The Sociologist's Contribution to Postwar Reconstruction

1943 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Eva J. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Postwar Reconstruction

Japanese Reinvention of Self through Hawai‘i’s Japanese Americans

2012 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yujin Yaguchi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Japanese History ◽  
Postwar Japan ◽  
Postwar Reconstruction ◽  
American Hegemony ◽  
Modern Japanese History ◽  
American Society

This article investigates the relationship between Asian American and modern Japanese history by analyzing the image of Japanese Americans in postwar Japan. Based on a book of photographs featuring Japanese immigrants in Hawai‘i published in 1956, it analyzes how their image was appropriated and redefined in Japan to promote as well as reinforce the nation’s political and cultural alliance with the United States. The photographs showed the successful acculturation of Japanese in Hawai‘i to the larger American society and urged the Japanese audience to see that their nation’s postwar reconstruction would come through the power and protection of the United States. Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i served as a lens through which the Japanese in Japan could imagine their position under American hegemony in the age of Cold War.

Pyongyang Modern: Architecture of Multiplicity in Postwar North Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-296
Author(s):  
Cheehyung Harrison Kim
Keyword(s):  
North Korea ◽  
Architectural History ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
Work Culture ◽  
Architectural Form ◽  
Postwar Reconstruction ◽  
History Of ◽  
Architectural Development

Abstract This article explores North Korea’s postwar reconstruction through the variegated features of architectural development in Pyongyang. The rebirth of Pyongyang as the center of both state authority and work culture is distinctly represented by architecture. In this setting, architecture as theory and practice was divided into two contiguous and interconnected types: monumental structures symbolizing the utopian vision of the state and vernacular structures instrumental to the regime of production in which the apartment was an exemplary form. The author makes three claims: first, Pyongyang’s monumental and vernacular architectural forms each embody both utopian and utilitarian features; second, the multiplicity of meaning exhibited in each architectural form is connected to the transnational process of bureaucratic expansion and industrial developmentalism; and third, North Korea’s postwar architectural history is a lens through which state socialism of the twentieth century can be better understood—not as an exceptional moment but as a constituent of globalized modernity, a historical formation dependent on the collusive expansion of state power and industrial capitalism. A substantial part of this article is a discussion of the methods and sources relevant to writing an architectural history of North Korea.

scholarly journals EVOLUTION OF VIETNAM’S ECONOMIC STRATEGY IN MODERN ARCHITECTONICS OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmytro Kolechko
Keyword(s):  
Market Reform ◽  
Socialist Republic ◽  
Economic Strategy ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Postwar Reconstruction ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Third Stage ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
Internal And External Factors

The article analyzes the evolution of Vietnam’s economic strategy based on the concept of institutional archi- tecture. The main internal and external factors that determined the goals of the economic strategy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam since its inception have been identified. The evolution of the country’s economic strategy in response to the change of target priorities under the influence of not only internal factors, but also in view of the formation of global architecture is substantiated. There are four main stages in the evolution of Vietnam’s economic strategy in global architectonics according to the main characteristics. The first stage (1975–1985) of the transition from an autonomous to a partially autonomous economic strategy of Vietnam in global architecture is characterized as postwar reconstruction, unification of economic complexes of the northern and southern territories into a single system on a planning and administrative basis and external economic integration on the ideological principle. The second stage (1986–2001) of the transition from an autonomous to a partially open economic strategy of regional orientation is characterized by market reform while maintaining the directive role of the state and a pragmatic regional foreign economic strategy. The third stage (2002–2010) of the transition from a partially open economic strategy of regional orientation to a partially open economic strategy of global orientation is characterized by expanding the spheres of market reform while maintaining planning and administrative principles and increasing openness in foreign economic strategy. The fourth stage (2011 – present) the transition to an open export-oriented economic strategy of catching up is characterized by expanding market economy, increasing transparency of state-owned enterprises, narrowing sectors of direct planning and administrative management, pragmatism in geoeconomic strategy, expanding global participation. The results of the economic strategy and significant successes in the market reform of Vietnam’s economy are manifested in high rates of economic growth, improving the welfare of the population. However, not all strategic goals have been achieved yet, in particular the task of industrialization remains relevant.

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