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1. 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
2. Workers’ Democracy in China's Transition from State Socialism

   By Stephen E. Philion

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

   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...

   Published April 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Changing Chinese Legal System, 1978 – Present

   Centralization of Power and Rationalization of the Legal System

   By Bin Liang

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

   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...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
4. Making Music in Japan’s Underground

   The Tokyo Hardcore Scene

   By Jennifer Milioto Matsue

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

   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...

   Published July 28th 2011 by Routledge
5. Buddhism, War, and Nationalism

   Chinese Monks in the Struggle Against Japanese Aggression 1931-1945

   By Xue Yu

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

   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...

   Published April 13th 2011 by Routledge
6. Global Media

   The Television Revolution in Asia

   By James D. White

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

   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...

   Published June 9th 2010 by Routledge
7. Liberal Rights and Political Culture

   Envisioning Democracy in China

   By Zhenghuan Zhou

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

   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....

   Published March 17th 2010 by Routledge
8. We Are Not Garbage!

   The Homeless Movement in Tokyo, 1994-2002

   By Miki Hasegawa

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

   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...

   Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
9. A Nation of a Hundred Million Idiots

   A Social History of Japanese Television, 1953 - 1973

   By Jayson Makoto Chun

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

   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....

   Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
10. Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China

    The Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution

    By Chris Berry

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

    This book argues that the fundamental shift in Chinese Cinema away from Socialism and towards Post-Socialism can be located earlier than the emergence of the "Fifth Generation" in the mid-eighties when it is usually assumed to have occured. By close analysis of films from the 1949-1976 Maoist era...

    Published November 5th 2008 by Routledge