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1. Korea's Development Under Park Chung Hee

   By Hyung-A Kim

   Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

   Based on personal interviews with the principal policy-makers of the 1970s, Korea's Development under Park Chung-Hee examines how the president sought to develop South Korea into an independent, autonomous sovereign state both economically and militarily. Kim provides a new narrative in the complex...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
2. Women’s History and Local Community in Postwar Japan

   By Curtis Anderson Gayle

   Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

   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...

   Published December 7th 2009 by Routledge
3. Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan

   By David G. Wittner

   Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

   In this book David Wittner situates Japan’s Meiji Era experience of technology transfer and industrial modernization within the realm of culture, politics, and symbolism, examining how nineteenth century beliefs in civilization and enlightenment influenced the process of technological choice....

   Published July 23rd 2009 by Routledge
4. Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in Contemporary Japanese Culture

   A Reading of Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin

   By Fuminobu Murakami

   Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

   Using the Euro-American theoretical framework of postmodernism, feminism and post-colonialism, this book analyses the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers; Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin. In addition the author reconsiders this...

   Published April 14th 2009 by Routledge
5. Japan on Display

   Photography and the Emperor

   By Morris Low

   Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

   Sixty years on from the end of the Pacific War, Japan on Display examines representations of the Meiji emperor, Mutsuhito (1852-1912) and his grandson the Showa emperor, Hirohito who was regarded as a symbol of the nation, in both war and peacetime. Much of this representation was aided by the...

   Published March 29th 2006 by Routledge
6. Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China

   By Wu Cuncun

   Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

   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...

   Published August 11th 2004 by Routledge
7. Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique

   By Sonia Ryang

   Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

   Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique is an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated study which challenges the conventional view of Japanese studies in general and the Anglophone anthropological writings on Japan in particular. Sonia Ryang explores the process by which the postwar...

   Published May 26th 2004 by Routledge
8. Gender in Japan

   Power and Public Policy

   Edited by Vera Mackie

   Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

   Adding a new dimension to current discussions of politics in contemporary Japan, this collection of essays examines the gendered nature of the Japanese State. Incorporating new material arising from recent research on gender and power in Japan, Gender in Japan explores issues including:...

   Published October 3rd 2003 by Routledge
9. Rethinking Identity in Modern Japan

   Nationalism as Aesthetics

   By Yumiko Iida

   Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

   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...

   Published December 19th 2001 by Routledge
10. The Manchurian Crisis and Japanese Society, 1931-33

    By Sandra Wilson

    Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

    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...

    Published November 21st 2001 by Routledge