Asia's Transformations
About the Book Series
The books in this series explore the political, social, economic and cultural consequences of Asia's twenty-first century transformations. The series emphasizes the tumultuous interplay of local, national, regional and global forces as Asia bids to become the hub of the world economy. While focusing on the contemporary, it also looks back to analyze the antecedents of Asia's contested rise. Asia's Transformations aims to address the needs of students and teachers.
Literature After Fukushima: From Marginalized Voices to Nuclear Futurity
1st Edition
Edited
By Linda Flores, Barbara Geilhorn
October 07, 2024
Literature after Fukushima examines how aesthetic representation contributes to a critical understanding of the 3.11 triple disaster – the Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami, and multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Through an examination of key works in the expanding...
Chinese Politics: The Xi Jinping Difference
2nd Edition
Edited
By Daniel Lynch, Stanley Rosen
April 18, 2024
Written by a team of leading China specialists, this updated 2nd edition of Chinese Politics explores the dynamics of state power and politics in contemporary China, focusing on the Xi Jinping era. Through its multi-disciplinary contributions, this book explores the extent to which Xi has reshaped ...
The Making of Modern Korea
4th Edition
By Adrian Buzo
November 30, 2022
This fully updated fourth edition of The Making of Modern Korea provides a thorough, balanced, and engaging history of Korea from 1876 to the present day. The text is unique in analysing domestic developments in the two Koreas in the wider context of regional and international affairs. Key ...
Popular Culture and the Transformation of Japan–Korea Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Rumi Sakamoto, Stephen Epstein
May 06, 2022
This book presents essays exploring the ways in which popular culture reflects and engenders ongoing changes in Japan–Korea relations. Through a broad temporal coverage from the colonial period to the contemporary, the book’s chapters analyse the often contradictory roles that popular culture has ...
The Politics of Protection Rackets in Post-New Order Indonesia: Coercive Capital, Authority and Street Politics
1st Edition
By Ian Douglas Wilson
June 16, 2017
Gangs and militias have been a persistent feature of social and political life in Indonesia. During the authoritarian New Order regime they constituted part of a vast network of sub-contracted coercion and social control on behalf of the state. Indonesia’s subsequent democratisation has seen gangs ...
Coal-Mining Women in Japan: Heavy Burdens
1st Edition
By W. Donald Burton
May 25, 2017
In the years Bbetween the Meiji Restoration in 1868 and the beginning of the war mobilization boom in 1930, collieries in Europe and America embraced new technologies and had long since been excluded women from working underground. In Japan, however, mining women witnessed no significant changes in...
The San Francisco System and Its Legacies: Continuation, Transformation and Historical Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific
1st Edition
Edited
By Kimie Hara
May 25, 2017
In September 1951, Japan signed a peace treaty with forty-eight countries in San Francisco; in April 1952, the treaty came into effect. The San Francisco Peace Treaty is an international agreement that in significant ways shaped the post–World War II international order in the Asia-Pacific. With ...
Remaking China's Great Cities: Space and Culture in Urban Housing, Renewal, and Expansion
1st Edition
By Samuel Y. Liang
May 24, 2017
China’s rapid urbanization has restructured the great socialist cities Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou into mega cities that embrace global capitalism. This book focuses on the urban transformations of these three cities: Beijing is the nation’s political and cultural capital; Shanghai is the ...
The Market and Temple Fairs of Rural China: Red Fire
1st Edition
By Gene Cooper
May 24, 2017
During the early communist period of the 1950s, temple fairs in China were both suppressed and secularized. Temples were closed down by the secular regime and their activities classified as feudal superstition and this process only intensified during the Cultural Revolution when even the surviving ...
Vietnam’s Socialist Servants: Domesticity, Class, Gender, and Identity
1st Edition
By Minh T. N. Nguyen
May 24, 2017
Since Vietnam introduced economic reforms in the mid-1980s, domestic service has become an established sector of the labour market, and domestic workers have become indispensable to urban life in the rapidly changing country. This book analyzes the ways in which the practices and discourses of ...
Japan’s Outcaste Abolition: The Struggle for National Inclusion and the Making of the Modern State
1st Edition
By Noah Y. McCormack
December 20, 2016
The Tokugawa Shogunate, which governed Japan for two and a half centuries until the mid-1860s, classed people into hierarchically ranked status groups (mibun). The early Tokugawa rulers legally established these status groups through the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries, adapting and ...
The Political Economy of Affect and Emotion in East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Jie Yang
December 20, 2016
When thinking about the culture and economy of East Asia, many attribute to the region a range of dispositions, including a preference for consensus and social harmony, loyalty and respect towards superiors and government, family values, collectivism, and communitarianism. Affect is central to ...