Based on a commitment to a broad sense of the political in the modern and contemporary experience of East Asia, the Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics, History and Media seeks to combine the distinctive focus of Area Studies specialists on primary sources in the vernacular with a distinct and sophisticated (inter-)disciplinary rigour.
The Routledge/Leiden Series focuses on the creative and exciting interplay between politics, history and media in modern and contemporary East Asia. In this regional and historical context, the series is interested in exploring first-class scholarship in the expansive fields of: politics and political theory (including international relations); social, political and intellectual history; the historical, political, and theoretical dimensions of media. The Routledge/Leiden Series is particularly interested in theoretically driven research, but also in the drive for theory arising from the East Asian experience itself.
As well as single-authored volumes, edited or multi-authored submissions that bring together a range of country specialisations and disciplines are welcome.
By Urs Matthias Zachmann
February 04, 2011
The first war between China and Japan in 1894/95 was one of the most fateful events, not only in modern Japanese and Chinese history, but in international history as well. The war and subsequent events catapulted Japan on its trajectory toward temporary hegemony in East Asia, whereas China entered ...
Edited
By Christopher Goto-Jones
February 04, 2011
In Re-Politicising the Kyoto School as Philosophy Christopher Goto-Jones contends that existing approaches to the controversial Kyoto School fail to take it seriously as a school of philosophy, instead focussing on historical debates about the alleged complicity of the School’s members with the ...
Edited
By Richard Calichman, John Namjun Kim
September 17, 2010
Naoki Sakai is an important and prominent thinker in Asian and cultural studies and his work continues to make itself felt across a broad range of both national and disciplinary borders. Originally finding a home in the otherwise circumscribed field of Japan Studies, Sakai’s writings have succeeded...
By Christopher Goto-Jones
July 20, 2010
Political Philosophy in Japan focuses on the politics of Japan's pre-eminent philosophical school - the Kyoto School - and particularly that of its founder, Nishida Kitarô (1870-1945). Existing literature on Nishida is dismissive of there being serious political content in his work, and of the ...
By Kiri Paramore
January 09, 2009
Ideology and Christianity in Japan shows the major role played by Christian-related discourse in the formation of early-modern and modern Japanese political ideology. The book traces a history development of anti-Christian ideas in Japan from the banning of Christianity by the Tokugawa shogunate ...
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By David Williams, Rikki Kersten
January 13, 2006
Leftist thought and activism stands as a defining force in the articulation of political culture and policy in modern Japan. Operating from the periphery of formal political power for the most part, the Japanese Left has had an impact that extends far beyond its limited success at the ballot box. ...