Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series
About the Book Series
This series aims to publish the best new scholarly work focusing on Japan, Greater China and North and South Korea. It will examine political, historical, economic and social themes from the region, and include the work of both established scholars and those at earlier stages in their careers.
The Politics of Korean Language Textbooks in the Two Koreas: Nationalism, Ideologies and Education
1st Edition
By Dong Bae Lee
May 06, 2025
This book investigates the politics embedded in the Korean-language textbooks utilised between 1895 and 2019, within the context of one Korea (pre-colonial and colonial eras), the divided Koreas, and an ethnic Korean group residing in Japan (Chongryon). By analysing the inclusions and omissions ...
Masculinity, Marriage and Rural Men in Urban China: Modest Expectations
1st Edition
By Sarah Gosper
January 31, 2025
This book explores the conjuncture and interrelationship between three so-called ‘crises’ facing Chinese society: a crisis of marriage, a crisis of masculinity and a crisis of mobility. Based on sustained ethnographic research on unmarried lower-class rural men from two distinct social and class ...
Reporting Mental Illness in China
1st Edition
By Guy Ramsay
May 06, 2022
This book examines how Chinese-language newspapers across greater China report on severe mental illness, and why they do so in the ways they do, given that reporting in local newspapers can strongly influence how Chinese readers view the illness. By assessing how the reporting in three leading ...
The Representation of Japanese Politics in Manga: The Visual Literacy Of Statecraft
1st Edition
Edited
By Roman Rosenbaum
April 29, 2022
This edited volume explores political motives, discourses and agendas in Japanese manga and graphic art with the objective of highlighting the agency of Japanese and wider Asian story-telling traditions within the context of global political traditions. Highly illustrated chapters presented here ...
Japan's New Left Movements: Legacies for Civil Society
1st Edition
By Takemasa Ando
March 03, 2016
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident that followed the March 2011 tsunami and earthquake in Japan shocked the world. In the wake the of the disaster, questions were asked as to why Japanese antinuclear movements were not able to prevent those with vested interests, such as businesses, bureaucrats...
Defending Rights in Contemporary China
1st Edition
By Jonathan Benney
February 27, 2015
The growth of rights defence movements in China reflects the increasing capacity of Chinese citizens to shape their own civic discourse in order to achieve diverse goals. Rights defence campaigns have taken novel forms which are unprecedented in China, including the use of the Internet by rights ...
The Manchurian Crisis and Japanese Society, 1931-33
1st Edition
By Sandra Wilson
May 16, 2014
This book explores the reactions to the Manchurian crisis of different sections of the state, and of a number of different groups in Japanese society, particularly rural groups, women's organizations and business associations. It thus seeks to avoid a generalized account of public relations to the ...
Rethinking Identity in Modern Japan: Nationalism as Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Yumiko Iida
December 12, 2013
This volume is a major reconsideration of Japanese late modernity and national hegemony which examines the creative and academic works of a number of influential Japanese thinkers. The author situates the process of Japanese knowledge production in the interface between the immediate historical and...
Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan: Crafting Masculinities
1st Edition
By Romit Dasgupta
November 08, 2013
In Japan, the figure of the suited, white-collar office worker or business executive ‘salaryman’ (or, sarariiman), came to be associated with Japan’s economic transformation following World War Two. The ubiquitous salaryman came to signify both Japanese masculinity, and Japanese corporate culture, ...
Women’s History and Local Community in Postwar Japan
1st Edition
By Curtis Anderson Gayle
May 03, 2013
This timely look at a neglected corner of Japanese historiography spotlights the decade following the end of World War II, a time in which Japanese society was undergoing the transformation from imperial state to democratic nation. For certain working and middle-class women involved in ...
Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China
1st Edition
By Cuncun Wu
November 14, 2012
Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China is the richest exploration to date of late imperial Chinese literati interest in male love. Employing primary sources such as miscellanies, poetry, fiction and 'flower guides', Wu Cuncun argues that male homoeroticism played a central role in the ...
Japan on Display: Photography and the Emperor
1st Edition
By Morris Low
November 01, 2012
Sixty years on from the end of the Pacific War, Japan on Display examines representations of the Meiji emperor, Mutsuhito (1852-1912) and his grandson the Showa emperor, Hirohito who was regarded as a symbol of the nation, in both war and peacetime. Much of this representation was aided by the ...