ASIEN – Nr. 84 Juli 2002 Deutsche Zeitschrift für Politik, Wirtschaft und KulturIssue Editor Hans-Ulrich Klose, Werner Pascha, Dietmar Rothermund, Jürgen Rüland und and Brunhild Staiger
Editorial Team Christine Berg

• Nr. 84 (2002) Artikel Article 8–18 {:en}Monolinguistic Assumptions under Pressure – Perspectives on the languages of Tokyo from the points of view of the economics of language and social psychologyJapan is a country with a traditionally strong monolingual self-image. In the last decades, however, linguistic heterogeneity has been steadily increasing. This is especially true for Tokyo, where about 40% of all resident foreigners in Japan live. The different languages of the capital will therefore be in the focus of our interest. Research will be … von by Florian Coulmas, Peter Backhaus und and Ayako Shikama
• Nr. 84 (2002) Rezensionen 19–20 {:en}Comment: Towards a Portrait of Multilingualism of TokyoI believe that we live in a world of post-modernity, and that this world is governed by two opposing principles. One of them, which revealed itself early, is humanism. The other is rationalism (Neustupný 2000). Humanism has given us the ideology of multilingualism and multiculturalism, while rationalism has contributed skepticism about the multicultural perspective. This … von by Jiri V. Neustupný
• Nr. 84 (2002) Artikel Article 21–30 {:en}Stability and Change in Japanese Employment Institutions: The Case of Temporary WorkThe expansion of temporary employment, more than any other recent employment change, has been credited with unraveling long-term employment commitments in the U.S. This paper raises the question of whether a major recent deregulation of temporary employment in Japan can be expected to have similar effects. Within neo-institutionalist research, debates about the effects of liberalisation … von by Karen A. Shire
• Nr. 84 (2002) Artikel Article 31–33 {:en}Comment: Stability and Change: Typifying ‚Atypical‘ Employment in JapanThe restructuring of work is proceeding rapidly through a series of reforms and economic transformations that promise to alter both the industrial structure and the mix of employment arrangements. Comparative studies on the regulation of labour markets, employment policy and industrial relations have not adequately understood these changes despite an otherwise sophisticated development of theories … von by Heidi Gottfried
• Nr. 84 (2002) Artikel Article 34–42 {:en}Japan’s Construction Lobby Activities – Systemic Stability and Sustainable Regional DevelopmentThe term „construction state“ has been used to refer to a system of vested interests in construction activities that embraced Japan at different geographical levels of scale. A system of collusion between politicians, bureaucrats, and businessmen evolved and led to massive government spending on public works projects. Its pace and scope have resulted in fiscal … von by Thomas Feldhoff
• Nr. 84 (2002) Artikel Article 43–46 {:en}Comment: The institutional roots of the Japanese construction stateThe project by Thomas Feldhoff and his associates addresses a basic puzzle of the contemporary Japanese political-economy – why, despite so many wounds to the public good, does the nation’s massive public works budget continue unabated? As their core hypothesis, the Feldhoff team proposes that Japan’s „construction state“ (doken kokka) is largely responsible for this … von by Jeffrey Broadbent
• Nr. 84 (2002) Artikel Article 47–55 {:en}Stability through more participation? — Local direct elections and their impact on Communist rule in present-day ChinaThe article brings into focus an ongoing research project on village elections in the PRC. Introduced in the late 1980s, they have undergone almost fifteen years of implementation. However, China scholars have started only in recent years to concentrate on village elections more systematically and to analyse their impact on Communist rule in the countryside. … von by Gunter Schubert
• Nr. 84 (2002) Artikel Article 56–58 {:en}Comment: Stability Through More Participation? – Local Direct Elections and Their Impact on Communist Rule in Present-Day ChinaGiven China’s huge population and its growing importance in the world, any political reform that may affect its long-term stability and its possible transition to democracy deserves the scrutiny of political scientists. The introduction of direct election in Chinese villages is one of such reforms. As Dr. Schubert points out, Chinese leaders seem to expect … von by Lianjiang Li
• Nr. 84 (2002) Artikel Article 59–66 {:en}Stability in Instability. China’s TVEs and the Evolution of Property RightsFor two decades economic and social stability in China’s rural areas has been based on the successful evolution of township village enterprises. These enterprises, however, feature property rights structures which according to conventional property rights theory should make these enterprises highly inefficient and prone to quick dissolution. But as closer analysis indicates, exactly these ambiguous … von by Markus Taube
• Nr. 84 (2002) Artikel Article 67–68 {:en}Comment: Stability in Instability. China’s TVEs and the Evolution of Property RightsThe astonishingly rapid economic development of China’s Township Village Enterprises (TVEs) has been a focus of research in economics and economic sociology for more than a decade. A review of the literature however, does not leave one with the impression that the issue has been exhaustively explored. Even more important is the pervasive feeling that … von by Sonja Opper
• Nr. 84 (2002) Artikel Article 69–76 {:en}Stability and Commercial Information – An Economic Approach and a Look at ChinaStability and information are prominent topics of economic research. Unfortunately though, research concerning the influence of the information system on economic and social stability is scarce. In contrast, Chinese politics argue with the importance of social and economic stability to limit freedom in information flows. The article summarizes theoretical attempts in economic research to grasp … von by Doris Fischer
• Nr. 84 (2002) Artikel Article 77–79 {:en}Comment: Stability and Commercial Information – An Economic Approach and a Look at ChinaChina’s transition to a market economy is accompanied by an unprecedented economic growth. However, due to structural problems the economic dynamism seems to have been running out of steam since the late 1990s. In its recent report „China in the World Economy. The Domestic Policy Challenges“, the OECD attributes the structural problems to a lack … von by Margot Schüller

Konferenzen

• 10th Global Conference on The Harvard Project for Asian and International Affairs, Singapur, 27.-30.08.2001 (Alex Häntzschel)
• 3rd APEC Future Leader’s Forum: „Corporate Citizenship: Doing Well by Doing Good“; Manila, 13.-16.11.2001 (Alex Häntzschel)
• Workshops über „Findings of an Empirical Research on Societal Organizationsin Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh-City“, Hanoi, 1.03.2002/Ho Chih Minh Stadt, 4.03.2002 (Werner Pfennig)
• 4. Brühler Tagung junger Ostasien-Experten: „Differenzierungsprozesse in Asien: Politik, Wirtschaft, Kultur“; Brühl, 6.-8.5.2002 (Genia Findeisen)

Rezensionen

• Aglaja Stirn, Peter van Ham: The Seven Sisters of India. Tribal Worlds between Tibet and Burma (Andreas Gruschke)
• Heiko Schrader: Changing Financial Landscapes in India and Indonesia – Sociolo-gical Aspects of Monetization and Market Integration (Michael von Hauff)
• Hal Hill, João M. Saldanha (eds.): East Timor: Development Challenges for the World’s Newest Nation (Arndt Graf)
• Han Knapen: Forests of fortune? The environmental history of SoutheastBorneo, 1600-1880 (Arndt Graf)
• Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chris Baker: Thailand’s Crisis (Volker Grabowsky)
• Mason Florence, Robert Storey: Vietnam (Christine Berg)
• Jackie Sheehan: Chinese Workers. A New History (Günter Schucher)
• Julia F. Andrews, Kuiyi Shen: A Century in Crisis. Modernity and Traditionin the Art of Twentieth-Century China (Hans-Jürgen Cwik)
• Chen Jianghong: Zhong Kui. Ein Besuch in der Pekingoper (Christine Berg)
• Børge Bakken (Hrsg.): Migration in China (Melanie Ullrich)
• Oskar Brunner, Dirk Forschner: China in der Mitte der 50er Jahre. Szenenaus dem täglichen Leben (Carsten Krause)
• Harald Maass, Michael Wolf: China im Wandel (Melanie Ullrich)
• Kim Soo-Young: Der Wächter der Wolke (Reta Rentner)
• Masafumi Matsuba: The Contemporary Japanese Economy. Between CivilSociety and Corporation-Centered Society (Cornelia Storz)
• Chushichi Tsuzuki: The Pursuit of Power in Modern Japan 1825-1995 (Emmeram Weis)
• Anne Sey: Gruppenarbeit in Japan – Stereotyp und Wirklichkei (Helmut Demes)

In aller Kürze

• Stefan Strohschneider: Kultur – Denken – Strategie. Eine indische Suite (Verlag)
• Ann Helen Unger/Walter Unger: Laos. Land zwischen gesternund morgen (Verlag)
• Carmen Schmidt: Sozialstruktur und politisches System in Japan: Gesellschaftliche Konfliktlinien, politische Repräsentation unddie Formierung der Wählerschaft (Verlag)

Forschung / Lehre / Informationen

• Konferenzankündigungen
• Informationen
• Ausstellungen
• Sozialwissenschaftliche Koreaforschung in Deutschland: ein kurzer Überblick (Patrick Köllner)
• ACCE Sommersemester ASIA

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