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.
Transnational Trajectories in East Asia: Nation, Citizenship, and Region
1st Edition
Edited
By Yasemin Nuhoḡlu Soysal
March 03, 2016
In recent decades, East Asia has become increasingly interconnected through trade, investment, migration, and popular culture at regional and global levels. At the same time, the region has seen renewed national assertiveness and nationalist impulses. The book interrogates these seemingly ...
China: How the Empire Fell
1st Edition
Edited
By Joseph Esherick, C.X. George Wei
July 31, 2015
The Qing dynasty was China’s last, and it created an empire of unprecedented size and prosperity. However in 1911 the empire collapsed within a few short months, and China embarked on a revolutionary course that lasted through most of the twentieth century. The 1911 Revolution ended two millennia ...
East Asia Beyond the History Wars: Confronting the Ghosts of Violence
1st Edition
By Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Morris Low, Leonid Petrov, Timothy Y. Tsu
February 27, 2015
East Asia is now the world’s economic powerhouse, but ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region, particularly between Japan, China and the two Koreas. Unhappy legacies of Japan’s military expansion in pre-war Asia prompt on-going calls for apologies, ...
State and Society in Modern Rangoon
1st Edition
By Donald M. Seekins
February 27, 2015
While most of Asia’s major cities are increasingly homogenized by rapid economic growth and cultural globalization, Rangoon, which is Burma’s former capital and largest city, still bears the imprint of a unique and often turbulent history. It is the site of the Shwedagon Pagoda, a focus of Buddhist...
State, Society and the Market in Contemporary Vietnam: Property, Power and Values
1st Edition
Edited
By Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Mark Sidel
February 27, 2015
Lively debates around property, access to resources, legal rights, and the protection of livelihoods have unfolded in Vietnam since the economic reforms of 1986. Known as Doi Moi (changing to the new), these have gradually transformed the country from a socialist state to a society in which a ...
The Role of American NGOs in China's Modernization: Invited Influence
1st Edition
By Norton Wheeler
March 13, 2014
In the waning years of the Cold War, the United States and China began to cautiously engage in cultural, educational, and policy exchanges, which in turn strengthened new security and economic ties. These links have helped shape the most important bilateral relationship in the late-twentieth and ...
Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism: Spectacle, Politics and History
1st Edition
By Hong Kal
May 03, 2013
While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach. It looks at expositions, museums and the urban built environment at particular moments in both colonial and postcolonial eras and analyses their discursive...
Mapping Modernity in Shanghai: Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourners' City, 1853-98
1st Edition
By Samuel Y. Liang
April 30, 2012
This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city’s colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of self-contained households, towns, and natural landscapes in a continuous spread, producing a new ...
Minorities and Education in Multicultural Japan: An Interactive Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Ryoko Tsuneyoshi, Kaori H. Okano, Sarane Boocock
October 11, 2011
This volume examines how Japan’s increasingly multicultural population has impacted on the lives of minority children and their peers at school, and how schools are responding to this trend in terms of providing minority children with opportunities and preparing them for the adult society. The ...
Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities: Comparative Inquiries in Science, History, and Ethics
1st Edition
Edited
By Jing Bao Nie, Nanyan Guo, Mark Selden, Arthur Kleinman
May 19, 2011
Prior to and during the Second World War, the Japanese Army established programs of biological warfare throughout China and elsewhere. In these “factories of death,” including the now-infamous Unit 731, Japanese doctors and scientists conducted large numbers of vivisections and experiments on ...
Girl Reading Girl in Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Tomoko Aoyama, Barbara Hartley
March 17, 2011
Girl Reading Girl provides the first overview of the cultural significance of girls and reading in modern and contemporary Japan with emphasis on the processes involved when girls read about other girls. The collection examines the reading practices of real life girls from differing social ...
Learning Chinese, Turning Chinese: Challenges to Becoming Sinophone in a Globalised World
1st Edition
By Edward McDonald
March 17, 2011
In this book Edward McDonald takes a fresh look at issues of language in Chinese studies. He takes the viewpoint of the university student of Chinese with the ultimate goal of becoming 'sinophone': that is, developing a fluency and facility at operating in Chinese-language contexts comparable to ...