Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies
About the Book Series
The Asia Pacific has seen great social, environmental and economic change. The region is now the focus of considerable attention by the academic community. This series brings together the best of the current research from right across the social sciences and humanities.
Japanese Doctors in White Australia: Treating Prejudice
1st Edition
By John Lamb
June 02, 2025
Lamb tells the stories of an unusual collection of men who, by being aliens in a largely unwelcoming country, have been omitted from the historical narrative. More than a dozen of these medical practitioners arrived and contributed to the welfare of Australian communities during the hundred years ...
Shaping Long-Term Care in Emerging Asia: Policy and Country Experiences
1st Edition
Edited
By Vasoontara S. Yiengprugsawan, John Piggott
October 09, 2024
Countries are facing increasing life expectancy and a shrinking family size and in effect, this may escalate demands for medical and supportive services. The role of families in providing informal care will remain important. However, the simultaneous decline in the supply of informal caregiving ...
The Australia-Japan Defence and Security Relationship 1945-2021: Making a Friend of a Former Foe
1st Edition
By Peter McDermott
January 29, 2024
McDermott examines the origins, development and prospects for the Australia and Japan Defence and Security Relationship. In 1945, Japan and Australia were foes; today they are partners in security, defence and military matters, each the other’s most important strategic ally, after the United ...
Forced Displacement and NGOs in Asia and the Pacific
1st Edition
Edited
By Gül İnanç, Themba Lewis
September 25, 2023
This volume presents a comprehensive survey of the dynamics of conflict and climate induced forced displacement and organisational response across Asia and the Pacific. The Asia Pacific region hosts some of the largest numbers of displaced people on the planet, with some of the fewest ...
Race and Migration in the Transpacific
1st Edition
Edited
By Yasuko Takezawa, Akio Tanabe
November 25, 2022
Looking at a range of cases from around the Transpacific, the contributors to this book explore the complex formulations of race and racism emerging from transoceanic migrations and encounters in the region. Asia has a history of ceaseless, active, and multidirectional migration, which continues to...
Asian Worlds in Latin America
1st Edition
By Stefania Paladini
January 12, 2018
There has been increasing Asian interest in Latin America in recent years, beginning with Japanese investment in the 1980s, and continuing into the present decade when there is growing investment by China. This book examines the nature and extent of Asian business and related activity in Latin ...
Arts and Cultural Leadership in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Jo Caust
January 03, 2018
Arts and cultural activity in Asia is increasingly seen as important internationally, and Asia’s growing prosperity is enabling the full range of artistic activities to be better encouraged, supported and managed. At the same time, cultural frameworks and contexts vary hugely across Asia, and it is...
Eurasia's Regional Powers Compared – China, India, Russia
1st Edition
Edited
By Shinichiro Tabata
December 22, 2017
Taking a long view, and a wide perspective, this book by Japan's leading scholars on Asia and Eurasia provides a comprehensive and systematic comparison of the three greatest powers in the region and assesses how far the recent growth trajectories of these countries are sustainable in the long...
Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific: Histories of Responses to Non-Communicable and Communicable Diseases
1st Edition
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By Milton J. Lewis, Kerrie L. MacPherson
May 25, 2017
Chronic diseases—cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes—are not only the principal cause of world-wide mortality but also are now responsible for a striking increase in the percentage of sickness in developing countries still grappling with the acute problems of ...
The Strong and the Weak in Japanese Literature: Discrimination, Egalitarianism, Nationalism
1st Edition
By Fuminobu Murakami
August 28, 2015
This book uses texts from classical to modern Japanese literature to examine concepts of 'respect for the strong', as a notion of an evolutionary society, and 'sympathy for the weak', as a notion of a non-violent and changeless egalitarian society. The term strong refers not just to those ...
Film Censorship in the Asia-Pacific Region: Malaysia, Hong Kong and Australia Compared
1st Edition
By Saw Tiong Guan
July 22, 2015
Film censorship has always been a controversial matter, particularly in jurisdictions with restrictive state-based censorship systems. This book reviews the film censorship system in the Asia-Pacific by comparing the systems used in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Australia. It identifies the key issues ...
Asian and Pacific Cities: Development Patterns
1st Edition
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By Ian Shirley, Carol Neill
February 05, 2015
The cities of Asia and the Pacific are at the epicentre of development in what is arguably, the most populous, culturally distinctive, and economically powerful region in the world. 16 major cities such as Tokyo, Shanghai, Manila, Jakarta, Bangkok, Singapore, Auckland, Kuala Lumpur and Santiago, ...