Transformation of the intimate and the public in Asian modernity / / edited by Ochiai Emiko, Hosoya Leo Aoi.

This volume, the first major study in its field, offers an invaluable stepping-stone to a more informed understanding of the fundamental social changes taking place in Asia – defined as ‘a reconstruction of the intimate and public spheres’. Such changes are being observed worldwide, but previous stu...

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Superior document:Intimate and the Public in Asian and Global Perspectives, Volume 5
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Intimate and the public in Asian and global perspectives ; Volume 5.
Physical Description:1 online resource (330 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Ochiai Emiko and Hosoya Leo Aoi
  • Introduction: Reconstruction of Intimate and Public Spheres in Asian Modernity / OCHIAI Emiko
  • Individualization without Individualism: Compressed Modernity and Obfuscated Family Crisis in East Asia / CHANG Kyung-Sup
  • Unsustainable Societies: Low Fertility and Familialism in East Asia’s Compressed and Semi-compressed Modernities / OCHIAI Emiko
  • Demographic Dividend and the Future of Asia / Patcharawalai WONGBOONSIN and Kua WONGBOONSIN
  • Shrinking of the Japanese Uniqueness: A Quantitative Analysis of Life Course Changes / IWAI Hachiro
  • Factors in the Wage Differential between Standard and Nonstandard Employment: A comparison of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan / TAROHMARU Hiroshi
  • Care Diamonds and Welfare Regimes in East and Southeast Asian Societies / OCHIAI Emiko
  • Incorporating Foreign Domestic Workers as Providers of Family Care: Case Studies of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore / ASATO Wako
  • Social Investment Policy in South Korea / Ito PENG
  • A Comparative Perspective on Japanese Family Law / MIZUNO Noriko
  • The Development of Civil Society in East Asia: Focusing on the Environment, Human Rights and Migrant Labor / IGARASHI Seiichi
  • Index / Ochiai Emiko and Hosoya Leo Aoi.