history etc
READ Kathryn Lofton, Consuming
Religion, Class 200: New Studies in Religion (Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press, 2017).
lofton's interest: how consumption functions as an assertion of
personal value for both consumers and producers
READ Louise Young, Japan’s Total
Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime
Imperialism, 1. paperback print, Twentieth Century
Japan 8 (Berkeley, Calif.: Univ. of Calif. Press,
1999).
READ Aaron Stephen Moore,
Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and
Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945 (Stanford,
California: Stanford University Press, 2013).
READ Takashi Fujitani, Race
for Empire: Koreans as Japanese
and Japanese as Americans During World
War II, Asia Pacific Modern 7 (Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press, 2011), https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520950368.
key point: both US and japan shift from outright discrimination
towards assimilationist models of racial governance during interwar
period
READ Fang Yu Hu, Good Wife, Wise Mother:
Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese
Rule, Taiwan and the World (Seattle: University of Washington
Press, 2024).
READ Jane Bennett, Vibrant
Matter: A Political Ecology of Things, A John Hope
Franklin Center Book (Durham London: Duke University Press,
2010), https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822391623.
awful
READ Matthew Sommer, The Fox
Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other
Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China
(Columbia University Press, 2024).
READ Sharon Kinsella,
Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan, The
Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Series (London New York: Routledge, 2014).
thesis: news media creates "social problem" (in this case compensated
dating, schoolgirl rebellion) through solicitation and shaping of
interviews/publicity
READ Wally Seccombe, A
Millennium of Family Change: Feudalism to Capitalism in
Northwestern Europe, paperback ed., 1. publ. ba Verso
(London: Verso, 1995).
seccombe argues that small family sizes in early modern nw europe
mask multigeneratinal cycles of property inheritance in "weak stem"
form.
READ Kate McDonald, Placing
Empire: Travel and the Social
Imagination in Imperial Japan (Oakland,
California: University of California Press, 2017).