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  • - Japan Hands in Republican China and Their Quest for National Identity, 1925-1945
    af Christiane Reinhold
    653,95 - 1.833,95 kr.

    Unlike the majority of contemporary works that examine Sino-Japanese relations between 1925 and 1945, this study de-emphasizes the story of conflict and war in favor the way in which the Chinese intellectually encountered the 'enemy'.

  • af Tamara Perkins
    574,95 - 1.816,95 kr.

    Unlike most work done at the village level, this study shows the large variations between 23 villages within one suburban township, including wide differences in size, lineage structure, economic activities and levels of well-being.

  • - How People and the Local Past Changed the Civic Life of a Regional Japanese Town
    af Guven Peter Witteveen
    648,95 - 1.820,95 kr.

    The story is about the individuals and organizations in the regional Japanese town of Takefu, but these events are also placed in the context of the surrounding Japanese nation-state at the time.

  • - Calling for the Destruction of 'Class Enemies' in China, 1949-1953
    af USA) Wang & Cheng-Chih (Bethel University
    560,95 kr.

  • - State Feminism in Japan
    af Yoshie Kobayashi
    671,95 - 1.816,95 kr.

  • - Identity, Representation and Citizenship
    af USA) Daniels & Timothy P. (Hofstra University
    511,95 - 1.649,95 kr.

  • af Vivian Shen
    651,95 - 1.823,95 kr.

    This book takes a cultural studies approach to analyse and account for the ways in which related to film, literature, cultural production, ideology, social change and modernity were in raised in the leftwing film movement of the 1930s.

  • - Making a Nation of Communities in Taiwan
    af Hsin-Yi Lu
    673,95 - 2.117,95 kr.

    This book is a critical examination of the socio-historical condition in which the discourse of local diversity emerged and gradually permeated Taiwan's public culture.

  • af USA) Philion & Stephen E. (St. Cloud State University
    646,95 - 1.649,95 kr.

    Chinese workers have had to do something they never envisioned: fight for what Chinese state socialism had always promised them - namely, the right to a job and basic social security. This book examines state workers' protests against privatization in China.

  • af Grace Kwon
    673,95 - 2.206,95 kr.

    Before the late 1960s, historians characterized the early modern Japanese economy in feudal terms. In the past two decades a new interpretation has portrayed Japan's pre-industrial economy as one of substantive growth and qualitative change.

  • - The Institutionalizational Transformation of a Freshwater Fishery in a Chinese Community
    af Ning Wang
    590,95 - 2.109,95 kr.

  • - The Role of the Subgovernmental Processes
    af Takao Kamibeppu
    641,95 - 1.813,95 kr.

    During the half century from the 1950s to the year 2000, Japan emerged as a major international aid donor. By tracking the evolution of education aid policies, this study asks how and why Japan emerged as a top education aid donor.

  • af Mark Dougan
    1.819,95 kr.

    The main purpose of this study is to break the Chinese civil aviation industry up into its most important parts and examine how these parts interact in determining how the industry functions in the contemporary period.

  • - Tradition and Change in Japan's Foreign Policy
    af Susanne Klien
    2.021,95 kr.

    This work presents a study of Japan's international role with a special focus on its historical evolution.

  • - Internationalization of Higher Education in China
    af Rui Yang
    633,95 - 1.527,95 kr.

    This study contributes to the literature, and delineates a comprehensive picture of China's higher education internationalization, with an analysis of its costs and benefits, set in an international comparative perspective.

  • af Noriko Kawamura Ishii
    736,95 - 1.821,95 kr.

    This study examines one aspect of American women's professionalization and the implications of the cross-cultural dialogue between American women missionaries and Japanese students and supporters at Kobe College between 1873 and 1909.

  • - A Quest for Normalcy
    af Kevin Cooney
    332,95 - 524,95 kr.

    The sudden end of the Cold War took the Japanese foreign policy community by surprise. This work examines the restructuring of Japanese foreign policy since this time and puts the changes in the context of the foreign policy literature.

  • - The American Hospital in China, 1880-1920
    af University of Adelaide, Australia) Renshaw, Michelle Campbell (Visiting Research Fellow & mfl.
    673,95 - 1.827,95 kr.

    This in depth comparative study is one of the first books to fully explore the emergence of modern Western-style hospitals in China. The author discusses how the hospital established in China -- its planning and architecture, financing, and all aspects of day-to-day operation -- differed from its counterpart in the West.

  • - The Huai River and Reconstruction in Nationalist China, 1927-37
    af David Pietz
    640,95 - 1.813,95 kr.

    Using case studies of public works projects in the Huai River valley, this book illustrates the manner in which the Nationalist government sought to re-establish central administrative control which fractured following the fall of the empire.

  • - The Irony of U.S. Power in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
    af Yoneyuki Sugita
    653,95 - 1.817,95 kr.

    The main purpose of this book is to shed light on the limitations of the American hegemony in occupied Japan.

  • - The Homeless Movement in Tokyo, 1994-2002
    af Japan) Hasegawa & Miki (Tokiwa University
    486,95 - 1.529,95 kr.

    Offers a full history of a homeless movement in Tokyo that lasted nearly a decade. This book shows how homeless people and their external supporters in the city combined their scarce resources to generate and sustain the movement. It also addresses the origins of increased homelessness and development of homelessness policy in the country.

  • - The Women's Movement and the State in Postwar Japan
    af USA) Murase & Miriam (Saint Mary's College of CA
    584,95 - 1.808,95 kr.

    The author provides an analysis of gender inequality in postwar Japan in terms of power, specifically the power, or lack of power, that women themselves may exercise to create social change. She investigates the relationship between women and the state, and assesses its impact on the rate of social change for women in Japan.

  • - The Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution
    af Chris Berry
    740,95 - 2.113,95 kr.

    Determines whether the cycle of films produced after the fall of the "Gang of Four" in the People's China in 1976, and representing events during the Cultural Revolution decade of 1966-1976, constitutes a major break with mainland Chinese cinema that has been dominant in the country after 1949.

  • - Chinese Eugenics in a Transnational Context, 1896-1945
    af Yuehtsen Juliette Chung
    653,95 - 2.212,95 kr.

    This is an 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 1890s to the 1940s.

  • - The Tokyo Hardcore Scene
    af USA) Matsue & Jennifer Milioto (Union College
    722,95 - 1.649,95 kr.

    Grounded in the fields of ethnomusicology, anthropology, popular music studies, and Japanese studies, this book explores the underground Tokyo hardcore scene, asking what play as resistance through performance of the scene tells us about Japanese society in general.

  • - Centralization of Power and Rationalization of the Legal System
    af USA) Liang, Tulsa & Bin (Oklahoma State University
    535,95 - 1.649,95 kr.

    Reshapes our understanding of the economic, political, and legal changes in China since 1978 within the global context. This book is for scholars of Asia, law, criminology, and sociology.

  • - The Television Revolution in Asia
    af USA) White & James D. (Georgia Institute of Technology
    315,95 - 559,95 kr.

  • - Envisioning Democracy in China
    af Zhenghuan Zhou
    312,95 - 528,95 kr.

    This study argues that the liberal concept of rights presupposes and is grounded in an individualistic culture or shared way of relating, and this particular shared way of relating emerged only in the wake of the Reformation in the modern West.

  • - Immigration, Ethnicity, and Globalization in Japan
    af Betsy Teresa Brody
    673,95 - 2.206,95 kr.

    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".

  • - Chinese Monks in the Struggle Against Japanese Aggression 1931-1945
    af Xue (University of Hong Kong) Yu
    652,95 - 1.649,95 kr.

    This book examines the dilemmas Buddhist monks faced with regard to Buddhist concepts of non-killing and defending the nation during the Anti Japanese war and investigates how monks re-created traditions in order to serve the nation and society.