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1. Mental Illness, Dementia and Family in China

   By Guy Ramsay

   Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

   With rapid economic progress and increasing life expectancy in East Asian societies, more attention is being paid by their governments, the media and the academy to mental illness and dementia. While clinical research on mental illness and dementia in Chinese societies acknowledges the importance...

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
2. Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China

   By Cuncun Wu

   Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

   Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China is the richest exploration to date of late imperial Chinese literati interest in male love. Employing primary sources such as miscellanies, poetry, fiction and 'flower guides', Wu Cuncun argues that male homoeroticism played a central role in the...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Japan on Display

   Photography and the Emperor

   By Morris Low

   Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

   Sixty years on from the end of the Pacific War, Japan on Display examines representations of the Meiji emperor, Mutsuhito (1852-1912) and his grandson the Showa emperor, Hirohito who was regarded as a symbol of the nation, in both war and peacetime. Much of this representation was aided by the...

   Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
4. Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan

   Crafting Masculinities

   By Romit Dasgupta

   Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

   In Japan, the figure of the suited, white-collar office worker or business executive ‘salaryman’ (or, sarariiman), came to be associated with Japan’s economic transformation following World War Two. The ubiquitous salaryman came to signify both Japanese masculinity, and Japanese corporate culture,...

   Published August 12th 2012 by Routledge
5. Defending Rights in Contemporary China

   By Jonathan Benney

   Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

   The growth of rights defence movements in China reflects the increasing capacity of Chinese citizens to shape their own civic discourse in order to achieve diverse goals. Rights defence campaigns have taken novel forms which are unprecedented in China, including the use of the Internet by rights...

   Published June 24th 2012 by Routledge
6. Korea's Development Under Park Chung Hee

   By Hyung-A Kim

   Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

   Based on personal interviews with the principal policy-makers of the 1970s, Korea's Development under Park Chung-Hee examines how the president sought to develop South Korea into an independent, autonomous sovereign state both economically and militarily. Kim provides a new narrative in the complex...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
7. Women’s History and Local Community in Postwar Japan

   By Curtis Anderson Gayle

   Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

   This timely look at a neglected corner of Japanese historiography spotlights the decade following the end of World War II, a time in which Japanese society was undergoing the transformation from imperial state to democratic nation. For certain working and middle-class women involved in...

   Published December 7th 2009 by Routledge
8. Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan

   By David G. Wittner

   Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

   In this book David Wittner situates Japan’s Meiji Era experience of technology transfer and industrial modernization within the realm of culture, politics, and symbolism, examining how nineteenth century beliefs in civilization and enlightenment influenced the process of technological choice....

   Published July 23rd 2009 by Routledge
9. Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in Contemporary Japanese Culture

   A Reading of Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin

   By Fuminobu Murakami

   Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

   Using the Euro-American theoretical framework of postmodernism, feminism and post-colonialism, this book analyses the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers; Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin. In addition the author reconsiders this...

   Published April 14th 2009 by Routledge
10. Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique

    By Sonia Ryang

    Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

    Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique is an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated study which challenges the conventional view of Japanese studies in general and the Anglophone anthropological writings on Japan in particular. Sonia Ryang explores the process by which the postwar...

    Published May 26th 2004 by Routledge