Asian Studies (General) Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Popular Culture in Taiwan

   Charismatic Modernity

   Edited by Marc Moskowitz

   Series: Routledge Research on Taiwan Series

   The growing field of popular culture studies in Taiwan can be divided into two distinct academic trends; a different analytical framework is used to examine either locally oriented popular culture or transnational pop culture. This volume combine these two academic trends, firstly by revealing that...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Reshaping the Asia Pacific Economic Order

   Edited by Christopher Findlay, Hadi Soesastro

   Series: PAFTAD (Pacific Trade and Development Conference Series)

   Relationships and alignments among the nations of the world’s most populous and productive region, the Asia Pacific, are in flux. Current global political, economic and security uncertainty, heightened by 9/11 and the subsequent War on Terror, has fuelled a reassessment by many Asia Pacific nations...

   Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
3. Symbols in Art and Religion

   The Indian and the Comparative Perspectives

   By Karel Werner

   A thorough survey of great interest and value to scholars in this field....

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
4. Women’s History and Local Community in Postwar Japan

   By Curtis Anderson Gayle

   Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

   This timely look at a neglected corner of Japanese historiography spotlights the decade following the end of World War II, a time in which Japanese society was undergoing the transformation from imperial state to democratic nation. For certain working and middle-class women involved in...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
5. Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia

   Edited by Vivienne Bath, Luke Nottage

   Series: Routledge Research in International Economic Law

   This book considers foreign investment flows in major Asian economies. It critically assesses the patterns and issues involved in the substantive law and policy environment which impact on investment flows, as well as the related dispute resolution law and practice. The book combines insights from...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
6. Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region

   Towards Institution Building

   Edited by Hitoshi Nasu, Ben Saul

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   The Asia-Pacific is known for having the least developed regional mechanisms for protecting human rights. This edited collection makes a timely and distinctive contribution to contemporary debates about building institutions for human rights protection in the Asia-Pacific region, in the wake of...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
7. Miraculous Growth and Stagnation in Post-War Japan

   Edited by Koichi Hamada, Keijiro Otsuka, Gustav Ranis, Ken Togo

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   This volume examines different aspects of the Japanese experience in a comparative context. There is much here of relevance to contemporary developing countries anxious to initiate the experience of miraculous growth and anxious to avoid the subsequent stagnation. Such issues of the role of...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
8. Foreign Direct Investment in China

   Spillover Effects on Domestic Enterprises

   By Ziliang Deng

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   This book provides an insightful exploration of whether foreign direct investment (FDI) can promote the productivity of domestic enterprises. The book is based on a series of dedicated research conducted in the context of the Chinese economy, which has been the largest FDI host among the developing...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
9. Pension Systems and Old-Age Income Support in East and Southeast Asia

   Overview and Reform Directions

   Edited by Donghyun Park

   Old age income support will be one of the biggest social and economic challenges facing Asia in the twenty-first century. The growing spotlight on old age income support is largely due to exceptionally rapid population aging which is fundamentally reshaping Asia’s demographic profile. A young...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
10. Exchange Rates and Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Asia

    Selected Issues and Policy Options

    By Ramkishen Rajan

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    With the rapid growth of China and India and the resurgence of Southeast Asia post-1997–8, emerging Asia has once again become one of the most dynamic regions in the world. This dynamism has in turn been fuelled largely by a carefully calibrated embracement of economic openness to international...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge