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...Hosea Hirata Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Masturbation, the Emperor, and the Language of the Sublime in Oe Kenzabur6 Hosea Hirata Masturbation, the Emperor, and the language of the sublime: each of these rather disparate...

...Yukiko Hanawa; Linda Hoaglund Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Interview with Christine Choy and Nancy Tong, Filmmakers (In the Name of the Emperor) Yukiko Hanawa and Linda Hoaglund In December 1937,invading Japanese troops stormed the city gates...

... relations. Among them, Yan Congjian 嚴從簡 wrote Shuyu zhouzi lu 殊域周咨錄 ( Records of Surrounding Strange Realms ) (1574), He Qiaoyuan 何喬遠 compiled Wang Xiangji 王享記 ( Records of the Emperors’ Tributes ) (1597–1620), Luo Yuejiong 羅曰褧 penned Xianbin lu 咸賓錄 ( Records of Tributary Guests ) (1597), and Luo Maodeng 羅懋...

... communities overseen by the haveli 's amir (overlord) dissipated with the declining financial and social powers of the Mughal emperor, and India's many regents and noblemen. Since the mid-twentieth century, havelis largely populate the nation's landscape as heritage sites or decaying buildings parceled out...

... the theoretical structures of Taiyô to tetsu , I conclude by suggesting that in terms of its relation to criticism and literary history, Mishima's project and the problematic posed by it closely parallels the question of the emperor-system ( tennôsei ) and its own problems of cultural representation. Duke...

... into the larger emperor-centered community. However, as I will argue, this elusive project of cultural incorporation revolved around mutually constitutive definitions of Japanese-ness and Korean-ness that the colonial state was seriously invested in managing but, in practice, could hardly control. On the one hand...

...- the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the emperor’s so-called divine decision to terminate the war-provided the grounds upon which the Jap- anese wartime leadership would found a narrative that could explain away the tension created by its...

... of which are subject to the formulaic conventions of their genre) for her departed husband, the Quang Trung emperor (c. 1753–92, r. 1788–92). While Xuân Hu) o) ngwasaprolificpoet,herpoemshavesurvivedonlyinpoetrycollections published...

... Temples at Chengde.2 Located some two hundred miles northeast of Bei- jing, Chengde (also known as Rehe) contained an eighteenth-century palace and temple complex built under the early Manchu emperors of the Qing dynasty. One of its temples...

... while relentlessly critiquinghow the retention of not only the emperor system (tenn¯osei) but the Sh¯owa emperor himself into the postwar period functions as the stabilizingcounterbalance to the destabilization of the postmodern...

... the emperor to degrade and humiliate themselves by perform- ing the notorious kowtow. According to many nineteenth-century Euro- American male observers, China’s court ceremonies demanded the sort of reverence that was due no human being...

...- clared their historic ruling through their summary of findings:6 “Emperor Showa is guilty” and “the government of Japan bears state responsibility.”7 I will never forget the moment the judgment was read; it inspired cries of joy, clapping...

... the necessity of cleansing his “barbarian heart” so that he can prove his loyalty to the emperor and share in the purity of the Japanese spirit. The “barbarian heart,” the so-called yidi zhi xin, is a concept borrowed from the term zunwang rangyi...

..., the graphic maga- zine fetishized it, supplanting the political reality of a structure of relations created by the newregime with images of attractive individuals and families. Ordering Principle 1: The Emperor’s Cupboard The first layer of meaning...

... for the dynasty. The term Duanxiu referring to the story that an emperor in ancient China cut his own sleeve, which his male favorite was sleeping on, in order not to wake the lover up when he got of bed himself) suggested the sexual...

... contrast to Japan’s reluctance to recog- nize war crimes. Japan’s policy toward memorializing war leaders reflects the nation’s inability to admit its crimes: as is well known, although the emperor was a leading war criminal, he was allowed...

... of the Meiji Restoration, we centralized power around the ideology of the Emperor System. The first and fundamental error the Japanese made was that in our path to modernization, we made Asia a sacrificial lamb. In the name of modernization, we...

... politicians. Soon after an ideological attack on the liberalist constitutional theory of “the emperor as an organ of the state” in the name of the “Kokutai [national polity] Clarification Movement” in 1935, the military assumed political power...

... in the institution of the postwar emperor system. Because of the consistent policy of the U.S. occupation administration, Japan experts in the States had to endorse the emperor system and then create the ideological legitimation that it “has always...

... to the emperor and love of the country) and a Tai I Kokugo and Colonial Education in Taiwan 507 shared language. He likened this language to the spiritual blood of the Jap- anese from which the national polity of Japan (kokutaia...