Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of contemporary Asia.
Population Aging in Societal Context: Evidence from Nepal
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Tausig, Janardan Subedi, Saruna Ghimire
July 31, 2025
This book offers an explanatory schema for comprehending aging in a societal context, focusing on the country of Nepal. Contributions to this book use an institutional contextual approach and a life course perspective to document and assess societal responses to the increase in the number of older ...
Hooch and Hard Liquor in East Asia: A Political Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Chambers, Nithi Nuangjamnong
March 18, 2025
Liquor has become a “party” in East Asia – a beverage phenomenon popular among countries throughout the region. But, in fact, each country of East Asia has experienced a different evolution of spirits. Indeed, there is a liquor idiosyncrasy to each country of East Asia. Moreover, hooch is the ...
Taiwan in Net-Zero Transition: An East Asian Perspective on Developmental Environmentalism
1st Edition
By Kuei Tien Chou
March 04, 2025
Chou explores the structural dilemmas, mindsets, challenges, and solutions of the net-zero transition in Taiwan. Using Taiwan as a representative example of the structural challenges faced by East Asian countries in achieving the global net-zero carbon emission goal, the book examines the ...
Asia’s Heritage Trend: Examining Asia’s Present through Its Past
1st Edition
Edited
By Jongil Kim, Minjae Zoh
December 18, 2024
Kim and Zoh bring together a team of contributors to analyse the role of heritage studies across Asia, and its impact on Asia and its constituent countries. Is there such a thing as ‘Asian heritage’? Is it more helpful to understand Asia as a single unit, or as a set of sub- regions? What can we ...
Knowledge Production and Epistemic Decolonization at the End of Pax Americana
1st Edition
Edited
By Naoki Sakai, Jon Solomon, Peter Button
November 28, 2024
This book critically analyzes the global hegemony of the United States – a hegemony whose innovative aspect consists in articulating postcoloniality to imperial control – in relation to knowledge and knowledge production. Through targeted case studies on the historical relationship between regional...
Immigrants as ‘New’ Precariats in the Korean Immigration Policy Regime: Navigating Identity, Rights, and Governance
1st Edition
By Sook-Yeon Won
November 22, 2024
Won explores the untold story of immigration in South Korea through a new precariat lens. Unlike traditional narratives, this book sheds light on the complexities of Korea's evolving immigration landscape, offering readers a fresh, multidimensional perspective. While its primary focus is on ...
Popular Culture in Hong Kong After the National Security Law, 2020–2022
1st Edition
By Janet Ng
November 11, 2024
In this study, Ng examines the aftermath of the massive protests in 2019 and the implementation of the National Security Law in Hong Kong. Despite 2 years of fluctuating COVID measures and social constraints, the city witnessed an unparalleled cultural resurgence after the enactment of the National...
Indian Traces in Korean Culture: The Legend and Beyond
1st Edition
By Renata Czekalska
October 24, 2024
Indian traces in Korean Culture examines the enduring cross-cultural discourse between India and Korea over the centuries, emphasizing the transformative power of cultural exchange beyond geographical and temporal constraints. The book analyses how symbols transcend sensory realms and embody ...
The East Asian Model: Transformation and Sustainability
1st Edition
By Hyungkee Kim
August 26, 2024
Hyungkee Kim analyses the model of East Asian development as it existed during periods of high growth and how it was transformed by pressures from both the Washington consensus and its own internal contradictions. Many have discussed the successes and failures of the East Asian model, but Kim is ...
Varieties of Civil Society Across Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Akihiro Ogawa, Anthony Spires
August 02, 2024
This book explores civil societies with distinct characteristics in Asian countries and regions to redefine the dynamic and interconnected formation that is Asia. This book documents how Asian civil society organizations, which have traditionally been observed to imitate or borrow the ...
Creationism in a South Korean Culture: Science, Religion, and the Struggle against Evolution
1st Edition
By Hyung Wook Park
June 25, 2024
Park investigates the unexpected success of early Korean creationists, who were mostly scientists, and argues that creationism is not a product of the lack of intelligence or proper scientific education but a consequence of more profound social developments in the twentieth and twenty-first ...
Asianization of Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Chang Kyung-Sup, Kim Taekyoon, Lee Joonkoo
June 21, 2024
This book explores the Asianization of contemporary Asia, a trend that through neoliberal economic globalism has diluted the political effect of the EuroAmerican-dictated segmentation of Asia and instead facilitated and accelerated socioeconomic exchanges and collaborations among Asian nations ...