Traditional Japanese ideals of the pure, obedient girl have been destabilized by modern female subcultures that challenge the patriarchal structure of Japanese society. The iconoclastic fashions worn by women like the ganguro girls and Lady Gaga protest the conservative, often restrictive, views held by dominant Japanese society.

Throughout the twentieth century Korean society has struggled with the instability of a large social divide. Recognizing the struggles caused by this divide, Korean writers have called attention to it in an attempt to effect social change. In this paper the works of Kang Kyong-ae from 1934 and Cho Se-hui from 1975 to 1978 will be examined for their reflection on the state and prognosis of Korean society.

China has shown that it is willing to adapt its previous attitude towards nonintervention issues and use its diplomatic relations with problematic regimes to convince them to be more cooperative with the UN. Looking forward, we can expect China to continue to increase its presence in the Security Council and its role in the international community.

For the moment, the US remains the most powerful actor with the ability to shape the rules, norms, and institutions of the international system. Beijing will act as a responsible stakeholder only in an international system which it believes to be just and equitable. Thus, whether or not China will be a responsible stakeholder in the future depends largely on how the US chooses to define the system today.

As the city gains diversity but loses its own national identity, its individuals lose their own sense of identity. As the market economy influences the city to adopt the impersonal exchange model, the individuals become increasingly alienated from their fellow citizens.

Beijing had hoped that the 2008 Summer Olympics would draw worldwide attention to China’s sweltering economy and ambitious development projects. Now, less than three months removed from its grand prize, the nation hosting the world’s largest population faces [...]

The current Western analysis of Sino-Japanese relations can be likened to a badly tailored suit—at best, it clumsily covers main aspects of the relationship and anticipates movement in crises; at worst, it is ill-fitted to address the past peculiarities and future growing pains of such a relationship. The unsuitability of such an analysis should not [...]