Pub Date : 2023-05-07DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2023.2208801
Zhuqin Feng
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Pub Date : 2023-05-07DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2023.2208804
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
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Pub Date : 2023-05-07DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2023.2208797
A. Cathcart
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Pub Date : 2023-05-07DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2023.2208802
G. Jiang
author charges, it created through Mao’s disastrous rural policies. It permitted the return of household-based production (the responsibility system) only because it realised that the rural sector needed far more investment than the government could afford (61–63). Probably the party’s most positive poverty alleviation policy was to make economic development the major criterion for cadre promotion. A serious problem with the cadre system, and one that, in a path-dependency manner, reaches well into the past, is corruption. Because of their authority to grant permits, cadres are in a good position to demand, or be offered, bribes. Despite decades of grassroots complaints the party took no action until around 2010 when Beijing discovered CIA penetration of military, intelligence, government, and party affairs, which had been facilitated by paying the bribes cadres needed for promotion. More than two million cadres were punished in Xi’s anticorruption campaign. This foreign infiltration in combination with the GFC fomented a shift away from the reform era to the more Leninist China that we see today. This excellent book provides valuable insights into our understanding of the PRC. Its analysis of Chinese society is pathbreaking in the manner of Richard McGregor’s (2010) The Party.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2023.2203463
Noriaki Hoshino
ABSTRACT This article examines Japanese cultural historian Ōrui Noburu (1884–1975)’s work on the Renaissance, which he conducted during the interwar and wartime periods. Ōrui was a leading scholar in the field of Western history (seiyōshi) in Japan during the mid-20th century and developed his pioneering study of the European Renaissance with reference to prominent Renaissance scholars such as Jacob Burckhardt and Johan Huizinga. Ōrui’s research is mostly known in relation to Western history, but during the war he also probed the existence of a Renaissance within Japan itself. His discussions of both the European and Japanese Renaissance cultures reveal his concern with the question of modernity and the contemporaneous situation in Japan. At a time when modernity was being keenly debated, Ōrui’s Renaissance study addressed the degeneration of Western modernity and clarified the joint cultural significance of the European and Japanese Renaissances, although this attempt intersected with the existing narrative about Japan’s imperial expansion. Overall, this article contributes to research on wartime Japanese and transnational intellectual/cultural history and sheds light on Ōrui’s previously unrecognised but unique form of cross-cultural inquiry.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-26DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2023.2189689
Anna Wilkinson
ABSTRACT The end of World War II and the spread of national liberation movements fundamentally reshaped the international order, with a direct impact on humanitarianism, decolonisation, and the rise of Western development practice in the Global South. This article examines how the League of Red Cross Societies responded to these changes through the establishment of its Development Programme. Originally conceived in 1957 and commencing in 1963, the Programme included the formation of National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in newly independent countries in the Global South. Although it appeared to align with the values of self-determination for the League’s newest members, by prioritising the implementation of Western development theories the Programme left little scope for the inclusion of the voices and perspective of the Global South. An analysis of the Development Programme’s first foray into the Asian region, the 1964 South East Asian Forum, suggests that the League prioritised the appearance rather than the substance of its work. As a result, the article argues, the voices of the Global South – and especially Asia – were silenced in the Programme.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-20DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2023.2194053
Chae-han Kim, Youn Soo Cho
ABSTRACT The comfort women issue (also known as the Japanese military sexual slavery issue), which occurred during the Pacific War from the late 1930s to 1945, has continued to negatively impact the present and future of East Asia for more than seven decades. Even today this issue is the source of multiple and serious disagreements between governments, scholars, and citizens from across the region. This article seeks to contribute to research on the comfort women issue by shifting the focus from the relationship between the Japanese authorities and comfort women to that between these authorities and the comfort agents. It uses archival records, and in particular documents from the Japanese military and police, to illustrate that the ‘comfort project’ was not driven by the choices of the women who were caught in its midst, but rather by a hierarchical structure of wartime militaristic rule, with the Japanese authorities as the principal and the brothel-owners/recruiters as their agents. Further, the article argues that the relationship between the authorities and brothel-owners/recruiters was a tacit contract of agency: both parties had to carry out their commitments because these commitments were so credible, even in the absence of physical contracts.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-17DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2023.2196053
Noriyuki Segawa
ABSTRACT Owing to China’s increasing influence, the complex geopolitics of the Pacific Islands has become a threat to the strategic superiority of Western democratic countries. The diplomatic policies of the US, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan toward Pacific Island countries (PICs) stand at a critical juncture, prompting the review of current policy approaches and introduction of new ones. This study suggests an approach that Japan could employ to increase its presence, through an evaluation of Pacific Leaders’ Educational Assistance for Development of State (Pacific-LEADS), a scholarship programme expected to contribute to PICs’ economic growth, strengthen existing ties, and increase Japan’s presence in the region. This evaluation is based on interviews and surveys conducted in Tonga, Samoa, and Vanuatu in 2019 and 2020. Insufficient communication and poor understanding of PICs, the primary factors limiting the programme’s effectiveness, are attributed to a policy design approach grounded in the donor–recipient relationship. Japan may need to use a new approach that emphasises the promotion of substantial equal partnerships.
摘要由于中国影响力的不断增强，太平洋岛国复杂的地缘政治已成为西方民主国家战略优势的威胁。美国、澳大利亚、新西兰和日本对太平洋岛国的外交政策正处于关键时刻，促使人们对当前的政策方法进行审查并引入新的政策方法。这项研究提出了一种日本可以通过评估太平洋领导人国家发展教育援助（Pacific Leaders’s Education Assistance for Development of State，简称“太平洋领导力”）来增加其影响力的方法，该奖学金计划预计将有助于太平洋领导人的经济增长，加强现有联系，并增加日本在该地区的影响力。该评估基于2019年和2020年在汤加、萨摩亚和瓦努阿图进行的采访和调查。沟通不足和对PICs的理解不足是限制该方案有效性的主要因素，这归因于基于捐助者-受援者关系的政策设计方法。日本可能需要采用一种新的方法，强调促进实质上平等的伙伴关系。
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Pub Date : 2023-04-17DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2023.2190576
Siyang Cao
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