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East Asia

About: East Asia is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 17591 publications have been published within this topic receiving 274073 citations. The topic is also known as: Eastern Asia.


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TL;DR: The self as 'America' in east Asia as mentioned in this paperocusing on the present day, it is possible to review the relationship with America, built up especially during the period of the Cold War from a comprehensive regional perspective taking into account the level of people's everyday consciousness and culture besides military and politico-economic aspects.
Abstract: The self as ‘America’ in east Asia What has ‘America’ meant in everyday terms for the people of East Asia since the end of the Second World War? What indeed does it continue to mean for us in the present day? Would it not be possible to review the relationship with America, built up especially during the period of the Cold War from a comprehensive regional perspective, taking into account the level of people’s everyday consciousness and culture besides military and politico-economic aspects? At least as concerns such countries as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia, ‘America’ has had a uniquely strong and significant presence, which it has not had in quite the same way in any other region, whether South Asia, West Asia, Europe or South America Most of these countries of the Pacific Rim were once under either temporary or long-term Japanese military occupation They have since been incorporated into the American sphere of influence as bases for the activity of the American military and multinational corporations As seen from the perspective of American Cold-War strategy, there can be no doubt that the Pacific Rim area, extending from Japan to Indonesia, formed a continuous space for the establishment of hegemony in Asia Looking at the everyday consciousness and cultural practices among the people living in this region, does one find a similarly distinctive presence of ‘America’? Is there also a spatial continuity whereby the cultural responses to ‘America’ are similar throughout the region? Despite the evident importance of research on such a wide-ranging and complex phenomenon, hardly any attempt has been made until very recently to study the significance of ‘America’ in a region-wide context from the perspective of everyday consciousness and culture while also considering political and military issues Some work has recently begun on international political relations and strategies involving America and the East Asian region as a whole However, such work remains largely restricted to politics in the narrow sense Very little has yet been done in order to analyse international political relations in the broader sense of the politics of everyday culture For example, no concerted international comparative research has yet been undertaken on the influence of American military bases on urban musical culture and sexuality in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines, despite the fact that this issue has been proposed as an interesting research topic by a number of commentators Whenever the influence of postwar American culture in Asia has been adopted as a research topic, it has almost always been confined within the national perspective of a single country To illustrate my point, let us consider a three-volume publication in dictionary form published in Japan at the beginning of the 1980s with the title ‘American Culture’ This was a very valuable attempt to examine from various perspectives how ‘America’ had penetrated into Japanese culture and customs since the end of the Second World War It divides the postwar era until the 1970s into three periods The first period, from 1945 to 1960, is called the ‘Period of Love/Hate towards America’ This was an age in which the wartime feeling of unease

83 citations

24 Sep 2004
TL;DR: The authors summarizes the debate on East Asian industrial policy and summarizes the main lines of discussion and their evolution, and makes sense of what is relevant to the challenges currently faced by developing countries.
Abstract: One of the most debated questions in the development literature is the role of government intervention in East Asia. This paper summarizes the debate on East Asian industrial policy. Due to the wealth of literature on this topic, this paper does not attempt to exhaustively evaluate every intervention, but to describe the main lines of discussion and their evolution. The goal is to make sense of what is relevant to the challenges currently faced by developing countries.

83 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework on the relations between the idea of "harmonious world" and China's soft power wielding in its rising process is proposed, which examines a rising China's foreign policies towards three targeted regions in the global south (Africa, East Asia and Latin America).
Abstract: This study attempts to answer a new but important question in China’s foreign policy— how Beijing has wielded its soft power to construct its ideal of international order in the age of China’s rise. Before empirical analyses, this study tries to set up a conceptual framework on the relations between the idea of “harmonious world” and China’s soft power wielding in its rising process. Within this framework, this study examines a rising China’s foreign policies towards three targeted regions in the global south—Africa, East Asia, and Latin America. On the one hand, due to Beijing’s carefully-designed and soft power-based foreign policies, the global south has become an increasingly harmonious environment for Beijing to cultivate a favorable national image, exert its political influence on regional affairs, benefit its own domestic economic developments, etc. On the other hand, some problems such as the so-called “China’s New Colonialism” and the increased vigilance from the other powers have already began to challenge Beijing’s harmony in those regions.

83 citations

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Ryuhei Wakasugi1
20 Feb 2007
TL;DR: In this article, an index of vertical intra-industry trade (VIIT) was constructed to measure the fragmentation of production, and the share of VIIT has been rising in East Asia as well as in NAFTA and the EU using the gravity equation.
Abstract: It is notable that the trade in East Asian countries has increased more than proportionately to the growth of economy. This paper tests the hypothesis that the recent trade expansion is induced by development of international fragmentation of production. This paper constructs an index of vertical intra-industry trade (VIIT) to measure the fragmentation of production, and finds that the share of VIIT has been rising in East Asia as well as in NAFTA and the EU using the gravity equation. It also establishes that a rising share of VIIT is an important factor in explaining the recent expansion of trade with East Asia. The results suggest that an agreement to remove and harmonize institutional impediments among East Asian countries is important for further expansion of trade within the region.

83 citations

Book
01 Nov 2002
TL;DR: The most comprehensive account of the foundations of East Asia's rise can be found in this paper, where four broad themes are identified: effective governance, achieving and learning societies, growth with equity, and external influences.
Abstract: East Asian countries have adopted remarkably good policies to ensure sustained economic growth, but how did they come to adopt such policies in the first place? This book produces a more thorough explanation than has previously been advanced drawing on several disciplines including contributions from anthropologists, economists, political scientists, technologists, demographers, historians and psychologists. Several contributors have held high positions in Asian governments. Four broad themes are identified: * effective governance * achieving and learning societies * growth with equity * external influences This is the most comprehensive account of the foundations of East Asia's rise. Its distinctiveness lies in the range of comparisons across the countries of East and South-East Asia and in the wide array of contributing disciplines.

82 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20242
2023609
20221,266
2021377
2020478
2019465