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 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 ...
Chinese Feminism Faces Globalization
1st Edition
By Sharon Wesoky
October 23, 2013
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 explain how such a movement could have arisen after the repression of student activists in Tiananmen Square in 1989. It also ...
Japan's Foreign Policy Maturation: A Quest for Normalcy
1st Edition
By Kevin Cooney
October 23, 2013
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 during the Cold War is no longer a viable foreign policy option. This dissertation examines the restructuring of Japanese foreign policy since the...
From Transition to Power Alternation: Democracy in South Korea, 1987-1997
1st Edition
By Carl Saxer
September 03, 2013
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 resulted in the regime agreeing to constitutional changes in the summer of 1987. By 1992 the first president ...
In Search of an Identity: The Politics of History Teaching in Hong Kong, 1960s-2000
1st Edition
By Edward Vickers
June 21, 2013
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 21st century, focusing especially on the relationship between history teaching and identity formation. The author's experience ...
Accommodating the Chinese: The American Hospital in China, 1880-1920
1st Edition
By Michelle Campbell Renshaw
May 01, 2013
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 at home. These differences were never due to a single, or even dominant cause. They were a result ...
Indonesian Education: Teachers, Schools, and Central Bureaucracy
1st Edition
By Christopher Bjork
September 10, 2012
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 their actions within the broader cultures of education and government in Indonesia....
Making a Market Economy: The Institutionalizational Transformation of a Freshwater Fishery in a Chinese Community
1st Edition
By Ning Wang
September 10, 2012
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 of fish and rice, the Longlake region has a long tradition of fresh water fishery. Yet, it is the last two decades of the twentieth century that have ...
Pitfall or Panacea: The Irony of U.S. Power in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
1st Edition
By Yoneyuki Sugita
September 10, 2012
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 that the United States was in a near-monopoly position to shape the postwar development in Japan as well as in the Asia-Pacific region. The book goes ...
A Path Toward Gender Equality: State Feminism in Japan
1st Edition
By Yoshie Kobayashi
July 27, 2012
The first study of state feminism in a non-western nation state, this volume focuses on the activities and roles of the Women's Bureau of the Ministry of Labor in post-World War II Japan. While state feminism theory possesses a strong capability to examine state-society relationships in terms of ...
American Women Missionaries at Kobe College, 1873-1909
1st Edition
By Noriko Kawamura Ishii
July 27, 2012
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 at Kobe College between 1873 and 1909....
The Origins of Leftwing Cinema in China, 1932-37
1st Edition
By Vivian Shen
July 27, 2012
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 and modernity were in raised in the leftwing film movement of the 1930s....