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Visions of Ryukyu
Language: en
Pages: 242
Authors: Gregory Smits
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-01-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Between 1609 and 1879, the geographical, political, and ideological status of the Kingdom of Ryukyu (modern Okinawa) was characterized by its ambiguity. It was
Visions of Ryukyu
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Gregory Smits
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-01-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Between 1609 and 1879, the geographical, political, and ideological status of the Kingdom of Ryukyu (modern Okinawa) was characterized by its ambiguity. It was
Visions of Ryukyu
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Gregory Smits
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-01-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Between 1609 and 1879, the geographical, political, and ideological status of the Kingdom of Ryukyu (modern Okinawa) was characterized by its ambiguity. It was
Maritime Ryukyu, 1050–1650
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Authors: Gregory Smits
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Why do Ryukyu’s official histories locate the origins of its early dynastic founders in Iheya and Izena, small islands located northwest of Okinawa? Why did t
Language Crisis in the Ryukyus
Language: en
Pages: 355
Authors: Mark Anderson
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
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Long denigrated as dialects of Japanese, the Ryukyuan languages are today recognized as languages in their own right. However, speakers of Ryukyuan languages ha