Asian Studies
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Asian States
Beyond the Developmental Perspective
A team of international leading experts provide a much needed re-examination of the theoretical claims and the empirical foundation of developmental state theory. Asian States argues...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54663-8 (Routledge)
Moses in the Qur'an and Islamic Exegesis
Relating the Muslim understanding of Moses in the Qur'an to the Epic of Gilgamesh, Alexander Romances, Aramaic Targums, Rabbinic Bible exegesis, and folklore from the...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55418-3 (Routledge)
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China, the United States, and South-East Asia
Contending Perspectives on Politics, Security, and Economics
China’s emergence as a great power is a global concern that can potentially alter the structure of world politics. Its rise is multidimensional, affecting the...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56950-7 (Routledge)
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Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia
This book explores people’s everyday experience of the media in Asian countries in confrontation with huge social change and transition and the need to understand...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-87838-8 (Routledge)
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Women in Asian Management
According to a recent study by the ILO (2001), women’s share of the labour force is increasing worldwide. Today, women’s participation rate in the labour...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56838-8 (Routledge)
Promoting Innovation, Productivity and Industrial Growth and Reducing Poverty
Development and the ending of mass poverty require a massive increase in productive capabilities and production in developing countries. Some countries, notably in Asia, are...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49559-2 (Routledge)
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South Asia's Cold War
Nuclear Weapons and Conflict in Comparative Perspective
This book is a ground-breaking analysis of the India-Pakistan nuclear confrontation as a form of ‘cold war’ – that is, a hostile relationship between nuclear...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-57035-0 (Routledge)
Disease and Security
Natural Plagues and Biological Weapons in East Asia
Focusing on East Asia, this book sets out a framework for analyzing infectious disease threats in security terms. It covers the security significance of naturally...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56989-7 (Routledge)
Popular Culture in Indonesia
Fluid Identities in Post-Authoritarian Politics
This book examines popular culture in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, and the third largest democracy. It provides a full account of the...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-57270-5 (Routledge)
Managers and Mandarins in Contemporary China
The Building of an International Business
This book explores the question as to whether the way in which Chinese management handles conflict is fundamentally different from elsewhere or much the same....
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36364-8 (Routledge)
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Global R&D in China
The volume focuses on the issue of globalization of research and development (R&D) in China.
China has become the number one choice of R&D for multination corporations...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56866-1 (Routledge)
Ethnic Politics in Burma
States of Conflict
This book examines the ideas which have structured half a century of civil war in Burma, and the roles which political elites and foreign networks...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-57269-9 (Routledge)
Chinese Big Business in Indonesia
The State of Capital
The disintegration of Indonesia's New Order regime in 1998 and the fall of
Soeharto put an end to the crude forms of centralised authoritarianism and...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-57424-2 (Routledge)
Industrial Relations in Korea
Diversity and Dynamism of Korean Enterprise Unions from a Comparative Perspective
A key factor in Korea's economic success is the nature of industrial relations in Korean business and industry. Joo-Yeon Jeong presents a comprehensive survey of the...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54561-7 (Routledge)
China and the New International Order
This book explores China's place in the ‘new international order’, from both the international perspective and from the perspective within China.
It discusses how far...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54645-4 (Routledge)
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East Asia and the Trials of Neo-Liberalism
A much-needed examination of the impact of neo-liberalism in East Asia in the years since the 1997 to 1998 Asian Economic Crisis.
These leading contributors tackle the nature...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56842-5 (Routledge)
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Sport, Nationalism and Orientalism
The Asian Games
The first book to focus solely on the Asian Games, this is an analysis of the Oriental rival to the Olympics in terms of its...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56850-0 (Routledge)
Religion and Politics in Turkey
Over the last decade the once marginal extreme right of the Turkish ideological spectrum has grown in size as well as in influence and has...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56836-4 (Routledge)
Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems
Learning to Lose
This is a path-breaking study by leading scholars of comparative politics examining the internal transformations of dominant parties in both authoritarian and democratic settings. The principle question...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55977-5 (Routledge)
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Democracy in Occupied Japan
The U.S. Occupation and Japanese Politics and Society
With expert contributions from both the US and Japan, this book examines the legacies of the US Occupation on Japanese politics and society, and discusses...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56059-7 (Routledge)
Sport in South Asian Society
Past and Present
A detailed study of sports' arrival, spread and advance in colonial and post-colonial South Asia. A selection of articles addresses critical issues of nationalism, communalism, commercialism...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56827-2 (Routledge)
Medieval Islamic Pragmatics
Sunni Legal Theorists' Models of Textual Communication
This book deals with two different pragmatic approaches to textual communication: (i) the mainstream approach followed by the 'Ash'ari s, Hanafi s and Mu'tazili s,...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56777-0 (Routledge)
Globalization and Competitiveness
Big Business in Asia
This book evaluates the evolution of 'Big Business in Asia', as we enter the new millennium. It focuses on recent issues affecting large corporations, both...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56830-2 (Routledge)
Zainichi Korean Identity and Ethnicity
Shedding light on contemporary Japanese society in an international context, Japanese-Korean relations and modern day notions of a multicultural Japan, this book addresses the broad...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56110-5 (Routledge)
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Communal Violence and Democratization in Indonesia
Small Town Wars
Through close scrutiny of empirical materials and interviews, this book uniquely analyzes all the episodes of long-running, widespread communal violence that erupted during Indonesia’s post-New...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49397-0 (Routledge)
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Labour, Globalization and the State
Workers, Women and Migrants Confront Neoliberalism
This book explores the impact of neoliberal globalization on labour markets and the state in the developed and developing world. It focuses especially on the...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55890-7 (Routledge)
Gender and Self in Islam
Using philosophical analysis, this book explores the construction of gender in Muslim societies and its implication to the constitution of the self. The root of...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77880-0 (Routledge)
Xinjiang
China's Muslim Far Northwest
Xinjiang, the nominally autonomous region in China's far northwest, is of increasing international strategic and economic importance. With a population which is mainly non-Chinese...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54631-7 (Routledge)
Asian Anthropology
Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia. Instead of assuming a...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54667-6 (Routledge)
Hong Kong Cinema
Coloniser, Motherland and Self
Examining Hong Kong cinema from its inception in 1913 to the end of the colonial era, this work explains the key areas of production, market,...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54633-1 (Routledge)
Community Volunteers in Japan
Everyday stories of social change
Volunteering is a recent and highly visible phenomenon in Japan, adopted as a meaningful social activity by millions of Japanese and covered widely in the...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54606-5 (Routledge)
Corporate Governance in China
Based on extensive original economic analysis, Chen examines key questions relating to corporate governance in China, including the relationship between ownership structure and corporate performance, the...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54610-2 (Routledge)
Russian Views of Japan, 1792-1913
An Anthology of Travel Writing
Before Japan was 'opened up' in the 1850s, contact with Russia as well as other western maritime nations was extremely limited. Yet from the early...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54617-1 (Routledge)
Abortion, Sin and the State in Thailand
This book discusses abortion in a non-Western, non-Christian context - in Thailand, where over 300,000 illegal abortions are performed each year by a variety of...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54603-4 (Routledge)
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Women, Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle
The case of the cotton textile industry, 1945-1975
This book shows how, during the period of the Japanese economic miracle, a distinctive female employment system was developed alongside, and different from, the better...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54624-9 (Routledge)
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Revolution, Reform and Regionalism in Southeast Asia
Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam
Based on research carried out over the three decades, this book compares the post-war political economies of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam in the context of...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47007-0 (Routledge)
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Privatization in Malaysia
Regulation, Rent-Seeking and Policy Failure
In recent years, privatisation has fallen out of favour in many countries because the underlying political factors have not been well understood. This book examines...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54537-2 (Routledge)
Elections as Popular Culture in Asia
Conventional political science depicts legitimate elections as rational affairs in which informed voters select candidates for office according to how their coherently presented aims, ideologies...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56002-3 (Routledge)
Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century
Saints, Books and Empires in the Muslim Deccan
Sufism is often regarded as standing mystically aloof from its wider cultural settings. By turning this perspective on its head, Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54988-2 (Routledge)
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Education and Reform in China
Transformative market reforms in China since the late 1970s have improved living standards dramatically, but have also led to unprecedented economic inequality. During this period,...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54705-5 (Routledge)
China's Emergent Political Economy
Capitalism in the Dragon's Lair
This edited volume represents the first collaborative effort to explicitly view China’s rapid international ascent as associated with the same process that catapulted Great Britain,...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49718-3 (Routledge)
Chinese Transnational Networks
The Chinese overseas have long been relevant to China, especially to qiaoxiang, and vice-versa. Qiaoxiang refers to regions from where emigrants migrated overseas, where there are...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56057-3 (Routledge)
Biblical Prophets in the Qur'an and Muslim Literature
Part 1 is a comprehensive study of the Qur'anic data about each prophet, with a full portrait of every figure and dealing also with all...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55417-6 (Routledge)
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Jews and India
Perceptions and Image
Exploring the image of Jews in India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book looks at both the Indian attitudes towards the Jewish communities of...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55888-4 (Routledge)
Railways and the Russo-Japanese War
Transporting War
This book explores the nexus between railways and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) - the first modern war, and one in which the railways played a...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56218-8 (Routledge)
Alternative Narratives in Modern Japanese History
How did ordinary people experience Japan's modern transformation? What role did people in local areas play in the making of modern Japan? How do studies...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56060-3 (Routledge)
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Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan
In this book David Wittner situates Japan’s Meiji Era experience of technology transfer and industrial modernization within the realm of culture, politics, and symbolism, examining...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56061-0 (Routledge)
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Korea's Divided Families
Fifty Years of Separation
The divided families problem is a serious social issue in North and South Korea, involving hundreds of thousands of first generation divided family members, most...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54634-8 (Routledge)
Television Across Asia
TV Industries, Programme Formats and Globalisation
This book explores the trade in television program formats, which is a crucially important ingredient in the globalisation of culture, in Asia. It examines how...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54627-0 (Routledge)
Beijing 2008: Preparing for Glory
Chinese Challenge in the 'Chinese Century'
Beijing 2008: Preparing for Glory - Chinese Challenge in the 'Chinese Century' brings together international scholars with an interest in sport and politics and sinologists...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48456-5 (Routledge)
Transcultural Japan
At the Borderlands of Race, Gender and Identity
Historically Japan has alternated between periods of celebration of a diverse, multicultural society and severe spells of xenophobia and persecution of the Other. This collection...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39434-5 (Routledge)
China's War on Terrorism
Counter-Insurgency, Politics and Internal Security
China’s war on terror is among its most prominent and least understood of campaigns. With links to the global jihad, an indigenous insurgency threatens the...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54518-1 (Routledge)
Chinese Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy Decision-Making
Confucianism, Leadership and War
Examining the major academic and policy debates over China’s rise and related policy issues, this book looks into the motivations and intentions of a rising...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54520-4 (Routledge)
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Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century
The Turn to Mahan
Alfred Thayer Mahan has been called America’s nineteenth-century ‘evangelist of sea power’ and the intellectual father of the modern US Navy. His theories have a...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54534-1 (Routledge)
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The Rise of China and International Security
America and Asia Respond
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55876-1 (Routledge)
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Conflict Management, Security and Intervention in East Asia
Third-party Mediation in Regional Conflict
This edited volume examines the sources, manifestations and management of conflict in East Asia, which contains many of the world’s conflict flashpoints, such as the...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55878-5 (Routledge)
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Female Sex Trafficking in Asia
The Resilience of Patriarchy in a Changing World
Trafficking of women and girls for purposes of sexual exploitation across the globe is widely acknowledged as a leading criminal activity. Women of poor countries...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-87271-3 (Routledge)
Literary Structures of Religious Meaning in the Qu'ran
This volume studies how the literary elements in the Qur'an function in conveying its religious message effectively. It is divided into three parts. Part one...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55413-8 (Routledge)
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Living Cities in Japan
Citizens' Movements, Machizukuri and Local Environments
Over the last fifteen years local citizens' movements have spread rapidly throughout Japan. Created with the aim of improving the quality of the local environment,...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54707-9 (Routledge)
China's Foreign Trade Policy
The New Constituencies
China’s rise as a major trading power has prompted debate about the nature of that country’s involvement in the liberal international economic order. China’s Foreign...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54709-3 (Routledge)
Political Cultures in Asia and Europe
Citizens, States and Societal Values
This book is a study of the attitudes to political and social life among the citizens of eighteen countries in Western Europe, East and Southeast Asia. Drawing...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54685-0 (Routledge)
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China's Reforms and International Political Economy
Written by an international team of experts from the US, UK, Hong Kong, China, Korea and Canada, this important and interesting book examines and explores the...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54703-1 (Routledge)
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Chinese Ethnic Business
Global and Local Perspectives
Providing a crucial understanding of how globalization impacts on the development of Chinese businesses, this book analyzes the unprecedented changes in Chinese ethnic business due...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54691-1 (Routledge)
Chinese Cyberspaces
Technological Changes and Political Effects
The internet is developing more extensively in China than any other country in the world. Chinese Cyberspaces provides multidisciplinary perspectives on recent developments and the consequences of...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54693-5 (Routledge)
Cities, Autonomy, and Decentralization in Japan
Adding a new perspective to the current literature on decentralization in Japan, Cities, Autonomy and Decentralization in Japan, approaches the subject from an urban studies...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54696-6 (Routledge)
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Sex and Sexuality in China
Elaine Jeffreys explores the issues of sex and sexuality in a non-Western context by examining debates surrounding the emergence of new sexual behaviours, and the...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54697-3 (Routledge)
The Development of Modern South Korea
State Formation, Capitalist Development and National Identity
The Development of Modern South Korea provides a comprehensive analysis of South Korean modernization by examining the dimensions of state formation, capitalist development and nationalism. Taking a comparative...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54700-0 (Routledge)
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A Basket Currency for Asia
The failure of the dollar peg to prevent the Asian currency crisis of 1997 to 1998 has highlighted the importance of the exchange rate regime...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54701-7 (Routledge)
Japan and China in the World Political Economy
Two powers in East Asia today stand to define the region's economic and commercial future: Japan, which rose in a spectacular industrial burst to become...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54675-1 (Routledge)
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Chinese Corporate Identity
This book represents the first study of economic restructuring in reform era China to apply the concepts of identity and corporate space; notions that have become increasingly...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54676-8 (Routledge)
Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism
Drawing upon wide-ranging case study material, the book explores the ever-changing personal and cultural identity of Chinese migrants and the diverse cosmopolitan communities they create. The various...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54670-6 (Routledge)
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Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns
Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822
Isaac Titsingh was intermittently head of the Japan factory (trading station) of the Dutch East India Company 1780-94. He was a career merchant, but unusual...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54671-3 (Routledge)
State Making in Asia
Including contributions from an international team of leading experts, this volume examines state making from a uniquely Asian perspective and reveals some of the misunderstandings...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54681-2 (Routledge)
Japan's Relations With China
Facing a Rising Power
The essays in this collection examine Sino-Japanese political relations given the phenomenon of ‘a rising China and a stagnating Japan’. Questioning whether their relationship is...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54682-9 (Routledge)
Advancing East Asian Regionalism
Developments in East Asia have progressed rapidly in terms of regionalism since the 1997 crisis. The end of the Asian miracle called into question not...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54687-4 (Routledge)
Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa
Okinawan people have developed a unique tradition of protest in their long history of oppression and marginalization. Beginning with the Ryukyu Kingdom’s annexation to Japan...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54688-1 (Routledge)
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Chinese Media, Global Contexts
Virtually every major media, information and telecommunications enterprise in the world is significantly tied to China. This volume provides the most expert, up-to-date and multidisciplinary...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49736-7 (Routledge)
Primary School in Japan
Self, Individuality and Learning in Elementary Education
The balance between individual independence and social interdependence is a perennial debate in Japan. A series of educational reforms since 1990, including the implementation of...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54536-5 (Routledge)
The Culture of Copying in Japan
Critical and Historical Perspectives
This book challenges the perception of Japan as a ‘copying culture’ through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies.
It addresses a question...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54539-6 (Routledge)
The Origins of the Modern Chinese Press
The Influence of the Protestant Missionary Press in Late Qing China
This book traces the emergence of the modern Chinese press from its origins in the western Christian missionary press in the late nineteenth century.
It...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54540-2 (Routledge)
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Conflict, Terrorism and the Media in Asia
There are many different kinds of sub-national conflicts across Asia, with a variety of causes, but since September 11, 2001 these have been increasingly portrayed...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54554-9 (Routledge)
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Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy
Essays in Honour of Jan van Bremen
It has been customary in the appraisal of the different approaches to the study of Japan anthropology to invoke an East-West dichotomy positing hegemonic ‘Western’...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54555-6 (Routledge)
Feminism and the Women's Movement in Malaysia
An Unsung (R)evolution
Combining both personal and academic insights into the Malaysian women’s movement, this study provides an in-depth account of the multiple struggles of the Malaysian women’s...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54559-4 (Routledge)
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Nature, Ritual, and Society in Japan's Ryukyu Islands
Despite their small area, the southern islands of Japan can be seen as stepping stones towards a more nuanced view of cultural osmosis between Japan...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54564-8 (Routledge)
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War Memory, Nationalism and Education in Postwar Japan
The Japanese History Textbook Controversy and Ienaga Saburo's Court Challenges
The controversy over official state-approved history textbooks in Japan, which omit or play down many episodes of Japan’s occupation of neighbouring countries during the Asia-Pacific...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54644-7 (Routledge)
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Global Japan
The Experience of Japan's New Immigrant and Overseas Communities
The Japanese have long regarded themselves as a homogenous nation, clearly separate from other nations. However, this long-standing view is being undermined by the present...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54626-3 (Routledge)
Politics and the Press in Indonesia
Understanding an Evolving Political Culture
This book explores the evolving political culture in Indonesia, by discussing the country's dominant political philosophies, then showing how those philosophies affect the working lives...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54636-2 (Routledge)
Women and Work in Indonesia
This book examines the meaning of work for women in contemporary Indonesia. It takes a broad definition of work in order to interrogate assumptions about...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54640-9 (Routledge)
ASEAN's Diplomatic and Security Culture
Origins, Development and Prospects
Member states of ASEAN - the Association of South-East Asian Nations - have developed a distinctive approach to political and security co-operation, which builds on...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54632-4 (Routledge)
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The Care of the Elderly in Japan
The problems of an ageing population are particularly acute in Japan. These problems include people living longer, with many needing more care, and the problems...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54605-8 (Routledge)
Russia's Protectorates in Central Asia
Bukhara and Khiva, 1865-1924
This book examines the Russian conquest of the ancient Central Asian khanates of Bukhara and Khiva in the 1860s and 1870s, and the relationship between...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54618-8 (Routledge)
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The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was the major conflict of the earliest decade of the twentieth century. The struggle for mastery in northeast Asia, specifically for control...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54582-2 (Routledge)
Governance and Civil Society in Myanmar
Education, Health and Environment
Most international attention on Myanmar has focused on the political situation, where the military, in power since 1962, continues to refuse to acknowledge the results...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54591-4 (Routledge)
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Journalism and Democracy in Asia
Journalism and Democracy in Asia addresses key issues of freedom, democracy, citizenship, openness and journalism in contemporary Asia, looking especially at China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia,...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54593-8 (Routledge)
Marco Polo's China
A Venetian in the Realm of Khubilai Khan
Marco Polo’s famous book about his journey to China, written in 1298, continues to be a subject of considerable controversy. One recent work on the...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54600-3 (Routledge)
The Chinese Model of Modern Development
This study examines the Chinese model of modern development, reflecting on the historical experience of China's reform and highlighting theoretical issues that are crucial for...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55525-8 (Routledge)
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The Russian General Staff and Asia, 1860-1917
This new book examines the role of the Tsarist General Staff in studying and administering Russia’s Asian borderlands. It considers the nature of the Imperial...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54583-9 (Routledge)
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The Women's Movement in Postcolonial Indonesia
Gender and Nation in a New Democracy
This book examines women's activism in the early years of independent Indonesia when new attitudes to gender, nationalism, citizenship and democratization were forming. It questions...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54623-2 (Routledge)
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Virtual Thailand
The Media and Cultural Politics in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore
Written by an established expert on Thailand, this is one of the first books to fully investigate the Thai media’s role during the Thaksin government’s...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54680-5 (Routledge)
Vietnam's Development Strategies
Taking a developmental approach, this book critically reviews Vietnam's reform process and shows how the country’s reform agenda is still dominated by a ‘developmental orthodoxy’...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54694-2 (Routledge)
Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and New Global Cinema
No Film is An Island
In recent years, with the establishment of the Hong Kong Film Archive and growing scholarly interest in the history of Hong Kong cinema, previously neglected...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54560-0 (Routledge)
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Economic and Social Transformation in China
Challenges and Opportunities
The Center for China Studies is among China’s most influential think-tanks, and its China Studies Reports are read at the highest levels of government. Now for...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54557-0 (Routledge)
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Japanese Love Hotels
A Cultural History
Drawing on theories of place, consumption and identity, Sarah Chaplin details the evolution of the love hotel in urban Japan since the 1950s. Love hotels...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48754-2 (Routledge)
Pakistan - Social and Cultural Transformations in a Muslim Nation
This is the first English-language survey of Pakistan’s socio-economic evolution. Mohammad Qadeer gives an essential overview of social and cultural transformation in Pakistan since independence,...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49222-5 (Routledge)
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Colonial Cambodia's 'Bad Frenchmen'
The rise of French rule and the life of Thomas Caraman, 1840-87
Colonial Cambodia's "Bad Frenchmen" provides a captivating analysis of the gradual establishment of French colonialism in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on new materials from...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54553-2 (Routledge)
Media and the Chinese Diaspora
Community, Communications and Commerce
The importance of the Chinese diaspora is widely recognized. Wanning Sun examines the key role of the media in the Chinese diaspora. She focuses especially on the...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54563-1 (Routledge)
Psychotherapy and Religion in Japan
The Japanese Introspection Practice of Naikan
Naikan is a Japanese psychotherapeutic method which combines meditation-like body engagement with the recovery of memory and the reconstruction of one's autobiography in order to...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54568-6 (Routledge)
Russian Culture in Uzbekistan
One Language in the Middle of Nowhere
Recent political changes in Central Asia, where the United States is replacing Russia as the dominant power, are having a profound effect on Russian speakers...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54573-0 (Routledge)
The Changing Japanese Family
The Japanese family is shifting in fundamental ways, specifically in terms of attitudes towards family and societal relationships, and also the role of the family...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54575-4 (Routledge)
The Chinese Communist Party in Reform
Contrary to the expectations of many people, China's recent economic growth has not led to the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party. In fact, the...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54576-1 (Routledge)
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The Development of Capitalism in Russia
This book provides a broad and comprehensive survey of the development of capitalism in Russia from the collapse of the Soviet economic system to the...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54577-8 (Routledge)
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The History of Siberia
Siberia has had an interesting history, quite distinct from that of Russia. Absolutely vast, containing many non-Russian nationalities, and increasingly important at present because of...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54581-5 (Routledge)
Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter
Religious, Missionary and Colonial Experience in Nineteenth Century Sri Lanka
This major new work explores the British encounter with Buddhism in nineteenth century Sri Lanka, examining the way Buddhism was represented and constructed in the...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54442-9 (Routledge)
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The Korean Language
Structure, Use and Context
Suitable for students of all levels, this book provides a general description of the Korean language by highlighting important structural aspects whilst keeping technical details...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54436-8 (Routledge)
The Ethics of War in Asian Civilizations
A Comparative Perspective
This book explores how issues of ethics in war and warfare have been treated by major ethical traditions of Asia. It opens a discussion about...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54437-5 (Routledge)
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The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902-1922
The Anglo-Japanese Alliance was the first formal agreement of its type reached by a Western 'great' power with a non-Caucasian nation in the modern era....2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54628-7 (Routledge)
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Women's Employment in Japan
The Experience of Part-time Workers
The low status accorded to part-time workers in Japan has resulted in huge inequalities in the workplace. This book examines the problem in-depth using case-study...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54630-0 (Routledge)
Television in India
Satellites, Politics and Cultural Change
This book examines the development of television in India since the early 1990s, and its implications for Indian society more widely. Until 1991, India possessed...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54643-0 (Routledge)
Elite Theatre in Ming China, 1368-1644
Theatre occupied a particularly important place in the life of the elite, for whom owning a theatre troupe was highly fashionable and for whom theatre...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54589-1 (Routledge)
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Globalization and the Chinese City
Introducing readers to the far-reaching global orientation that is now taking place in urban China, an international team of contributors describe overarching globalization through a detailed...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54590-7 (Routledge)
New Crime in China
Public Order and Human Rights
Examining the crimes that have recently been of the greatest concern in China, the authors assess the imbalance between public order and human rights in the way...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54601-0 (Routledge)
Regionalism in Post-Suharto Indonesia
Since the fall of the Suharto regime, forces pressing for regional autonomy have strengthened in Indonesia, with some people arguing that the country is in...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54602-7 (Routledge)
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Sino-Japanese Relations
Facing the Past, Looking to the Future?
Over recent years, there has been increasing interest in the relationship between China and Japan, particularly as a way of understanding contemporary political, economic and...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54619-5 (Routledge)
The Rise and Decline of Thai Absolutism
This book examines the development of Thailand from the integration of Siam into the European world economy at the beginning of the nineteenth century, up...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54622-5 (Routledge)
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Asian Americans and the Shifting Politics of Race
The Dismantling of Affirmative Action at an Elite Public High School
Asian Americans and the Shifting Politics of Race examines the political and discursive struggles around the dismantling of race-based admissions policies in an elite public...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80575-9 (Routledge)
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We Are Not Garbage
The Homeless Movement in Tokyo, 1994-2002
This book offers a full history of a homeless movement in Tokyo that lasted nearly a decade. It shows how homeless people and their external...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80594-0 (Routledge)
A Nation of a Hundred Million Idiots
A Social History of Japanese Television, 1953 - 1973
This book offers a history of Japanese television audiences and the popular media culture that television helped to spawn. In a comparatively short period, the...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80597-1 (Routledge)
China's Large Enterprises and the Challenge of Late Industrialisation
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54625-6 (Routledge)
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Anglo-Iranian Relations since 1800
With contributions from renowned experts in the field, this book provides an excellent background to the history of Anglo-Iranian relations. Focusing on the political and economic...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54439-9 (Routledge)
The Politics of Self-Expression
The Urdu Middleclass Milieu in Mid-Twentieth Century India and Pakistan
The 1930s to 1950s witnessed the rise and dominance of a political culture across much of North India which combined unprecedented levels of mobilization and...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54446-7 (Routledge)
Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage
Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal
This is a new and engaging examination of the emergence of a Muslim women’s movement in India. The state of Bhopal, a Muslim principality in...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54451-1 (Routledge)
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Self-Surrender (prapatti) to God in Shrivaishnavism
Tamil Cats or Sanskrit Monkeys?
Filling the most glaring gap in Shrivaishnava scholarship, this book deals with the history of interpretation of a theological concept of self-surrender-prapatti in late twelfth...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54464-1 (Routledge)
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Buddhism, Power and Political Order
Weber's claim that Buddhism is an otherworldly religion is only partially true. Early sources indicate that the Buddha was sometimes diverted from supramundane interests to...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54469-6 (Routledge)
Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity
Notes on a Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Caste
One prevalent socio-cultural structure that is peculiar to South Asia is caste, which is broadly understood in socio-anthropological terms as an institution of ranked, hereditary...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54435-1 (Routledge)
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Madrasas in South Asia
Teaching Terror?
After 9/11, madrasas have been linked to international terrorism. They are suspected to foster anti-western, traditionalist or even fundamentalist views and to train al-Qaeda fighters....
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54480-1 (Routledge)
Japan, Race and Equality
The Racial Equality Proposal of 1919
This study explores the Japanese motivations in raising the proposal for racial equality at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. This is the first comprehensive analysis...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49735-0 (Routledge)
Intellectuals in Revolutionary China, 1921-1949
Leaders, Heroes and Sophisticates
This book originally examines how prominent communist intellectuals in China during the revolutionary period (1921 to 1940) constructed and presented identities for themselves and how they narrated...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54656-0 (Routledge)
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Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea
Journeys of Hope
Fusing audience research and ethnography, the book presents a compelling account of women’s changing lives and identities in relation to the impact of the most...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54668-3 (Routledge)
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Christianity, Islam and Nationalism in Indonesia
Although over eighty percent of the country is Muslim, Indonesia is marked by an extraordinary diversity in language, ancestry, culture, religion and ways of life....
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54669-0 (Routledge)
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Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in Contemporary Japanese Culture
A Reading of Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin
Using the Euro-American theoretical framework of postmodernism, feminism and post-colonialism, this book analyses the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers; Murakami Haruki,...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54664-5 (Routledge)
Corruption and Good Governance in Asia
Bringing together contributions on the nature of corruption in East and Southeast Asia, this edited volume examines the means of limiting and ultimately eliminating corruption...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54666-9 (Routledge)
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Transformations in Twentieth Century Korea
This edited collection traces the social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of Korea’s dramatic transformation since the late nineteenth century. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54695-9 (Routledge)
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The Balance of Power in Asia-Pacific Security
US-China Policies on Regional Order
Investigating the dynamics of balancing patterns in the Asia-Pacific, this book focuses particularly on the contribution of great powers and middle powers to regional stability....
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54702-4 (Routledge)
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Food and Foodways in Asia
Resource, Tradition and Cooking
Food is an important cultural marker of identity in contemporary Asian societies, and can provide a medium for the understanding of social relations, family and...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54704-8 (Routledge)
Consuming China
Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China
Post-Mao China has been characterized in literature and the media as a burgeoning consumer society. Consuming China investigates this characterization by examining the cultural significance...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54686-7 (Routledge)
The Changing World of Bali
Religion, Society and Tourism
The glossy guide book image of Bali is of a timeless paradise whose people are devoutly religious and artistically gifted. However, a hundred years of...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54674-4 (Routledge)
Sex, Science and Morality in China
After decades of near silence on the matter, sex is being talked about in China. But what is being said? Who is allowed to speak?...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54677-5 (Routledge)
Transnational Migration and Work in Asia
Focusing on the issues associated with migrating for work both in and from the Asian region, this book sheds light on the debate over migration and...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54678-2 (Routledge)
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The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion
The Japanese Middle Ages were a period when forms of secrecy dominated religious practice. This fascinating collection traces out the secret characteristics and practices in...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54689-8 (Routledge)
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North Korea Policy
Japan and the Great Powers
North Korea features highly on the agenda of the main actors in East Asia and around the globe, and many large foreign policy initiatives have...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54690-4 (Routledge)
South Korean Engagement Policies and North Korea
Identities, Norms and the Sunshine Policy
A fresh historical and theoretical exploration of the much-debated, but still elusive, question of the Korean divide. In contrast to much of the literature on the...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54683-6 (Routledge)
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Nationalisms in Japan
Nationalisms in Japan brings together leading specialists in the field to discuss how notions of ‘nationalism’ in modern Japan impinges on all aspects of social,...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54684-3 (Routledge)
Chinese Documentaries
From Dogma to Polyphony
In China, unlike in Western cinema, documentary film, rather than fiction film, has been the dominant mode since 1949. In recent years, documentary TV programmes...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54417-7 (Routledge)
Health Care in Malaysia
The Dynamics of Provision, Financing and Access
The health care system in Malaysia has undergone a fundamental transformation over the last two decades. This book examines this transformation and explores the pressing...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54420-7 (Routledge)
Media in Hong Kong
Press Freedom and Political Change, 1967-2005
This book examines the Hong Kong media over a forty year period, focusing in particular on how its newspapers and TV stations have struggled for press...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54421-4 (Routledge)
Women and Labour Organizing in Asia
Diversity, Autonomy and Activism
This book investigates the role of women and labour activism in Asia, demonstrating that women have been active in union and non union based campaigns...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54542-6 (Routledge)
Asian Informal Workers
Global Risks Local Protection
This thoroughly researched volume surveys the nature and extent of 'informal' work in Asia, which is a powerful and under-studied force in the region.
After over...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54549-5 (Routledge)
Britain's Imperial Cornerstone in China
The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1854-1949
This is an in-depth account of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service, a uniquely cosmopolitan institution established in the wake of China's defeat in the Opium Wars...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54551-8 (Routledge)
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China and Africa
Engagement and Compromise
With China’s rise to the status of world power, trade and political links between Africa and China have been escalating at an astonishing rate. Sino-African...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54552-5 (Routledge)
Peasants and Revolution in Rural China
Rural Political Change in the North China Plain and the Yangzi Delta, 1850-1949
This book explores rural political change in China from 1850 to 1949 to help us understand China’s transformation from a weak, decaying agrarian empire to...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54422-1 (Routledge)
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Connecting Cultures
This lively and incisive collection of essays from an international group of scholars explores the interactions between cultures originating in Africa, India, the Caribbean, and...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49497-7 (Routledge)
Israel's Strategic Agenda
Divided into two clear parts, the first part of this book examines political and economic factors in the global strategic environment including, the approach of...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49519-6 (Routledge)
US-China Relations in the 21st Century
Power Transition and Peace
US-China Relations in the 21st Century addresses the bilateral relations of these two nations on international, domestic, societal and individual levels between 1990 and 2005. Peaceful...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49734-3 (Routledge)
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Developmental Dilemmas
Land Reform and Institutional Change in China
Developmental Dilemmas singles out land as an object of study and places it in the context of one of the world's largest and most populous...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49737-4 (Routledge)
China’s Death Penalty
History, Law and Contemporary Practices
By all accounts, China is the world leader in the number of legal executions. Its long historical use of capital punishment and its major political...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80396-0 (Routledge)
Chinese Military Strategy in the Third Indochina War
The Last Maoist War
This well-researched volume examines the Sino-Vietnamese hostilities of the late 1970s and 1980s, attempting to understand them as strategic, operational and tactical events.
The Sino-Vietnamese...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54528-0 (Routledge)
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Tamil Cinema
The Cultural Politics of India's other Film Industry
Hitherto, the academic study of Indian cinema has focused primarily on Bollywood, despite the fact that the Tamil film industry, based in southern India, has...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49219-5 (Routledge)
Management in South-East Asia
Business Culture, Enterprises and Human Resources
This edited volume deals with Management in South-East Asia. It widely agreed that this is a region of growing importance economically in today’s globalized world....
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49495-3 (Routledge)
Cooperation over Conflict
The Women's Movement and the State in Postwar Japan
Japan's postwar transformation has been hailed as nothing short of a miracle. Yet, in the midst of massive social, economic, political, and cultural change, gender...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80493-6 (Routledge)
Television in Post-Reform China
Serial Dramas, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market
This book explores the political, economic, and cultural forces, locally and globally that have shaped the evolution of Chinese primetime television dramas, and the way...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49220-1 (Routledge)
Great Power Strategy in Asia
Empire, Culture and Trade, 1905-2005
Great Power Strategy in Asia, 1905-2005 analyzes the enduring themes underlying the strategic struggles in East Asia, beginning with the crucial event of the 1904-5...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54502-0 (Routledge)
Japanese Popular Music
Culture, Authenticity and Power
Japanese popular culture has been steadily increasing in visibility both in Asia and beyond in recent years. This book examines Japanese popular music, exploring its...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49221-8 (Routledge)
Securing Southeast Asia
The Politics of Security Sector Reform
This book uniquely applies the security reform agenda to Southeast Asia. It investigates recent developments in civil-military relations in the region, looking in particular at...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49174-7 (Routledge)
Created in China
The Great New Leap Forward
This book examines China’s creative economy—and how television, animation, advertising, design, publishing and digital games are reshaping traditional understanding of culture. Since the 1950s China...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49175-4 (Routledge)
China-US Relations Transformed
Perspectives and Strategic Interactions
China’s emergence in the 21st century to the status of great power has significant implications for its relationship with the United States, the sole superpower...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49580-6 (Routledge)
Buddhism, War, and Nationalism
Chinese Monks in the Struggle Against Japanese Aggression 1931-1945
This thesis examines the doctrinal grounds and different approaches to working out this "new Buddhist tradition," a startling contrast to the teachings of non-violence and...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80230-7 (Routledge)
Origins of the Pacific War and the Importance of 'Magic'
Argues that in the final phase of the eight months of US-Japan talks leading to the attack on Pearl Harbor, serious mistranslations in Magic (the...2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48998-0 (Routledge)
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Asia-Pacific Security
US, Australia and Japan and the New Security Triangle
The aim of this book is to explore the implications stemming from the recent upgrading of Australia-Japan-US security interactions and the implications for Asia-Pacific regional...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49088-7 (Routledge)
Everyday Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Providing a wealth of empirical research on the everyday practise of Islam in post-Soviet Central Asia, this book gives a detailed account of how Islam is...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49172-3 (Routledge)
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Political Regimes and the Media in Asia
This book analyzes the relationship between political power and the media in a range of nation states in East and Southeast Asia, focusing in particular...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49173-0 (Routledge)
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Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture
An Ethnography of a Japanese Corporation in France
Globalisation – the global movement, and control, of products, capital, technologies, persons and images – increasingly takes place through the work of organisations, perhaps the...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49216-4 (Routledge)
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Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China
The Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution
This book argues that the fundamental shift in Chinese Cinema away from Socialism and towards Post-Socialism can be located earlier than the emergence of the...2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99893-2 (Routledge)
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Taiwan's Security
History and Prospects
This is the first explanation and evaluation of Taiwan’s defence forces and infrastructure. It examines not only Taiwan’s armed forces, but also its Ministry of National...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46082-8 (Routledge)
Britain in Vietnam
Prelude to Disaster, 1945–46
This book is a study of the circumstances leading to British intervention in Vietnam in 1945, and the course and consequences of this intervention.
The...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48747-4 (Routledge)
Population Decline and Ageing in Japan - The Social Consequences
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the most pressing challenges facing Japan today: population decline and ageing.
It argues that social ageing...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48011-6 (Routledge)
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Human Development and Social Power
Perspectives from South Asia
In South Asia and beyond, human development continues to be in a state of crisis. Each successive Human Development Report (HDR) and the pervasive global...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48131-1 (Routledge)
Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan
This exciting new book is a detailed examination of pilgrimages in Japan, including the meanings of travel, transformation, and the discovery of identity through encounters...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48133-5 (Routledge)
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Science and the Indian Tradition
When Einstein Met Tagore
This new text is a detailed study of an important process in modern Indian history. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, India experienced...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48134-2 (Routledge)
Kazakhstan - Ethnicity, Language and Power
Kazakhstan is emerging as the most dynamic economic and political actor in Central Asia. It is the second largest country of the former Soviet Union,...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48298-1 (Routledge)
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British Buddhism
Teachings, Practice and Development
British Buddhism presents a useful insight into contemporary British Buddhist practice. It provides a survey of the seven largest Buddhist traditions in the United Kingdom,...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48308-7 (Routledge)
Love in Modern Japan
Its Estrangement from Self, Sex and Society
This compelling and controversial book places the concept of love in both a social and historical context. Taking an approach in which state formation and...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47926-4 (Routledge)
Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948
Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948 provides a compelling study of leading women writers in modern China, charting their literary works and life...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47458-0 (Routledge)
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The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature
Polygraphic Desire
This is an innovative, scholarly and original study of the ethics of modern Japanese aesthetics from the 1930s, through the Second World War and into...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47460-3 (Routledge)
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Japanese-German Relations, 1895-1945
War, Diplomacy and Public Opinion
Written by a team of Japanese and German scholars, this book presents an interpretation of Japanese/German history and international diplomacy. It provides a greater understanding of...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45705-7 (Routledge)
Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia
The Korean Experience
Despite witnessing phenomenal economic growth and the spread of democratization in recent decades, as well as impressive intra-regional exchanges and interactions in the economic and...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47451-1 (Routledge)
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