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American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa
Literature and Memory
Inbunden, 1999
2904 kr
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How do the Japanese and Okinawans remember Occupation? How is memory constructed and transmitted? Michael Molasky explores these questions through careful, sensitive readings of literature from mainland Japan and Okinawa. This book sheds light on difficult issues of war, violence, prostitution, …
Koreans in Japan
Critical Voices from the Margin
Av Sonia Ryang
Inbunden, 2000
2600 kr
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Koreans in Japan are a barely known minority, not only in the West but also within Japan itself. This pioneering study analyzes these relations in the context of the particular conditions and constraints that Koreans face in Japanese society. The contributors cover a wide range of topics, …
Internationalizing the Pacific
The United States, Japan and the Institute of Pacific Relations, 1919-1945
Av Tomoko Akami
Inbunden, 2001
2600 kr
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The Institute of Pacific Relations was a pioneering intellectual-political organization that shaped public knowledge and both elite and popular discourse throughout the Asia-Pacific region and beyond during the inter-war years. Inspired by Wilsonian internationalism after the 1919 formation of the …
Imperialism in Southeast Asia
Inbunden, 2001
2600 kr
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Imperialism in Southeast Asia examines its subject against a backdrop of those countries that could at a given time be called imperialist: Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands and the US. Examining the imperialist phenomenon from this wide-ranging perspective reveals imperialism as driven by …
American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa
Literature and Memory
Häftad, 2001
1405 kr
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How do the Japanese and Okinawans remember Occupation? How is memory constructed and transmitted? Michael Molasky explores these questions through careful, sensitive readings of literature from mainland Japan and Okinawa. This book sheds light on difficult issues of war, violence, prostitution, …
Chinese Media, Global Contexts
Inbunden, 2003
2525 kr
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Virtually every major media, information and telecommunications enterprise in the world is significantly tied to China. This volume provides the most expert, up-to-date and multidisciplinary analyses on how the contemporary media function in what has rapidly become the world's biggest market. As …
Fertility, Family Planning and Population Policy in China
Av Chiung-Fang Chang, Che-Fu Lee m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
2525 kr
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China's one-child population policy, first initiated in 1979, has had an enormous effect on the country’s development. By reducing its fertility in the past two decades to less than two children per woman, and developing a family planning program focused heavily on sterilization and abortion, China …
Vientiane
Transformations of a Lao landscape
Av Marc Askew, Colin Long m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
2842 kr
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Providing insights into this neglected Southeast Asian city, this interesting book interprets Vientiane’s landscape - physical as well as imagined - as a reflection of key aspects of Lao geo-political history, the nature of Lao urbanism, and its critical relation to constructions of Lao identity in …
Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong
Community, Nation and the Global City
Av Agnes S. Ku, Ngai Pun
Inbunden, 2004
2489 kr
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This book provides a detailed comparative account of the development of citizenship and civil society in Hong Kong from its time as a British colony to its current status as a special autonomous region of China.
Imperialism in Southeast Asia
Häftad, 2004
942 kr
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Imperialism in Southeast Asia examines its subject against a backdrop of those countries that could at a given time be called imperialist: Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands and the US. Examining the imperialist phenomenon from this wide-ranging perspective reveals imperialism as driven by …
Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan
Av Mark McLelland, Romit Dasgupta
Inbunden, 2005
2525 kr
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Incorporating Japanese language materials and field-based research, this compelling collection of essays takes a comparative look at the changing notions of gender and sexual diversity in Japan, considering both heterosexual and non-heterosexual histories, lifestyles and identities.Written by key …
Developmental Dilemmas
Land Reform and Institutional Change in China
Av Peter Ho
Inbunden, 2005
2323 kr
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Developmental Dilemmas singles out land as an object of study and places it in the context of one of the world's largest and most populous countries undergoing institutional reform: the People's Republic of China. The book demonstrates that private property protected by law, the principle of …
Transcultural Japan
At the Borderlands of Race, Gender and Identity
Av David Blake Willis, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
Inbunden, 2007
2759 kr
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Transcultural Japan provides a critical examination of being Other in Japan. Portraying the multiple intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and gender, the book suggests ways in which the transcultural borderlands of Japan reflect globalization in this island nation. The authors show the …
Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan
Av Matthew Allen, Rumi Sakamoto
Inbunden, 2006
2759 kr
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Japanese popular culture is constantly evolving in the face of internal and external influence. Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan examines this evolution from a new and challenging perspective by focusing on the movements of popular culture into and out of Japan. Taking a multidisciplinary …
medi@sia
Global Media/tion In and Out of Context
Av T.J.M. Holden, Timothy J. Scrase
Inbunden, 2006
2525 kr
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This new inter-disciplinary book is the first comparative, case-based analysis of media panoply in (and out of) Asia today. Examining what the authors call the "media/tion equation", the contributors demonstrate the multiple links between media, society and culture, and advance the claim that media …
Koreans in Japan
Critical Voices from the Margin
Av Sonia Ryang
Häftad, 2005
746 kr
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Koreans in Japan are a barely known minority, not only in the West but also within Japan itself. This pioneering study analyses these relations in the context of the particular conditions and constraints that Koreans face in Japanese society.The contributors cover a wide range of topics, including: …
Maid In China
Media, Morality, and the Cultural Politics of Boundaries
Av Wanning Sun
Inbunden, 2008
2525 kr
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Maid in China is the first systematic, book-length investigation of internal rural migration in post-Mao China focused on the day-to-day production and consumption of popular media. Taking the rural maid in the urban home as its point of departure, the book weaves together three years of engaged …
How China Works
Perspectives on the Twentieth-Century Industrial Workplace
Inbunden, 2006
2525 kr
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Spanning the whole of the twentieth century, How China Works examines the labour issues surrounding the workplace in China in both the Republican and People's Republic epochs. The international team of contributors treat China's twentieth-century revolution as an industrial revolution, stressing …
Transcultural Japan
At the Borderlands of Race, Gender and Identity
Av David Blake Willis, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
Häftad, 2009
915 kr
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Historically Japan has alternated between periods of celebration of a diverse, multicultural society and severe spells of xenophobia and persecution of the Other. This collection of multidisciplinary essays re-introduces the idea of Japan as a multicultural society and reflects a rapidly changing …
Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong
Community, Nation and the Global City
Av Agnes S. Ku, Ngai Pun
Häftad, 2006
754 kr
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This book provides a detailed comparative account of the development of citizenship and civil society in Hong Kong from its time as a British colony to its current status as a special autonomous region of China.
Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan
Av Mark McLelland, Romit Dasgupta
Häftad, 2005
651 kr
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Incorporating Japanese language materials and field-based research, this compelling collection of essays takes a comparative look at the changing notions of gender and sexual diversity in Japan, considering both heterosexual and non-heterosexual histories, lifestyles and identities.Written by key …
State Formation and Radical Democracy in India
Av Manali Desai
Inbunden, 2006
2600 kr
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State Formation and Radical Democracy in India analyzes one of the most important cases of developmental change in the twentieth century, namely, Kerala in southern India and begs the question of whether insurgency among the marginalized poor can use formal representative democracy to create better …
Pirate Modernity
Delhi's Media Urbanism
Inbunden, 2009
3082 kr
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Using Delhi’s contemporary history as a site for reflection, Pirate Modernity moves from a detailed discussion of the technocratic design of the city by US planners in the 1950s, to the massive expansions after 1977, culminating in the urban crisis of the 1990s. As a practice, pirate modernity is …
Democracy in Occupied Japan
The U.S. Occupation and Japanese Politics and Society
Av Mark E. Caprio, Yoneyuki Sugita
Inbunden, 2007
1892 kr
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With expert contributions from both the US and Japan, this book examines the legacies of the US Occupation on Japanese politics and society, and discusses the long-term impact of the Occupation on contemporary Japan. Focusing on two central themes – democracy and the interplay of US-initiated …
Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos
Inbunden, 2007
2525 kr
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Incorporating original fieldwork carried out over a period of more than ten years, combined with innovative theoretical argument, Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos presents one of the first sociological investigations into modern Laos. Boike Rehbein gives a fascinating overview of …
Post-Conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism
Tourism, Politics and Development at Angkor
Av Tim Winter
Inbunden, 2007
2525 kr
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Angkor, Cambodia’s only World Heritage Site, is enduring one of the most crucial, turbulent periods in its twelve hundred year history. Given Cambodia’s need to restore its shattered social and physical infrastructures after decades of violent conflict, and with tourism to Angkor increasing by a …
Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan
Av Matthew Allen, Rumi Sakamoto
Häftad, 2008
754 kr
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Japanese popular culture is constantly evolving in the face of internal and external influence. Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan examines this evolution from a new and challenging perspective by focusing on the movements of popular culture into and out of Japan. Taking a multidisciplinary …
China on Video
Smaller-Screen Realities
Av Paola Voci
Inbunden, 2010
2525 kr
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China On Video is the first in-depth study that examines smaller-screen realities and the important role they play not only in the fast-changing Chinese mediascape, but also more broadly in the practice of experimental and non-mainstream cinema. At the crossroads of several disciplines—film, media, …
medi@sia
Global Media/tion In and Out of Context
Av T.J.M. Holden, Timothy J. Scrase
Häftad, 2008
754 kr
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This new inter-disciplinary book is the first comparative, case-based analysis of media panoply in (and out of) Asia today. Examining what the authors call the "media/tion equation", the contributors demonstrate the multiple links between media, society and culture, and advance the claim that media …
Northern Territories, Asia-Pacific Regional Conflicts and the Aland Experience
Untying the Kurillian Knot
Inbunden, 2009
2489 kr
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This volume is the fruit of an international collaborative study, which considers the Åland islands settlement in northern Europe as a resolution model for the major Asia-Pacific regional conflicts that derived from the post-World War II disposition of Japan, with particular focus on the …
