Pub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.1017/s1479591423000451
Chandni Bhambhani
Being Single in India: Stories of Gender, Exclusion, and Possibilities. By Sarah Lamb. University of California Press, 2022. 221 pages. Paperback, $34.95 USD, ISBN 9780520389427. Ebook, open access, ISBN: 9780520389434
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Pub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1017/s1479591423000438
Ömer Naim Küçük, Metin Yücekaya
Abstract Why do oil-dependent developing countries exhibit divergent responses to oil crises? This study employs a comparative case study approach and utilizes a ‘most similar system design’ to examine the varying state responses to the 1973 oil shock in Turkey and South Korea. While the former refrained from implementing radical short-term adjustment policies and reforms, the latter adopted proactive measures to mitigate the worsening impact of escalating oil prices. This research contends that the existing literature, which emphasizes distinctions in industrialization strategies and fiscal policies among developing nations, offers an incomplete explanation for the divergent reactions of states to external price shocks. Instead, the study proposes a sociological perspective, focusing on the influence of varying degrees of state autonomy and the characteristics of bureaucratic systems on the decision-making processes of states. The key finding suggests that while pre-crisis economic policies and industrialization strategies may limit the array of policy tools available to counteract the adverse effects of an oil crisis, the extent of state autonomy and the organization of the bureaucracy – whether adhering to Weberian or non-Weberian principles – impact the efficacy of these policy tools and the determination of decision-makers to act in the best interests of the long-term public good.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1017/s1479591423000347
Kaeko Chiba
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{"title":"Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan By Chris McMorran. University of Hawai'i Press, 2022. 220 pages. Hardback, $64.00 USD, ISBN: 9780824888978. Paperback, $25.00, ISBN: 9780824892272.","authors":"Kaeko Chiba","doi":"10.1017/s1479591423000347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479591423000347","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":51971,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Asian Studies","volume":"5 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135821308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-27DOI: 10.1017/s1479591423000402
Prem Singh Gill
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{"title":"Anglo-India and the End of Empire By Uther Charlton-Stevens. London: Hurst (dist. Oxford University Press), 2022. 370 pages. Hardback, £25.00 GBP, ISBN: 9781787383128. Ebook, ISBN: 9780197683576.","authors":"Prem Singh Gill","doi":"10.1017/s1479591423000402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479591423000402","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":51971,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Asian Studies","volume":"133 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136262082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-25DOI: 10.1017/s1479591423000414
Bill Mihalopoulos
Justice and International Law in Meiji Japan: The María Luz Incident and the Dawn of Modernity By Giorgio Fabio Colombo. Routledge, 2023, 124 pages. Hardcover, £120.00 BGP, ISBN: 9781032249025. Ebook, £35.09, ISBN: 9781003280637.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-16DOI: 10.1017/s1479591423000360
Taku Tamaki
Abstract This article leverages Watsuji Tetsurō's idea of aidagara – “inter-relationships” – to better appreciate the interpenetration of space and relationships in Japanese foreign policy narratives. I set Watsuji's philosophical framework against Japanese foreign policy narratives referring to various spaces as a case study to emphasizing the interplay of space and relationships in Japanese diplomatic efforts. On the one hand, we see the Japanese government invoking East Asia, the Asia-Pacific, and the Indo-Pacific as spatial descriptors to conceptualize the political dynamics surrounding them. On the other hand, Japan's relations with its interlocutors reify fluid geographical boundaries as spaces relevant for Japan's foreign relations. Thus, Watsuji helps us to rethink international politics as an aidagara in which the space produces political relationships, while political relationships themselves reproduce, or even redefine, space.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-16DOI: 10.1017/s147959142300027x
Xia Shi
Abstract Modern Chinese diplomatic histories rarely discuss the marriages of diplomats, leaving the impression that women made little impact on their husbands' careers. The extraordinary performance of Oei Hui-lan (1889–1992), wife of celebrated diplomat Wellington Koo (1888–1985), challenges this view. Hui-lan's contributions to diplomacy call our attention to the role played by Chinese diplomatic wives: as reception hostesses and embassy managers, they cultivated social relationships to facilitate diplomatic exchange. Hui-lan's story reminds us that to study modern diplomatic history solely through the lens of professionalization and institutionalization – while forgoing perspectives of gender and family – is insufficient to explain China's success in this period. Hui-lan's Peranakan family background in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) equipped her with the financial assets and cosmopolitan upbringing to shine as a diplomatic wife. And yet, though she benefited from her overseas origins, Hui-lan had an uneasy relationship to her Chinese identity. Concealing the tension in her two autobiographies, Hui-lan later reconstructed her past, emphasizing her patriotism and ethnic Chineseness to befit her established position. Thus, her case also shows how the complicated process of identity rebuilding and selective adaptation played out for elite overseas Chinese women through their engagement with modern China.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-09DOI: 10.1017/s1479591423000372
Gilbert Z. Chen
Abstract This article investigates the impact of male migration on left-behind women in nineteenth-century Chongqing, focusing on the intersection among gender, migration, and religion. It analyze the unintended consequences of failed male migration, in which the husband's failure to send regular remittances was prone to cause tremendous anxiety and financial difficulties for his wife. In the absence of strong male-centered kinship organizations, Chongqingese women exploited unorthodox options to support themselves. Buddhist monasticism proved appealing because it provided both a stable source of livelihood and an inclusive all-female space. However, female renunciation was controversial because it challenged state-sponsored patriarchal values. Returned husbands enlisted the state's help in revoking their wives' religious decisions. Paradoxically, for vulnerable women like concubines, nunhood proved an attractive option because it helped them obtain migration-triggered divorces on favorable terms. They strategically synergized the bodily practice of monastic celibacy with the discourse of female chastity to assure their estranged spouses of lifelong commitments to non-remarriage. By doing so, these women succeeded in receiving generous financial compensation. This study highlights how the combination of religion and translocality enabled women to renegotiate their positionality within the patriarchy.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-05DOI: 10.1017/s1479591423000359
Naoki Sudo
Connectivity and Trust Building in Islamic Civilization, Vol. 1: An Invitation to Islamic Trust Studies (イスラームからつなぐ 1イスラーム信頼学へのいざない). Edited by Hidemitsu Kuroki and Emi Goto. Tokyo University Press, 2023. 292 pages. Hardback, ￥4,180 JPY, ISBN: 9784130343510.
Connectivity and Trust Building in Islamic Civilization, Vol. 1:伊斯兰信任研究(An Invitation to Islamic Trust Studies). Edited by Hidemitsu Kuroki andEmi Goto. Tokyo University Press, 2023. 292页. Hardback，￥180 JPY, ISBN: 9784130343510。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-21DOI: 10.1017/s1479591423000232
Ardhitya Eduard Yeremia, Klaus Heinrich Raditio
Abstract Studies on Indonesia–China relations have emphasized the central role of Indonesia's domestic politics in shaping its foreign policy toward China. However, there has been little discussion on the context in which and the extent to which internal struggles for power have contributed to shape Indonesia's China policy. Contributing to such a discussion, this article specifically focuses on the roles of Indonesian Islamist groups in affecting Jakarta–Beijing ties. It examines their political maneuvers in responses to the attitudes and policies of two governments, the Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2004–2014) administration and that of Joko “Jokowi” Widodo (2014–), on China-related foreign policy issues. Both Yudhoyono's and Jokowi's governments display the same friendly attitude toward China. On the South China Sea issues, nevertheless, Jokowi's government adopts tougher measures against China's maneuvers. Despite Jokowi's implementation of such policy, the Islamists put up considerable resistance to his China policy, even compared to his predecessor. This article finds that the extent of power sharing between the Islamists and the regime in power determines the former's responses toward the latter's China policy. This suggests that in the management of bilateral relations, the Islamists are not a hindrance per se in Indonesia–China relations.
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