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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Paperback – 2016-11-30
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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Paperback – 2016-07-21
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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
Unlike the majority of contemporary scholarly works that examine Sino-Japanese relations between 1925 and 1945, this study de-emphasizes the story of conflict and war in favor of one that revolves around the way in which the Chinese intellectually encountered the "enemy", the Japanese.…
Paperback – 2016-07-21
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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
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Paperback – 2016-04-27
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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
Using qualitative research methods and evidence gathered from interviews, this work explores and highlights contradictions between Japanese immigration and immigrant policies as they relate to ethnic Japanese "returnees."…
Paperback – 2016-02-29
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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
This dissertation is a historical investigation of the relationship between science and society through the comparative study of eugenics movements as they developed in both Japan and China from the 1890's to the 1940's.…
Paperback – 2016-02-29
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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
Before the late 1960s, Japan historians characterized the Early Modern Japanese economy in waht are typical feudal terms. Considered backward and stagnant, it was argued that the economy eventually collapsed under the weight of its own internal limitations. This narrative has given way in the past…
Paperback – 2016-01-20
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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
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Paperback – 2014-12-22
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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
This book tells the story of a citizen group through the example and results of their participation in local civic life. The book draws attention to the complicated conditions under which civic participation may succeed. The story is about the individuals and organizations in the regional Japanese…
Paperback – 2014-05-30
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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
The sudden end of the Cold War took the Japanese foreign policy community by surprise. The Yoshida Doctrine which served Japanese foreign policy so well during the Cold War is no longer a viable foreign policy option. This dissertation examines the restructuring of Japanese foreign policy since the…
Paperback – 2013-10-23
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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
Examining Chinese domestic as well as international circumstances surrounding the emergence of an independent women's movement in Beijing in the 1990s, this book seeks to explain how such a movement could have arisen after the repression of student activists in Tiananmen Square in 1989. It also…
Paperback – 2013-10-23
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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
In 1987 South Korea began a democratic transition after almost three decades of significant economic development under authoritarian rule. Increased civil unrest caused by dissatisfaction resulted in the regime agreeing to constitutional changes in the summer of 1987. By 1992 the first president…
Paperback – 2013-09-03
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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Paperback – 2013-06-21
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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…
Paperback – 2013-05-01
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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.…
Paperback – 2012-09-10
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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…
Paperback – 2012-09-10
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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Paperback – 2012-09-10
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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…
Paperback – 2012-07-27
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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.…
Paperback – 2012-07-27
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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.…
Paperback – 2012-07-27
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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…
Paperback – 2012-07-26
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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…
Paperback – 2012-06-28
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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…
Paperback – 2012-04-30
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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…
Paperback – 2012-04-10
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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…
Paperback – 2012-02-23
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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…
Paperback – 2011-07-29
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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…
Paperback – 2011-04-14
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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…
Paperback – 2010-06-10
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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.…
Paperback – 2010-03-18
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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…
Paperback – 2009-04-29
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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.…
Paperback – 2009-04-29
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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…
Paperback – 2008-11-06
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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Hardback – 2002-08-30
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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Hardback – 2002-06-07
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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
This paper presents a study of Japan's international role with a special focus on its historical evolution. To that end, the following three pillars lay the necessary theoretical foundations: one, the notions of historical and political identity and a discussion of the ambivalent shapes they have…
Hardback – 2002-05-10
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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Hardback – 2002-04-26
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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
This dissertation investigates some of the possible causes for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) dramatic economic setbacks that began in the early 1990s. Since the DPRK has been at the brink of famine since 1997, the focus of this study has been devoted to the DPRK's agricultural…
Hardback – 2002-04-12
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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
This study hypothesizes that the permanent employment system in Japan declined during the country's economic downturn in the 1990's. Contrary to expectation, the study finds that employment duration did not decrease, but increased especially for older workers in larger firms.…
Hardback – 2001-11-30
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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Hardback – 2001-05-08
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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture