Contemporary Japan
2000
First Published
3.15
Average Rating
244
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Now fully revised and updated, this widely-praised introductory text explores Japan through the prism of three alternative mainstream, revisionist, and culturalist. Beginning with the noting of Japan as a "contested territory" the book focuses on debates about the real nature of Japan's successes and shortcomings.
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3.15
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Author
Duncan McCargo
Author · 3 books
Duncan McCargo is a professor of Southeast Asian politics at the University of Leeds specializing in Thailand and Asia-related topics. He holds three degrees from the University of London: a First in English (Royal Holloway 1986); then an MA in Area Studies (Southeast Asia) (1990), and a PhD in Politics (1993) (the later two from the School of Oriental and African Studies). He has also taught at Queen's University Belfast, and at Kobe Gakuin University, Japan. In 2006-07, he was a visiting senior research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and he served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Universiti Utara Malaysia in September 2011. McCargo is a Visiting Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University and also an Associate Fellow of the New-York-based Asia Society.
