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.
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 ...
The Battle for Asia: From Decolonization to Globalization
1st Edition
By Mark T. Berger
December 18, 2003
Asia has long been an ideological battleground between capitalism and communism, between nationalism and Westernisation and between the nation-state and globalization. This book is a history of the Asian region from 1945 to the present day which delineates the various ideological battles over ...
Ethnicity in Asia
1st Edition
By Colin Mackerras
October 21, 2003
This book is designed as a comprehensive comparative introduction to ethnicity in East and Southeast Asia since 1945. Each chapter covers a particular country looking at such core issues as:· the ethnic minorities or groups in the country of concern, how many ethnic groups, population, language and...
The Resurgence of East Asia: 500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Giovanni Arrighi, Takeshi Hamashita, Mark Selden
July 29, 2003
The East Asian expansion since the 1960s stands out as a global power shift with few historical precedents. The Resurgence of East Asia examines the rise of the region as one of the world's economic power centres from three temporal perspectives: 500 years, 150 years and 50 years, each denoting an ...
Remaking the Chinese State: Strategies, Society, and Security
1st Edition
Edited
By Chao Chien-min, Bruce Dickson
October 12, 2001
After more than twenty years of economic and political reform, China is a vastly different country to that left by Mao. Almost all the characteristic policies and practices of the Maoist era have been abandoned, with the goals of revolution in foreign and domestic policy being replaced by an ...
Mao's Children in the New China: Voices From the Red Guard Generation
1st Edition
By Yarong Jiang, David Ashley
August 08, 2000
Around 18 million young Chinese people were sent to the countryside between 1966 and 1976 as part of the Cultural Revolution. Mao's Children in the New China allows some of them to tell their moving stories in their own voices for the first time. In this inspiring collection of interviews with ...
Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade 1750-1950
1st Edition
By Carl Trocki
October 20, 1999
Drug epidemics are clearly not just a peculiar feature of modern life; the opium trade in the nineteenth century tells us a great deal about Asian herion traffic today. In an age when we are increasingly aware of large scale drug use, this book takes a long look at the history of our relationship ...