Protecting the Weak in East Asia: Framing, Mobilisation and Institutionalisation (Hardcover)

1. Introduction, Iwo Amelung, Moritz Balz, Heike Holbig, Matthias Schumann and Cornelia Storz

Part I: Historical and Conceptual Background Studies

2. Protecting the Weak or Weeding out the Unfit? Disaster Relief, Animal Protection, and the Changing Evaluation of Social Darwinism in Japan and China, Matthias Schumann

3. Processes of Appropriation: Welfare and Cultural Heritage in East Asia, Iwo Amelung

4. Shifting Relations between State and Social Actors: Ambiguous Strategies of Protecting the Weak in Japan and China, Heike Holbig and Moritz Balz

5. Theories on Institutional Change: An Application to the Dynamics of “Protecting the Weak”, Cornelia Storz and Heike Holbig

Part II: Comparative Studies of Empirical Cases in Contemporary Japan and China 

6. From Natural Hazard to Man-Made Disaster: The Protection of Disaster Victims in China and Japan, Elisa Horhager andJulius Weitzdorfer 

7. Employee Wellbeing in China and Japan: A Media Content Analysis, Markus Heckel, Stefan Huppe and Na Zou 

8. Animal Protection in China and Japan: The Ambiguous Status of Companion Animals in Rapidly Changing Societies, Kazushige Doi & Jean-Baptiste Pettier 

9. Protecting the Weak? Tracing UNESCO’s Influence on Intangible Cultural Heritage Regimes in Japan and China, Christina Maags and IoanTrifu

Part III: Conclusions

10. Weak v Strong: Ambiguities of Protection, Iwo Amelung, Moritz Balz, Heike Holbig, Matthias Schumann and Cornelia Storz