Global Asia
About the Book Series
Asia has a long history of transnational linkages with other parts of the world. Yet the contribution of Asian knowledge, values, and practices in the making of the modern world has largely been overlooked until recent years. The rise of Asia is often viewed as a challenge to the existing world order. Such a bifurcated view overlooks the fact that the global order has been shaped by Asian experiences as much as the global formation has shaped Asia. The Global Asia Series takes this understanding as the point of departure. It addresses contemporary issues related to transnational interactions within the Asian region, as well as Asia’s projection into the world through the movement of goods, people, ideas, knowledge, ideologies, and so forth. The series aims to publish timely and well-researched books that will have the cumulative effect of developing new perspectives and theories about global Asia.
Pacific Strife: The Great Powers and their Political and Economic Rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific, 1870-1914
1st Edition
By Kees van Dijk
January 10, 2026
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, colonial powers clashed over much of Central and East Asia: Great Britain and Germany fought over New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, Fiji, and Samoa; France and Great Britain competed over control of continental Southwest Asia; and the United States annexed the...
Migration and Integration in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Australia: A Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Juliet Pietsch, Marshall Clark
January 09, 2026
This volume brings together a group of scholars from a wide range of disciplines to address crucial questions of migration flows and integration in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Australia. Comparative analysis of the three regions and their differing approaches and outcomes yields important insights ...
Music Worlding in Palau: Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness
1st Edition
By Birgit Abels
January 09, 2026
Music Worlding in Palau: Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness is a detailed study of the performing arts in Palau, Micronesia as holistic techniques enabling the experiential corporeality of music’s meaningfulness – that distinctly musical way of making sense of the world with which the felt ...
Religious Sounds Beyond the Global North: Senses, Media and Power
1st Edition
Edited
By Carola Lorea, Rosalind Hackett
January 09, 2026
What makes sounds religious? How are communities shaped by the things they hear, play, or listen to? This book foregrounds connections between sounds, bodies, and media in the private and public life of communities beyond the Global North, analyzing diverse configurations of the category of sound ...
African-Asian Encounters: New Cooperations and New Dependencies
1st Edition
Edited
By Arndt Graf, Azirah Azirah Hashim
December 01, 2025
In recent decades, ties between Africa and Asia have greatly increased. And while most of the scholarly attention to the phenomenon has focused on China, often with an emphasis on asymmetric power relations in both politics and economics, this book takes a much broader view, looking at various ...
Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia: Magic and Modernity
1st Edition
By Volker Gottowik
December 01, 2025
Modernity is surrounded by an almost magic aura that casts a spell over people all over the world. To connect with modernity, various ways and means are used, among them magic practices and religious ideas. Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia: Magic and Modernity deals with the magic in and of ...
From Padi States to Commercial States: Reflections on Identity and the Social Construction Space in the Borderlands of Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar
1st Edition
By Frédéric Bourdier, Maxime Boutry, Jacques Ivanoff, Olivier Ferrari
December 01, 2025
Zomia is a term coined in 2002 to describe the broad swath of mountainous land in Southeast Asia that has always been beyond the reach of lowland governments despite their technical claims to control. This book expands the anthropological reach of that term, applying it to any deterritorialised ...
Globalizing Asian Religions: Management and Marketing
1st Edition
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By Wendy Smith, Hirochika Nakamaki, Louella Matsunaga, Tamasin Ramsay
December 01, 2025
This book brings together the insights of theories of management and marketing to give an original view of the organizational dynamics of globalizing Asian New Religious Movements (NRMs) and established religions. Seventeen authors in this collection have recast their data on individual Asian ...
Narrating Democracy in Myanmar: The Struggle Between Activists, Democratic Leaders and Aid Workers
1st Edition
By Tamas Wells
December 01, 2025
This book analyses what Myanmar’s struggle for democracy has signified to Burmese activists and democratic leaders, and to their international allies. In doing so, it explores how understanding contested meanings of democracy helps make sense of the country’s tortuous path since Aung San Suu Kyi’s ...
Shadow Exchanges along the New Silk Roads
1st Edition
Edited
By Eva P. W. Hung, Tak-Wing Ngo
December 01, 2025
Long before China promulgated the official One Belt One Road initiatives, vast networks of cross-border exchanges already existed across Asia and Eurasia. The dynamics of such trade and resource flows have largely been outside state control, and are pushed to the realm of the shadow economy. The ...
The Early 20th Century Resurgence of the Tibetan Buddhist World: Studies in Central Asian Buddhism
1st Edition
Edited
By Ishihama Yumiko, Alex McKay
December 01, 2025
The Early 20th Century Resurgence of the Tibetan Buddhist World is a cohesive collection of studies by Japanese, Russian and Central Asian scholars deploying previously unexplored Russian, Mongolian, and Tibetan sources concerning events and processes in the Central Asian Buddhist world in the late...
Trading Caterpillar Fungus in Tibet: When Economic Boom Hits Rural Area
1st Edition
By Emilia Roza Sulek
December 01, 2025
When the demand for, and prices of caterpillar fungus (Ophiocordyceps sinensis, 'the Himalayan Viagra', long a part of traditional Chinese medicine) soared, the pastoralists of Golok on the Tibetan plateau where the fungus is endemic dug up, dried and sold the fungus to traders. In the process, ...