Reshaping East Asia, Rethinking World Literature

Dipwmacy in East Asia: an Expression of General World Views

Diplomacy always reflects underlying philosophical concepts of different theories of government and of international relations. In order to understand the diplomatic history of East Asia, one must understand the prevailing world views of the major powers involved. It seems to me that in the modern period, say 1600 to the present, it is possible to discern a number of perceptions which are respo...

How China is Reshaping the Industrial Geography of South-East Asia

Antenatal Depression in East Asia: A Review of the Literature

This current study's goal is to summarize the literature regarding Antenatal Depression (AD) in the East Asian countries of Taiwan, China (including Hong Kong and Macau), Japan, and Korea. The main search utilized a Pub med Chinese Electronic Periodical Service (CEPS) literature review using keywords 'AD', and 'Prenatal Depression' with searches for 'Japan', 'Korea', 'Taiwan', 'Hong Kong' and M...

Rethinking East German Education

75 despair, as all certainties—even the putative postmodern certainty of exposing all certainties—become steadily bereft of intellectual or existential justification. By contrast, Vico, though a “genealogist of modernity” not unlike Nietzsche, kept one foot resolutely in the Catholic-Augustinian tradition. This tradition supplied him with the normative intellectual resources to offer qualified ...

Rheumatology in East Asia

Europe and North America have been leaders in rheumatology for many years. However, for more than a decade now the East Asian region has been catching up dramatically. Some aspects of rheumatology in East Asia are now almost comparable to those in the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) and the American College of Rheumatology (ACR). In this article, we describe recent progress in rheuma...