Bøger i Asia's Transformations serien

The 1911 Revolution ended two millennia of imperial rule and established the Republic of China, but dissatisfaction with the early republic fuelled further revolutionary movements, each intended to be more thoroughgoing than the last. This book examines the internal dynamics of political and socio-economic change in China, and reveals how reforms in education, army organization, and constitutional rule created new social forces and political movements that undermined dynastic legitimacy within China and on its frontiers. Through detailed analyses, using new archival, memoir, diary, and newspaper sources, the authors cast new light on the sudden collapse of an empire.

Through ethnographic and media analyses, this book examines the affective dimensions of power in East Asia, in order to illuminate the dynamics of contemporary governance, and to overcome common Western assumptions about East Asian governmentality. In turn, it provides a framework for analyzing emerging phenomena in East Asia, such as the psychologization of social problems, the rise of self-help genres, transnational labor migration, new ideologies of gender and the family, and mass-mediated affective communities.

There is no doubt that President George W. Bush and his administration have transformed US foreign policy and reshaped global international relations in a very profound way.

By exploring the complex relationship between property, the state, society and the market, this book demonstrates how both developmental issues and state-society relations in Vietnam can be explored through the prism of property relations and property rights. The essays in this collection demonstrate how negotiations over property are deeply enmeshed with dynamics of state formation, and covers debates over the role of the state and its relationship to various levels of society, the intrusion of global forces into the lives of marginalized communities and individuals, and how community norms and standards shape and reshape national policy and laws.

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.

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.

Explores the changes occurring in China today - what are the goals of political contestation, how are Chinese Communist Party leaders legitimizing their rule, who are the specific actors involved in contesting state legitimacy and what are the implications of changing state-society relations for the future viability of the People's Republic?

Examines topical issues of China's reform process from a political science perspective.

Explores the changes occurring in China today - what are the goals of political contestation, how are Chinese Communist Party leaders legitimizing their rule, who are the specific actors involved in contesting state legitimacy and what are the implications of changing state-society relations for the future viability of the People's Republic?

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.

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.

In offering a comprehensive understanding of the present East Asian dynamic in light of the region's historical heritage, the authors present several alternative hypotheses about the ongoing East Asian renaissance, whose plausibility remains to be assessed in the light of unfolding evidence.

This work explores the strategies of reform in China and their implications for its domestic and foreign policies. It challenges the misconceptions that China is eagerly embracing capitalism, or that no political reforms are taking place.

Examines Japan'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.

Examines the interplay between multicultural groups, including the majority Japanese, in the Japanese school system and will help us to understand changes occurring in Japanese society as a whole.

Introduces the lived experiences of labour in a range of occupations and work settings. This book covers professional employees such as engineers and lawyers, service workers such as bar hostesses, domestic maids and hotel workers, and industrial workers in a variety of factories.

Provides the first comprehensive overview of the cultural significance of the reading practices of the girl, or shojo, in modern and contemporary Japan and thereby invites a re-assessment of core propositions about gender norms in Japanese society.

Capturing the current critical moment in US-Korean relations, expert contributors examine the relations through such prisms as nationalism, the media, regional relations and human rights issues.

Analyses the mechanisms, processes and actors producing a wide spectrum of social and cultural changes in reform China. Contrary to most literature that emphasize economic and political processes at the expense of Chinese society, the book argues for the centrality of the social in understanding Chinese development.

Analyses the mechanisms, processes and actors producing a wide spectrum of social and cultural changes in reform China. Contrary to most literature that emphasize economic and political processes at the expense of Chinese society, the book argues for the centrality of the social in understanding Chinese development.

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

Shows that sustained critical analysis of contemporary Taiwan using issues such as trauma, memory, history, tradition, modernity, post-modernity provides a useful point of departure for thinking through similar problematics and issues elsewhere in the world. This book covers nationalism, anthropology, cultural studies, media studies, and religion.

Analyzes various historical approaches to the construction of a regional order and a regional identity in East Asia. This book also explores the ideology of Pan-Asianism as a predecessor of contemporary Asian regionalism, which served as the basis for efforts at regional integration in East Asia.

Analyzes various historical approaches to the construction of a regional order and a regional identity in East Asia. This book also explores the ideology of Pan-Asianism as a predecessor of contemporary Asian regionalism, which served as the basis for efforts at regional integration in East Asia.

Written by a team of leading China scholars, this book explores the dynamics of state power and legitimation in 21st-century China, and the implications of changing state-society relations for the future viability of the People's Republic.

Written by a team of leading China scholars, this book explores the dynamics of state power and legitimation in twenty-first century China, and the implications of changing state-society relations for the future viability of the People's Republic.

Provoking fresh considerations of the issues between East and West, this book of essays presents a diverse range of voices. Asian and Western scholars and activists advance a range of debates as the book attempts to resolve these polarized positions on human rights.

Bringing together twelve prominent experts on US-Korean and US-Pacific relations, this book explores the many dimensions of prevalent and future US foreign policy. Charting developments in North and South Korea, it examines US-Korean relations through such prisms as nationalism, the media, regional relations and human rights issues.

Introduces the lived experiences of labour in a range of occupations and work settings. This book covers professional employees such as engineers and lawyers, service workers such as bar hostesses, domestic maids and hotel workers, and industrial workers in a variety of factories.