East Asia in the world : an introduction / edited by Anne Prescott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prescott, Anne (Director), editor.

Series:

Foundations in global studies series

Foundations in global studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization.

Social conditions.

East Asia.

East Asia--Civilization.

Civilization.

East Asia--Social conditions.

Globalization--East Asia.

Physical Description:

viii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015.

Summary:

From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to East Asia, with an emphasis on the globalizing processes the region in undergoing. After a brief introduction to the study of East Asia, the early chapters of the book survey the essentials of East Asian history and offer an overview of the region's languages, economic development, and global connections. Students are guided through the material with relevant maps, resource boxes, and text boxes that support further independent exploration of the topics at hand. The second half of the book presents an interdisciplinary portrait of the region through a set of case studies that explore key aspects of the cultural, economic, and political life in specific countries, sometimes holding up a mirror to the region as a whole. Readers will come away from this book with an understanding of current issues that have particular relevance in East Asia as we know it today and of the larger globalizing forces shaping the region and beyond. Book jacket.

Contents:

Overview

Introducing East Asia / Anne Prescott

East Asian studies: history, careers, and resources / Anne Prescott

Fundamentals

Modern East Asia: a history / Jerry P. Dennerline

East Asian languages / Anne Prescott

The global context

East Asian economies in a globalizing world / Thomas Gottschang

Globalization in East Asia / Anne Prescott

Debunking the myths / Anne Prescott

Case studies

Introduction to the case studies / Anne Prescott

From flying pigeons to Fords: China's new car culture / Beth E. Notar

New media and new technology in colonial Korea: radio / Jina E. Kim

Interpreting minority experiences of Japan's March 2011 triple disaster / Joshua Hotaka Roth and Mariko Sikama

Society and culture: Confucianism in East Asia today / Jeffrey L. Richey

The Korean Peninsula: global dimensions / Jacques Fugua

Reading "Kimigayo": the Japanese national anthem in a time of postnational transition / Junko Oba

Globalization and deindustrialization in China's (former) porcelain capital Maris Gillette

Buto: the birth and maturation of a new global art form / Bruce Baird

China's one-child policy and the empowerment of urban daughters / Vanessa L. Fong.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Prescott, Anne (Director). Introducing East Asia.

Prescott, Anne (Director). East Asian studies.

Dennerline, Jerry, 1942- Modern East Asia.

Prescott, Anne (Director). East Asian languages.

Gottschang, Thomas R. East Asian economies in a globalizing world.

Prescott, Anne (Director). Globalization in East Asia.

Prescott, Anne (Director). Debunking the myths.

Prescott, Anne (Director). Introduction to the case studies.

Notar, Beth E., 1963- From flying pigeons to Fords.

Kim, Jina E. New media and new technology in Colonial Korea.

ISBN:

9780765643216

0765643219

9780765643223

0765643227

OCLC:

894625952