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.
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...
Working in China: Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Ching Kwan Lee
October 16, 2006
After a quarter of a century of market reform, China has become the workshop of the world and the leading growth engine of the global economy. Its immense labour force accounts for some twenty-nine per cent of the world's total labour pool but all too little is known about Chinese labour ...
The Future of US-Korean Relations: The Imbalance of Power
1st Edition
Edited
By John Feffer
June 13, 2006
US relations with North and South Korea have been characterized by profound asymmetries of power and perception which in recent years have led to increased tensions among the three countries. Bringing together twelve prominent experts on US-Korean and US-Pacific relations, this book explores the ...
China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949
1st Edition
By Peter Zarrow
December 01, 2005
Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text presents a nation's story of trauma and growth during the early twentieth century. It explains how China's defeat by Japan in 1895 prompted an explosion of radical reform proposals and the beginning ...
Confronting the Bush Doctrine: Critical Views from the Asia-Pacific
1st Edition
Edited
By Melvin Gurtov, Peter Van Ness
October 29, 2004
There is no doubt that President George W. Bush and his administration have transformed US foreign policy and reshaped global international relations in a very profound way. Many American commentators continue to talk about 9/11 as the day the world changed, but increasingly analysts around the ...
Japan's Quiet Transformation: Social Change and Civil Society in 21st Century Japan
1st Edition
By Jeff Kingston
October 28, 2004
The 1990s have been termed as 'Japan's lost decade' to describe how the phenomenal growth in the Japanese economy ground to a halt and the country was crippled by enormous and ongoing political, economic and social problems. In responding to these unprecedented difficulties, wide-ranging reforms ...
State and Society in 21st Century China: Crisis, Contention and Legitimation
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Hays Gries, Stanley Rosen
August 24, 2004
Written by a team of leading China scholars, this book explores the dynamics of state power and legitimation in twenty-first century China, and the implications of changing state-society relations for the future viability of the People's Republic. Key subjects covered include: the legitimacy ...