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Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society de Victoria Bestor

Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society

Editat de Victoria Bestor, Theodore C. Bestor, Akiko Yamagata
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 iul 2013
The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society is an interdisciplinary resource that focuses on contemporary Japan and the social and cultural trends that are important at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This Handbook provides a cutting-edge and comprehensive survey of significant phenomena, institutions, and directions in Japan today, on issues ranging from gender and family, the environment, race and ethnicity, and urban life, to popular culture and electronic media. Written by an international team of Japan experts, the chapters included in the volume form an accessible and fascinating insight into Japanese culture and society. As such, the Handbook will be an invaluable reference tool for anyone interested in all things Japanese. Students, teachers and professionals alike will benefit from the broad ranging discussions, useful links to online resources and suggested reading lists.
The Handbook will be of interest across a wide range of disciplines including Japanese Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Sociology and Asian Studies in general.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415709149
ISBN-10: 0415709148
Pagini: 344
Ilustrații: 5 black & white illustrations, 4 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Introduction Victoria Lyon Bestor, Theodore C. Bestor, and Akiko Yamagata  Part 1: Social Foundations: Showa-Era Japan and Beyond: From Imperial Japan to Japan Inc. – Peter Duus  Four Cultures of Japanese Politics David Leheny  The Cultures and Politics of Language in Japan Today Nanette Gottlieb  Japanese Education and Education Reform Roger Goodman  Religion in Contemporary Japanese Lives Mark R. Mullins   Law and Society in Japan Lawrence Repeta  The Urbanization of the Japanese Landscape Paul Waley  Part 2: Class, Identity, and Status: Social Class and Social Identity in Postwar Japan – David Slater  The Politics of Gender in Japan Robin M. LeBlanc  Change and Diversity in the Japanese Family Merry White  Japan’s Queer Cultures Mark McLelland  Race, Ethnicity, and Minorities in Japan Richard Siddle  Life on the Margins in Japan: Homeless, Migrant Day Laborers, and People with Disabilities Carolyn S. Stevens  Aging and Social Welfare in Japan Leng Leng Thang  The New Prominence of the Civil Sector in Japan Akihiro Ogawa  Part 3: Cool Japan: Contemporary Architecture in Japan – William H. Coaldrake  Japanese Film and Television Aaron Gerow  Manga and Anime: Entertainment, Big Business, and Art in Japan Susan Napier  Popular Music in Japan Ian Condry  The Sportscape of Contemporary Japan William Kelly  Cultural Flows: Japan and East Asia Koichi Iwabuchi  Cuisine and Identity in Contemporary Japan Theodore C. Bestor

Recenzii

'This is a tremendous book and should jump the queue of all those books on contemporary Japan you have been intending to read. The editors deserve kudos for putting together a stellar group of specialists and our gratitude for making them abandon the usually scholarly trappings. The chapters are written in an accessible and thoughtful style and focus on explaining various aspects of culture and society for nonspecialists. This academic-lite approach is a welcome relief from the usual trudge through a specialists' tome, jettisoning the disciplinary discourse without sacrificing the insights. Lucidly written, this is an ideal book for undergraduate classes as it includes a glossary, bibliography and comprehensive list of relevant websites. Experts will also find this a rewarding collection.' – Jeff Kingston, Director of Asian Studies at Temple University, Japan
'Few books offer such a broad and kaleidoscopic view of the complex and contested society that is contemporary Japan. Students and professionals alike may use this as a stand-alone reference text, or as an invitation to explore the increasingly diverse range of Japan-related titles offered by Routledge.' – Joy Hendry, Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Europe Japan Research Centre at Oxford Brookes University, UK
'This is the first reference work you should pick up if you want an introduction to contemporary Japanese society and culture. Eminent specialists skillfully pinpoint key developments and explain the complex issues that have faced Japan and the Japanese since the end of World War II.' Elise K. Tipton, Honorary Associate Professor of Japanese Studies in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney, Australia
'An invaluable interdisciplinary compendium of contemporary Japan. This Handbook contains a series of insightful essays dealing with such diverse areas as aging and social welfare, popular music, religion, sport, law, politics and education. The collection is also informed by theoretically sophisticated analysis of subjects that will be of major interest to all scholars of Japanese society.' – Dixon Wong Heung Wah, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
"It is good to have such a uniformly excellent collection of short essays that reflects, by and large, today’s mainstream scholarly opinion in Western Japanology on a wide range of social and cultural issues—and, by doing so, also challenges the often simplistic and stereotypical model of a monolithic "Japan, Inc." that was popular just a few decades ago." -- Roy Starrs, University of Otago, in Asia Pacific World (Spring 2012)

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This Handbook is an interdisciplinary resource that focuses on contemporary Japan and the social and cultural trends that are important at the beginning of the twenty-first century.