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Commentary on Thomas S. Mullaney, “Controlling the Kanjisphere,” and Antonia Finnane, “Cold War Sewing Machines”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2016

Andrew Gordon
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These intriguing articles explore the production, the selling, and the use in East Asia of two transformative modern machines. They look primarily at China but both give significant attention to Japan. It is a pleasure to have the opportunity to comment on them. I will spend more time with Antonia Finnane's article, “Cold War Sewing Machines,” as it treats an object near and dear to me (Gordon 2012).

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 75 , Issue 3 , August 2016 , pp. 785 - 788
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016 

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Gordon, Andrew. 2012. Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press.Google Scholar
Stanley, Amy. 2016. “Maidservants' Tales: Narrating Domestic and Global History in Eurasia, 1600–1900.” American Historical Review 121(2):437–60.Google Scholar