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"In the last decades, regional and global interconnectedness in East Asia - through trade, investment, migration, and popular culture - has grown, while simultaneously we observe renewed national assertiveness and nationalist impulses in the region. The book interrogates these seemingly contradictory developments as they bear on the transformations of the nation and citizenship in East Asia. Conventionally, studies on East Asia juxtapose these developments, focusing on the much-exercised dichotomy of thenational and transnational. In contrast, this book suggests a different orientation. First, it moves beyond the simplistic view that demarcates the transnational as "the West". Second, it does not view the national and transnational as contradictory spheres of influence and analysis, but rather, focuses on the interactions between the two, with a view on how these interactions work to transform the ideals and practices of the "good nation", "good society", and "good citizen". The chapters cover a broad range of case studies which highlight how the nation is contested in relation to transnational dynamics and frameworks, and the ways in which the relationship between the citizen and (national) collective is redefined, including education, science, immigration and multicultural policy, human rights, gender and youth orientations, contemporary art, cultural diplomacy and regional politics. Transnational Trajectories in East Asia will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, Asian politics, Asian culture and society, transnationalism, migration, citizenship and political sociology"--
List of contents
1. Mapping the Terrain of Transnationalization: Nation, Citizenship, and Region 2. Citizenship as National and Transnational Enterprise: How Education Shapes Regional and Global Relevance 3. Synthesizing the "National" and the "Cosmos": The Case of Life Sciences in China 4. From Resistance to Attractiveness: The Politics of Values and Regionalism in East Asia 5. Creative East–West Cosmopolitanism? The Changing Role of International Mobility for Young Japanese Contemporary Artists. Eating One’s Way to Sophistication: Japanese Food, Transnational Flows and Social Mobility in Hong Kong 7. Immigration, Nationhood, and Transnationalization in Industrialized East Asia 8. Single Women and Cosmopolitan Re-imaginings of Gendered Citizenship in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo 9. The Changing Transnational Imagery of the "Good Nation" and the Ainu in Japan 10. Japan’s Place in the World: Transformations of National Imaginings of Geography 11. Generational Shift in a Transnational World: Civic Orientations of Taiwanese Youth 12. Cultural Citizenship and Prospects for Japan as a Multicultural Nation 13. National, Regional, and Global Dynamics in East Asia: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Forces
About the author
Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal is Professor of Sociology at University of Essex, UK.
