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Chinese Politics - The Xi Jinping Difference

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 Written by a team of leading China specialists, this updated 2nd edition of Chinese Politics explores the dynamics of state power and politics in contemporary China, focusing on the Xi Jinping era.
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Literature After Fukushima - From Marginalized Voices To Nuclear Futurity

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 Literature after Fukushima examines how aesthetic representation contributes to a critical understanding of the 3.11 triple disaster â€" the Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami, and multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
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Making Of Modern Korea

by Adrian Buzo

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 This fully updated fourth edition of The Making of Modern Korea provides a thorough, balanced and engaging history of Korea from 1876 to the present day. The text is unique in analysing domestic developments in the two Koreas in the wider context of regional and international affairs.
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Dangerous Memory In Nagasaki - Prayers, Protests And Catholic Survivor Narratives

by Gwyn Mcclelland

62,26€ + 10% CARD

 On 9th August 1945, the US dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Of the dead, approximately 8500 were Catholic Christians, representing over sixty percent of the community. In this collective biography, nine Catholic survivors share personal and compelling stories about the aftermath and their lives since that day.
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Denying The Comfort Women - The Japanese State''S Assault On Historical Truth

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 Run by the Japanese Imperial Military during the Asia-Pacific War, the "comfort women" system remains controversial. Presenting strong opposition to revisionism, this book concludes that only a victim-orienated solution would be acceptable.
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Japan'S Future And A New Meiji Transformation - International Reflections

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 Bringing together the work of sixteen international Japan specialists and scholars, this book analyses Japanâ€™s culture and history. Comparing the current situation with the uncertainties of the late 19th century, it investigates the possibility and desirability of a â€˜New Meiji Transformationâ€™ in Japan.
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National Identity, Language And Education In Malaysia - Search For A Middle Ground Between Malay Hegemony And Equality

by Noriyuki Segawa

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 This book explores the ways in which language and education policies have contributed to the development of national integration in Malaysia, by examining whether and how policies have succeeded in forming a middle ground.
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Danger, Development And Legitimacy In East Asian Maritime Politics - Securing The Seas, Securing The State

by Christian Wirth

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 Covering the nation-states of China, Japan and South Korea, this book includes an examination of the key island disputes, as well as analysis of the North Korea-South Korea clashes in the Yellow sea, controversies in Japanâ€™s relations with both Koreas and the so-called â€˜history disputesâ€™, including recognition of WWII atrocities across the region.
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East Asia Beyond The History Wars - Confronting The Ghosts Of Violence

by Leonid Petrov, Morris Low, Tessa Morris-Suzuki e Timothy Y. Tsu

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 East Asia is now the world’s economic powerhouse, but ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region, particularly between Japan, China and the two Koreas. Unhappy legacies of Japan’s military expansion in pre-war Asia prompt on-going calls for apologies, while conflicts over ownership of cultural heritage cause friction between China and Korea, and no peace treaty has ever been signed to conclude the Korean War. For over a decade, the region’s governments and non-government groups have sought to confront the ghosts of the past by developing paths to reconciliation. Focusing particularly on popular culture and grassroots action, East Asia beyond the History Wars explores these East Asian approaches to historical reconciliation. This book examines how Korean historians from North and South exchange ideas about national history, how Chinese film-makers reframe their views of the war with Japan, and how Japanese social activists develop grassroots reconciliation projects with counterparts from Korea and elsewhere. As the volume’s studies of museums, monuments and memorials show, East Asian public images of modern history are changing, but change is fragile and uncertain. This unfinished story of East Asia’s search for historical reconciliation has important implications for the study of popular memory worldwide.Presenting a fresh perspective on reconciliation which draws on both history and cultural studies, this book will be welcomed by students and scholars working in the fields of Asian history, Asian culture and society as well as those interested in war and memory studies more generally.
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Ethnicity In Asia

by Colin Mackerras

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 A comparative introduction to ethnicity in East and Southeast Asia since 1945. Each chapter covers a particular country looking at core issues such as ethnic minorities and groups, population, language, culture and traditional religion.
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Resurgence Of East Asia - 500, 150 And 50 Year Perspectives

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 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
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Battle For Asia - From Decolonization To Globalization

by Mark T. Berger

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 This book is a history of the Asian region from 1945 to the present day which delineates the various ideological battles over Asia's development.
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Changing Face Of Korean Cinema - 1960 To 2015

by Aegyung Shim e Brian Yecies

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 This book examines how South Korean cinema has transformed from an antiquated local industry in the 1960s into a thriving international cinema in the 21st century. It investigates the circumstances that allowed these two creative eras to emerge, and demonstrates the forces behind Koreaâ€™s positioning as a contributor to regional and global culture.
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Mapping Modernity In Shanghai - Space, Gender, And Visual Culture In The Sojourners'' City, 1853-98

by Samuel Y. Liang

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 By mapping the cityâ€™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.
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Chinese Society - Change, Conflict And Resistance

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 An introduction to Chinese society that uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. It includes chapters on gender and the family, the reform of the Hukou system and village governance. It draws on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and political science.
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Pan-Asianism In Modern Japanese History - Colonialism, Regionalism And Borders

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 This in-depth volume analyzes various historical approaches to the construction of the regional order in East Asia, each of which can be seen as an expression of Pan-Asianist thought.
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Hong Kong'S History - State And Society Under Colonial Rule

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 Drawing together contributions from historians, sociologists and political scientists the book highlights the role played by a variety of social actors in Hong Kongs history.
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China In War And Revolution, 1895-1949

by Peter Zarrow

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 Providing historical insights, essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this book explores the events that led to the rise of communism and a strong central state during the early twentieth century.
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Politics Of Protection Rackets In Post-New Order Indonesia - Coercive Capital, Authority And Street Politics

by Ian Douglas Wilson

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 Gangs and militias have been a persistent feature of social and political life in Indonesia. During the authoritarian New Order regime they constituted part of a vast network of sub-contracted coercion and social control on behalf of the state. Indonesia’s subsequent democratisation has seen gangs adapt to and take advantage of the changed political context. New types of populist street based organisations have emerged that combine predatory rent-seeking with claims of representing marginalised social and economic groups. Based on extensive fieldwork in Jakarta this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the changing relationship between gangs, militias and political power and authority in post-New Order Indonesia. It argues that gangs and militias have manufactured various types of legitimacy in consolidating localised territorial monopolies and protection economies. As mediators between the informal politics of the street and the world of formal politics they have become often influential brokers in Indonesia’s decentralised electoral democracy. More than mere criminal extortion, it is argued that the protection racket as a social relation of coercion and domination remains a salient feature of Indonesia’s post-authoritarian political landscape. This ground-breaking study will be of interest to students and scholars of Indonesian and Southeast Asian politics, political violence, gangs and urban politics.
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Minorities And Education In Multicultural Japan - An Interactive Perspective

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 This book examines the interplay between multicultural groups, including the majority Japanese, in the Japanese school system and will help us to understand changes occurring in contemporary Japanese society as a whole.
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Japan'S Wartime Medical Atrocities - Comparative Inquiries In Science, History, And Ethics

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 This bookÂ examines Japanâ€™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.
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San Francisco System And Its Legacies - Continuation, Transformation And Historical Reconciliation In The Asia-Pacific

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 In September 1951, Japan signed a peace treaty with forty-eight countries in San Francisco; in April 1952, the treaty came into effect. The San Francisco Peace Treaty is an international agreement that in significant ways shaped the post-World War II international order in the Asia-Pacific. With its associated security arrangements, it laid the foundation for the regional structure of Cold War confrontation: the "San Francisco System" fully reflected the strategic interests and policy priorities of the peace conference’s host nation, the United States. The treaty fell far short of settling outstanding issues in the wake of the Pacific War or facilitating a clean start for the "post-war" period. Rather, critical aspects of the settlement were left equivocal, and continue to have significant and worrisome implications for regional international relations. This book examines the key developments of the contentious political and security issues in the Asia-Pacific that share a common foundation in the post-war disposition of Japan, particularly the San Francisco Peace Treaty. These include both tangible and intangible issues, such as disputes over territories and "history" problems. Taking the San Francisco System as its conceptual grounding, the authors examine how these issues developed and have remained contentious long after the San Francisco arrangements. To provide bases for producing solutions, the chapters offer comprehensive accounts that explain and deepen our understanding of these complex regional issues and the San Francisco System as a whole.By closely and systematically examining the legacy and various ramifications of the San Francisco System, this fascinating book adds to our understanding of current and growing tensions in the region. As such, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, history, international relations and politics.
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Transnational Trajectories In East Asia - Nation, Citizenship, And Region

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 In recent decades, East Asia has become increasingly interconnected through trade, investment, migration, and popular culture at regional and global levels. At the same time, the region has seen renewed national assertiveness and nationalist impulses. The book interrogates these seemingly contradictory developments as they bear on the transformations of the nation and citizenship in East Asia. Conventionally, studies on East Asia juxtapose these developments, focusing on the much-exercised dichotomy of the national and transnational. In contrast, this book suggests a different orientation. First, it moves beyond the simplistic view that demarcates the transnational as "the West". Second, it does not view the national and transnational as distinct or contradictory spheres of influence and analysis, but rather, focuses on the interactions between the two, with a view on how these interactions work to transform the ideals and practices of the "good nation", "good society", and "good citizen". The chapters cover a broad range of empirical research--education, science, immigration, multicultural policy, human rights, gender and youth orientations, art and food flows, politics of values and regional identity--which highlight the ways in which the nation is reconfigured, and the relationship between the citizen and (national) collective is redefined, in relation to transnational dynamics and frameworks.Transnational Trajectories in East Asia provides a new perspective on and original analysis of transnational processes, bringing a fresh understanding to developments of the nation and citizenship in the region. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of transnationalization and globalization; comparative citizenship, migration, and multiculturalism; and Asian politics, society, and regionalism.
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Coal-Mining Women In Japan - Heavy Burdens

by W. Donald Burton

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 In the years Bbetween the Meiji Restoration in 1868 and the beginning of the war mobilization boom in 1930, collieries in Europe and America embraced new technologies and had long since been excluded women from working underground. In Japan, however, mining women witnessed no significant changes in working practices over this period. The availability of the cheap and abundant labor of these women allowed the captains of the coal industry in Japan to avoid expensive investments in new machinery and sophisticated mining methods;, instead, they continued to intensely exploit workers and markets intensively, making substantial profits without the burdens of extensive mechanization. This unique book explores the lives of the thousands of women who labored underground in Japan’s coal mines in the years 1868 to 1930. It examines their working lives, their family lives, their aspirations, achievements and disappointments. Drawing heavily on interview material with the miners themselves, W. Donald Burton combines translations of their stories with features of Japanese society at the time and coal mining technology. In doing so, he presents a complex account of the women’s lives, as well as providing a keen insight intoon gender relations and the industrial and labor history of Japan.Coal Mining Women in Japan will be welcomed by students and scholars of Japanese history, gender studies and industrial history.
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