The internet is developing more extensively in China than any other country in the world. Chinese Cyberspaces provides multidisciplinary perspectives on recent developments and the consequences of internet expansion in China. Including first-hand research and case studies, the contributors examine the social, political, cultural and economic impact of the internet in China.
The book investigates the political implications of China's internet development as well as the effect on China's information policy and overall political stability. The contributors show how although...
The internet is developing more extensively in China than any other country in the world. Chinese Cyberspaces provides multidisciplinary p...
Representing Calcutta is a spatial history of the colonial city, and addresses the question of modernity that haunts our perception of Calcutta. The book responds to two inter-related concerns about the city. First is the image of Calcutta as the worst case scenario of a Third World city -- the proverbial 'city of dreadful nights.' Second is the changing nature of the city s public spaces -- the demise of certain forms of urban sociality that has been mourned in recent literature as the passing of Bengali modernity. By examining architecture, city plans, paintings, literature, and...
Representing Calcutta is a spatial history of the colonial city, and addresses the question of modernity that haunts our perception of Cal...
Incorporating Japanese language materials and field-based research, this compelling collection of essays takes a comparative look at the changing notions of gender and sexual diversity in Japan, considering both heterosexual and non-heterosexual histories, lifestyles and identities.
Written by key Japanese authors and Western scholars the volume examines how non-conformist individuals have questioned received notions and challenged social norms relating to sex and gender. The chapters depict the plurality of gender positions; from housewives opposed to gender roles within...
Incorporating Japanese language materials and field-based research, this compelling collection of essays takes a comparative look at the changing n...
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. Many American commentators continue to talk about 9/11 as the day the world changed, but increasingly analysts around the world are concluding that more important than 9/11 have been the ideas that the Bush leadership brought into office in January 2001. Confronting the Bush Doctrine is the first book to take on the vitally important task of analyzing how the Asia Pacific region sees and evaluates what the United...
There is no doubt that President George W. Bush and his administration have transformed US foreign policy and reshaped global international relations ...
Studying institutional change regardless of whether it is focused on transitional or developing economies, is most fruitful when focused on its structuring of the means of production - land, labour and capital. Developmental Dilemmas singles out land as an object of study and places it in the context of one of the world's largest and most populous countries undergoing institutional reform, the People's Republic of China. The book demonstrates that private property protected by law, the principle of 'getting-the-prices-right', and the emergence of effectively functioning markets are the...
Studying institutional change regardless of whether it is focused on transitional or developing economies, is most fruitful when focused on its struct...
Popular Culture and Globalisation in Japan provides exciting and fascinating insights into Japanese popular culture. It explores the Japaneseness of Japanese popular culture by focusing on the intersection of globalization and popular cultural products associated with Japan. The editors argue that there are many insides and outsides, which inform the production and consumption of Japanese popular culture, thus that the Japan in Japanese popular culture is always dislocated, contaminated and crisscrossed.
This text is clearly presented through a...
Popular Culture and Globalisation in Japan provides exciting and fascinating insights into Japanese popular culture. It explores the Japanes...
This new inter-disciplinary book is the first comparative, case-based analysis of media panoply in (and out of) Asia today. Examining what the authors call the "media/tion equation," the contributors demonstrate the multiple links between media, society and culture, and advance the claim that media is the key means through which Asians experience, understand, effect and are affected by the worlds containing them.
Exploring a relatively neglected principle in cultural studies - that context counts - medi@sia highlights how the experiences of those encountering media messages...
This new inter-disciplinary book is the first comparative, case-based analysis of media panoply in (and out of) Asia today. Examining what the auth...
Regionalism has played an increasingly important role in the changing international relations of East Asia in recent decades, with early signs of integration and growing regional cooperation. This in-depth volume analyzes various historical approaches to the construction of a regional order and a regional identity in East Asia. It 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, but also as a tool for legitimizing Japanese colonial rule. This mobilization of the Asian...
Regionalism has played an increasingly important role in the changing international relations of East Asia in recent decades, with early signs of i...
Spanning the whole of the twentieth century, How China Works examines the labour issues surrounding the workplace in China in both the Republican and People's Republic epochs. The international team of contributors treat China's twentieth-century revolution as an industrial revolution, stressing that China's recent emergence as the new workshop of the world was a gradual change, and not a recent phenomena led by external forces.
Providing the reader with extensive ethnographic research on topics such as culture and community in the workplace, the rural-urban divide, industrialization,...
Spanning the whole of the twentieth century, How China Works examines the labour issues surrounding the workplace in China in both the Republican a...
With expert contributions from both the US and Japan, this book examines the legacies of the US Occupation on Japanese politics and society, and discusses the long-term impact of the Occupation on contemporary Japan. Focusing on two central themes - democracy and the interplay of US-initiated reforms and Japan's endogenous drive for democratization and social justice - the contributors address key questions:
How did the US authorities and the Japanese people define democracy?
To what extent did America impose their notions of democracy on Japan?
How far...
With expert contributions from both the US and Japan, this book examines the legacies of the US Occupation on Japanese politics and society, and di...
