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1. Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities

   Comparative Inquiries in Science, History, and Ethics

   Edited by Jing Bao Nie, Nanyan Guo, Mark Selden, Arthur Kleinman

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   Prior to and during the Second World War, the Japanese Army established programs of biological warfare throughout China and elsewhere. In these “factories of death,” including the now-infamous Unit 731, Japanese doctors and scientists conducted large numbers of vivisections and experiments on...

   Published May 21st 2011 by Routledge
2. Chinese Society

   Change, Conflict and Resistance, 3rd Edition

   Edited by Elizabeth J. Perry, Mark Selden

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   This bestselling introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. An interdisciplinary and international team of China scholars draw on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and political...

   Published March 9th 2010 by Routledge
3. China, East Asia and the Global Economy

   Regional and Historical Perspectives

   By Takeshi Hamashita

   Edited by Mark Selden, Linda Grove

   Series: Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship

   Takeshi Hamashita, arguably Asia's premier historian of the longue durée, has been instrumental in opening a new field of inquiry in Chinese, East Asian and world historical research. Engaging modernization, Marxist and world system approaches, his wide-ranging redefinition of the evolving...

   Published June 1st 2008 by Routledge
4. The Resurgence of East Asia

   500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives

   Edited by Giovanni Arrighi, Takeshi Hamashita, Mark Selden

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   The East Asian expansion since the 1960s stands out as a global power shift with few historical precedents. The Resurgence of East Asia examines the rise of the region as one of the world's economic power centres from three temporal perspectives: 500 years, 150 years and 50 years, each denoting an...

   Published June 11th 2003 by Routledge
5. Chinese Society

   Change, Conflict and Resistance

   Edited by Elizabeth J. Perry, Mark Selden

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   This book, written by an interdisciplinary and international team of China scholars, offers an authoritative analysis of contemporary Chinese society, protest and resistance. Topics covered include:* labour and environmental disputes* rural and ethnic conflict* migration * legal challenges,...

   Published December 8th 1999 by Routledge