Asian Research

The Education of Migrant Children and China's Future

Urban Left Behind

By Holly H. Ming

Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

There are more than 225 million migrant workers and some 20 million migrant children in Chinese cities, and the numbers are increasing with China’s continuing urbanization. This book investigates the post-middle school education and labor market decisions of migrant students in Beijing and Shanghai...

To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge

Popular Culture and the State in East and Southeast Asia

Edited by Nissim Otmazgin, Eyal Ben-Ari

Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

This volume examines the relations between popular culture production and export and the state in East and Southeast Asia including the urban centres and middle-classes of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Thailand, and the Philippines. It addresses the shift in...

Published October 13th 2011 by Routledge

Overseas Chinese, Ethnic Minorities and Nationalism

De-Centering China

By Elena Barabantseva

Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

Elena Barabantseva looks at the close relationship between state-led nationalism and modernisation, with specific reference to discourses on the overseas Chinese and minority nationalities. The interplay between modernisation programmes and nationalist discourses has shaped China’s national project...

Published August 24th 2010 by Routledge

China on Video

Smaller-Screen Realities

By Paola Voci

Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

China On Video is the first in-depth study that examines smaller-screen realities and the important role they play not only in the fast-changing Chinese mediascape, but also more broadly in the practice of experimental and non-mainstream cinema. At the crossroads of several disciplines—film, media,...

Published May 18th 2010 by Routledge

Reconciling Indonesia

Grassroots agency for peace

Edited by Birgit Bräuchler

Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

Indonesia has been torn by massive internal conflicts over the last decade. The absence of functioning national tools of reconciliation and the often limited success of an internationally established ‘reconciliation toolkit’ of truth commissions and law enforcement, justice and human rights,...

Published August 12th 2009 by Routledge

The World Bank and the post-Washington Consensus in Vietnam and Indonesia

Inheritance of Loss

By Susan Engel

Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

This book explores the history, structure and current operations of the World Bank, which despite being the largest development organisation and the largest development research body in the world with tremendous direct and indirect influence on developing economies, has rarely received the critical...

Published August 10th 2009 by Routledge

Pirate Modernity

Delhi's Media Urbanism

By Ravi Sundaram

Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

Using Delhi’s contemporary history as a site for reflection, Pirate Modernity moves from a detailed discussion of the technocratic design of the city by US planners in the 1950s, to the massive expansions after 1977, culminating in the urban crisis of the 1990s. As a practice, pirate modernity is...

Published July 29th 2009 by Routledge

Singapore in the Malay World

Building and Breaching Regional Bridges

By Lily Zubaidah Rahim

Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

Relations between Singapore and her immediate Malay neighbours have been perennially fraught with tension and misunderstanding. In making sense of this complex relationship, Lily Rahim explores the salience of historical animosities and competitive economic pressures, and Singapore’s janus-faced...

Published May 17th 2009 by Routledge

Northern Territories, Asia-Pacific Regional Conflicts and the Aland Experience

Untying the Kurillian Knot

Edited by Kimie Hara, Geoffrey Jukes

Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

This volume is the fruit of an international collaborative study, which considers the Åland islands settlement in northern Europe as a resolution model for the major Asia-Pacific regional conflicts that derived from the post-World War II disposition of Japan, with particular focus on the...

Published May 5th 2009 by Routledge

Maid In China

Media, Morality, and the Cultural Politics of Boundaries

By Wanning Sun

Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

Maid in China is the first systematic, book-length investigation of internal rural migration in post-Mao China focused on the day-to-day production and consumption of popular media. Taking the rural maid in the urban home as its point of departure, the book weaves together three years of engaged...

Published December 17th 2008 by Routledge

Writing Okinawa

Narrative acts of identity and resistance

By Davinder L. Bhowmik

Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

Writing Okinawa is the first comprehensive study in English of Okinawan fiction, from it’s emergence in the early twentieth-century through its most recent permutations. It provides readings of major authors and texts set against a carefully researched presentation of the region’s political and...

Published May 15th 2008 by Routledge

Transcultural Japan

At the Borderlands of Race, Gender and Identity

Edited by David Blake Willis, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

Transcultural Japan provides a critical examination of being Other in Japan. Portraying the multiple intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and gender, the book suggests ways in which the transcultural borderlands of Japan reflect globalization in this island nation. The authors show the...

Published November 25th 2007 by Routledge

Post-Conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism

Tourism, Politics and Development at Angkor

By Tim Winter

Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

Angkor, Cambodia’s only World Heritage Site, is enduring one of the most crucial, turbulent periods in its twelve hundred year history. Given Cambodia’s need to restore its shattered social and physical infrastructures after decades of violent conflict, and with tourism to Angkor increasing by a...

Published November 7th 2007 by Routledge

Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos

By Boike Rehbein

Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

Incorporating original fieldwork carried out over a period of more than ten years, combined with innovative theoretical argument, Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos presents one of the first sociological investigations into modern Laos. Boike Rehbein gives a fascinating overview of...

Published August 7th 2007 by Routledge

Education and Reform in China

Edited by Emily Hannum, Albert Park

Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

Transformative market reforms in China since the late 1970s have improved living standards dramatically, but have also led to unprecedented economic inequality. During this period, China’s educational system was restructured to support economic development, with educational reforms occurring at a...

Published June 13th 2007 by Routledge

Democracy in Occupied Japan

The U.S. Occupation and Japanese Politics and Society

Edited by Mark E. Caprio, Yoneyuki Sugita

Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

With expert contributions from both the US and Japan, this book examines the legacies of the US Occupation on Japanese politics and society, and discusses the long-term impact of the Occupation on contemporary Japan. Focusing on two central themes – democracy and the interplay of US-initiated...

Published February 1st 2007 by Routledge