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Nabli's and Nugent's book is a multi-dimension review of Tunisia's growth and development. It follows several lines of enquiry which include a historical, political and institutional analysis, as well as an analysis of the economic policies pursued in different periods. It concludes with an assessment of Tunisia's recent descent in political turmoil and regression, and its prospects for recovery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Pride, Not Prejudice: National Identity as a Pacifying Force in East Asia" by Eunbin Chung challenges the assumption that historical problems and nationalism hinder regional cooperation in East Asia. The book argues that affirming national identity can build trust and reconciliation between nations. Through lab experiments, fieldwork, and survey analysis, Chung demonstrates that national identity affirmation leads to increased trust and guilt recognition. The book suggests that policymakers should consider the role of nationalism in international politics and provides a valuable starting point for further research and policy development. [Extracted from the article]

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The book begins with a challenge: East Asia seems a difficult context for environmental advocates, given its pro-growth developmental states and constraints on civil society. As industrializing countries transform into proponents of environmentally friendly growth, East Asia has become a wellspring of environmental reform. Early on, Haddad proposes that because East Asian countries have pro-business developmental states that constrain civil society, their environmental advocates will tend to struggle. [Extracted from the article]

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There were two ways in which the academies supported such lecture gatherings: old academies hosting them in a local area on a regularly timed and well-funded basis, and new academies becoming established in areas where these lectures were already regularly happening. Here he emphasizes two themes: the importance of government support and the adjustment of academies to the demands of local culture, both showing the academy as being involved in worldly affairs. [Extracted from the article]

In I Mobilizing for Development i , political scientist Kristen E. Looney masterfully illuminates and compares the poorly understood - and often ignored - role that rural development played in the developmental success stories of Taiwan, South Korea, and China. It is not Weberian institutionalized states that Looney describes, but more Leninist-inspired ones, with their indicative application of mobilization and state-led campaigns. In this way, Looney corrects the commonly accepted understanding of a developmental state, which describes a bureaucratically coherent central state that plans, leads, and shapes industrial growth in economies such as these. [Extracted from the article]

Shinra Myojin, literally "deity of the Silla Kingdom", is the protector deity of Onjoji (also known as Miidera), the head temple of the Jimon branch of the Tendai school. One such deity was the star deity Sonjoo (literally "monarch of the revered star"), an important figure in the Jimon esoteric Buddhist pantheon, who came to be seen as a manifestation of Shinra Myojin. In Part I, entitled "Maritime East Asia: Networks of Immigrants and Silla Shrines/Temples", Kim takes up one of the most intriguing issues surrounding Shinra Myojin: "Why did a deity whose name clearly refers to the Korean kingdom of Silla became the protector deity of a Japanese Buddhist sect?". [Extracted from the article]

Here, the author studies how China was integrated into Spain's expansionist strategy using the works of Bernardino Escalante and Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza. Historian Ricardo Padrón's I The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West i attempts to understand how, in discursive and visual terms, the Spanish crown sought to project its geopolitical and historical influence in the world from the sixteenth century forward. The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West: By Ricardo Padrón, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. [Extracted from the article]

I Media, Sport, Nationalism: East Asia: Soft Power Projection via the Modern Olympic Games i is therefore an inspiring work. In the era of coexistence of sports and media, these countries have their own sports culture and media channels; hence, they control information dissemination. [Extracted from the article]

This essay collection introduces to readers of European languages a broad array of ways in which Greco-Roman antiquity has been translated and adapted in East Asia since early modern times. Antiquity can be a useful concept to understand human history, but its broader suitability requires an engagement with the histories of others, including, for example, Lin Zhichun's global history of ancient city-states. The final seven essays discuss the state of classics and ancient history programs in China, Japan, and Korea. [Extracted from the article]

Picturing Commerce in and from the East Asian Maritime Circuits, 1550-1800, edited by Tamara H. Bentley After the introduction, the essays are equally divided into three sections, providing a broad view of Asian trade networks before and after Europeans arrivals and investigating the specific role of trade objects from an economic or aesthetic perspective. Focusing on ceramics as a particular kind of trade good, Nishida's essay provides an appropriate transition to the next part of the volume - "Commodities". [Extracted from the article]

Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission: The International Buddhist Art Style in East Asia, ca. 645-770, written by Dorothy C. Wong Wong's principal protagonists are three pilgrim-monks, whose lives lead the reader chronologically from 645 to 763 and geographically from India to China and from China to Japan. In chapter 6, Wong turns to the life of Jianzhen (J. Ganjin; 688-763), a Chinese monk who famously made six attempts to sail to Japan at the behest of an official embassy. [Extracted from the article]

However, these high rankings conceal severe demographic problems, with rapidly decreasing birthrates and aging societies threatening the societies of East Asia in the order in which they took off. This book studies information about multiple countries through the common database of the population census, gathering the material into one volume. This book focuses on urbanization, declining birthrates, and aging population. [Extracted from the article]

Chapter Three traces the methodologies employed by a Chinese phonologist and a Japanese political thinker in the analysis and rearrangement of the Manchu syllabary. The Early Modern Travels of Manchu: A Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe, written by Mårten Söderblom Saarela This vision in turn formed the background for the European scholars' insistence that Manchu objectively was an alphabetic script, even though scholars in China thought of it as a syllabary (214). [Extracted from the article]

One of the most visible is nuclear energy, where the impact of the 2011 Fukushima accident has transformed the energy mix in Japan and reinforced antinuclear sentiment in both Taiwan and Korea. Edited by Ashley Esarey, Mary Alice Haddad, Joanna I. Lewis and Stevan Harrell Seattle, WA, and London: University of Washington Press, 2020 344 pp. China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan vary in development, size and type of government (the authors call Taiwan a country, while acknowledging that it does not have international legal recognition but operates as a self-governing unit in all ways that the other states do). [Extracted from the article]