Asian Studies Books

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31. Japan and the High Treason Incident

    Edited by Masako Gavin, Ben Middleton

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

    The ‘High Treason Incident’ rocked Japanese society between 1910 and 1911, when police discovered that a group of anarchists and socialists were plotting to assassinate the Emperor Meiji. Following a trial held in camera, twelve of the so-called conspirators were hanged, but while the executions...

    Published May 1st 2013 by Routledge
32. Accommodating the Chinese

    The American Hospital in China, 1880-1920

    By Michelle Campbell Renshaw

    Series: East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture

    This in depth comparative study demonstrates that the hospital established in China-its planning and architecture, financing, and all aspects of day-to-day operation-differed from its counterpart at home. These differences were never due to a single, or even dominant cause. They were a result of a...

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
33. The Evangelical Church in Boston's Chinatown

    A Discourse of Language, Gender, and Identity

    By Erika A. Muse

    Series: Studies in Asian Americans

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
34. Mobile Homes

    Spatial and Cultural Negotiation in Asian American Literature

    By Su-Ching Huang

    Series: Studies in Asian Americans

    The writers discussed in the book include Chiang Yee, Hualing Nieh, David Wong Louie, Fae Myenne Ng, John Okada, and Toshio Mori. Their publication dates span from the 1940s up to 2000....

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
35. The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora

    Revisiting the boat people

    Edited by Yuk Wah Chan

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

    Over three decades have passed since the first wave of Indochinese refugees left their homelands. These refugees, mainly the Vietnamese, fled from war and strife in search of a better life elsewhere. By investigating the Vietnamese diaspora in Asia, this book sheds new light on the Asian refugee...

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
36. Islam and China's Hong Kong

    Ethnic Identity, Muslim Networks and the New Silk Road

    By Wai-Yip Ho

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    Hong Kong is a global city-state under the sovereignty of the People’s Republic of China, and is home to around 250,000 Muslims practicing Islam. However existing studies of the Muslim-majority communities in Asia and the Northwest China largely ignore the Muslim community in Hong Kong. Islam and...

    Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
37. Capitalist Development in India's Informal Economy

    By Elisabetta Basile

    Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

    This book explores the economy and society of Provincial India in the post-Green Revolution period. It argues that the low 'quality' of capital development in India's villages and small towns is the joint outcome of the informal economic organisation, that is strongly biased in favour of...

    Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
38. Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia

    By Nils Bubandt

    Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

    Indonesia has been an electoral democracy for more than a decade, and yet the political landscape of the world’s third-largest democracy is as complex and enigmatic as ever. Indonesia is simultaneous a country that has achieved a successful transition to democracy and a flawed, illiberal, and...

    Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
39. ASEAN Regionalism

    Cooperation, Values and Institutionalisation

    By Christopher B. Roberts

    Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

    This book examines the key motivations for and challenges to greater regional integration in Southeast Asia. It demonstrates how security and economic concerns -domestic, regional and international - have either contributed to, or detracted from, an increased level of unity and cooperation in ASEAN...

    Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
40. Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization

    A Comparative Analysis

    By Ming Sing

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    This book raises interesting questions about the process of democratization in Hong Kong. It asks why democracy has been so long delayed when Hong Kong's level of socio-economic development has become so high. It relates democratization in Hong Kong to wider studies of the democratization process...

    Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge