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Bücher der Reihe East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture

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  • - Internationalization of Higher Education in China
    von Rui Yang
    64,00 €

    This study contributes to the literature, and delineates a comprehensive picture of China's higher education internationalization, with an analysis of its costs and benefits, set in an international comparative perspective.

  • von Tamara Perkins
    71,00 €

    Unlike most work done at the village level, this study shows the large variations between 23 villages within one suburban township, including wide differences in size, lineage structure, economic activities and levels of well-being.

  • - Corporations, Workers, Bureaucrats, and the Erosion of Japan's National Economy
    von Satoshi Ikeda
    50,00 €

    Examining the transformation of Japan's national economy, this work looks at the post-war Japanese miracle trifurcated into prosperous corporations, squeezed workers and parasitic bureaucracy in the slow growth period, 1974-91.

  • von Sharon Wesoky
    80,00 - 262,00 €

  • - The Politics of History Teaching in Hong Kong, 1960s-2000
    von Edward Vickers
    80,00 €

    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.

  • - Democracy in South Korea, 1987-1997
    von Carl Saxer
    79,00 - 250,00 €

    Examining the initial transition and later attempts at consolidating democracy in South Korea, this book argues that although there was significant progress it could not, by the end of 1997 be considered a secure democracy.

  • - How People and the Local Past Changed the Civic Life of a Regional Japanese Town
    von Guven Peter Witteveen
    79,00 €

    The story is about the individuals and organizations in the regional Japanese town of Takefu, but these events are also placed in the context of the surrounding Japanese nation-state at the time.

  • - State Feminism in Japan
    von Yoshie Kobayashi
    81,00 €

  • von Vivian Shen
    79,00 €

    This book takes a cultural studies approach to analyse 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.

  • - Making a Nation of Communities in Taiwan
    von Hsin-Yi Lu
    81,00 - 250,00 €

    This book is a critical examination of the socio-historical condition in which the discourse of local diversity emerged and gradually permeated Taiwan's public culture.

  • von USA) Philion & Stephen E. (St. Cloud State University
    79,00 €

    Chinese workers have had to do something they never envisioned: fight for what Chinese state socialism had always promised them - namely, the right to a job and basic social security. This book examines state workers' protests against privatization in China.

  • von Grace Kwon
    81,00 - 260,00 €

    Before the late 1960s, historians characterized the early modern Japanese economy in feudal terms. In the past two decades a new interpretation has portrayed Japan's pre-industrial economy as one of substantive growth and qualitative change.

  • - The Institutionalizational Transformation of a Freshwater Fishery in a Chinese Community
    von Ning Wang
    71,00 - 249,00 €

  • - The Role of the Subgovernmental Processes
    von Takao Kamibeppu
    79,00 €

    During the half century from the 1950s to the year 2000, Japan emerged as a major international aid donor. By tracking the evolution of education aid policies, this study asks how and why Japan emerged as a top education aid donor.

  • - Tradition and Change in Japan's Foreign Policy
    von Susanne Klien
    239,00 €

    This work presents a study of Japan's international role with a special focus on its historical evolution.

  • - A Quest for Normalcy
    von Kevin Cooney
    42,00 - 63,00 €

    The sudden end of the Cold War took the Japanese foreign policy community by surprise. This work examines the restructuring of Japanese foreign policy since this time and puts the changes in the context of the foreign policy literature.

  • von Noriko Kawamura Ishii
    90,00 €

    This study examines one aspect of American women's professionalization and the implications of the cross-cultural dialogue between American women missionaries and Japanese students and supporters at Kobe College between 1873 and 1909.

  • - Japan Hands in Republican China and Their Quest for National Identity, 1925-1945
    von Christiane Reinhold
    80,00 €

    Unlike the majority of contemporary works that examine Sino-Japanese relations between 1925 and 1945, this study de-emphasizes the story of conflict and war in favor the way in which the Chinese intellectually encountered the 'enemy'.

  • - The American Hospital in China, 1880-1920
    von University of Adelaide, Australia) Renshaw, Michelle Campbell (Visiting Research Fellow & usw.
    82,00 €

    This in depth comparative study is one of the first books to fully explore the emergence of modern Western-style hospitals in China. The author discusses how the hospital established in China -- its planning and architecture, financing, and all aspects of day-to-day operation -- differed from its counterpart in the West.

  • - The Huai River and Reconstruction in Nationalist China, 1927-37
    von David Pietz
    79,00 €

    Using case studies of public works projects in the Huai River valley, this book illustrates the manner in which the Nationalist government sought to re-establish central administrative control which fractured following the fall of the empire.

  • - The Irony of U.S. Power in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
    von Yoneyuki Sugita
    79,00 €

    The main purpose of this book is to shed light on the limitations of the American hegemony in occupied Japan.

  • - The Homeless Movement in Tokyo, 1994-2002
    von Japan) Hasegawa & Miki (Tokiwa University
    54,00 €

    Offers a full history of a homeless movement in Tokyo that lasted nearly a decade. This book shows how homeless people and their external supporters in the city combined their scarce resources to generate and sustain the movement. It also addresses the origins of increased homelessness and development of homelessness policy in the country.

  • - The Women's Movement and the State in Postwar Japan
    von USA) Murase & Miriam (Saint Mary's College of CA
    71,00 €

    The author provides an analysis of gender inequality in postwar Japan in terms of power, specifically the power, or lack of power, that women themselves may exercise to create social change. She investigates the relationship between women and the state, and assesses its impact on the rate of social change for women in Japan.

  • - The Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution
    von Chris Berry
    90,00 - 249,00 €

    Determines whether the cycle of films produced after the fall of the "Gang of Four" in the People's China in 1976, and representing events during the Cultural Revolution decade of 1966-1976, constitutes a major break with mainland Chinese cinema that has been dominant in the country after 1949.

  • - Chinese Eugenics in a Transnational Context, 1896-1945
    von Yuehtsen Juliette Chung
    79,00 - 261,00 €

    This is an historical investigation of the relationship between science and society through the comparative study of eugenics movements as they developed in both Japan and China from the 1890s to the 1940s.

  • - The Tokyo Hardcore Scene
    von USA) Matsue & Jennifer Milioto (Union College
    89,00 €

    Grounded in the fields of ethnomusicology, anthropology, popular music studies, and Japanese studies, this book explores the underground Tokyo hardcore scene, asking what play as resistance through performance of the scene tells us about Japanese society in general.

  • - The Television Revolution in Asia
    von USA) White & James D. (Georgia Institute of Technology
    40,00 - 68,00 €

  • - Envisioning Democracy in China
    von Zhenghuan Zhou
    40,00 - 64,00 €

    This study argues that the liberal concept of rights presupposes and is grounded in an individualistic culture or shared way of relating, and this particular shared way of relating emerged only in the wake of the Reformation in the modern West.

  • - Immigration, Ethnicity, and Globalization in Japan
    von Betsy Teresa Brody
    81,00 - 261,00 €

    Using qualitative research methods and evidence gathered from interviews, this work explores and highlights contradictions between Japanese immigration and immigrant policies as they relate to ethnic Japanese "returnees".

  • - Chinese Monks in the Struggle Against Japanese Aggression 1931-1945
    von Xue (University of Hong Kong) Yu
    80,00 €

    This book examines the dilemmas Buddhist monks faced with regard to Buddhist concepts of non-killing and defending the nation during the Anti Japanese war and investigates how monks re-created traditions in order to serve the nation and society.

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