East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture

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1. Accommodating the Chinese

   The American Hospital in China, 1880-1920

   By Michelle Campbell Renshaw

   Series: East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture

   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 of a...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Indonesian Education

   Teachers, Schools, and Central Bureaucracy

   By Christopher Bjork

   Series: East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture

   Indonesian Education: Teachers, Schools, and Central Authority, 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....

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. Pitfall or Panacea

   The Irony of U.S. Power in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952

   By Yoneyuki Sugita

   Series: East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture

   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...

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
4. Making a Market Economy

   The Institutionalizational Transformation of a Freshwater Fishery in a Chinese Community

   By Ning Wang

   Series: East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
5. A Path Toward Gender Equality

   State Feminism in Japan

   By Yoshie Kobayashi

   Series: East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture

   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...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Origins of Leftwing Cinema in China, 1932-37

   By Vivian Shen

   Series: East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture

   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....

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
7. American Women Missionaries at Kobe College, 1873-1909

   By Noriko Kawamura Ishii

   Series: East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture

   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....

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
8. Words Kill

   Calling for the Destruction of 'Class Enemies' in China, 1949-1953

   By Cheng-Chih Wang

   Series: East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture

   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...

   Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
9. Building Cultural Nationalism in Malaysia

   Identity, Representation and Citizenship

   By Timothy P. Daniels

   Series: East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture

   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...

   Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge
10. Cooperation over Conflict

    The Women's Movement and the State in Postwar Japan

    By Miriam Murase

    Series: East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture

    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...

    Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge