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 ...
Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki: Prayers, Protests and Catholic Survivor Narratives
1st Edition
By Gwyn McClelland
April 01, 2021
On 9th August 1945, the US dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Of the dead, approximately 8500 were Catholic Christians, representing over sixty percent of the community. In this collective biography, nine Catholic survivors share personal and compelling stories about the aftermath of the ...
Japan's Future and a New Meiji Transformation: International Reflections
1st Edition
Edited
By Ken Coates, Kimie Hara, Carin Holroyd, Marie Söderberg
December 18, 2020
Bringing together the work of sixteen international Japan specialists and scholars, this book analyzes Japan’s culture and history to reflect on the critical policy decisions and national commitments required for the country to continue to succeed. Comparing the current situation with the ...
National Identity, Language and Education in Malaysia: Search for a Middle Ground between Malay Hegemony and Equality
1st Edition
By Noriyuki Segawa
December 18, 2020
This book explores the ways in which language and education policies have contributed to the development of national integration in Malaysia, by examining whether and how policies have succeeded in forming a middle ground.Considered through the lenses of policy-making structure and achievement, ...
Denying the Comfort Women: The Japanese State's Assault on Historical Truth
1st Edition
Edited
By Rumiko Nishino, Puja Kim, Akane Onozawa
May 21, 2019
Planned, instituted and run by the Japanese Imperial Military during the Asia-Pacific War, the ‘comfort women’ system remains hugely controversial. Although political leaders often contest the role of coercion, many argue that the ‘comfort women’ were mobilized forcibly, through processes of ...
Danger, Development and Legitimacy in East Asian Maritime Politics: Securing the Seas, Securing the State
1st Edition
By Christian Wirth
March 20, 2019
Grounded in extensive empirical research, Danger, Development and Legitimacy in East Asian Maritime Politics addresses the major issues of geopolitics in the region that have been and will continue to shape the international politics of the Asia-Pacific for years to come. Covering the nation-states...
The Changing Face of Korean Cinema: 1960 to 2015
1st Edition
By Brian Yecies, Aegyung Shim
June 28, 2018
The rapid development of Korean cinema during the decades of the 1960s and 2000s reveals a dynamic cinematic history which runs parallel to the nation’s political, social, economic and cultural transformation during these formative periods. This book examines the ways in which South Korean cinema ...
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...