Introduction: Japanese Diplomacy and Interwar East Asia's "Four Waves of International Change" -- The First Wave of International Change and Hara Diplomacy: September 1918 to November 1921 -- The Hara Government -- The Creation of the Washington System and the Second Wave of International Change: November 1921 to January 1924 -- The Takahashi, Katō Tomosaburō, and Yamamoto Governments -- Ne…
Historicizing both emotions and politics, this open access book argues that the historical work of emotion is most clearly understood in terms of the dynamics of institutionalization. This is shown in twelve case studies that focus on decisive moments in European and US history from 1800 until today. Each case study clarifies how emotions were central to people’s political engagement and its …
Zhiyong Zheng is Dean of School of Mathematics, Renmin University of China. He got Ph.D from Shandong University in 1991 and was awarded as Distinguished Paper Award (ICCM 2018), Qiu Shi Outstanding Young Scholar Award (1997), Distinguished Young Scholars (NSF, 1996). His research areas include Diophantine approximation, character sum, cryptography.
This open access edited volume shines new light on the history of propaganda and persuasion during the Nordic welfare epoch. A common analytical framework is developed that highlights transnational and transmedial perspectives rather than national or monomedial histories. The return of propaganda in contemporary debate underlines the need to historically contextualize the role and function of p…
A new theory of moral and aesthetic value for the age of remix, going beyond the usual debates over originality and appropriation. Remix--or the practice of recombining preexisting content--has proliferated across media both digital and analog. Fans celebrate it as a revolutionary new creative practice; critics characterize it as a lazy and cheap (and often illegal) recycling of other people's …
This open access book examines the depiction of Korean history in recent South Korean historical films. Released over the Hallyu (“Korean Wave”) period starting in the mid-1990s, these films have reflected, shaped, and extended the thriving public discourse over national history. In these works, the balance between fate and freedom—the negotiation between societal constraints and individu…
A leading philosopher of technology calls for the democratic coordination of technical rationality with everyday experience.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.