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Nationalism in Asia

A History Since 1945

Jeff Kingston (Autor)

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336 Seiten
2016
Wiley-Blackwell (Hersteller)
978-1-119-25932-9 (ISBN)
CHF 117,15 inkl. MwSt
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Using a comparative, interdisciplinary approach, Nationalism in Asia analyzes currents of nationalism in five contemporary Asian societies: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea.



Explores the ways in which nationalism is expressed, embraced, challenged, and resisted in contemporary China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea using a comparative, interdisciplinary approach
Provides an important trans-national and trans-regional analysis by looking at five countries that span Northeast, Southeast, and South Asia
Features comparative analysis of identity politics, democracy, economic policy, nation branding, sports, shared trauma, memory and culture wars, territorial disputes, national security and minorities
Offers an accessible, thematic narrative written for non-specialists, including a detailed and up-to-date bibliography
Gives readers an in-depth understanding of the ramifications of nationalism in these countries for the future of Asia

Jeff Kingston is Professor of History and Director of Asian Studies at Temple University Japan Campus. He has written widely on modern Japanese history and Japan's relations with Asia. He is the author of Japan in Transformation 1952--2000 (2001). Japan's Quiet Transformation: Social Change and Civil Society in the 21st Century (2004), and Contemporary Japan: History, Politics, and Social Change since the 1980s (Wiley Blackwell, second edition, 2012). He is the editor of Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan (2012) and Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan (2014). He was a Fulbright scholar in Indonesia during the mid-1980s and has been traveling around and reporting on Asia since then, often providing commentary to international media on social and political developments in the region and writes a weekly column "Counterpoint" for the Japan Times.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 29.4.2016
Verlagsort Hoboken
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 666 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 1-119-25932-0 / 1119259320
ISBN-13 978-1-119-25932-9 / 9781119259329
Zustand Neuware
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