Asian Research

Transforming Chinese Cities

Edited by Mark Wang, Pookong Kee, Jia Gao

Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

The urbanisation of China over the last three decades has been a hugely significant development, both for China’s reform process and for the world more generally. This book presents recent research findings on the continuing urban transformation in China. Subjects covered include the decline of the...

To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge

Urban Transformation in East Asia

By Hyun Bang Shin

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

This book explores urban transformation in East Asia, focusing in particular on the rapid transformation of old and dilapidated neighbourhoods in East Asian cities. Drawing on detailed empirical fieldwork conducted in Seoul and Beijing, including case studies of redevelopment neighbourhoods and...

To Be Published April 29th 2014 by Routledge

Asian Heritage Management

Contexts, Concerns, and Prospects

Edited by Kapila Silva, Neel Kamal Chapagain

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

The prevalent global heritage discourse has been primarily Euro-centric in its origin, premise, and praxis. Diverse cultural, historical, and geographical contexts, such as that of Asia, call for more context-specific approaches to heritage management. This book explores this complexity of managing...

Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge

Democracy or Alternative Political Systems in Asia

After the Strongmen

Edited by Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

This book tackles the important issue of what happened to Asia's political systems after the fall of various political strongmen. It is generally assumed that once strongmen who dictate a nations' politics with a dictatorial or authoritarian fashion fall, the political landscape ...

To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge

Asia’s Role in Governing Global Health

Edited by Kelley Lee, Tikki Pang, Yeling Tan

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

In an era of rapid and extensive globalisation, the world faces a wide range of transboundary problems that require effective collective action. Key among these are threats to human health that do not recognise national borders, and include emerging and re-emerging infections, rising rates of...

Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge

Asian Popular Culture in Transition

Edited by John A Lent, Lorna Fitzsimmons

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

Asian Popular Culture in Transition examines contemporary consumption practices in South Korea, China, India, and Japan, and both updates and extends popular culture studies of the region. Through an interdisciplinary lens, this collection of essays explores how recent advances and shifts in...

Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge

Human Trafficking in Asia

Forcing Issues

Edited by Sallie Yea, Pattana Kitiarsa

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

Human Trafficking in Asia analyses the complex issues surrounding internal and cross-border human trafficking in Asia by asserting critical perspectives and methodologies. It extends the range of sites for discussion and sectors in which human trafficking takes place. The book re-centres human...

To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge

Sexual Diversity in Asia, c. 600 - 1950

Edited by Raquel A.G. Reyes, William G. Clarence-Smith

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

Non-reproductive sex practices in Asia have historically been a source of fascination, prurient or otherwise, for Westerners, who being either Catholic or Protestant, were often struck by what they perceived as the widespread promiscuity and licentiousness of native inhabitants. Graphic...

Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge

Eurasia’s Ascent in Energy and Geopolitics

Rivalry or Partnership for China, Russia, and Central Asia?

Edited by Robert Bedeski, Niklas Swanström

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

The Sino-Russian relationship has experienced several permutations in recent decades as both states have undergone radical domestic changes, including the end of Soviet communism and the abandonment of Maoism. This volume brings together scholars to address the current status of Sino-Russian...

Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge

The Dynamics of Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Asia

Edited by Amrita Daniere, Hy Van Luong

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

The purpose of this volume is to highlight the impacts on civic engagement of social capital, and its various component parts (trust, norms, networks and associations), in diverse parts of Asia. Addressing the pressing need for improved governance within the spatial, political and cultural...

Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge

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 August 23rd 2011 by Routledge

The Politics of Religion in South and Southeast Asia

Edited by Ishtiaq Ahmed

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

The notion of a ‘politics of religion’ refers to the increasing role that religion plays in the politics of the contemporary world. This book presents comparative country case studies on the politics of religion in South and South Asia, including India, Pakistan and Indonesia. The politics of...

Published April 27th 2011 by Routledge

Enhancing Asia-Europe Co-operation through Educational Exchange

By Georg Wiessala

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

This book examines the ideas of knowledge-transfer and higher education exchange in the relationship between the European Union and countries, regions, universities and think-tanks across Asia. It critically investigates some discourses of particular relevance to the cognitive framework of the...

Published February 23rd 2011 by Routledge

History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia

Divided Memories

Edited by Gi-Wook Shin, Daniel C. Sneider

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

Over the past fifteen years Northeast Asia has witnessed growing intraregional exchanges and interactions, especially in the realms of culture and economy. Still, the region cannot escape from the burden of history. This book examines the formation of historical memory in four Northeast Asian...

Published February 7th 2011 by Routledge

De-Westernizing Communication Research

Altering Questions and Changing Frameworks

Edited by Georgette Wang

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

The rise of postmodern theories and pluralist thinking has paved the way for multicultural approaches to communication studies and now is the time for decentralization, de-Westernization, and differentiation. This trend is reflected in the increasing number of communication journals with a national...

Published December 16th 2010 by Routledge

Soft Power in Japan-China Relations

State, sub-state and non-state relations

By Utpal Vyas

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

Soft power has tended to be overlooked in the field of international relations, often dismissed as lacking relevance or robustness as a theoretical concept. This book seeks to expand upon the idea of ‘soft power’ in international relations and to investigate how it actually functions by looking at...

Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge

Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture

Asia in Flight

By Sheng-mei Ma

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma’s engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century. Using examples...

Published November 16th 2010 by Routledge

Alterities in Asia

Reflections on Identity and Regionalism

Edited by Leong Yew

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

This book investigates the politics of identity in Asia and explores how different groups of people inside and outside Asia have attempted to relate to the alterity of the places and cultures in the region through various modes (literary and filmic representation, scholarly knowledge, and so on)...

Published November 14th 2010 by Routledge

Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces

Edited by Tai-Chee Wong, Jonathan Rigg

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the 1990s following the end of the Cold War which marked the advent of a renewed phase...

Published August 19th 2010 by Routledge

Japan and Africa

Globalization and Foreign Aid in the 21st Century

Edited by Howard P. Lehman

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

Since the early 1990s, Japan has played an increasingly important and influential role in Africa. A primary mechanism that has furthered its influence has been through its foreign aid policies. Japan’s primacy, however, has been challenged by changing global conditions related to aid to Africa,...

Published June 15th 2010 by Routledge

Asia and Latin America

Political, Economic and Multilateral Relations

Edited by Jörn Dosch, Olaf Jacob

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

Until the late 1980s, Japan was the only country in Asia with notable political and economic relations. Since then, however, several Asian nations have perceived growing links with the Latin American region as a means of diversifying their political and particularly economic relations while many...

Published February 17th 2010 by Routledge