The Challenge of Change

East Asia in the New Millennium

David Arase

• Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
• Year: 2003
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9781557292346
• Subtopic: Asian Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This volume is a festschrift for Chalmers Johnson by those inspired by his insight into East Asian affairs, his attention to context, and his academic rigor and integrity. It is a collection of essays organized around a fundamental premise in contemporary political affairs: the uncompleted East Asian project of modernity. 

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Notes to this edition
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Preface
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Section 1. Postsocialist China
• 1. Present Nationalism and Communist Power
• 2. The Revival of Chinese Millenarian Movements: The Case of Falun Gong
• Section 2. The Demise of the East Asian Developmental State
• 3. The Heuristic Value of the Developmental State Model as Applied to Southeast Asia
• 4. The “Free Economy” and the Developmental State: The Changing Ideology and Politics of Japanese Organized Business, 1965–1980
• 5. Japan’s Developmental State in the 1990s and Beyond: Has Industrial Policy Outlived Its Usefulness?
• 6. Japan: From Miracle to Mediocrity
• 7. How Japan Can Move toward a Third Major Reform
• Section 3. The Normalization of East Asian Relations?
• 8. Hong Kong and the Challenge of Chinese Reunification for U.S.-China Policy
• 9. Civil Society in South Korean Democratization
• 10. South Korea’s Foreign Policy: A Dolphin among Whales?
• 11. Sino-Japanese Relations in Transition
• Section 4. History Restarted, or Deferred? The U.S. Role in Asia
• 12. The Continuation of the Cold War and the Advent of American Militarism
• 13. The Okinawa Factor in U.S.-Japan Relations
• 14. In Search of Emperor Hirohito: Decision Making and Ideology in Imperial Japan
• 15. Occurrence at No Gun Ri Bridge: An Inquiry into the History and Memory of a Civil War
• Section 5. A Final Tribute to Chalmers Johnson
• 16. Functional Stories: Uses for Communist, Developmental, Military, and Individualist Ideologies
• Chronological Bibliography of Chalmers Johnson's Published Works
• Back cover