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East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
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Making Music in Japan’s Underground
The Tokyo Hardcore Scene
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...
ISBN: 978-0-415-96152-3 | Published July 17th 2008 by Routledge.
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The Changing Chinese Legal System, 1978 – Present
Centralization of Power and Rationalization of the Legal System
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...
ISBN: 978-0-415-95859-2 | Published November 27th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about The Changing Chinese Legal System, 1978 – Present"A Nation of a Hundred Million Idiots"?
A Social History of Japanese Television, 1953 - 1973
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-97660-2 | Published December 6th 2006 by Routledge.
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The Homeless Movement in Tokyo, 1994-2002
This book offers a full history of a homeless movement in Tokyo that lasted nearly a decade. It shows how homeless people and their...ISBN: 978-0-415-97693-0 | Published April 26th 2006 by Routledge.
more information about "We Are Not Garbage!"Cooperation over Conflict
The Women's Movement and the State in Postwar Japan
Japan's postwar transformation has been hailed as nothing short of a miracle. This book offers a political perspective, and analyzes gender inequality in terms power,...ISBN: 978-0-415-97657-2 | Published November 3rd 2005 by Routledge.
more information about Cooperation over ConflictBuddhism, War, and Nationalism
Chinese Monks in the Struggle Against Japanese Aggression 1931-1945
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-97511-7 | Published August 16th 2005 by Routledge.
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Teachers, Schools, and Central Bureaucracy
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-97444-8 | Published June 1st 2005 by Routledge.
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The Television Revolution in Asia
Through its focus, Global Media addresses a considerable lacuna in the media studies literature, which tends to have a heavy Western bias. It is an...ISBN: 978-0-415-97306-9 | Published April 26th 2005 by Routledge.
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The American Hospital in China, 1880-1920
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-97285-7 | Published April 2nd 2005 by Routledge.
more information about Accommodating the ChineseThe Origins of Leftwing Cinema in China, 1932-37
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-97183-6 | Published January 7th 2005 by Routledge.
more information about The Origins of Leftwing Cinema in China, 1932-37Liberal Rights and Political Culture
Envisioning Democracy in China
Argues that the liberal concept of rights presupposes and is grounded in an individualistic culture or shared way of relating, and this particular shared way...ISBN: 978-0-415-97184-3 | Published January 7th 2005 by Routledge.
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The Institutionalizational Transformation of a Freshwater Fishery in a Chinese Community
This study investigates the rise and growth of a market economy in the Longlake region, Hubei province, China. Well known in China as the "land...ISBN: 978-0-415-94944-6 | Published December 30th 2004 by Routledge.
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Identity, Representation and Citizenship
ISBN: 978-0-415-94971-2 | Published November 17th 2004 by Routledge.
more information about Building Cultural Nationalism in MalaysiaPostsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China
The Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-94786-2 | Published June 29th 2004 by Routledge.
more information about Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao ChinaA Path Toward Gender Equality
State Feminism in Japan
This dissertation is the first study of state feminism in a non-western nation state, focusing on the activities and roles of the Women's Bureau of...ISBN: 978-0-415-94788-6 | Published April 23rd 2004 by Routledge.
more information about A Path Toward Gender EqualityAmerican Women Missionaries at Kobe College, 1873-1909
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-94790-9 | Published January 20th 2004 by Routledge.
more information about American Women Missionaries at Kobe College, 1873-1909The Prospects for a Regional Human Rights Mechanism in East Asia
Regional inter-governmental human rights organizations have been in operation for sometime in Europe, the Americas and Africa. These regional human rights mechanisms have proven to...ISBN: 978-0-415-94809-8 | Published October 31st 2003 by Routledge.
more information about The Prospects for a Regional Human Rights Mechanism in East AsiaThe Renaissance of Takefu
How People and the Local Past Changed the Civic Life of a Regional Japanese Town
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-93370-4 | Published October 30th 2003 by Routledge.
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The Irony of U.S. Power in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-94752-7 | Published October 16th 2003 by Routledge.
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The Politics of History Teaching in Hong Kong, 1960s-2000
This book traces the influences that have shaped the secondary school history curriculum during Hong Kong's prolonged political transition between the 1960s and the early...ISBN: 978-0-415-94502-8 | Published June 12th 2003 by Routledge.
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Making a Nation Of Communities in Taiwan
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-93433-6 | Published August 30th 2002 by Routledge.
more information about The Politics of LocalityA Political Economy Analysis of China's Civil Aviation Industry
ISBN: 978-0-415-93426-8 | Published August 30th 2002 by Routledge.
more information about A Political Economy Analysis of China's Civil Aviation IndustryFrom Transition to Power Alternation
Democracy in South Korea, 1987-1997
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-93393-3 | Published August 23rd 2002 by Routledge.
more information about From Transition to Power AlternationHistory of Japanese Policies in Education Aid to Developing Countries, 1950s-1990s
The Role of the Subgovernmental Processes
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-93404-6 | Published August 16th 2002 by Routledge.
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A Quest for Normalcy
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-93516-6 | Published July 12th 2002 by Routledge.
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The Huai River and Reconstruction in Nationalist Chine. 1927-37
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-93388-9 | Published June 28th 2002 by Routledge.
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Calling for the Destruction of 'Class Enemies' in China, 1949-1953
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-93428-2 | Published June 28th 2002 by Routledge.
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The existing literature on rural China characterizes socioeconomic diversity as a uniquely regional phenomenon: north versus south, coastal versus inland, urban versus rural. Unlike...ISBN: 978-0-415-93429-9 | Published June 7th 2002 by Routledge.
more information about Village, Market and Well-BeingState Formation, Property Relations, & the Development of the Tokugawa Economy (1600-1868)
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-93389-6 | Published May 10th 2002 by Routledge.
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Tradition and Change in Japan's Foreign Policy
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-93438-1 | Published May 10th 2002 by Routledge.
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Corporations, Workers, Bureaucrats, and the Erosion of Japan's National Economy
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,...ISBN: 978-0-415-93427-5 | Published April 26th 2002 by Routledge.
more information about The Trifurcating MiracleStruggle For National Survival
Chinese Eugenics in a Transnational Context, 1896-1945
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-93366-7 | Published April 26th 2002 by Routledge.
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Internationalization of Higher Education in China
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-93372-8 | Published April 12th 2002 by Routledge.
more information about "The Third Delight"The Development Strategy of Self-Reliance (Juche) and Rural Development in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
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....ISBN: 978-0-415-93385-8 | Published April 12th 2002 by Routledge.
more information about The Development Strategy of Self-Reliance (Juche) and Rural Development in the Democratic People's Republic of KoreaChanges in the Permanent Employment System in Japan, 1982-1997
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-93183-0 | Published November 30th 2001 by Routledge.
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Immigration, Ethnicity, and Globalization in Japan
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-93192-2 | Published November 30th 2001 by Routledge.
more information about Opening the DoorsChinese Feminism Faces Globalization
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-93225-7 | Published November 16th 2001 by Routledge.
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Japan Hands in Republican China and Their Quest for National Identity, 1925-1945
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-93182-3 | Published October 12th 2001 by Routledge.
more information about Studying the EnemyGender, Ethnicity and Market Forces
Observations of Ethnic Chinese in Korea
ISBN: 978-0-8153-4030-0 | Published May 18th 2001 by Routledge.
more information about Gender, Ethnicity and Market ForcesForming the Academic Profession in East Asia
A Comparative Analysis
This book examines the changing shape of the academic profession in South Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore since the colonial period as a reflection of both...ISBN: 978-0-8153-4053-9 | Published May 8th 2001 by Routledge.
more information about Forming the Academic Profession in East AsiaForthcoming Titles:
Workers’ Democracy in China's Transition from State Socialism
By Stephen E. Philion
December 3rd 2008