Published by Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, 2012
ISBN 10: 9197808288 ISBN 13: 9789197808286
Seller: Masalai Press, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 23 pp., bibliography.
Published by Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, 2014
ISBN 10: 9198090011 ISBN 13: 9789198090017
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 19 pp., bibliography. Since 2009, Japanese civil society groups have arranged exhibitions in China dealing with the so-called comfort women issue in cooperation with local Chinese organizers, including state-run war museums that function as patriotic education bases. Organizing these exhibitions has required much time and energy. A fundamental aim of these groups is to make the Japanese government compensate the victims. Why do these groups arrange exhibitions in China even though it is time and energy consuming instead of concentrating their activities in Japan? Why do these groups, who embrace a clear gender perspective and state that one of their principles is to be independent of any government, cooperate with Chinese government-run war museums that serve as patriotic education bases and clearly subsume genderbased identities to that of the nation? Through an analysis based on key assumptions in theories on transnational advocacy and collective memory of material provided by the actors involved, it is demonstrated that activities in China are a means of exerting pressure on the Japanese government by institutionalizing the memory of the "Comfort women" more firmly in China. At the same time, the exhibitions might be regarded as a "Trojan horse" as its emphasis on gender and international solidarity among women might potentially undermine the emphasis in official Chinese narratives about the past, which strongly stress national identity. The paper illustrates that civil society can play a role in the international politics of memory, something often ignored in elite-centred research on collective memory in Sino-Japanese relations.
Published by Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, 2014
ISBN 10: 919809002X ISBN 13: 9789198090024
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 25 pp., bibliography. Since the 1990s, vigorous debate concerning a number of key issues has taken place within the study of Chinese nationalism. Scholars have tended to differentiate between diverse types of nationalism. For example, many studies distinguish between a malign nationalism on the one hand and a benign patriotism on the other. The strongest evidence for such a distinction can be found in survey research, which has demonstrated that patriotism, meaning love for the country, is empirically distinct from nationalism, i.e. the belief in the superiority of one's country over other countries. In this paper, I take issue with this distinction. I argue that even though such surveys have contributed important insights to our understanding of Chinese national identity, the sharp distinction between patriotism and nationalism risks obfuscating the more important question of what actors are willing to do in the name of patriotism. If people are prepared to die and kill out of love for the country,the distinction between a benign patriotism and a malign nationalism cannot be so easily upheld. Based on a case study of the popular protests against Japan in China in autumn 2012, the Chinese media and government's response, as well as the content of Chinese patriotic education, I demonstrate that the meaning of patriotism is a key aspect of Chinese identity politics, which has hitherto not been granted sufficient attention.
Published by Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, 2014
ISBN 10: 9198090003 ISBN 13: 9789198090000
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 24 pp., bibliography. Based on the constructivist international relations (IR) approach, the authors study Sweden's engagement with the DPRK as a unique case to understand motivations for engaging in a so-called fragile state. Besides having its embassy in Pyongyang and serving as a protecting power for the U.S., Sweden has provided capacity building programs for North Korean government officials and scholars. It has also made a consistent commitment to aid and human rights advocacy. In a nutshell, Sweden has been a facilitator between the DPRK and the outside world. Its motivations are mixed and multiple,including the expectation of gains, the convenience of repeating the work and the logic of appropriateness.
Published by Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, Lund, 2017
ISBN 10: 9198169289 ISBN 13: 9789198169287
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 52 pages : illustrations. Series: Working papers in contemporary Asian studies ; 58. Paper wrappers fresh, corners sharp; minor erasure from verso of title page else contents as new. 140 grams.
Published by Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, 2015
ISBN 10: 9198090038 ISBN 13: 9789198090031
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 32 pp., bibliography. This paper investigates the relationship between history and national identity, specifically how "golden ages" in a nation's past are used for nationalist ends. Using discourse analysis, it examines how two types of popular historical venues, museums and textbooks, present Japan's Heian period (794-1185) and explores what this reveals about Japanese national identity formation. The Heian era has a mixed legacy, making it an interesting case study of nationalist uses of history. The study concludes that there seem to be two major discourses of the Heian era in contemporary Japan: a literary discourse celebrating the epoch's aesthetics and a historical discourse that is less enthusiastic. The first is far more prevalent, but it depicts certain facets of the Heian period, like differing gender norms, that apparently challenge the nationalist narrative of public history venues. The second discourse endeavors to rehabilitate the Heian era as another "respectable" piece of the master Japanese historical narrative. The presence of a strong literary discourse of the Heian that runs against some Japanese elites' aims renders the Heian period an unappealing choice as a "golden age", despite its achievements.
Published by Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, 2014
ISBN 10: 9197808296 ISBN 13: 9789197808293
Seller: Masalai Press, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 29 pp., bibliography.
Published by Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden, 2017
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 60 pages. Series: Working papers in contemporary Asian studies ; 55. Binding fresh, corners sharp, spine uncreased; minor erasure from verso of title page else contents as new. 160 grams.
Published by Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, 2015
ISBN 10: 9198169203 ISBN 13: 9789198169201
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 53 pp., map, bibliography. In Nepal, dams have been targeted as the most viable means of energy generation. However, dam projects often necessitate the relocation and resettlement of people to make way for reservoirs; processes that may pose great challenges for affected people, given that their homes, land, and livelihoods are lost to some extent. This thesis analyzes the challenges facing the Nepali state in ensuring that hydropower development projects become instrumental in bringing about social justice and development for all, including displaced populations. Secondly, it contributes to ongoing research debates on development-forced displacement and resettlement (DFDR) through a critical discussion of the applicability of DFDR research in countries like Nepal, characterized by weak state regulatory capacity and social disparities. By reviewing academic studies and conducting interviews with Nepali civil society activists, government-connected people, and water resource specialists, it was found that DFDR research has had very little influence on resettlement practices in Nepal. The reason may be that DFDR mechanisms are too dependent on functioning state institutions, and on entrenched Western democratic ideals such as inclusiveness, participation, recognition, and justice. The findings suggest that DFDR research may need to pay closer attention to specific socio-political issues such as social exclusion and state capacity, and perhaps it might even be useful to question how "development" can be achieved differently.
Published by Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, 2015
ISBN 10: 9198090054 ISBN 13: 9789198090055
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 51 pp., illustrations. The purpose of this thesis is to explore discourses of insecurity, vulnerability and conflict in Thailand's Deep South. In order to understand how such discourses are shaped by gender ideologies, the study examines how ideas about men and women are articulated, reproduced and challenged in Thai civil society. Special attention is given to the ways in which men and masculinity are constructed within the discourse, and the concept of hegemonic masculinity is used to explain the findings. Data was retrieved through semi-structured interviews with NGO practitioners in Bangkok and analyzed using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis. The analysis showed that gender ideologies played an important role in shaping NGO discourses of insecurity and vulnerability. While challenging certain traditional ideas about men and women, the discourse also reproduced men as legitimate targets of violence and failed to see men's vulnerability as gendered. By "ungendering" male experience, and constructing women as ideal civil society activists, the discourse was also found to exclude men from practical interventions and capacity building in the Deep South.
Published by Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, 2015
ISBN 10: 9198090062 ISBN 13: 9789198090062
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 53 pp., bibliography. The aim of this research was to explore and evaluate the new expected identities of unmarried urban women in China, by analyzing the changes in the marriage law in the last 60 years, particularly in property division in the case of divorce. Methodology: The paper proceeded under the qualitative method and designed a case study in Chengdu. The data from books, journals, policies, newspapers and the interview texts were analyzed under theoretical concepts and discourse analysis method.Theoretical framework: The theoretical framework of the complex "governmentality-identity-authenticity" was applied in the thesis, with the main focus on gender issues.
Published by Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, 2015
ISBN 10: 9198090070 ISBN 13: 9789198090079
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 52 pp., illustrations, bibliography. In English. Emerging multiculturalism in China's metropolitan areas implies people's frequent engagement in intercultural contacts and, therefore, creates a need for a mutual acculturation between the migrants and the host society. This research aimed to contribute to the study of immigrant adjustment in China by exploring the patterns of dietary acculturation among Russian immigrants residing in Beijing. The research was framed as an explorative qualitative case study and employed Berry's acculturation model as a theoretical basis. This model draws on the dichotomy between ethnic identification and acculturation in order to distinguish four strategies of acculturation: assimilation, separation, integration, and marginalization. Acculturation strategies framework was applied to food preferences of Russian immigrants in three food-related contexts: everyday consumption, preparation, and New Year celebration. As a result, integration was defined as a predominant acculturation strategy of the group. However, it was also revealed that the patterns of dietary acculturation altered considerably depending on the context of consumption. Overall, the findings of the study demonstrated a complex, dynamic, and multidimensional nature of the acculturative processes.
Published by Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, 2015
ISBN 10: 9198090089 ISBN 13: 9789198090086
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 48 pp., bibliography. Broad public contention against nuclear energy can be observed as a new phenomenon in Japanese society after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. This study aimed to identify a sufficient explanation about why the emergence of such a protest movement only occurred after the direct experience of a critical event and did not happen before. Discrediting a sole and simple grievance-based argumentation, the analysis took into account underlying environmental and structural factors with a potential impact on protest development. A strategy of scrutinising in-field observations and findings in appliance of classical approaches of social movement theory provided the best possible outcome. As a primal finding, the recent emergence of protest could be mainly attributed to the opening up of novel political opportunities, newly accessed parts of society as additional mobilisable resources, but most of all to an effective application of framing strategies.Nevertheless, explanatory factors were also found outside of the covered range of the theoretical framework, such as the apparent characterisation of the protests as a New Social Movement. Although this initiated a discussion about the underlying model's adequacy, its suitability was generally proved by its rich repertoire of explication in this particular case.
Published by Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, 2015
ISBN 10: 9198090097 ISBN 13: 9789198090093
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 43 pp., bibliography. The collective identity is subject to permanent negotiation. Due to the lack of incentive to offer public statements, the collective identity of Japanese bureaucrats (or kanryo) has been constructed separately inside and outside of the ministries. This paper explores how the collective identity of kanryo has been constructed in two Japanese national newspapers as outsider discourses using structural discourse analysis. Illustrations of the constructed identity of kanryo will be also presented. Regarding the insider's discourse, this paper illustrates the constructed identity inside ministries based on interviews with employees at the ministries. A comparison of the two discourses and reflection on the results of my research concludes the thesis.
Published by Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, 2012
ISBN 10: 9197808253 ISBN 13: 9789197808255
Seller: Masalai Press, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 43 pp., bibliography.
Published by Lund, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University 2017 illustrated, 2017
Seller: Antiquarian Bookshop Klikspaan, Leiden, Netherlands
First Edition
1st ed. - With references. - (Working papers in contemporary Asian studies ; 58). - Softcover.
Published by Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, 2012
ISBN 10: 9197808261 ISBN 13: 9789197808262
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 61 pp., bibliography.
Published by Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, 2015
ISBN 10: 9198090046 ISBN 13: 9789198090048
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 88 pp., bibliography. The "iron triangle" phenomenon, or nexus between politicians, bureaucrats and business, is an important element of the Japanese postwar political economy system, known as the "1955 system" or "Japan Inc." Although, originally created to facilitate high-speed economic growth by ensuring efficient cooperation between the government and business, over time it became associated with high-profile corruption and massive government spending on economically unnecessary projects that increased Japan's public debt. The "iron triangle" in the postal industry was particularly important because it was directly linked to the postal savings funds, the source of money that financed "iron triangles" in other sectors of the Japanese economy. Extensive reforms of the postal sector undertaken in Japan in 2001 have changed the mechanism of the postal "iron triangle" and created serious implications for its actors. The purpose of this study was to explore the process of transformation of the postal "iron triangle" relationships due to the influence of the postal reforms (FILP reform and privatization reform). It found that as a result of these reforms, the "iron triangle" relationships in the postal industry have weakened to a considerable degree. Particularly, two sides of the triangle became negatively affected by the postal privatization: politicians-postmasters and politicians-bureaucrats alliances. At the same time, the bureaucracy-business connection appears to remain resistant and viable. The study further explained the transformation process as a result of declining efficiency and effectiveness of the "iron triangle" as an organization. It discovered that the two sides of the postal "iron triangle" have weakened because all the three factors of their efficiency and effectiveness (well-balanced incentive structure; information and knowledge symmetry; and high degree of adaptability) were eliminated by the postal reforms. However, the third side of the postal "iron triangle" remained strong because all the three factors of its efficiency and effectiveness were not affected by the postal reforms.