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Editorial Inquiries

  1. Dorothea Schaefter
    Senior Editor, Central, South and Southeast Asia

  2. Stephanie Rogers
    Publisher, East Asia

  3. Peter Sowden
    Editor, Asia

Other Inquiries

Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics and History

  1. Taiwanese Business or Chinese Security Asset

    A changing pattern of interaction between Taiwanese businesses and Chinese governments

    By Chun-Yi Lee

    Series: Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics, History and Media

    This book investigates how China has used Taiwanese investment and treated Taiwanese investors to pursue political reunification. The book’s main supposition is that both Chinese central and local governments have strategic considerations with respect to Taiwanese businesses. Consequently, through...

    Published October 19th 2011 by Routledge

  2. The Politics of Culture

    Around the Work of Naoki Sakai

    Edited by Richard Calichman, John Namjun Kim

    Series: Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics, History and Media

    Naoki Sakai is an important and prominent thinker in Asian and cultural studies and his work continues to make itself felt across a broad range of both national and disciplinary borders. Originally finding a home in the otherwise circumscribed field of Japan Studies, Sakai’s writings have succeeded...

    Published August 10th 2010 by Routledge

  3. China and Japan in the Late Meiji Period

    China Policy and the Japanese Discourse on National Identity, 1895-1904

    By Urs Matthias Zachmann

    Series: Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics, History and Media

    The first war between China and Japan in 1894/95 was one of the most fateful events, not only in modern Japanese and Chinese history, but in international history as well. The war and subsequent events catapulted Japan on its trajectory toward temporary hegemony in East Asia, whereas China entered...

    Published April 16th 2009 by Routledge

  4. Ideology and Christianity in Japan

    By Kiri Paramore

    Series: Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics, History and Media

    Ideology and Christianity in Japan shows the major role played by Christian-related discourse in the formation of early-modern and modern Japanese political ideology. The book traces a history development of anti-Christian ideas in Japan from the banning of Christianity by the Tokugawa shogunate...

    Published November 20th 2008 by Routledge

  5. Re-Politicising the Kyoto School as Philosophy

    Edited by Christopher Goto-Jones

    Series: Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics, History and Media

    In Re-Politicising the Kyoto School as Philosophy Christopher Goto-Jones contends that existing approaches to the controversial Kyoto School fail to take it seriously as a school of philosophy, instead focussing on historical debates about the alleged complicity of the School’s members with the...

    Published September 25th 2007 by Routledge

  6. The Left in the Shaping of Japanese Democracy

    Essays in Honour of J.A.A. Stockwin

    Edited by David Williams, Rikki Kersten

    Series: Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics, History and Media

    Leftist thought and activism stands as a defining force in the articulation of political culture and policy in modern Japan. Operating from the periphery of formal political power for the most part, the Japanese Left has had an impact that extends far beyond its limited success at the ballot box....

    Published December 18th 2005 by Routledge