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.
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 ...
Re-writing Culture in Taiwan
1st Edition
Edited
By Fang-Long Shih, Stuart Thompson, Paul Tremlett
February 04, 2011
This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting on the current state of ‘Taiwan Studies’, and for thinking about how Taiwan might be re-configured in the future. As the study of Taiwan...
Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance
3rd Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth J. Perry, Mark Selden
April 14, 2010
This bestselling introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. An interdisciplinary and international team of China scholars draw on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and political ...
Reclaiming Chinese Society: The New Social Activism
1st Edition
Edited
By You-tien Hsing, Ching Kwan Lee
October 29, 2009
Reclaiming Chinese Society analyses the mechanisms, processes and actors producing a wide spectrum of social and cultural changes in reform China. Contrary to most literature that emphasizes economic and political processes at the expense of Chinese society, this volume argues for the centrality of...
Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History: Colonialism, Regionalism and Borders
1st Edition
Edited
By Sven Saaler, J. Victor Koschmann
February 23, 2007
Regionalism has played an increasingly important role in the changing international relations of East Asia in recent decades, with early signs of integration and growing regional cooperation. This in-depth volume analyzes various historical approaches to the construction of a regional order and a ...
Singapore: The State and the Culture of Excess
1st Edition
By Souchou Yao
December 26, 2006
Taking ideas and frameworks from philosophy, psychology, political science, cultural studies and anthropology, this book tells the larger ‘truth’ about the Singapore state. This book argues that this strong hegemonic state achieves effective rule not just from repressive policies but also through a...
Korean Society: Civil Society, Democracy and the State
2nd Edition
Edited
By Charles K. Armstrong
December 04, 2006
While most analyses of Korean politics have looked to elites to explain political change, this new and revised edition of Korean Society examines the role of ordinary people in this dramatic transformation. Taking the innovative theme of 'civil society' - voluntary organizations outside the role of...