Modernization In Asia
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| Author | : Satoshi Abe |
| Publisher | : World Scientific |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2021-12-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9811243913 |
This book explores the unfolding of modernity in the greater Asia that uniquely takes shape at different times and places, with a particular attention to a common thread that has been at heart of the development: religion. The status of religion has been relegated in the Western modernity to such that its effects be restricted within the private realm and not be exerted in the public or one's rationality. This edited volume sheds light on the multifarious forces of religion both in the past and present that have impacted on the essential aspects of modern society — aspects in which one does not usually have recourse to religion in the West — from science and technology, politics, and to identity in Asia. Interdisciplinary approaches in the volume allow one to broadly examine religious practices within Asian contexts, thus enabling to reevaluate the concept, scope, and gamut of so-called religion.
| Author | : Jonathan Rigg |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 409 |
| Release | : 2004-08-02 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1134519516 |
The revised edition of Southeast Asia provides a grounded account of how people in the region are responding to - and being affected by - the changes sweeping through the region.
| Author | : Wong Lawrence Wangchi |
| Publisher | : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2018-03-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9882370519 |
This book discusses how Western ideas, knowledge, concepts and practices were imported, adapted and even transformed into varied contexts in East Asia. In particular, authors in this rich volume focus on the role translation played in the processes of modernization in China, Japan, and Korea in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
| Author | : Mark R. Thompson |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 137 |
| Release | : 2019-03-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1137511672 |
Following Barrington Moore Jr., this book raises doubts about modernization theory’s claim that an advanced economy with extensive social differentiation is incompatible with authoritarian rule. Authoritarian modernism in East Asia (Northeast and Southeast Asia) has been characterized by economically reformist but politically conservative leaders who have attempted to learn the “secrets” of authoritarian rule in modern society. They demobilize civil society while endeavoring to establish an “ethical” form of rule and claim reactionary culturalist legitimation. With China, East Asia is home to the most important country in the world today that is rapidly modernizing while attempting to remain authoritarian.
| Author | : Norman G. Owen |
| Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
| Total Pages | : 584 |
| Release | : 2005-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780824828417 |
The modern states of Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei, and East Timor were once a tapestry of kingdoms, colonies, and smaller polities linked by sporadic trade and occasional war. By the end of the nineteenth century, however, the United States and several European powers had come to control almost the entire region - only to depart dramatically in the decades following World War II. perspective on this complex region. Although it does not neglect nation-building (the central theme of its popular and long-lived predecessor, In Search of Southeast Asia), the present work focuses on economic and social history, gender, and ecology. It describes the long-term impact of global forces on the region and traces the spread and interplay of capitalism, nationalism, and socialism. It acknowledges that modernization has produced substantial gains in such areas as life expectancy and education but has also spread dislocation and misery. Organizationally, the book shifts between thematic chapters that describe social, economic, and cultural change, and country chapters emphasizing developments within specific areas. will establish a new standard for the history of this dynamic and radically transformed region of the world.
| Author | : Robert Shannan Peckham |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 379 |
| Release | : 2016-04-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107084687 |
The first history of epidemics in modern Asia. Robert Peckham considers the varieties of responses that epidemics have elicited - from India to China and the Russian Far East - and examines the processes that have helped to produce and diffuse disease across the region.
| Author | : Kristen E. Looney |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2020-05-15 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1501748858 |
Mobilizing for Development tackles the question of how countries achieve rural development and offers a new way of thinking about East Asia's political economy that challenges the developmental state paradigm. Through a comparison of Taiwan (1950s–1970s), South Korea (1950s–1970s), and China (1980s–2000s), Kristen E. Looney shows that different types of development outcomes—improvements in agricultural production, rural living standards, and the village environment—were realized to different degrees, at different times, and in different ways. She argues that rural modernization campaigns, defined as policies demanding high levels of mobilization to effect dramatic change, played a central role in the region and that divergent development outcomes can be attributed to the interplay between campaigns and institutions. The analysis departs from common portrayals of the developmental state as wholly technocratic and demonstrates that rural development was not just a byproduct of industrialization. Looney's research is based on several years of fieldwork in Asia and makes a unique contribution by systematically comparing China's development experience with other countries. Relevant to political science, economic history, rural sociology, and Asian Studies, the book enriches our understanding of state-led development and agrarian change.
| Author | : Weiming Tu |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780674160873 |
Seventeen scholars from varying fields here consider the implications of Confucian concerns--self-cultivation, regulation of the family, social civility, moral education, well-being of the people, governance of the state, and universal peace--in industrial East Asia.
| Author | : C.J.W.-L. Wee |
| Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2007-10-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9789622098596 |
How does one comprehend the phenomenon of the modernization of an Asian society in a globalized East Asian context? With this opening question, the author proceeds to give an account of how the modernization processes for postcolonial societies in Asia, such as those of India, Malaysia, and Singapore, are fraught with collaborations and conflicts between different socio-political, historical, economic, and cultural agents. Such ambivalent dynamics contribute to what Wee argues as a 'revealing distortion' of the extant models of Western modernity, which is nonetheless rooted in the politics of worldwide capitalism. Wee's narrative refuses to accept the uncritical interpretation of the modernizing processes in Asia as liberation from the hegemony of Euro-American capitalism. But neither is Wee prepared to concede that all cultural initiatives in the postcolonial societies are, therefore, denied all power to devise alternative forms of expression in the face of this haunting presence. It is the persistent effort to see the many faces of modernization in Asia in their full complexity that sets this study apart. Readers will discover that what seems to be the modernization of a single geopolitical entity is inevitably linked to the dynamics of various agents in other locations at different times, which makes us reflect on the existence of the many 'distortions' in our societies.
| Author | : David B. Sicilia |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1487509081 |
Expanding the historical understanding of the myriad ways in which the transfer of technology and business methods unfolded within East Asia, Strands of Modernization examines the translation of technologies among competing developing economies.
