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  • - Colonialism, Regionalism and Borders
     
    82,00 €

    Analyzes various historical approaches to the construction of a regional order and a regional identity in East Asia. This book also explores the ideology of Pan-Asianism as a predecessor of contemporary Asian regionalism, which served as the basis for efforts at regional integration in East Asia.

  • - Civil Society, Democracy and the State
    von Charles K Armstrong
    284,00 €

    Taking the theme of 'civil society' - voluntary organizations outside the role of the state which have participated in the process of political and social democratization - this book examines Korea as one of the most dramatic cases in the world of ordinary citizens participating in the transformation of politics.

  • - Spectacle, Politics and History
    von Canada) Kal & Hong (York University
    88,00 - 227,00 €

  • - Challenges to Becoming Sinophone in a Globalised World
    von Australia) McDonald & Edward (The University of Sydney
    71,00 €

    The entry point for most potential sinophones is the Chinese language classroom. But what sort of 'language' and 'culture' are on offer there? This book emphasizes the importance of the social and cultural factors in language learning and seeks to blow away many existing myths about Chinese language learning.

  • von Japan) Seekins & Donald M. (Meio University
    82,00 - 227,00 €

  • - Critical Views from the Asia-Pacific
     
    308,00 €

    Accessibly written and including satirical cartoons, this remarkable book focuses on the Bush Doctrine in Asia and examines how the Bush initiatives are received and reacted to in Asia.

  • - The New Social Activism
     
    80,00 €

    Analyses the mechanisms, processes and actors producing a wide spectrum of social and cultural changes in reform China. Contrary to most literature that emphasize economic and political processes at the expense of Chinese society, the book argues for the centrality of the social in understanding Chinese development.

  • - 500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives
     
    83,00 €

    Examines the rise of East Asia as one of the world's economic power centres from three temporal perspectives: 500 years, 150 years and 50 years, each denoting an epoch in regional and world history and providing a vantage point against which to

  • - Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourners' City, 1853-98
    von USA) Liang & Samuel Y. (Utah Valley State University
    226,00 €

    Mapping the city's native spaces of leisure and everyday life, this book reconstructs the spatial, material, and gender modernity of nineteenth-century Shanghai, giving the reader a window into the social life of late imperial China.

  • - An Interactive Perspective
     
    227,00 €

    Examines the interplay between multicultural groups, including the majority Japanese, in the Japanese school system and will help us to understand changes occurring in Japanese society as a whole.

  • von Colin (Griffith University & Australia) Mackerras
    81,00 - 285,00 €

    This text brings together a coherent study of ethnicity in the region as a whole, allowing the contributors to build on the ideas developed for each country to form broader themes applicable more generally to East and Southeast Asia.

  • - The New Social Activism
     
    285,00 €

    Analyses the mechanisms, processes and actors producing a wide spectrum of social and cultural changes in reform China. Contrary to most literature that emphasize economic and political processes at the expense of Chinese society, the book argues for the centrality of the social in understanding Chinese development.

  • - Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation
     
    227,00 €

    Introduces the lived experiences of labour in a range of occupations and work settings. This book covers professional employees such as engineers and lawyers, service workers such as bar hostesses, domestic maids and hotel workers, and industrial workers in a variety of factories.

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    227,00 €

    Shows that sustained critical analysis of contemporary Taiwan using issues such as trauma, memory, history, tradition, modernity, post-modernity provides a useful point of departure for thinking through similar problematics and issues elsewhere in the world. This book covers nationalism, anthropology, cultural studies, media studies, and religion.

  • - The Imbalance of Power
     
    296,00 €

    Capturing the current critical moment in US-Korean relations, expert contributors examine the relations through such prisms as nationalism, the media, regional relations and human rights issues.

  • - Colonialism, Regionalism and Borders
     
    227,00 €

    Analyzes various historical approaches to the construction of a regional order and a regional identity in East Asia. This book also explores the ideology of Pan-Asianism as a predecessor of contemporary Asian regionalism, which served as the basis for efforts at regional integration in East Asia.

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    227,00 €

    Provides the first comprehensive overview of the cultural significance of the reading practices of the girl, or shojo, in modern and contemporary Japan and thereby invites a re-assessment of core propositions about gender norms in Japanese society.

  • - Crisis, Contention and Legitimation
     
    285,00 €

    Written by a team of leading China scholars, this book explores the dynamics of state power and legitimation in 21st-century China, and the implications of changing state-society relations for the future viability of the People's Republic.

  • - A Study of the Asian Opium Trade 1750-1950
    von Carl Trocki
    106,00 €

    Engagingly written, with lay readers as much as specialists in mind, this book is fascinating reading for historians and social scientists as well as those involved in Asian studies or economic history.

  • - The Imbalance of Power
     
    81,00 €

    Bringing together twelve prominent experts on US-Korean and US-Pacific relations, this book explores the many dimensions of prevalent and future US foreign policy. Charting developments in North and South Korea, it examines US-Korean relations through such prisms as nationalism, the media, regional relations and human rights issues.

  • - Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation
     
    83,00 €

    Introduces the lived experiences of labour in a range of occupations and work settings. This book covers professional employees such as engineers and lawyers, service workers such as bar hostesses, domestic maids and hotel workers, and industrial workers in a variety of factories.

  • - Social Change and Civil Society in 21st Century Japan
    von Jeff Kingston
    83,00 - 286,00 €

    The 1990s have been termed as 'Japan's Lost Decade' to describe how the growth in the Japanese economy ground to a halt and the country was subsequently crippled by enormous and ongoing political, economic and social problems. This book argues that the Japan that emerges from these manifold problems may, in fact, be stronger than before.

  • - Crisis, Contention and Legitimation
     
    77,00 €

    Written by a team of leading China scholars, this book explores the dynamics of state power and legitimation in twenty-first century China, and the implications of changing state-society relations for the future viability of the People's Republic.

  • - Property, Power and Values
     
    250,00 €

    By exploring the complex relationship between property, the state, society and the market, this book demonstrates how both developmental issues and state-society relations in Vietnam can be explored through the prism of property relations and property rights. The essays in this collection demonstrate how negotiations over property are deeply enmeshed with dynamics of state formation, and covers debates over the role of the state and its relationship to various levels of society, the intrusion of global forces into the lives of marginalized communities and individuals, and how community norms and standards shape and reshape national policy and laws.

  • - Comparative Inquiries in Science, History, and Ethics
     
    239,00 €

    Examines Japan's wartime medical atrocities and their postwar aftermath from a comparative perspective and inquires into perennial issues of historical memory, science, politics, society and ethics elicited by these rebarbative events.

  • von Sydney, Australia) Buzo & Adrian (Macquarie University
    62,00 €

  • von Peter G. Zarrow
    89,00 - 286,00 €

    Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text explores the events that lead to the rise of communism and a strong central state during the early twentieth century.

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    214,00 €

    This book presents essays exploring ways in which popular culture reflects ongoing changes in Japan-Korea relations. From the colonial to the contemporary, it taps into conflicts over historical memories and cultural production, challenges to state ideology, and consequences of digital technology.

  • - Voices From the Red Guard Generation
    von USA) Jiang, Yarong (University of Wyoming, USA) Ashley & usw.
    104,00 €

    Personal accounts of the Cultural Revolution: an inspiring collection of interviews with former Red Guards. Members of the first generation to be born under Chairman Mao talk frankly about the changes in China over the last two decades.

  • - The State and the Culture of Excess
    von Australia) Yao & Souchou (University of Sydney
    81,00 €

    Taking ideas and frameworks from philosophy, psychology, political science, cultural studies and anthropology, this book talks about the Singapore state.

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