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{"title":"Introduction: Dynamics of the Social Construction of East Asia","authors":"Chin Yee Whah","doi":"10.22439/CJAS.V33I2.4963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/CJAS.V33I2.4963","url":null,"abstract":"The multifarious forces of globalization have profoundly changed not only the global economic landscape but also the identities of ethnic groups, nations and regions. As highlighted in the four articles that constitute this special issue, globalization has led to increasing cooperation between East and Southeast Asian countries through the simultaneous processes of regionalization and regionalism. Each country contributes to closer cooperation in Asia, albeit unevenly and in different ways (Frost 2008: 14). Since the 1990s, regionalism has been viewed as a potent force in the globalization process as 'it represents concentrations of political and economic power competing in the global economy, with multiple inter-regional and intra-regional flows' (Mittelman 1996: 190). This powerful force is extended into cross-regional inter-state cooperation in terms of seeking preferential trading relations with countries outside the region through free trade agreements (Solis and Katada 2007). The current trend leans towards establishing more extensive and multifaceted external linkages within a multipolar context. The ASEAN Six (Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei) and CLMV (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam) countries have very diverse historical, cultural, social, economic and political backgrounds. These 10 ASEAN countries registered relatively high economic growth in 2012 (OECD Development Centre 2013: 2) 1 compared to other parts of the world, such as North America and the Eurozone. The dynamics of region-building are demonstrated in the inclusion of China, South Korea and Japan, countries that are culturally and historically separated from Southeast Asia, to form ASEAN plus Three (APT). Regional integration is a growing concern, and is focused on achieving the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015. 2 The AEC is deepening regional economic integration with the adoption of more common policies among member countries (Wesley 2003), which will transform ASEAN into a region with free movement of merchandise, services, investment and skilled labour, as well as a freer flow of capital. In the larger East Asia region, the concept of an East Asian Community (EAC) is developing, and now includes the ASEAN plus Three","PeriodicalId":35904,"journal":{"name":"Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"5-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68578287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Region Construction: The Dynamics of Cross-Level Networking in East Asia","authors":"B. Guan","doi":"10.22439/CJAS.V33I2.4964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/CJAS.V33I2.4964","url":null,"abstract":"This article seeks to explore the dynamics of region construction in East \u0000Asia, through both formal regional institutions and informal regionalization \u0000processes. Regionalism, particularly in Southeast and East Asia, is often \u0000explained as a formal regionalist project. ASEAN serves as a prime example \u0000but many other intra-regional processes, such as the ASEAN plus Three, the \u0000East Asia Summit and the ASEAN Regional Forum, are also cases in point. \u0000These processes, representing state actors, do not necessarily work in autonomous \u0000spaces and discrete spheres, but rather interact with non-state entities \u0000through multi-level networking. This networking provides opportunities for \u0000the development of either 'positive' or 'negative' regionalism. As such, this \u0000article looks at the interplay of cross-level actor-networks and how they affect \u0000the direction and scope of regionalization in East Asia. It aims to show the \u0000dynamic interplay of multiple regional actors that can consciously or unconsciously \u0000contribute to the strengthening or weakening of region construction.","PeriodicalId":35904,"journal":{"name":"Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"12-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68578354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tania Li, Land's End: Capitalist Relations on an Indiginous Frontier","authors":"L. Steur","doi":"10.22439/CJAS.V33I2.4969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/CJAS.V33I2.4969","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35904,"journal":{"name":"Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"106-110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68578381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Inflow of Southeast Asian Healthcare Worker Candidates in Japan:Japanese Reactions to the Possibility of Cultural and Ethnic Diversity","authors":"K. Kaneko","doi":"10.22439/CJAS.V33I2.4967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/CJAS.V33I2.4967","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the social and cultural meanings of the incorporation of Southeast Asian healthcare migrant workers in Japan, focusing in particular on Japanese attitudes and perspectives. I argue that several issues and concerns are related to the way the Japanese see Japan as a homogeneous society, and that these issues and concerns intertwine with Japan's historical experience of the inflow of non-Japanese migrants. The arrival of Southeast Asian healthcare workers has been met with concern in Japanese society, but because of its rapidly aging and shrinking population, Japan's healthcare industry needs to internationalize. The article is based on research data that includes information on events, debates and arguments in official and unofficial documents, newspaper articles and transcripts of interviews in the press in both Japanese and English. It aims to provide a better understanding of how Japan is tapping into the international labour market to bolster its health industry. The situation of Southeast Asian healthcare migrant workers in Japan is also examined in its historical, social and cultural contexts.","PeriodicalId":35904,"journal":{"name":"Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"78-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68578708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Narratives of Ethnolinguistic Bordering:Cultural Encounters of Philippine Nikkeijin Workers in Aichi, Japan","authors":"R. B. Vilog","doi":"10.22439/CJAS.V33I2.4966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/CJAS.V33I2.4966","url":null,"abstract":"By virtue of Japan's 1990 Immigration Policy, the so-called 'nikkeijin' or descendants of Japanese nationals who emigrated and settled in American and Southeast Asian territories before the Second World War, have been allowed to 'return' to their ancestral homeland (Japan). As a consequence, thousands of Brazilians, Peruvians and Filipino nikkeijin have been granted residency status by the Japanese government, with the clear expectation that they demonstrate cultural proximity leading to integration. Within their workplaces, nikkeijin encounter various cultures and ethnicities whose social positions and images are shaped by perceptions and expectations of the wider Japanese society. This article explores the formation and modification of ethnic boundaries, accompanied by the fragmentation of identities, during the experience of migration. The dynamics of 'identity bordering', based on regionalistic affiliations, are not only ignited by cultural stereotyping or ethnic attribution, they are also underpinned by the mechanism of power politics within the workplace. This study utilized the life history interviews of 60 third generation (sansei) and fourth generation (yonsei) Filipino nikkeijin, who are currently working in manufacturing plants and factories in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.","PeriodicalId":35904,"journal":{"name":"Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies","volume":"163 1","pages":"58-77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68578090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Globalization, National Identity and Foreign Policy: Understanding 'Global Korea'","authors":"Jojin V. John","doi":"10.22439/CJAS.V33I2.4965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/CJAS.V33I2.4965","url":null,"abstract":"One of the striking themes in contemporary South Korean foreign policy is a strong emphasis on achieving seonjinguk (advanced nation) status in international affairs, as articulated in the slogan 'Global Korea'. Engaging with the discourse of globalization, the concept of seonjinguk has provided Korea with an interpretive framework for discussions of its national identity and global position. The historical experience of Korea as a hujinguk (backward country) underlies the emphasis accorded to the goal of becoming seonjinguk. The article argues that the discursive practice of Global Korea was not merely a point of departure in Korean foreign policy but was also the key site of Korean national identity construction. Through an exploration of the historical context and diplomatic practice of constructing Global Korea, it illustrates the continuity and authority of the discourse of seonjinguk in interpreting and constructing Korean national identity.","PeriodicalId":35904,"journal":{"name":"Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"38-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68577895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"China's 13th Five-Year Plan: A Draft Proposal","authors":"Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard","doi":"10.22439/CJAS.V33I2.4968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/CJAS.V33I2.4968","url":null,"abstract":"Despite over 35 years of reform, some things in China never change. Thus, regular Five-Year Plans are still being formulated to serve as guidelines for the leadership's economic development policy priorities. The first Five-Year Plan was released in 1953 and only during the Great Leap Forward (1958-60) was the planning process suspended. Since the 1950s, overall planning has been conducted under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The CCP defines the goals to be reached and the guidelines to be followed. These are outlined in a draft document, which is formally confirmed at a subsequent spring meeting of the National People's Congress (NPC). In the period between the passing of the draft at a meeting of the CCP's central committee and the meeting of the NPC, there may be adjustments and concretizations, but these will not result in major changes. The first Five-Year Plan emphasized heavy-industrial development, and this trend continued through subsequent plans. By way of high investment rates and the price-scissors, which channeled resources from agriculture to industry, Chinese planners built an oversized heavyindustrial complex (Brodsgaard and Rutten 2015). Even after the decision was made to begin a new phase of reform and open door policies, the old pattern of pouring resources into heavy industry continued to dominate and investment kept increasing to reach record high levels of almost 50 per cent of GDP.","PeriodicalId":35904,"journal":{"name":"Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"97-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68578740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Development of Biofuels in China: Progress, Government Policies and Future Prospects","authors":"Zhang Hongzhou","doi":"10.22439/CJAS.V33I1.4811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/CJAS.V33I1.4811","url":null,"abstract":"China is the largest energy consumer in the world, but has limited energy resources. Energy security is thus a primary concern for China. Over reliance on the consumption of fossil energy has resulted in severe environmental pollution, which puts pressure on the government to adjust its energy mix. To strengthen its energy supply and prevent further environmental degradation, China has been committed to developing renewable energies, such as biofuels. \u0000This article provides a comprehensive assessment of the development of biofuels, rural household biogas, and bioethanol, in particular. It also examines related government policies and the future prospects of the biofuel sector. The analysis shows that remarkable achievements have been made in the development of biogas in rural areas and in bioethanol at the industrial level. This progress is largely credited to government's strong support for the biofuel sectors. Nonetheless, although ongoing energy insecurity and environmental pollution continues to motivate the central government to support the development of biofuels, widening domestic food supply and demand gap, changes in rural life and agricultural industrialization constrain the further expansion of rural household biogas and cereal-based bioethanol. This article suggests that while China urgently needs to find alternative feedstock for the existing rural household biogas digesters and bioethanol plants, centralized biogas and non-cereal-based bioethanol projects should be prioritized for future development.","PeriodicalId":35904,"journal":{"name":"Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"40-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68577964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Andrew G. Walder, China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed","authors":"Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard","doi":"10.22439/CJAS.V33I1.4816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/CJAS.V33I1.4816","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35904,"journal":{"name":"Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies","volume":"215 1","pages":"128-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68578257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rachel E. Stern, Environmental Litigation in China: A Study in Political Ambivalence","authors":"L. Hansen","doi":"10.22439/CJAS.V33I1.4815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/CJAS.V33I1.4815","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35904,"journal":{"name":"Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"125-127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68578202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}