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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture


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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.

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Engineering the State The Huai River and Reconstruction in Nationalist China, 1927–37

Engineering the State: The Huai River and Reconstruction in Nationalist China, 1927–37

1st Edition

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....

Gender, Ethnicity and Market Forces Observations of Ethnic Chinese in Korea

Gender, Ethnicity and Market Forces: Observations of Ethnic Chinese in Korea

1st Edition

By Sheena Choi
July 21, 2016

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....

Rethinking Japan's Identity and International Role Tradition and Change in Japan's Foreign Policy

Rethinking Japan's Identity and International Role: Tradition and Change in Japan's Foreign Policy

1st Edition

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 ...

Struggle For National Survival Chinese Eugenics in a Transnational Context, 1896-1945

Struggle For National Survival: Chinese Eugenics in a Transnational Context, 1896-1945

1st Edition

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....

Studying the Enemy Japan Hands in Republican China and Their Quest for National Identity, 1925-1945

Studying the Enemy: Japan Hands in Republican China and Their Quest for National Identity, 1925-1945

1st Edition

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....

The Third Delight Internationalization of Higher Education in China

The Third Delight: Internationalization of Higher Education in China

1st Edition

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 ...

The Trifurcating Miracle Corporations, Workers, Bureaucrats, and the Erosion of Japan's National Economy

The Trifurcating Miracle: Corporations, Workers, Bureaucrats, and the Erosion of Japan's National Economy

1st Edition

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...

Village, Market and Well-Being

Village, Market and Well-Being

1st Edition

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 ...

A Political Economy Analysis of China's Civil Aviation Industry

A Political Economy Analysis of China's Civil Aviation Industry

1st Edition

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 ...

The Politics of Locality Making a Nation of Communities in Taiwan

The Politics of Locality: Making a Nation of Communities in Taiwan

1st Edition

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 ...

Opening the Doors Immigration, Ethnicity, and Globalization in Japan

Opening the Doors: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Globalization in Japan

1st Edition

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."...

History of Japanese Policies in Education Aid to Developing Countries, 1950s-1990s The Role of the Subgovernmental Processes

History of Japanese Policies in Education Aid to Developing Countries, 1950s-1990s: The Role of the Subgovernmental Processes

1st Edition

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?...

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