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Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia Between Entanglement and…
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Chiavacci, DavidGRANO,SimonaOBINGER,Julia

This volume focuses on the new and diversifying interactions between civil society and the state in contemporary East Asia by including cases of entanglement and contention in the three fully consolidated democracies in the area: Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. The book argues that all three countries have reached a new era of post high-growth and mature democracy, leading to new social anxietie…

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A Political Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi: A Hybrid Politician
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LUBINA, Michal

This book is the first political biography of Aung San Suu Kyi covering both her years in opposition and all her years in power from 2016 onwards. It offers a new interpretation of Aung San Suu Kyi by presenting a balanced and thorough account of Suu Kyi’s policies. In the last 30 years there has not been a person in global politics who has risen so high and fallen so low – and so quickl…

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9781000178197
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305.8 LUB p
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New Frontiers in Japanese Studies
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OGAWA, AkhiroSEATON, Philip

Over the last 70 years, Japanese Studies scholarship has gone through several dominant paradigms, from ‘demystifying the Japanese’, to analysis of Japanese economic strength, to discussion of global interest in Japanese popular culture. This book assesses this literature, considering future directions for research into the 2020s and beyond.Shifting the geographical emphasis of Japanese Stud…

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9781000054149
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Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia
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CALDWELL, Melissa L.LEUNG, Angela Ki Che

Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia investigates how foods came to be established as moral entities, how moral food regimes reveal emerging systems of knowledge and enforcement, and how these developments have contributed to new Asian nutritional knowledge regimes. The collection’s focus on cross-cultural and transhistorical comparisons across Asia brings into…

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9780824876708
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641.1 MOR m