Given the important role Japanese corporate culture has played in Japan's emergence as an industrial power, the research in this volume offers a new way of looking both at Japanese business culture and at more general changes to the definitions of masculinity in Japanese society.
Given the important role Japanese corporate culture has played in Japan's emergence as an industrial power, the research in this volume offers a new w...
The growth of rights defence movements in China reflects the increasing capacity of Chinese citizens to shape their own civic discourse in order to achieve diverse goals. Rights defence campaigns have taken novel forms which are unprecedented in China, including the use of the Internet by rights campaigners, the development of rights entrepreneurs, and the selection of representatives and leaders in rights defence campaigns.
Defending Rights in Contemporary China offers the first comprehensive analysis of the emergence and development of notions of rights defence,...
The growth of rights defence movements in China reflects the increasing capacity of Chinese citizens to shape their own civic discourse in order to...
As a consequence of rapid economic progress and increasing life expectancy in East Asian societies such as mainland China and Hong Kong, more attention is being paid by their governments, the media and the academy to mental illness and dementia. While clinical research on mental illness and dementia in Chinese societies acknowledges the importance of culture in shaping people s experiences of these illnesses, how Chinese culture shapes people s understandings of and responses to mental illness and dementia has yet to be interrogated to any depth. Mental Illness and Family Care-giving in...
As a consequence of rapid economic progress and increasing life expectancy in East Asian societies such as mainland China and Hong Kong, more atten...
Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China is the richest exploration to date of late imperial Chinese literati interest in male love. Employing primary sources such as miscellanies, poetry, fiction and 'flower guides', Wu Cuncun argues that male homoeroticism played a central role in the cultural life of late imperial Chinese literati elites. Countering recent arguments that homosexuality was marginal and disparaged during this period, the book also seeks to trace the relationship of homoeroticism to status and power. In addition to historical portraits and analysis, the...
Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China is the richest exploration to date of late imperial Chinese literati interest in male love. E...
This work explores the role of science and photography in representations of Japan and Emperor Hirohito, covering a period of over 100 years from the Meiji period through to the Emperor's death in 1989.
This work explores the role of science and photography in representations of Japan and Emperor Hirohito, covering a period of over 100 years from the ...
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident that followed the March 2011 tsunami and earthquake in Japan shocked the world. In the wake the of the disaster, questions were asked as to why Japanese antinuclear movements were not able to prevent those with vested interests, such as businesses, bureaucrats, the media and academics, from facilitating nuclear energy policies? Taking this question as its starting point, this book looks more widely at the development and powerlessness of Japanese civil society, and seeks to untangle this intersection between social movements and civil society in...
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident that followed the March 2011 tsunami and earthquake in Japan shocked the world. In the wake the of the disas...
This timely look at a neglected corner of Japanese historiography spotlights the decade following the end of World War II, a time in which Japanese society was undergoing the transformation from imperial state to democratic nation. For certain working and middle-class women involved in education and labor activism, history-writing became a means to greater voice within the turbulent transition.
Women's History and Local Community in Postwar Japan examines the emergence of women's history-writing groups in Tokyo, Nagoya and Ehime, using interviews conducted with founding...
This timely look at a neglected corner of Japanese historiography spotlights the decade following the end of World War II, a time in which Japanese...
This volume is a major reconsideration of Japanese late modernity and national hegemony which examines the creative and academic works of a number of influential Japanese thinkers. The author situates the process of Japanese knowledge production in the interface between the immediate historical and the wider socio-economic and politico-cultural contexts accompanying the Japanese post-war experience of modernity. This book will be of great value to anyone interested in the history of contemporary Japanese culture and society.
This volume is a major reconsideration of Japanese late modernity and national hegemony which examines the creative and academic works of a number of ...
This book explores the reactions to the Manchurian crisis of different sections of the state, and of a number of different groups in Japanese society, particularly rural groups, women's organizations and business associations. It thus seeks to avoid a generalized account of public relations to the military and diplomatic events of the early 1930s, offering instead a nuanced account of the shifts in public and popular opinion in this crucial period.
This book explores the reactions to the Manchurian crisis of different sections of the state, and of a number of different groups in Japanese society,...
Addiction to illicit drugs is a pressing social concern across greater China, where there are likely several million drug addicts at present. This research breaks new ground by examining Chinese people's stories of drug addiction.
Chinese Stories of Drug Addiction systematically evaluates how drug addiction is represented and constructed in a series of contemporary life stories and filmic stories from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. These stories recount experiences leading up to and during drug addiction, as well as experiences during drug rehabilitation and...
Addiction to illicit drugs is a pressing social concern across greater China, where there are likely several million drug addicts at present. This ...
