Books in the Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia ASAA East Asian Series series

Based on personal interviews with the principal policy makers of the 1970s, "Korea's Development under Park Chung-Hee" examines how the president sought to develop South Korea into an independent, autonomous sovereign state both economically and militarily.

Japan in Australia is a work of cultural history that focuses on context and connection between two nations. It examines how Japan has been imagined, represented and experienced in the Australian context through a variety of settings, historical periods and circumstances.

Drawing on archival documents, photographs, and sources in both Japanese and English, this book examines representations of the Meiji emperor, Mutsuhito (1852-1912) and his grandson the Showa emperor, Hirohito who was regarded as a symbol of the nation, in both war and peacetime.

Examines the emergence of women's history-writing groups in Japan in the decade following the end of World War II and the way in which these versions of history-writing went on to subsequently eclipse and outlive those being offered by Marxist historians.

This book explores the reaction to the Manchurian crisis of different sections of the state and of a number of different groups in Japaneses society, particularly rural groups, women's organizations and business associations.

Focusing on the labour management strategies of the Hyundai Business Group, this important new study argues that historical analysis is essential for a complete understanding of the dynamics of South Korean industrial relations.

Challenging the conventional view of Japanese studies in general and the Anglophone anthropological writings on Japan in particular, this text explores the process by which the postwar anthropology of Japan has come to be dominated by certain conceptual and methodological and exposes the extent to which this process has occluded our view of Japan.

Examining the creative and academic works of a number of influential Japanese thinkers, this volume is a major reconsideration of Japanese late modernity and national hegemony.

Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China combines literary and historical analysis to identify the modes of existence of male homoerotic sensibilities in late imperial China.

This edited volume explores political motives, discourses and agendas in Japanese manga and graphic art with the objective of highlighting the agency of Japanese and wider Asian story-telling traditions within the context of global political traditions.