This long-standing, multidisciplinary series investigates the historical and contemporary political, cultural, social, legal and public policy issues relating to East Asia. This is currently the only series servicing research on Asia, so published studies include investigations into South Asia and South East Asia as well. Topics covered include gender roles, political developments, both modern and historical, and cultural topics, including film.
By David Pietz
January 27, 2017
Using case studies of large-scale public works projects in the Huai River valley of central China, this title illustrates the manner in which the Nationalist governmentst sought to re-establish central administrative control which fractured following the fall of the empire....
By Sheena Choi
July 21, 2016
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
By Susanne Klien
May 10, 2002
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 ...
By Yuehtsen Juliette Chung
February 29, 2016
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....
By Christiane Reinhold
July 21, 2016
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....
By Rui Yang
January 27, 2017
Globalization and internationalization are salient features of our times in significant modern and post-modern social theories. This study contributes to the literature, and delineates a comprehensive picture of China's higher education internationalization, with an analysis of its costs and ...
By Satoshi Ikeda
April 26, 2002
This title examines the transformation of Japan's national economy. It employs the concept of the structure of accumulation composed of the organizations of labor, credit and markets. The postwar Japanese miracle trifurcated into prosperous corportions, squeezed workers and parasitic bureaucracy in...
By Tamara Perkins
June 07, 2002
The existing literature on rural China characterizes socioeconomic diversity as a uniquely regional phenomenon: north versus south, coastal versus inland, urban versus rural. Unlike most work done at the village level, this book shows the large variations between the twenty-three villages within ...
By Mark Dougan
August 30, 2002
First published in 2002.This volume is a political economy analysis o f China 's civil aviation industry, with a focus on the reform period beginning in the late 1970s up to the present. The chief aim is to identify and analyze the most important political economy variables impacting on the ...
By Hsin-Yi Lu
April 27, 2016
During the mid-1990s, Taiwan witnessed a remarkable proliferation of historical writings and cultural movements pertaining to 'the local'. 'Place (difang)' and 'community (shequ)' became two ubiquitous terms in the lexicon of being Taiwanese. This book is a critical examination of the ...
By Betsy Teresa Brody
February 29, 2016
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."...
By Takao Kamibeppu
December 22, 2014
During the half century from the 1950s to the year 2000, Japan emerged as a major international aid donor. In 1989 it became the largest bilateral air donor in the world. How did Japan emerge as a top education aid donor? What external and internal pressures shaped the development of aid policies?...