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  1. Science, Public Health and the State in Modern Asia

    Edited by Liping Bu, Darwin H. Stapleton, Ka-Che Yip

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

    This book examines the encounter between western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries over the course of the twentieth century until now. It discusses the transfer of scientific knowledge of medicine and public health approaches from Europe...

    Published October 25th 2011 by Routledge

  2. Transforming Urban Water Supplies in India

    The Role of Reform and Partnerships in Globalization

    By Govind Gopakumar

    Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

    The absence of water supply infrastructure is a critical issue that affects the sustainability of cities in the developing world and the quality of life of millions of people living in these cities. Urban India has probably the largest concentration of people in the world lacking safe access to...

    Published September 13th 2011 by Routledge

  3. Welfare Reform in East Asia

    Towards Workfare

    Edited by Chak Kwan Chan, Kinglun Ngok

    Series: Comparative Development and Policy in Asia

    In many Western countries, social welfare payments are increasingly being made conditional on recipients doing voluntary work or attending job training courses, a system known as "welfare-to-work" or "workfare". Although social welfare in Asia is very different to the West, with much smaller social...

    Published September 1st 2011 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Elites and Governance in China
    Edited by Xiaowei Zang, Chien-wen Kou
    To Be Published May 30th 2013
  2. Citizenship and Japan’s Household Registration System: The State and Social Control
    Edited by David Chapman, Karl Jakob Krogness
    To Be Published October 30th 2013
  3. Imagining Japan in Postwar East Asia: Identity Politics, Schooling and Popular Culture
    Edited by Paul Morris, Edward Vickers, Naoko Shimazu
    To Be Published October 30th 2013
  4. Managing Social Change and Social Policy in Greater China: Welfare Regimes in Transition
    Edited by Ka Ho Mok, Maggie K. W. Lau
    To Be Published November 14th 2013
  5. Active Aging in Asia
    Edited by Alan Walker, Christian Aspalter
    To Be Published December 30th 2013

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