Global Futures in East Asia: Youth, Nation, and the New Economy in Uncertain Times (Contemporary Issues in Asia and Pacific) (55 page)

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Education: of domestic workers in China,
19
,
150–71
; in Japan,
20
,
175–94
,
199
; national economy and,
19–20
; neoliberalism and,
105
,
128–29
; in South Korea,
100–123
,
123–24
nn
1–3
; in Taiwan,
18–19
,
127–48
; of women,
19
,
21–22

EEOL.
See
Equal Employment Opportunity Law

English: as a class marker,
125
n
12

Enlightenment,
8
,
11
,
130
,
136–39
,
268

Enterprise culture,
91

Entrepreneurialism: in China,
88
; domestic workers and,
153–54
; neoliberalism and,
19
,
64
; subjectivity and,
29
,
36
,
43

EQ (emotional quotient),
26
n
12

Equal
Employment Opportunity Law (EEOL) [Japan],
198–221

Eroticism,
235

Esumi Makiko,
234

Ethnography.
See
Anthropology and ethnography

Everyday life,
87
,
90
,
92–94

Family: in China,
82
; homelessness and,
256–57
,
262–63
,
265–67
; in Japan,
82
; in South Korea,
124
n
4
,
256–57
,
262–63
,
265–67
,
273
n
10

Farquhar, Judith,
246
n
23

Financial crisis.
See
Global financial crisis (2008)

Ford, Henry,
161

Fordism,
198

Formosa (or, Kaohsiung) Incident,
71
,
75
n
21

Foucault, Michel,
4
,
22
,
26
n
11
,
122
,
200–201
,
206
,
215

Freedom: in China,
27
n
14
,
45
,
77
; governmentality and,
201
; in Japan,
27
n
14
,
232
; meanings of,
21
,
27
n
14
; in neoliberal contexts,
21–23
; in South Korea,
23–24
,
27
n
14
; in Taiwan,
27
n
14

Freeters,
14
,
16
,
23
,
230–33
,
238–42
,
244

Friedman, Milton,
48
n
3

Fujitani, Takashi,
181

Funatsu Kōichi,
234

Fundamental Laws of Education (Japan),
175–82
,
188–90
,
196
n
15

Fuping School,
21

Future, as a category,
7–8

Gardner, Howard,
145

Genda, Yuji,
188

Gender: and consumption,
242
; homelessness and,
258–59
,
263–67
; inequalities based on,
21–22
,
197–221
,
226
; in Japan,
197–221
,
226
; responsibility for equality concerning,
211–14
; in South Korea,
113–14
,
258–59

Global financial crisis (2008),
6
,
179

Globalization: capitalist,
192–94
; and cosmopolitanism,
103
; neoliberalism and,
4–7
; South Korean higher education and,
101–2
,
108–10

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,
168

Goleman, Daniel,
145

Gordon, Avery,
87
,
202

Governmentality,
200–201

Great Democratization Movement (1987),
254

Green Woodpecker Project,
47

Group formation,
238–39

Habermas, Jürgen,
202

Hairong, Yan,
6
,
18–20
,
21
,
91
,
104

Hall, Stuart,
127–28

Happiness and smiling,
18–19
; Chaoyang University and,
130–31
,
144–47
; domestic workers and,
165–69

Hara Ippei,
165
,
168

Harvey, David,
232

Hashimoto Yūji,
234
,
241

Havel, Václav,
93–94

Hayao, Kawai,
187
,
193

Hayek, Friedrich,
151
,
172
n
4

Health care in China,
17
,
76–95
,
95
n
2
,
97
n
7
,
97
n
8

Health Insurance Law (Japan),
199

Heart.
See
Love, and Japanese national spirit; Sentiment, for nation

Heisei Rescript,
181

“Heshang” (River Elegy) [television series],
165

Higher education.
See
University education

Hilton, Conrad,
165

Hip-hop dance,
68–69

Homelessness, in South Korea,
24
,
252
,
256–72

Homeless Rehabilitation Center,
261–62

Homeless Women Shelters Association,
264

Hong Kong,
30–32
,
48
n
3

Horio, Teruhisa,
181–82

House of Freedom,
259–61

Houses of Hope,
259–62

Hsu, Ching-wen,
16–17

Hu Jintao,
98
n
18

Human capital, and neoliberal subjectivity,
26
n
11

Human engineering: in China,
169
; defined,
8
; in East Asian modernity,
9–12

Humanism,
163–65

Human value, neoliberalism and,
14–15

Identity:
in Japan,
20–21
; in Taiwan,
70
,
129–30
.
See also
Life-building and life-making; Self-development

“The Image of the Desired Japanese,”
182

IMF homeless,
257
,
259
,
261

Imperial Rescript on Education (Japan),
176
,
181

Inch’ŏn City University,
106
,
115–20

Individualism,
122
,
223–24
,
238
,
246
n
21

Inequality: in China,
15–16
,
33–34
,
77
,
92
; gender,
21–22
,
197–221
,
226
; neoliberalism and,
122–23
; in South Korea,
101
,
109–10

Information society,
7
,
184

Inoue, Miyako,
5
,
21–22
,
180–81

Inoue Yumiko,
229
,
237

Institutional factors.
See
Structural socioeconomic factors

Intellectuals, and politics in South Korea,
248–51
,
257–72
,
272
n
5

Internationalization,
54–55
,
61–63
,
66–72

International Monetary Fund (IMF),
6
,
23–24
,
104
,
250

Ito, Ken,
82

Ivy, Marilyn,
185

Japan: economy of,
175–77
,
179
,
184–85
,
197–98
,
230
; education in,
20
,
175–94
,
199
; freedom in,
27
n
14
,
232
; gender inequality in,
197–221
; identity in,
20–21
; incompleteness in,
179–80
,
194
n
4
; learning from,
192
,
195
n
11
; melodrama in,
82
; nationhood of,
26
n
6
,
175–94
,
199
; neoliberalism in,
183–84
,
198–99
; self-development in,
125
n
8
,
187–94
; state-citizen social contract in,
4–5
,
21
,
175–94
; Taiwan and,
55–56
,
67–68
,
73
n
5
,
148
n
4
; United States and,
183
; workplace issues in,
14
,
16
,
23
,
197–221
,
230–31
,
238–40
; workplace television dramas in,
22–23
,
222–44

Japan National Railways,
198

Japan Tobacco,
198

Jiang Zemin,
30
,
159

Johnson, Chalmers,
159

Kaohsiung (or, Formosa) Incident,
71
,
75
n
21

Kaohsiung, Taiwan,
53–72
,
73
n
7

Kim, Hyunhee,
18

Kim Dae Jung,
24
,
249–50
,
252–57

Kim Young Sam,
254

Kirakira Hikaru
(television series),
229
,
237

Knowledge society,
7
,
25
n
5

Korean War,
56

Korea Telecom,
251

Koryŏ University,
106–10

Kuomintang (KMT),
27
n
14
,
56
,
59
,
128–30
,
133
,
136
,
139

Labor.
See
Domestic labor; Workers

Leadership, military model of,
159–61

Learn from Japan,
192
,
195
n
11

Lee Myung Bak,
250

Leukemia, stories of Chinese children dying from,
76–87

Li, Zhang,
13

Life-building and life-making,
2
,
15
,
24–25
,
29
,
32–33
,
40
,
45
,
48
.
See also
Identity; Self-development

Literary subjectivity,
164

Long Vacation
(television show),
231

Love, and Japanese national spirit,
177–78
.
See also
Sentiment, for nation

Love/trendy dramas,
223–32
,
243–44

Lukacs, Gabriela,
6
,
22–23

Luo Zhongli, “Father,”
162–63

Macau,
30
,
32

Management, military model of,
159–61

Mandel, Ruth,
225

Mao Yushi,
150–53
,
155
,
158
,
169–71

Mao Zedong,
30

Mariko, Adachi,
197

Market humanism,
164–65
,
167

Market segmentation,
36–37
,
49
n
12

Marx, Karl,
136
,
155
,
158

Media, coverage of crises by,
79–80
,
84–86
,
90

Medical care.
See
Health care

Meilidao
(Formosa) [magazine],
75
n
21

Melodrama,
77
,
80–83
,
87
,
92

Middle class: in China,
15
,
29
,
34–48
; concept of,
34–35
; in Korea,
104
; self-formation of,
36–37
; in Taiwan,
148
; welfare for,
256
,
259

Military,
concept/metaphor of,
158–61
.
See also
Battle metaphor

Ministry of Education (MOE), Taiwan,
130
,
137
,
141–44

Miracle economies: China,
17
; conditions for,
11
; decline of,
2
; Taiwan,
19
,
56
,
58–59

Mix Play (music group),
84

Miyake, Shoko,
189

Modernity: defined,
9
; in East Asia,
8–12
; in Japan,
176
; in Taiwan,
59–61

Modernization theory,
11
,
183
,
195
n
5

Modleski, Tania,
227

MOE.
See
Ministry of Education (MOE), Taiwan

Moeller, Susan,
90

Moo-hyun, Roh,
100

Morris-Suzuki, Tessa,
184

Myŏngji University,
106
,
110–15

Nakane Chie,
238

Nakasone, Yasuhiro,
183–84
,
198–99

Nakazono Miho,
226

National Movement for Overcoming Unemployment (South Korea),
254

Nation-building,
26
n
6

Nations: comparisons between,
10–11
; concept of,
10
,
174–75
; Japan’s national spirit,
175–94
,
199
; modernity and,
9
; sovereignty of,
10

Neoclassical economics,
155–56

Neo-Confucianism,
129–35

Neohumanism,
104

Neoliberalism: in China,
29–35
,
76–77
,
91
,
152–53
,
156
,
172
n
2
; and consumerism,
232
; defined,
248
; and education,
105
,
128–29
; emergence of,
4
; as ethos,
12–15
; freeters and,
23
; globalization and,
4–7
; and human capital,
26
n
11
; and inequality,
122–23
; in Japan,
183–84
,
198–99
; and labor,
14–15
,
152–54
,
156
,
161
,
192–93
,
223–24
,
230–33
,
240–44
; liberalism in relation to,
249
,
271–72
; military as concept/metaphor in,
158–61
; national contexts for,
12–13
; and politics,
89
; and responsibility,
3
,
5
,
21–22
,
81
,
91
,
98
n
15
,
122
,
193–94
; sexism and,
202–3
; and social welfare,
45
,
213–14
; in South Korea,
101
,
104–7
,
248–72
; and space,
74
n
13
; spread of,
13–14
; and subjectivity,
12–15
,
47–48
,
89
,
101–23
; in Taiwan,
128
,
139–48
; workplace television dramas and,
223

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