Books in the East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture series

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The main purpose of this study is to break the Chinese civil aviation industry up into its most important parts and examine how these parts interact in determining how the industry functions in the contemporary period.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Reshapes our understanding of the economic, political, and legal changes in China since 1978 within the global context. This book is for scholars of Asia, law, criminology, and sociology.

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.

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".

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.