1st Edition

Transnational Trajectories in East Asia Nation, Citizenship, and Region

Edited By Yasemin Nuhoḡlu Soysal Copyright 2015
332 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In recent decades, East Asia has become increasingly interconnected through trade, investment, migration, and popular culture at regional and global levels. At the same time, the region has seen renewed national assertiveness and nationalist impulses. The book interrogates these seemingly contradictory developments as they bear on the transformations of the nation and citizenship in East Asia.... Read more

1. Mapping the Terrain of Transnationalization: Nation, Citizenship, and Region, Yasemin Soysal Part I: Institutionalized Projects 2. Citizenship as National and Transnational Enterprise: How Education Shapes Regional and Global Relevance, Yasemin Soysal and Suk Ying Wong 3. Synthesizing the "National" and the "Cosmos": The Case of Life Sciences in China, Joy Yueyue Zhang 4. From Resistance to Attractiveness: The Politics of Values and Regionalism in East Asia, David Leheny Part II: Mobilities 5. Creative East–West Cosmopolitanism? The Changing Role of International Mobility for Young Japanese Contemporary Artists, Adrian Favell 6. Eating One’s Way to Sophistication: Japanese Food, Transnational Flows and Social Mobility in Hong Kong, Yoshiko Nakano 7. Immigration, Nationhood, and Transnationalization in Industrialized East Asia, John D. Skrentny and Jack Jin Gary Lee Part III: Imaginaries 8. Single Women and Cosmopolitan Re-imaginings of Gendered Citizenship in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, Lynne Y. Nakano 9. The Changing Transnational Imagery of the "Good Nation" and the Ainu in Japan, Kiyoteru Tsutsui 10. Japan’s Place in the World: Transformations of National Imaginings of Geography, Alexis Dudden Part IV: Possibilities 11. Generational Shift in a Transnational World: Civic Orientations of Taiwanese Youth, Ly-Yun Chang and Tony Tam 12. Cultural Citizenship and Prospects for Japan as a Multicultural Nation, Koichi Iwabuchi 13. National, Regional, and Global Dynamics in East Asia: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Forces, Mark Selden

 

Biography

Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal is Professor of Sociology at University of Essex, UK.