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Japan and Asia’s Contested Order
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Japan and Asia’s Contested Order

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-08-20
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book brings together up-to-date research from prominent international scholars in a collaborative exploration of the Japan’s efforts to shape Asia’s rapidly shifting regional order. Pulled between an increasingly inward-looking America whose security support remains critical and a rising and more militarily assertive China with whom Japan retains deep economic interdependence, Japanese leaders are consistently maneuvering to ensure the country’s regional interests. Nuclear and missile threats from North Korea and historically problematic relations with South Korea further complicate Japanese endeavors. So too do the shifting winds of Japanese domestic politics, economics and identity. The authors weave these complex threads together to offer a nuanced portrait of both Japan and the region. Scholars, observers of politics, and policymakers will find this a timely and useful collection.

Confronting the Bush Doctrine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Confronting the Bush Doctrine

Accessibly written and including satirical cartoons, this remarkable book focuses on the Bush Doctrine in Asia and examines how the Bush initiatives are received and reacted to in Asia.

Education and Reform in China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

Education and Reform in China

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-11-12
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Transformative market reforms in China since the late 1970s have improved living standards dramatically, but have also led to unprecedented economic inequality. During this period, China’s educational system was restructured to support economic development, with educational reforms occurring at a startling pace. Today, the educational system has diversified in structure, finance, and content; it has become more market-oriented; and it is serving an increasingly diverse student population. These changes carry significant consequences for China’s social mobility and inequality, and future economic prospects. In Education and Reform in China, leading scholars in the fields of education, soc...

Online@AsiaPacific
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Online@AsiaPacific

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-03-20
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Media across the Asia-Pacific region are at once social, locative and mobile. Social in that these media facilitate public and interpersonal interaction, locative in that this social communication is geographically placed, and mobile in so much as the media is ever-present. The Asia–Pacific region has been pivotal in the production, shaping and consumption of personal new media technologies and through social and mobile media we can see emerging certain types of personal politics that are inflected by the local. The six case studies that inform this book—Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Manila, Singapore and Melbourne—offer a range of economic, socio-cultural, and linguistic differences, enabli...

China, East Asia and the Global Economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

China, East Asia and the Global Economy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-05-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Takeshi Hamashita, arguably Asia's premier historian of the longue durée, has been instrumental in opening a new field of inquiry in Chinese, East Asian and world historical research. Engaging modernization, Marxist and world system approaches, his wide-ranging redefinition of the evolving relationships between the East Asia regional system and the world economy from the sixteenth century to the present has sent ripples throughout Asian and international scholarship. His research has led him to reconceptualize the position of China first in the context of an East Asian regional order and subsequently within the framework of a wider Euro-American-Asian trade and financial order that was long...

History's Fools
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 456

History's Fools

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A tale of Western liberal hubris and our failure to escape from history.

Chinese Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 343

Chinese Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-04-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This bestselling introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. An interdisciplinary and international team of China scholars draw on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and political science and covers a broad range of issues.Topics covered include:labour and environmental disputesrural and ethnic conflictmigrationlegal challengesintellectual and religious dissidenceopposition to family planning.The newly.

Transcultural Japan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

Transcultural Japan

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-11-27
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Transcultural Japan provides a critical examination of being Other in Japan. Portraying the multiple intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and gender, the book suggests ways in which the transcultural borderlands of Japan reflect globalization in this island nation. The authors show the diversity of Japan from the inside, revealing an extraordinarily complex new society in sharp contrast to the persistent stereotypical images held of a regimented, homogeneous Japan. Unsettling as it may be, there are powerful arguments here for looking at the meanings of globalization in Japan through these diverse communities and individuals. These are not harmonious, utopian communities by any means, as...

Contentious Integration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Contentious Integration

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-05-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Asian-Pacific is now one of the most important regions in the global system, where the interplay of integrative economic, geo-political and sociocultural processes provide increasing scope for regional leadership to be exercised, particularly by China and Japan. This book studies the relationship between the People's Republic of China and Japan as the basis of the construction and maintenance of economic and security arrangements in this region. It explains how these arrangements have been challenged by the occasionally testy ties between these two major Asian powers and explores their dynamic interactions in promoting their own agenda and ambitions, and obstructing that of the other's in contending for leadership of East Asia. In so doing, it highlights the complex interdependence and competitiveness of China and Japan, with careful observation from the United States. This book provides practical guidance for foreign policymaking in China, Japan and the United States, and makes theoretical inferences for the study of Sino-Japanese relations, regional integration and international relations generally.

The Political Economy of East Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 588

The Political Economy of East Asia

Offering a coherent overview of the historical and institutional context of enduring patterns in East Asian political economy, this updated and expanded second edition textbook explores the dramatic regional and international transformations that this key region has faced since the 2008 financial crisis.