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.
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 ...
Hong Kong's History: State and Society Under Colonial Rule
1st Edition
Edited
By Tak-Wing Ngo
October 05, 1999
Rewriting Hong Kong's history from the bottom up, the chapters investigate vital, but hitherto obscured, aspects of the colony's rise. They cover the Chinese collaboration with the colonial regime, legal discrimination and intimidation, rural politics, social movements, government-business ...
Debating Human Rights: Critical Essays from the United States and Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Van Ness
January 06, 1999
Human rights debates can provoke strong reactions, particularly among people of different cultural backgrounds. The debate over Asian values and the use of human rights diplomacy are the most obvious manifestations of divisions between Asia and the West and reflect particular world views and ...