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Castro-Vazquez adopts a new approach in studying the decreasing fertility rates contributing to ageing population in modern Japan...
This book seeks to give an overview of how gender and representation come together in various configurations in the history and contemporary culture o..
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Castro-Vazquez adopts a new approach in studying the decreasing fertility rates contributing to ageing population in modern Japan. Based on th..
Run by the Japanese Imperial Military during the Asia-Pacific War, the "comfort women" system remains controversial. Presenting strong opposition to r..
This book shows how historical and ideal models of gender – of femininity and masculinity – are contested, challenged and negotiated in everyday lived..
Prostitution is strongly embedded in local cultural practices in Cambodia. Based on extensive original research, this book explores the nature of pros..
This book enriches and reorients our understanding of postcolonial queer East Asia. Challenging a heteronormative understanding of Taiwan’s past and p..
China has experienced rapid economic and social change since the beginning of the 'Open Door' policy in 1978. Yet at the same time, the legacy of the ..
This book seeks to give an overview of how gender and representation come together in various configurations in the history and contemporary culture o..
The term "sheng nu" ("leftover women") has been coined in China to describe the increasing number of women, especially intelligent professional women ..
This book explores how the traditional ideal of Chinese manhood, the fragile scholar hero of "wen" as superior to the "wu" of marital prowess, has bee..
Prostitution is strongly embedded in local cultural practices in Cambodia. Based on extensive original research, this book explores the nature of pros..