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31. Modern Japanese Culture and Society

    By D. P. Martinez

    Series: Routledge Library of Modern Japan

    Since the end of the 1980s, scholarly work on Japan has attempted to escape the bounds of the previous discourse that continuously described it as ‘changing Japan’, a discourse which paradoxically also focused, in the main, on the hierarchical models of this so-called vertical society. While...

    Published May 2nd 2007 by Routledge
32. China's New Consumers

    Social Development and Domestic Demand

    By Elisabeth Croll

    Exploring China's consumer revolution over the past three decades, this book shows a continuing cycle leading to excess supply and disappointing demand, at the centre of which lies exaggerated expectations of China's new consumers. Combining economic trends with the author’s anthropological...

    Published September 28th 2006 by Routledge
33. The Resurgence of East Asia

    500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives

    Edited by Giovanni Arrighi, Takeshi Hamashita, Mark Selden

    Series: Asia's Transformations

    The East Asian expansion since the 1960s stands out as a global power shift with few historical precedents. The Resurgence of East Asia examines the rise of the region as one of the world's economic power centres from three temporal perspectives: 500 years, 150 years and 50 years, each denoting an...

    Published June 11th 2003 by Routledge