Night-time and Sleep in Asia and the West: Exploring the Dark Side of Life - Hardcover
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Ideas and practices concerning sleep and night-time are constantly changing and widely varied in different cultures and societies. What we do during the day and night is the result of much political struggle. Trade unions, political parties, entrepreneurs, leaders and schools boards, all have an interest in questions of timing for the opening and closing of shops, the starting hours of schools and factories, and the number of hours people have to work and sleep. By drawing together comparative case studies from countries in both Asia and Europe, Night-time and Sleep in Asia and the West allows the reader to track the differences in the cultural importance given to the night, and to compare the ways in which the challenges and opportunities of modernity have been played out in the East and the West.
Brigitte Steger is Assistant Professor in Japanese Studies at the University of Vienna.,
Lodewijk Brunt is Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
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