TY - BOOK AU - Keni'chiro, H Ed. TI - State and cultural transformation: perspectives from East Asia SN - 978-9280807730 PY - 1993/// CY - New York PB - United Nation University Press KW - Sociology KW - Social conditions KW - Civilization N1 - Introduction: The state and cultural transformation in modern East Asia / Hirano Kenichiro -- Cultural factors in the process of China's modernization / Chen Yao-guang -- China's development mode and her cultural tradition / Sun Yue-sheng -- Different social and cultural types among the Chinese national minorities: Their transition to socialism and development toward modernization / Lin Yueh-hwa -- Chinese family values: Past and present / Wei Zhang-ling -- Rural development and consequent cultural changes in China: A case-study / Shen Ping-yu -- The Westernization of clothes and the state in Meiji Japan / Hirano Kenichiro -- The failure of modern Japan: The decline in traditional arts and culture / Narusawa Akira -- Cultural transformation in Japan's industrialization: Local adaptation to foreign silk technology / Furuta Kazuko -- The Japanese in colonial South-East Asia / Shiraishi Takashi -- Perceptions of the state in post-war Japan / Uchida Takeo. The state, industry, and farmers: Agribusiness in Japan / Tamanoi Mariko Asano -- Characteristics of Korea's view of the outside world in the late Choson period (1392-1910) / Yu Kun-ho -- The state and culture in Korean development / Hahn Bae-ho -- Building a strong state and development in South Korea / Choi Jang-jip -- Cultural transformation in rural and urban Korea / Han Sang-bok -- Conversion from a colonial agricultural state into a socialist industrial state / Pak Chang-gon -- The question of nations and national sovereignty / Ho Yung-yong -- Experiences of state-building in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea / Sok Chang-sik -- Cultural revolution and the intellectualization of society / Chang Song-jin N2 - Considers how the traditional societies of China, Japan and Korea were swept aside in favour of new models, how these traditional societies were transformed - particularly their cultures - by the newly fashioned states and the role played by the state in the transformations ER -