East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
About the Book Series
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.
The Trifurcating Miracle: Corporations, Workers, Bureaucrats, and the Erosion of Japan's National Economy
1st Edition
By Satoshi Ikeda
June 30, 2020
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
1st Edition
By Tamara Perkins
June 30, 2020
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 ...
Engineering the State: The Huai River and Reconstruction in Nationalist China, 1927โ37
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....
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 ...
Gender, Ethnicity and Market Forces: Observations of Ethnic Chinese in Korea
1st Edition
By Sheena Choi
July 28, 2016
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Studying the Enemy: Japan Hands in Republican China and Their Quest for National Identity, 1925-1945
1st Edition
By Christiane Reinhold
July 28, 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 Politics of Locality: Making a Nation of Communities in Taiwan
1st Edition
By Hsin-Yi Lu
April 24, 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
1st Edition
By Betsy Teresa Brody
February 28, 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."...
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....
State Formation, Property Relations, & the Development of the Tokugawa Economy (1600-1868)
1st Edition
By Grace Kwon
January 20, 2016
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 ...
History of Japanese Policies in Education Aid to Developing Countries, 1950s-1990s: The Role of the Subgovernmental Processes
1st Edition
By Takao Kamibeppu
December 23, 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?...
The Renaissance of Takefu: How People and the Local Past Changed the Civic Life of a Regional Japanese Town
1st Edition
By Guven Peter Witteveen
May 30, 2014
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 ...