Asian Studies - Race & Ethnics Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. What is Asia to Us? (Routledge Revivals)

   Russia's Asian Heartland Yesterday and Today

   By Milan Hauner

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   This book, first published in 1990, considers the uneasy relationship between Russia and Soviet Central Asia. Chapters examine both the significance of Asia to the Russian mind and the place that Asia has occupied in Russian geopolitical thinking in the last hundred years, showing that outbreaks of...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
3. Chinatowns in a Transnational World

   Myths and Realities of an Urban Phenomenon

   Edited by Vanessa Künnemann, Ruth Mayer

   This book explores the history, the reality, and the complex fantasy of American and European Chinatowns and traces the patterns of transnational travel and traffic between China, South East Asia, Europe, and the United States which informed the development of these urban sites. Despite obvious...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
4. Migration, Agrarian Transition, and Rural Change in Southeast Asia

   Edited by Philip F. Kelly

   Rural life in Southeast Asia is being transformed by new and intensifying processes of migration and mobility. Migration out of rural areas creates new forms of class mobility, familial relations, production processes and income. Migration into rural areas creates a new and sometimes marginalized...

   Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge
5. Inter-Ethnic Dynamics in Asia

   Considering the Other through Ethnonyms, Territories and Rituals

   Edited by Christian Culas, François Robinne

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   South-East Asia is one of the most complex regions in the world as far as ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity is concerned with an extremely rich ancient and contemporary history. Because of this, it offers an exceptionally rich field of study for inter-ethnic relations. This book examines...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. De-Bordering Korea

   Tangible and Intangible Legacies of the Sunshine Policy

   Edited by Valérie Gelézeau, De Koen Ceuster, Alain Delissen

   Series: Routledge Advances in Korean Studies

   As tensions remain on the Korean peninsula, this book looks back on the decade of improved inter-Korean relations and engagement between 1998 and 2008, now known as the ‘Sunshine Policy’ era. Moving beyond traditional economic and political perspectives, it explores how this decade of intensified...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
7. 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
8. Minority Nationalisms in South Asia

   Edited by Tanweer Fazal

   Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series

   South Asia is the theatre of myriad experimentations with nationalisms of various kinds - religious, linguistic, religio-linguistic, composite, plural and exclusivist. In all the region’s major states, officially promulgated nationalism at various times has been fiercely contested by minority...

   Published November 20th 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. Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850–1924

    By Jennifer Snow

    Series: Studies in Asian Americans

    This book examines how in defending Asian rights and their own version of Christian idealism against scientific racism, missionaries developed a complex theology of race that prefigured modern ideologies of multiculturalism and reached its final, belated culmination in the liberal Protestant...

    Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge