East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture – serie
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Village, Market and Well-Being
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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The existing literature on rural China characterizes socioeconomic diversity as a uniquely regional phenomenon: north versus south, coastal versus inland, urban versus rural. Unlike most work done at the village level, this book shows the large variations between the twenty-three villages within …
Trifurcating Miracle
Corporations, Workers, Bureaucrats, and the Erosion of Japan's National Economy
Häftad, 2020
500 kr
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This title examines the transformation of Japan's national economy. It employs the concept of the structure of accumulation composed of the organizations of labor, credit and markets. The postwar Japanese miracle trifurcated into prosperous corportions, squeezed workers and parasitic bureaucracy in …
Changing Chinese Legal System, 1978-Present
Centralization of Power and Rationalization of the Legal System
Av Bin Liang
Häftad, 2012
688 kr
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This groundbreaking book examines the changing Chinese legal system since 1978. In addition to historical analyses of changes at the economic, political-legal, and social levels, Liang gives special attention to crime and punishment functions of the legal system, and the current judicial system …
Workers' Democracy in China's Transition from State Socialism
Häftad, 2012
791 kr
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This fascinating book is among the first to examine state workers’ protests against privatization in China. Philion discusses how Chinese state enterprise workers have engaged a discourse of ‘workers democracy’ in the process of struggle with the new social relations of work that are engendered by …
Accommodating the Chinese
The American Hospital in China, 1880-1920
Häftad, 2013
844 kr
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This in-depth comparative study demonstrates that the hospital established in China - its planning and architecture, financing, and all aspects of day-to-day operation - differed from its counterpart at home. These differences were never due to a single, or even dominant cause. They were a result …
Building Cultural Nationalism in Malaysia
Identity, Representation and Citizenship
Häftad, 2012
718 kr
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This text contains an examination of processes of cultural citizenship in peninsular Malaysia. In particular, it focuses upon the diverse residents of the southwestern state of Melaka and their negotiations of belonging and incorporation in Malaysian society. Following political independence and …
Indonesian Education
Teachers, Schools, and Central Bureaucracy
Häftad, 2012
881 kr
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Indonesian Education: Teachers, Schools, and CentralAuthority, the first published study of life inside Indonesian schools, explores the role that classroom teachers' behavior and locates their actions within the broader cultures of education and government in Indonesia.
Origins of Leftwing Cinema in China, 1932-37
Av Vivian Shen
Häftad, 2012
839 kr
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This book takes a cultural studies approach to analyze and account for the ways in which related to film, literature, cultural production, ideology, social change and modernity were in raised in the leftwing film movement of the 1930s.
Path Toward Gender Equality
State Feminism in Japan
Häftad, 2012
820 kr
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The first study of state feminism in a non-western nation state, this volume focuses on the activities and roles of the Women's Bureau of the Ministry of Labor in post-World War II Japan. While state feminism theory possesses a strong capability to examine state-society relationships in terms of …
Words Kill
Calling for the Destruction of 'Class Enemies' in China, 1949-1953
Häftad, 2012
814 kr
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When Communist revolutionaries seized control of Mainland China in 1949, they faced enormous challenges of state and nation building. China occupied a vast territory, had a huge and poorly integrated population and suffered from a woefully backward economy. Building a Socialist Chinese state …
American Women Missionaries at Kobe College, 1873-1909
Häftad, 2012
907 kr
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This study examines one aspect of American women's professionalization and the implications of the cross-cultural dialogue between American woman missionaries and Japanese students and supporters at Kobe College between 1873 and 1909.
Pitfall or Panacea
The Irony of U.S. Power in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
Häftad, 2012
814 kr
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The main purpose of this book is to shed light on the limitations of the American hegemony in occupied Japan. Previous studies share the assumption that the United States was in a near-monopoly position to shape the postwar development in Japan as well as in the Asia-Pacific region. The book goes …
Making a Market Economy
The Institutionalizational Transformation of a Freshwater Fishery in a Chinese Community
Av Ning Wang
Häftad, 2012
718 kr
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This study investigates the rise and growth of a market economy in the Longlake region, Hubei province, China. Well known in China as the land of fish and rice, the Longlake region has a long tradition of fresh water fishery. Yet, it is the last two decades of the twentieth century that have …
History of Japanese Policies in Education Aid to Developing Countries, 1950s-1990s
The Role of the Subgovernmental Processes
Häftad, 2014
769 kr
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During the half century from the 1950s to the year 2000, Japan emerged as a major international aid donor. In 1989 it became the largest bilateral air donor in the world. How did Japan emerge as a top education aid donor? What external and internal pressures shaped the development of aid policies? …
Buddhism, War, and Nationalism
Chinese Monks in the Struggle Against Japanese Aggression 1931-1945
Av Xue Yu
Häftad, 2011
791 kr
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This thesis examines the doctrinal grounds and different approaches to working out this "new Buddhist tradition," a startling contrast to the teachings of non-violence and compassion which have made Buddhism known as a religion of peace. In scores of articles as war approached in 1936-37, new monks …
Cooperation over Conflict
The Women's Movement and the State in Postwar Japan
Häftad, 2012
718 kr
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Japan's postwar transformation has been hailed as nothing short of a miracle. Yet, in the midst of massive social, economic, political, and cultural change, gender inequality persists at remarkably high levels. The paradox of Japan's progress against the persistence of gender inequality raises the …
We Are Not Garbage!
The Homeless Movement in Tokyo, 1994-2002
Häftad, 2009
500 kr
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This book offers a full history of a homeless movement in Tokyo that lasted nearly a decade. It shows how homeless people and their external supporters in the city combined their scarce resources to generate and sustain the movement. The study advocates a more nuanced analysis of movement gains to …
Nation of a Hundred Million Idiots
A Social History of Japanese Television, 1953 - 1973
Häftad, 2009
934 kr
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This book offers a history of Japanese television audiences and the popular media culture that television helped to spawn. In a comparatively short period, the television industry helped to reconstruct not only postwar Japanese popular culture, but also the Japanese social and political landscape. …
Chinese Feminism Faces Globalization
Häftad, 2013
791 kr
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Examining Chinese domestic as well as international circumstances surrounding the emergence of an independent women's movement in Beijing in the 1990s, this book seeks to explain how such a movement could have arisen after the repression of student activists in Tiananmen Square in 1989. It also …
From Transition to Power Alternation
Democracy in South Korea, 1987-1997
Av Carl Saxer
Häftad, 2013
791 kr
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In 1987 South Korea began a democratic transition after almost three decades of significant economic development under authoritarian rule. Increased civil unrest caused by dissatisfaction resulted in the regime agreeing to constitutional changes in the summer of 1987. By 1992 the first president …
Japan's Foreign Policy Maturation
A Quest for Normalcy
Av Kevin Cooney
Häftad, 2013
407 kr
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The sudden end of the Cold War took the Japanese foreign policy community by surprise. The Yoshida Doctrine which served Japanese foreign policy so well during the Cold War is no longer a viable foreign policy option. This dissertation examines the restructuring of Japanese foreign policy since the …
In Search of an Identity
The Politics of History Teaching in Hong Kong, 1960s-2000
Häftad, 2013
791 kr
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This book traces the influences that have shaped the secondary school history curriculum during Hong Kong's prolonged political transition between the 1960s and the early 21st century, focusing especially on the relationship between history teaching and identity formation. The author's experience …
Liberal Rights and Political Culture
Envisioning Democracy in China
Häftad, 2010
370 kr
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This book argues that the liberal concept of rights presupposes and is grounded in an individualistic culture or shared way of relating, and that this particular shared way of relating emerged only in the wake of the Reformation in the modern West.
Global Media
The Television Revolution in Asia
Häftad, 2010
370 kr
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This book is about the processes of globalization, demonstrated through a comparative study of three television case histories in Asia. Also illustrated are different approaches to providing television services in the world: public service (NHK in Japan), state (CCTV in China) and commercial (STAR …
Making Music in Japan’s Underground
The Tokyo Hardcore Scene
Häftad, 2011
934 kr
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Grounded in the fields of Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Popular Music Studies, and Japanese Studies, this book explores the underground Tokyo hardcore scene, ultimately asking what play as resistance through performance of the scene tells us about Japanese society in general. Matsue highlights the …
Studying the Enemy
Japan Hands in Republican China and Their Quest for National Identity, 1925-1945
Inbunden, 2001
2578 kr
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Unlike the majority of contemporary scholarly works that examine Sino-Japanese relations between 1925 and 1945, this study de-emphasizes the story of conflict and war in favor of one that revolves around the way in which the Chinese intellectually encountered the "enemy", the Japanese.
Opening the Doors
Immigration, Ethnicity, and Globalization in Japan
Inbunden, 2001
2504 kr
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Using qualitative research methods and evidence gathered from interviews, this work explores and highlights contradictions between Japanese immigration and immigrant policies as they relate to ethnic Japanese "returnees."
Chinese Feminism Faces Globalization
Inbunden, 2001
2504 kr
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Examining Chinese domestic as well as international circumstances surrounding the emergence of an independent women's movement in Beijing in the 1990s, this book seeks to explain how such a movement could have arisen after the repression of student activists in Tiananmen Square in 1989. It also …
Struggle For National Survival
Chinese Eugenics in a Transnational Context, 1896-1945
Inbunden, 2002
3147 kr
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This dissertation is a historical investigation of the relationship between science and society through the comparative study of eugenics movements as they developed in both Japan and China from the 1890's to the 1940's.
Renaissance of Takefu
How People and the Local Past Changed the Civic Life of a Regional Japanese Town
Inbunden, 2003
2504 kr
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This book tells the story of a citizen group through the example and results of their participation in local civic life. The book draws attention to the complicated conditions under which civic participation may succeed. The story is about the individuals and organizations in the regional Japanese …
