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The peoples of East Asia are living with cultures that have been transformed and newly created within the past 50 to 100 years. How these traditional societies were transformed - particularly their cultures - by the newly fashioned states and the role played by the state in the transformations, constitute the main themes of this unique study. The State and Cultural transformation: Perspectives from East Asia pays particular attention to the question of the similarities and differences in the comparisons of the effects and manifestations of modernization in the countries of China, Japan, North and South Korea. It traces the cultural transformations that occurred not only on a large scale but also in everyday customs and habits, from the level of the individual to broad social and economic planning.
