Bücher der Reihe Asia's Transformations

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.