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The idea of "world revolutions" comes from studies of the Europe-centered ("modern") world-system, referring to periods in which protests, rebellions and revolutions broke out in the same decades in different parts of the system. We propose to evaluate the world revolution hypothesis as it may have operated in the East Asian world-system since the Bronze Age. We will examine the timing of protest and rebellion events to see if they cluster in time and across space. We consider economic and political contexts, synchronies of rebellions, and connections among those that rebelled and among those that sought to repress or ameliorate the rebellions. And we will eventually quantitatively test hypotheses about the interactions among within-state and between state conflicts, the role of rebellions in dynastic cycles and the relationships between rebellions and changes in the scale of polities and cities in the East Asian worldsystem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the works of the Far East explorer V.K. Arsenyev (1872-1930) with the purpose of using his works to find the representational potential of the region's image. Using social constructivism as a methodology, we outline and analyze scientific and artistic types of constructing the Far East image and demonstrate the place each of these types occupies in Arsenyev's works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is devoted to the topical problem of energy security in East Asia under the context of the unfolding struggle of the major powers in this region for priority access to energy sources from Russia, the Middle East and fields in the East China and South China seas. The problems of bilateral and multilateral energy cooperation, ways of its institutionalization in the context of the prospects of the formation of a common regionwide energy space are depicted in this article. The authors note that the territorial disputes between China and Japan over the Senkaku Islands, as well as the disputes over the ownership of the Paracel Islands, which have repeatedly led the countries of East Asia to the brink of a military confrontation, have a strong natural resources background, because either there are large deposits of hydrocarbons, or there are strategically important ways of transporting oil and gas from the Middle East. The confrontation between China and Japan, the world largest economies and powerful military powers at the same time the countries with lack of oil and gas reserves and that have been experiencing a severe shortage of this strategically important for the functioning of their industry natural resources for the last two decades represents grave danger. The current military and political situation between China and Japan, characterized by the intensification of their struggle for regional leadership and often accompanied by the manifestation of force, calls for intensified efforts of the two governments to establish political cooperation and to reach compromise solutions. According to the authors, the common interests of energy security and stable development of energy cooperation in East Asia suggest the creation of responsible structural department within the existing regional integration associations that would directly deal with energy issues and would allow their depoliticization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies in Western countries and cross-national comparisons have shown that there are several important factors contributing to the level of happiness of individuals. Utilizing the East Asian Social Survey Health Module (2010), the present study examines this relationship in four East Asian countries: China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. East Asian countries are interesting cases for this inquiry, due to the cultural contexts such as traditional gender relations. Therefore, we focus on gender differences in predictors of happiness of individuals and attempt to answer three questions: (1) Do gender differences in happiness exist in East Asian countries? (2) Does marriage still serve as the norm and thus contribute to individual's happiness? (3) Does conforming to traditional gender roles contribute to or deteriorate individual's happiness? (4) Is the availability of social support (i.e., emotional, financial, and instrumental) positively associated with happiness of individuals? We find that there are gender differences in the level of happiness and its determinants in East Asian countries. The result also indicates that marital status is a strong indicator of happiness in East Asian countries, especially for men but not necessarily for women. In addition, full-time employment is positively associated with men's happiness in China but negatively associated with women's in Japan. Finally, social support is positively associated with an individual's happiness, especially for women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research empirically enquires change of state role of East Asian countries through longitudinal data. To support my argument, I search international governmental organization data (i.e. UN and OECD et al.) and some historical document. As a result, I find that governmental sizes have been reduced and their role has been transferred measured by expenditure, and this shows that role of nation state has been changed to social state. Most previous researches argue that governmental role has decreased; even some predicts that nation states will disappear. Actually, however, we can not find these phenomena in the world, instead evident of shift of role can be found in various easily. In addition, although difference of governmental regime and societal features make countries various, East Asian countries would go their way to become isomorphic because people's social needs are similar, but also they are embedded in world society source of global norms related with social state. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Significant variation exists in the levels of national pride that East Asian nations report, yet this variation has yet to be addressed in the sociological literature. While previous literature on national identity and pride, in particular, is relatively thin, past research suggests that support for the government and religiosity increase national pride, while globalization and international influence decrease it. I test these hypotheses in eight East Asian countries by conducting individual-level logistic regression analysis using data from the 2004 wave of the AsiaBarometer survey. Younger respondents and the better educated are less likely to report high national pride, while income is insignificant. Support for the government and high religiosity increase national pride, but no significant relationship is found between national pride and globalization/international influence. However, highly significant differences between nations suggest important areas for future research. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article criticizes that A. G. Frank’ Reorient neglects the important role of Choson Dynasty(1392-1910, in Korea) in East Asia. Frank tried to see world between 1400 and 1800 in unity in diversity and concluded that various parts of Asia, especially East Asia were far more important in and to world economy than all of Europe. He treated mainly economic, demographic, and technical development of Japan and China in East Asia. But without Choson Dynasty, anyone cannot understand and analyse properly international economic and foreign relation of East Asia. The reasons are as follows. First, Choson between 1400-1800 had developed economically as much as China and Japan. Second, Choson had played a great role in connecting China and Japan and had influenced much positive effects on development of Japan. Third, Choson could overcome so-called ‘seventeenth century crisis’ and succeeded in continuing its political system, although the Myng in China had fallen. This shows that diverse local or national ‘internal’ circumstance can cause different way of development in East Asia. So we need to reappraise Reorient’s basic proposition, a ‘horizontally integrative macro-history’ of world. Only when role of Choson can be properly estimated, dynamics and diversity of East Asia can be understood. Futhermore this right estimation of Choson between 1400-1800 can be useful in preventing danger of a newly emerging Chino-centric trends. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the late 1990s, Korean TV dramas have been exported to East Asian countries, and they caught eyes of regional audiences to the large extent. This phenomenon has referred to as the "Korean Wave," surging a boom of Korean pop culture in the region. The focal phase of the phenomenon is reflecting "commodifying cultural nationalism" driven by Korean media industries and government. I claim that this peculiar nationalism has actively forced by the extreme capitalist market-orientation regarding Korea's global expansionism. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In East Asia, traditionally older adults were highly respected and adult children were obligated to financially support and take care of older parents. However, in 2000, Taiwan's elderly poverty rate was higher than 26 Western countries included in the LIS study. Previous studies reveal that East Asian older adults are vulnerable to poverty risk due to limited social provisions. These previous studies are generally aggregate and bivariate analyses. However, personal poverty risk results from a mix of household-level and structural factors. The present study compares the poverty risk of Taiwanese households including older adults with that of 21 Western countries. The robust-cluster logistic regression analyses reveal that, with household-level characteristics being held constant, Taiwanese households including older adults are still more likely to be poor than those of the social democratic and conservative countries, but not significantly different from those of the liberal, South European, and communist countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We examined the internet connectedness of adolescents in relation to their use of traditional media, including television, radio and newspapers, as well as the motivations for going online. The study was based on a survey of 1,874 adolescents in five East Asian cities - Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, Taipei and Tokyo. We first identified three types of internet connectedness: communication/entertainment; express/participation; and information/research. We then examined how each type of internet connectedness relates to adolescents' use of other media. Finally, we examined how adolescents use different types of internet connectedness and other media to fulfill six types of motivations—which we refer to as "goals" (Ball-Rokeach, 1985). Our research results indicate that adolescents use not only the internet but other media to fulfill a specific goal. That is, a complementary relationship, rather than a displacement relationship, was found between each type of internet connectedness and other media use. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study proposes to employ a multifaceted perspective to understand the impact of blogs on society. Through case studies, this study analyzes factors that may shape blog use in 10 countries in Southeast and East Asia. Analysis was based on secondary data concerning the 10 target countries as well as email interviews with 14 bloggers from Global Voices, a global blogging website. The findings offer a big picture of blogs use by showing that structural, technological and usage factors accounted for the variations of blog use across these societies. These variations were further reflected in the different social roles that blogs play in these respective societies. Moreover, self-organizing communication networks were observed among bloggers and non-bloggers at local, national and transnational levels. Implications of the findings for theoretical and practical contributions to research on blogs and contemporary collective action are discussed. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]