East Asia Books

New and Published Books

1. Young Chinese in Urban China

   By Alex Cockain

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   This book examines the condition of being a young person in China and the way in which changes in various dimensions of urban life have affected Chinese youths' quests to understand themselves. The author examines social factors such as changes in the physical construction of urban neighbourhoods;...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
2. Home and Family in Japan

   Continuity and Transformation

   Edited by Richard Ronald, Allison Alexy

   Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

   In the Japanese language the word ‘ie’ denotes both the materiality of homes and family relations within. The traditional family and family house - often portrayed in ideal terms as key foundations of Japanese culture and society - have been subject to significant changes in recent years. This book...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
3. Chinese Kinship

   Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives

   Edited by Susanne Brandtstädter, Gonçalo D Santos

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   The essays in this volume present contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses. The collection draws particular attention to the reverberations of larger socio-cultural and politico-economic processes in the formation of...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
4. Dealing with Disaster in Japan

   Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash

   By Christopher Hood

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   Just as the sinking of the Titanic is embedded in the public consciousness in the English-speaking world, so the crash of JAL flight JL123 is part of the Japanese collective memory. The 1985 crash involved the largest loss of life for any single air crash in the world. 520 people, many of whom had...

   Published September 11th 2011 by Routledge
5. An Emerging Non-Regular Labour Force in Japan

   The Dignity of Dispatched Workers

   By Huiyan Fu

   Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

   Like many industrialised nations, the current employment trend in Japan centres on diversification of the labour market with an increased use of temporary labour. Among a wide range of non-regular labour arrangements, haken are a newly legalised category of non-regular workers who are typically...

   Published August 11th 2011 by Routledge
6. Gender and Labour in Korea and Japan

   Sexing Class

   Edited by Ruth Barraclough, Elyssa Faison

   Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

   Bringing together for the first time sexual and industrial labour as the means to understand gender, work and class in modern Japan and Korea, this book shows that a key feature of the industrialisation of these countries was the associated development of a modern sex labour industry. Tying...

   Published June 29th 2011 by Routledge
7. Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture

   Edited by Sylvie Guichard-Anguis, Okpyo Moon

   Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

   This book examines Japanese tourism and travel, both today and in the past, showing how over hundreds of years a distinct culture of travel developed, and exploring how this has permeated the perceptions and traditions of Japanese society. It considers the diverse dimensions of modern tourism...

   Published June 29th 2011 by Routledge
8. Social Class in Contemporary Japan

   Structures, Sorting and Strategies

   Edited by Hiroshi Ishida, David H. Slater

   Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

   Post-war Japan was often held up as the model example of the first mature industrial societies outside the Western economy, and the first examples of "middle-mass" society. Today, and since the bursting of the economic bubble in the 1990’s, the promises of Japan, Inc., seem far away. Social Class...

   Published May 29th 2011 by Routledge
9. Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities

   Comparative Inquiries in Science, History, and Ethics

   Edited by Jing Bao Nie, Nanyan Guo, Mark Selden, Arthur Kleinman

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   Prior to and during the Second World War, the Japanese Army established programs of biological warfare throughout China and elsewhere. In these “factories of death,” including the now-infamous Unit 731, Japanese doctors and scientists conducted large numbers of vivisections and experiments on...

   Published May 21st 2011 by Routledge
10. Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World

    Global Politics of Medical Knowledge and Practice

    Edited by Laurent Pordié

    Series: Needham Research Institute Series

    The popularity of Tibetan medicine plays a central role in the international market for alternative medicine and has been increasing and extending far beyond its original cultural area becoming a global phenomenon. This book analyses Tibetan medicine in the 21st century by considering the...

    Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge