Book Series in History
East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
New & Published Titles:
Global Media
The Television Revolution in Asia
This book is about the processes of globalization, demonstrated through a comparative study of three television case histories in Asia. Also illustrated are different approaches…
read moreJune 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-88404-4 (Routledge)
Liberal Rights and Political Culture
Envisioning Democracy in China
This book argues that the liberal concept of rights presupposes and is grounded in an individualistic culture or shared way of relating, and that this… read moreMarch 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-88249-1 (Routledge)
We Are Not Garbage
The Homeless Movement in Tokyo, 1994-2002
This book offers a full history of a homeless movement in Tokyo that lasted nearly a decade. It shows how homeless people and their external… read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80594-0 (Routledge)
A Nation of a Hundred Million Idiots
A Social History of Japanese Television, 1953 - 1973
This book offers a history of Japanese television audiences and the popular media culture that television helped to spawn. In a comparatively short period, the… read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80597-1 (Routledge)
Cooperation over Conflict
The Women's Movement and the State in Postwar Japan
Japan's postwar transformation has been hailed as nothing short of a miracle. Yet, in the midst of massive social, economic, political, and cultural change, gender…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80493-6 (Routledge)
Workers’ Democracy in China's Transition from State Socialism
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…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96206-3 (Routledge)
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Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China
The Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution
This book argues that the fundamental shift in Chinese Cinema away from Socialism and towards Post-Socialism can be located earlier than the emergence of the… read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99893-2 (Routledge)
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Making Music in Japan’s Underground
The Tokyo Hardcore Scene
Grounded in the fields of Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Popular Music Studies, and Japanese Studies, this book explores the underground Tokyo hardcore scene, ultimately asking what play…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96152-3 (Routledge)
The Changing Chinese Legal System, 1978 – Present
Centralization of Power and Rationalization of the Legal System
This groundbreaking book examines the changing Chinese legal system since 1978. In addition to historical analyses of changes at the economic, political-legal, and social levels,…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95859-2 (Routledge)
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Indonesian Education
Teachers, Schools, and Central Bureaucracy
Indonesian Education: Teachers, Schools, and Central Authority, the first published study of life inside Indonesian schools, explores the role that classroom teachers' behavior and locates… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97444-8 (Routledge)
Forthcoming Titles:
Buddhism, War, and Nationalism: Chinese Monks in the Struggle Against Japanese Aggression 1931-1945
By Xue Yu
To be published December 15th 2010