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One man vanished. The nation couldn’t look away. Vanished: The Man Who Outsmarted a Nation is the pulse-pounding true story of Shin Chang-won, South Korea’s most legendary fugitive. Sentenced to lif……続きを見る

Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encounter with American missionary power from the late ninet……続きを見る

In Driving toward Modernity**, Jun Zhang ethnographically explores the entanglement between the rise of the automotive regime and emergence of the middle class in South China.** Focusing on the Pear……続きを見る

Ce livre est issu d’un séminaire francophone organisé par l’association coréenne des études de la Culture française et des Arts en France (C.F.A.F) qui s’est déroulé à Séoul, à l’université Kookmin,……続きを見る

Shifting gears between the most abstract (invisible) and the most concrete (visible) world, this book contains one unifying theoretical construct and six milestone stories to shed light on China’s p……続きを見る

Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, Arthur ……続きを見る

Beginning as the Cold War entered its final thaw and ending shortly before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Heisei era saw thirty years of considerable social upheaval and significant shif……続きを見る

Yang explores the use of crowdsourcing in translation within the Chinese context, focusing on Yeeyan – the largest online translation community in China. As one of the world’s largest markets for la……続きを見る

This book explores the core concept of Chinese ancient architecture from a multidisciplinary perspective. It aims to contribute to the development, inheritance, and protection of Chinese ancient arc……続きを見る

Intense media coverage of the public pension funding crisis continues to fuel heightened awareness in and debate over public pension benefits. With over $3 trillion in assets currently under managem……続きを見る

Listening to the Voices of the Dead is an account of the author’s search for the disquieted voices of the dead in the wake of the March 11, 2011, Tōhoku Disaster and his attempt to translate those v……続きを見る

This open access book presents the trends and patterns of demographic and family changes from all eleven countries in the region for the past 50 years. The rich data are coupled with historical, cul……続きを見る

This book aims to present the observation and Interpretation for China’s economic growth since Reform and Opening-up from a Chinese economist’s view. The book is divided into 5 sections, including t……続きを見る

A major Marxist thinker and critic in 1930s Japan, Tosaka Jun was among the world’s most incisiveーyet underrecognizedーtheorists of capitalism, fascism, and ideology during the years before World W……続きを見る

This book explores the authors' legal thinking on artificial intelligence (AI), a topic of burgeoning interest in the technology sector and among the general public. As part of the Human Intelligenc……続きを見る

Constricting styles and limited clothing choices can restrict a person with a disability from fully participating in social communities, employment and gatherings that have an unspoken dress code. D……続きを見る

Social investment policies have enjoyed prominence during recent welfare reforms across the OECD world, and yet there is insufficient long-term strategy for their success. Reviewing labour market, f……続きを見る

Health and wellbeing are significantly influenced by how professionals plan, design and manage the environment. This book supports those working in the built environment and public health sectors, w……続きを見る

This book aims to illustrate how climate change had impacted the socio-economic development in the history of China, under the framework of food security. The 10 years resolution sequences indexing ……続きを見る

Since 1978, when China started remaking its economy, it has also embarked on an unparalleled effort at remaking its pension system to accommodate its hybrid economic model. This book tells the story……続きを見る

This book exploratively reviews and refines the theoretical system of economics with Chinese characteristics and the analytical framework of Chinese path to modernization. This book aims to reveal a……続きを見る

Climate change presents a unique challenge in that policy makers need to balance the speed and scale required to achieve global objectives within the time required to ensure political acceptability ……続きを見る

First Published in 1982, Japanese Ikat Weaving offers a professional approach to the subject, presented with great clarity and precision. Japanese Ikat weaving, also known as Kasuri, is the techniqu……続きを見る

Wall Street and Silicon Valley – the two worlds this book examines – promote the illusion that scarcity can and should be eliminated in the age of seamless “flow.” Instead, Appadurai and Alexander p……続きを見る

This volume examines and analyzes the current situation of, and the future prospects for, the Japanese economy, particularly in the context of inequality. The country's economy is facing the ageing ……続きを見る

This book starts with detailed community-based poverty-alleviation cases and focuses on several important aspects in this field to demonstrate the intervention methods, theoretical paradigms, and in……続きを見る

The industrialisation and modernisation in South Korea that followed the Second World War resulted in rapid progress in economic development, public administration, social service provision and the ……続きを見る

Tianxiaーconventionally translated as “all-under-Heaven”ーin everyday Chinese parlance simply means “the world.” But tianxia is also a geopolitical term found in canonical writings that has a deeper……続きを見る

The Making of a Smart City in Korea: The Quest for E-Seoul displays how the notion of the smart city has been interpreted and applied in Seoulーthe capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. The……続きを見る

Modern Applied Regressions creates an intricate and colorful mural with mosaics of categorical and limited response variable (CLRV) models using both Bayesian and Frequentist approaches. Written for……続きを見る