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  • Polarizing Dreams

    Gangnam and Popular Culture in Globalizing Korea

    par Dr. Pil Ho Kim, Allison Alexy ...
    Collections series Asia Pop!
    Anyone genuinely curious about what makes South Korean pop culture tick should look no further than Gangnam. Celebrated in a song by an unlikely K-pop superstar named Psy in 2012, Gangnam is the epicenter of Hallyu, the Korean Wave. It is an exclusive zone of privilege and wealth that has lured pop culture industries since the 1980s and fueled the aspirations of Seoul’s middle class, producing in ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Peripheral Linguistic Brutality

    Metal Languaging in the Asia Pacific

    par Dr. Jess Kruk, Dr. Wesley C. Robertson, Allison Alexy ...
    Collections series Asia Pop!
    Peripheral Linguistic Brutality is a sociolinguistic investigation into the production of “metalness” through language in the Asia Pacific. Concentrating on the ways local music scenes adopt, reject, and modify linguistic ideologies, the authors (hosts of the podcast Lingua Brutallica) examine how translocal participation in metal settings shapes how and why specific language forms are used to ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD

  • Alice in Japanese Wonderlands

    Translation, Adaptation, Mediation

    par Dr. Amanda Kennell, Allison Alexy ...
    Collections series Asia Pop!
    Since the first translations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books appeared in Japan in 1899, Alice has found her way into nearly every facet of Japanese life and popular culture. The books have been translated into Japanese more than 500 times, resulting in more editions of these works in Japanese than any other language except English. Generations of Japanese children learned English from textbooks ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Intimate Disconnections

    Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan

    par Allison Alexy ...
    In many ways, divorce is a quintessentially personal decision—the choice to leave a marriage that causes harm or feels unfulfilling to the two people involved. But anyone who has gone through a divorce knows the additional public dimensions of breaking up, from intense shame and societal criticism to friends’ and relatives’ unsolicited advice. In Intimate Disconnections, Allison Alexy tells the ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Home and Family in Japan

    Continuity and Transformation

    Modifié par Richard Ronald, Allison Alexy ...
    Collections series Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
    In the Japanese language the word ‘ie’ denotes both the materiality of homes and family relations within. The traditional family and family house - often portrayed in ideal terms as key foundations of Japanese culture and society - have been subject to significant changes in recent years. This book comprehensively addresses various aspects of family life and dwelling spaces, exploring how homes, ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

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  • Japanese Education in an Era of Globalization

    Culture, Politics, and Equity

    par Gary DeCoker, Christopher Bjork ...
    This volume documents the significant changes that have occurred in Japanese schools since the collapse of that nation’s economic bubble. Before the recession, Japan was the country that most educational reformers sought to emulate due to its students’ performance on standardized tests. Now, however, a different and more complicated picture of the Japanese education system emerges. This book ... En savoir plus

    $56.99 CAD

  • Reconstructing Adult Masculinities

    Part-time Work in Contemporary Japan

    par Emma E. Cook ...
    Collections series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    Over the past two decades, Japan’s socioeconomic environment has undergone considerable changes prompted by both a long recession and the relaxation of particular labour laws in the 1990s and 2000s. Within this context, "freeters", part-time workers aged between fifteen and thirty-four who are not housewives or students, emerged into the public arena as a social problem.This book, drawing on six ... En savoir plus

    $105.99 CAD

  • Social Class in Contemporary Japan

    Structures, Sorting and Strategies

    Modifié par Hiroshi Ishida, David H. Slater ...
    Collections series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    Post-war Japan was often held up as the model example of the first mature industrial societies outside the Western economy, and the first examples of "middle-mass" society. Today, and since the bursting of the economic bubble in the 1990’s, the promises of Japan, Inc., seem far away.Social Class in Contemporary Japan is the first single volume that traces the dynamics of social structure, ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

  • Order By Accident

    The Origins And Consequences Of Group Conformity In Contemporary Japan

    par Alan Miller, Satoshi Kanazawa ...
    While the consequences of low social order are well understood, the consequences of high social order are not. Yet perhaps nowhere in the world is social order so well developed as in Japan, which is highly organized, economically successful, and enjoys a safe society. However, Japan pays a price-the loss of personal freedom, and the inability to exploit its citizens' talents. ... En savoir plus

    $83.81 CAD

  • Feminist Movements in Contemporary Japan

    par Laura Dales ...
    Collections series ASAA Women in Asia Series
    In contemporary Japan there is much ambivalence about women’s roles, and the term "feminism" is not widely recognised or considered relevant. Nonetheless, as this book shows, there is a flourishing feminist movement in contemporary Japan. The book investigates the features and effects of feminism in contemporary Japan, in non-government (NGO) women’s groups, government-run women’s centres and the ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

  • Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

    par Evan Osnos ...
    Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalistWinner of the National Book Award in nonfiction.As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval.Age of Ambition provides a vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation.From abroad, we ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Identity

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Florian Coulmas ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Identity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an identity, and identity crises have become almost equally pervasive. Yet 'identity' is extremely versatile, meaning different things to different people and in different scientific disciplines. To many its meaning seems self-evident, since its various uses share common ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD