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.
Building Cultural Nationalism in Malaysia: Identity, Representation and Citizenship
1st Edition
By Timothy P. Daniels
June 28, 2012
This text contains an examination of processes of cultural citizenship in peninsular Malaysia. In particular, it focuses upon the diverse residents of the southwestern state of Melaka and their negotiations of belonging and incorporation in Malaysian society. Following political independence and ...
Cooperation over Conflict: The Women's Movement and the State in Postwar Japan
1st Edition
By Miriam Murase
April 30, 2012
Japan's postwar transformation has been hailed as nothing short of a miracle. Yet, in the midst of massive social, economic, political, and cultural change, gender inequality persists at remarkably high levels. The paradox of Japan's progress against the persistence of gender inequality raises the ...
Workers' Democracy in China's Transition from State Socialism
1st Edition
By Stephen E. Philion
April 10, 2012
This fascinating book is among the first to examine state workers’ protests against privatization in China. Philion discusses how Chinese state enterprise workers have engaged a discourse of ‘workers democracy’ in the process of struggle with the new social relations of work that are engendered by ...
The Changing Chinese Legal System, 1978-Present: Centralization of Power and Rationalization of the Legal System
1st Edition
By Bin Liang
February 23, 2012
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 gives special attention to crime and punishment functions of the legal system, and the current judicial ...
Making Music in Japan’s Underground: The Tokyo Hardcore Scene
1st Edition
By Jennifer Milioto Matsue
July 29, 2011
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 as resistance through performance of the scene tells us about Japanese society in general. Matsue highlights the...
Buddhism, War, and Nationalism: Chinese Monks in the Struggle Against Japanese Aggression 1931-1945
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By Xue Yu
April 14, 2011
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 compassion which have made Buddhism known as a religion of peace. In scores of articles as war approached in 1936-37, new monks...
Global Media: The Television Revolution in Asia
1st Edition
By James D. White
June 10, 2010
This book is about the processes of globalization, demonstrated through a comparative study of three television case histories in Asia. Also illustrated are different approaches to providing television services in the world: public service (NHK in Japan), state (CCTV in China) and commercial (STAR ...
Liberal Rights and Political Culture: Envisioning Democracy in China
1st Edition
By Zhenghuan Zhou
March 18, 2010
This book argues that the liberal concept of rights presupposes and is grounded in an individualistic culture or shared way of relating, and that this particular shared way of relating emerged only in the wake of the Reformation in the modern West....
A Nation of a Hundred Million Idiots: A Social History of Japanese Television, 1953 - 1973
1st Edition
By Jayson Makoto Chun
April 29, 2009
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 television industry helped to reconstruct not only postwar Japanese popular culture, but also the Japanese social and political landscape. ...
We Are Not Garbage!: The Homeless Movement in Tokyo, 1994-2002
1st Edition
By Miki Hasegawa
April 29, 2009
This book offers a full history of a homeless movement in Tokyo that lasted nearly a decade. It shows how homeless people and their external supporters in the city combined their scarce resources to generate and sustain the movement. The study advocates a more nuanced analysis of movement gains to ...
Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China: The Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution
1st Edition
By Chris Berry
November 06, 2008
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 "Fifth Generation" in the mid-eighties when it is usually assumed to have occured. By close analysis of films from the 1949-1976 Maoist era ...
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 ...