Night-time and sleep in Asia and the West : exploring the dark side of life
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Night-time and sleep in Asia and the West : exploring the dark side of life
(Beiträge zur Japanologie / Herausgeber, Alexander Slawik und Sepp Linhart, Bd. 38)
Abteilung für Japanologie des Instituts für Ostasienwissenschaften, Universität Wien, 2006
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction : into the night and the world of sleep / Brigitte Steger and Lodewijk Brunt
- Sleeping time in early Chinese literature / Antje Richter
- Discourse of mid-day napping : a political windsock in contemporary China / Li Yi
- Negotiating sleep patterns in Japan / Brigitte Steger
- Sleep without a home : the embedment of sleep in the lives of the rough-sleeping homeless in Amsterdam / Peter Rensen
- Sleep and night-time combat in contemporary armed forces : technology, knowledge and the enhancement of the soldier's body / Eyal Ben-Ari
- 'The Mirk Shades O'Nicht' : nocturnal representations of urban Scotland in the nineteenth century / Irene Maver
- Night-time and deviant behaviour : the changing night scene of Japanese youth / Ayukawa Jun
- Between day and night : urban time schedules in Bombay and other cities / Lodewijk Brunt
- 'What time do you call this?' : change and continuity in the politics of the city night / Chris Nottingham