East Asia Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. Dealing with Disaster in Japan

   Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash

   By Christopher Hood

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   Just as the sinking of the Titanic is embedded in the public consciousness in the English-speaking world, so the crash of JAL flight JL123 is part of the Japanese collective memory. The 1985 crash involved the largest loss of life for any single air crash in the world. 520 people, many of whom had...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. Gender, Modernity and Male Migrant Workers in China

   Becoming a 'Modern' Man

   By Xiaodong Lin

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Rural-urban migration within China has transformed and reshaped rural people’s lives during the past few decades, and has been one of the most visible phenomena of the economic reforms enacted since the late 1970s. Whilst Feminist scholars have addressed rural women’s experience of struggle and...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
4. Religion in Contemporary China

   Revitalization and Innovation

   Edited by Adam Yuet Chau

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Before the modernist transformations of the twentieth century, China had one of the richest and most diverse religious cultures in the world. The radical anti-traditionalist policies of both the Republican and Communist regimes as well as other socio-historical factors posed formidable challenges...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
5. Suicide and Justice

   A Chinese Perspective

   By Fei Wu

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Sociological and psychiatric studies on suicide based on Western ideas about human nature see suicide as social or individual disorder. Suicide in China, however, should be understood differently. By analyzing 30 cases, Wu Fei studies the dynamics of suicide in terms of family politics and local...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
6. Guangdong and Chinese Diaspora

   The Changing Landscape of Qiaoxiang

   By Yow Cheun Hoe

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   China’s rapid economic growth has drawn attention to the Chinese diasporic communities and the multiple networks that link Chinese individuals and organizations throughout the world. Ethnic Chinese have done very well economically, and the role of the Chinese Diaspora in China’s economic success...

   Published February 10th 2013 by Routledge
7. Abandoned Japanese in Postwar Manchuria

   The Lives of War Orphans and Wives in Two Countries

   By Yeeshan Chan

   Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

   This book relates the experiences of the zanryu-hojin - the Japanese civilians, mostly women and children, who were abandoned in Manchuria after the end of the Second World War when Japan’s puppet state in Manchuria ended, and when most Japanese who has been based there returned to Japan. Many...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
8. Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora

   Edited by Chee-Beng Tan

   With around 40 million people worldwide, the ethnic Chinese and the Chinese in diaspora form the largest diaspora in the world. The economic reform of China which began in the late 1970s marked a huge phase of migration from China, and the new migrants, many of whom were well educated,...

   Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Middle Class in Neoliberal China

   Governing Risk, Life-Building, and Themed Spaces

   By Hai Ren

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Since the late 1970s, China’s move towards neoliberalism has made it not only one of the world’s fastest growing economies, but also one of the most polarised states. This economic, social and political transformation has led to the emergence of a new Chinese middle class, and understanding the...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Cultural Politics of Talent Migration in East Asia

    Edited by Brenda Yeoh, Shirlena Huang

    As the world globalises, more people than ever are on the move, including the many professional, managerial and entrepreneurial elites—often referred to as ‘international talent’—who circulate between cities in response to career and business opportunities. While much has been written about...

    Published August 15th 2012 by Routledge