Natural Disaster and Reconstruction in Asian Economies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Reaction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Fukushima Nuclear Accident and the People’s Tribunal on Nuclear Power

      • Tanaka Yuki

      Pages 3-16

   3. Them versus Us: Japanese and International Reporting of the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis

      • David McNeill

      Pages 17-34

   4. The Evolution of Disaster Volunteering in Japan: From Kobe to Tohoku

      • Simon Avenell

      Pages 35-50

   5. Religious Responses to Natural Disasters: From Hurricane Katrina to the Great East Japan Earthquake

      • Brian Victoria

      Pages 51-66

   6. Chinese Reactions to Disasters in Japan: From the Great Kanto Earthquake to the Great East Japan Earthquake

      • Yang Biao

      Pages 67-75

3. Recollection

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. Bombs Bursting in Air: State and Citizen Responses to the US Firebombing and Atomic Bombing of Japan

      • Mark Selden

      Pages 79-109

   3. Searching Reality in Virtuality: Fantasy as A Way Out for Twenty-First-Century Japan

      • Kinnia Yau Shuk-ting

      Pages 111-125

   4. Who Killed Our Children?: The Anatomy of a Protest Film

      • Paul Pickowicz

      Pages 127-143

   5. The Unsettled Hearts and Souls: Aftershock of the Great Sichuan Earthquake

      • Lee Yee-chong

      Pages 145-150

   6. The Making of a Cantonese Popular Song amidst National Crises in China: From Jiang Jun Ling to “Once Upon a Time in China”

      • Yu Siu-wah

      Pages 151-170

4. Reconstruction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. Reestablishing National Identity by Reevaluating A Nation’s Past—A University’s Effort to Recover from War in the Late 1990s Cambodia: An Ethnographic Account

      • Nishimura Masao

      Pages 173-183

   3. From Typhoon Ondoy to the Unnamed Monsoon (2009–2012): Policy Reforms and Challenges in the Philippine Disaster Management System

      • Benigno Balgos

      Pages 185-199

   4. Who Protects Our Lives?: Managing Crises and Social Security in Socialist Laos and Japan

      • Odajima Rie

      Pages 201-215

5. Back Matter

   Pages 217-222

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Based on conference proceedings presented at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in November 2012, Natural Disaster and Reconstruction in Asian Economies offers leading insight into and viewpoints on disasters from scholars and journalists working in Japan, China, the United States, and Southeast Asia.

• China
• crisis
• East Asia

"This stimulating collection is impressive in every way - from the chronological and geographic range of the twentieth-century Asian disasters covered to the international composition of contributing authors. Professor Yau's imaginative and wide-ranging editorial vision inspires confidence that the comparative and cosmopolitan study of modern Asia is in terrifically capable hands." - John W. Dower, Ford International Professor of History, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

"This is a handsome volume that brings together diverse experts in the field from multidisciplinary backgrounds. It attempts to reconstruct some important memories of natural disasters that happened in recent times. Designed in a chronological order, the reader is taken on a journey from reactions to the event to memory recollection and physical reconstruction. The tangible and intangible aspects of post-disaster work are weaved into the narrative as a hindsight reflection of the events." - Tai Wei Lim, Assistant Professor, Department of Japanese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Yuki Tanaka, Hiroshima City University, Japan David McNeill, Sophia University, Japan Simon Avenell, National University of Singapore Brian Victoria, Antioch University, USA Biao Yang, East China Normal University Mark Selden, Cornell University, USA Shuk-ting, Kinnia Yau, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Siu-wah Yu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Yee-chong Lee, Green Peace Benigno Balgos, Center for Disaster Preparedness, The Philippines Masao Nishimura, Waseda University, Japan Rie Odajima, Waseda University, Japan

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