Asian Studies Books

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11. Symbols in Art and Religion

    The Indian and the Comparative Perspectives

    By Karel Werner

    A thorough survey of great interest and value to scholars in this field....

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
12. HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China

    Imagined Immunity Through Racialized Disease

    By Johanna Hood

    Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

    Approximately 90% of urban HIV/AIDS education in China occurs indirectly through non-specialist media reports. Many of these reports use images of extreme suffering and poverty to communicate an understanding of who gets HIV, why and how. This book explores an important aspect of how HIV/AIDS is...

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
13. Women’s History and Local Community in Postwar Japan

    By Curtis Anderson Gayle

    Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

    This timely look at a neglected corner of Japanese historiography spotlights the decade following the end of World War II, a time in which Japanese society was undergoing the transformation from imperial state to democratic nation. For certain working and middle-class women involved in...

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
14. Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism

    Spectacle, Politics and History

    By Hong Kal

    Series: Asia's Transformations

    While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach. It looks at expositions, museums and the urban built environment at particular moments in both colonial and postcolonial eras and analyses their discursive...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
15. Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia

    Edited by Vivienne Bath, Luke Nottage

    Series: Routledge Research in International Economic Law

    This book considers foreign investment flows in major Asian economies. It critically assesses the patterns and issues involved in the substantive law and policy environment which impact on investment flows, as well as the related dispute resolution law and practice. The book combines insights from...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
16. Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region

    Towards Institution Building

    Edited by Hitoshi Nasu, Ben Saul

    Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

    The Asia-Pacific is known for having the least developed regional mechanisms for protecting human rights. This edited collection makes a timely and distinctive contribution to contemporary debates about building institutions for human rights protection in the Asia-Pacific region, in the wake of...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
17. Miraculous Growth and Stagnation in Post-War Japan

    Edited by Koichi Hamada, Keijiro Otsuka, Gustav Ranis, Ken Togo

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    This volume examines different aspects of the Japanese experience in a comparative context. There is much here of relevance to contemporary developing countries anxious to initiate the experience of miraculous growth and anxious to avoid the subsequent stagnation. Such issues of the role of...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
18. Foreign Direct Investment in China

    Spillover Effects on Domestic Enterprises

    By Ziliang Deng

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    This book provides an insightful exploration of whether foreign direct investment (FDI) can promote the productivity of domestic enterprises. The book is based on a series of dedicated research conducted in the context of the Chinese economy, which has been the largest FDI host among the developing...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
19. Pension Systems and Old-Age Income Support in East and Southeast Asia

    Overview and Reform Directions

    Edited by Donghyun Park

    Old age income support will be one of the biggest social and economic challenges facing Asia in the twenty-first century. The growing spotlight on old age income support is largely due to exceptionally rapid population aging which is fundamentally reshaping Asia’s demographic profile. A young...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
20. Exchange Rates and Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Asia

    Selected Issues and Policy Options

    By Ramkishen Rajan

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    With the rapid growth of China and India and the resurgence of Southeast Asia post-1997–8, emerging Asia has once again become one of the most dynamic regions in the world. This dynamism has in turn been fuelled largely by a carefully calibrated embracement of economic openness to international...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge