside the mythology surrounding president Lazaro Cardenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his followers understood peasant culture, they could not govern.

This text tells the poignant and puzzling story of how, earlier this century, in spite of the power of anti-Semitic politicians and intellectuals, Jews made their exodus to Brazil, "the land of the future."