{"title":"Chee, Lilian 2023 Architecture and Affect: Precarious Spaces. Oxford and New York: Routledge","authors":"Jane M Jacobs","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100195","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100195","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 2","pages":"Article 100195"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143843070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“You are the prettiest man I have ever met”: Subverting femininity through jocular teasing of Chinese females","authors":"Ying Cao","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100192","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100192","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores how teasing behaviours assist women in expressing intimacy in daily interactions and therefore create different expectations for gender roles under the Chinese context by analysing 379 instances of jocular teasing taken from a Chinese reality TV show. This study identified five strategies, namely jocular deprecation/self-deprecation, jocular criticism, jocular directives, jocular praise/self-praise, and jocular irony. The results indicate that the women incline to using teasing strategies to discursively index power and masculinity via correcting other's behaviours and maintaining a superior position within the group. Additionally, these women use teasing strategies in various combinations to achieve multi-layered communicative goals, including downgrading others and elevating oneself, and defending oneself while attacking others. The women's choices of jocular teasing strategies largely deviate from the traditional views of femininity in the Chinese context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 2","pages":"Article 100192"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143815437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The dual perspectives on the nature of supervisory power in China: The appearance of power and its generative logic","authors":"Zhuo Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100194","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100194","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The issue of defining the nature of supervisory power is a core problem in studying the modern Chinese supervisory system. The characterization of this power will profoundly influence the nature of modern Chinese supervisory agencies, the operational logic of supervisory power, and the understanding and judgment of its relationship with other forms of power. Existing analyses of the ownership of supervisory power tend to focus on the external appearance of power. rather than deeply revealing the inherent logic of its generation. Therefore, it is essential to adopt the latter as a perspective for analyzing the ownership of supervisory power. Thus, introducing the perspective of the generation logic of supervisory power can not only reveal the general characteristics of supervisory power but also highlight the distinctive features of the current supervisory system in China.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 2","pages":"Article 100194"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143748068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Media-crafted social inequality: Analyzing the disconnect between Gap Society discourse and social inequality in post-bubble Japan","authors":"Jiangcheng Wu , Keqing Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100193","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100193","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the evolution of Gap Society discourse in Japan from 1988 to 2023, analyzing the disconnect between media portrayals and actual social conditions. Through a combination of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and text mining, the study identifies key discourse types—political, economic, academic, educational, social, and literary—across four periods of growth and decline. It finds that political discourse predominated during periods of growth, while literary discourse gained importance during declines. The study highlights the role of media in constructing symbolic realities, revealing how different newspapers employ similar frameworks to report on the Gap Society, thereby shaping a collective narrative that diverges from objective social conditions. Additionally, this paper also shows how shifting power dynamics among scholars, newspaper editors, writers, and the general public have influenced the evolution of the discourse. This mechanism, rooted in state-led modernization, may be a unique phenomenon in East Asia.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 2","pages":"Article 100193"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143748061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"C.R. Yadu","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100185","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100185","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 1","pages":"Article 100185"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143512300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Yige Xue","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100186","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100186","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 1","pages":"Article 100186"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143512301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Thurein Naing","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100191","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100191","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 1","pages":"Article 100191"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143474942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Karolina Nikielska-Sekuła","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100188","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100188","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 1","pages":"Article 100188"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143474943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Youyenn Teo","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100187","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100187","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 1","pages":"Article 100187"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143478779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Yi Qiao","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100189","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100189","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 1","pages":"Article 100189"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143464416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}