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Product Description Combining theoretical and empirical studies, this book explores the emerging theoretical work that explains East Asian identities while also investigating empirical peculiarities of East Asia. The sociological perspective of this book starts from the recognition that the rise of East Asia dose not mean either a negation of the West or an ethnocentrism of the East. Given a hybridized world society and a global cosmopolitanism, the distinction between the East and the West is becoming much more complicated. East Asian sociology in contrast to as well as in continuation of the Western sociology must, therefore, be pluralist and multidimensional. This book tries to illuminate the most crucial sociological issues in East Asia such as East Asian view of globalization and civilization, inequalities and multiculturalism, social movements and risks. As the era of East Asia is manifesting itself an irreversible historical trend, so East Asian sociologies are maturing into a quest for new and better civilizations. About the Author Seung Kuk Kim: Pusan National University Lizhong Xie: Peking University Bing, Zheng (Jilin University) Kim, SangJun (Kyung Hee University) Yui, Kiyomitsu (Kobe University) Yazawa, Shujiro (Hitotsubashi University) Zhang, Yi (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) Li, Chunling (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) Shin, Kwang-Yeong (Chung-Ang University) Li, Peilin (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) Tian, Feng (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) Zhang, Wenhong (Shanghai University) Tarumoto, Hideki (Hokkaido University) Nishihara, Kazuhisa (Seijo University) Shiba, Mari (Nagoya University) Kong, Suk- Ki (Seoul National University) Lim, Hyun-Chin (Seoul National University) L Peng (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) Hasegawa, Koichi (Tohoku University) Nomiya, Daishiro (Sophia University) Han, Sang-Jin (Seoul National University) Kim, Mun-Cho (Korea University) Kosaka, Kenji (Kwansei Gakuin