This volume traces the influences that have shaped the secondary school history curriculum during Hong Kong's prolonged political transition between the 1960s and the early 21st century, focusing especially on the relationship between history teaching and identity formation. The author's experience as a local history teacher during the mid-1990s made him conscious of the of peculiarities of the history curriculum at this time; in particular, the neglect in both syllabuses and textbooks of Hong Kong's own history, and the unique division between History and the entirely separate subject of...
This volume traces the influences that have shaped the secondary school history curriculum during Hong Kong's prolonged political transition between t...
This dissertation is the first study of state feminism in a non-western nation state, focusing on the activities and roles of the Women's Bureau of the Ministry of Labor in post-World War II Japan.
This dissertation is the first study of state feminism in a non-western nation state, focusing on the activities and roles of the Women's Bureau of th...
This fascinating book is among the first to examine state workers protests against privatization in China. Philion discusses how Chinese state enterprise workers have engaged a discourse of workers democracy in the process of struggle with the new social relations of work that are engendered by privatization oriented policies in China today. By the 1990s, this discourse was being deployed by the state in an effort to minimize the social obligations of the Party and enterprise to state workers and to win the latter over to faith in markets. Philion reveals that Chinese workers have recently...
This fascinating book is among the first to examine state workers protests against privatization in China. Philion discusses how Chinese state ente...
This dissertation is a historical investigation of the relationship between science and society through the comparative study of eugenics movements as they developed in both Japan and China from the 1890's to the 1940's.
This dissertation is a historical investigation of the relationship between science and society through the comparative study of eugenics movements as...
Using qualitative research methods and evidence gathered from interviews, this work explores and highlights contradictions between Japanese immigration and immigrant policies as they relate to ethnic Japanese "returnees."
Using qualitative research methods and evidence gathered from interviews, this work explores and highlights contradictions between Japanese immigratio...
