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.
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 ...
Asian Sound Cultures: Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology
1st Edition
Edited
By Iris Haukamp, Christin Hoene, Martyn Smith
May 27, 2024
This book examines the meanings, uses, and agency of voice, noise, sound, and sound technologies across Asia. Including a series of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary case studies, the book reveals sound as central to the experience of modernity in Asia and as essential to the understanding of the ...
Indigenous Reconciliation in Contemporary Taiwan: From Stigma to Hope
1st Edition
Edited
By Scott E. Simon, Jolan Hsieh, Peter Kang
May 27, 2024
This book draws attention to the issues of Indigenous justice and reconciliation in Taiwan, exploring how Indigenous actors affirm their rights through explicitly political and legal strategies, but also through subtle forms of justice work in films, language instruction, museums, and handicraft ...
Memory and Fabrication in East Asian Visual Culture: Ruinous Garden
1st Edition
By Dennitza Gabrakova
May 27, 2024
This book examines four contemporary sites of visual culture in East Asia through the poetic prism of the “ruinous garden.” Framing destroyed, discarded, and displaced material objects within a rhetoric of development and relating this to the experience of ethnic/national culture, the book presents...
Air Pollution Governance in East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Kuei-Tien Chou, Koichi Hasegawa, Dowan Ku, Shu-Fen Kao
January 29, 2024
Focusing on Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and Mainland China, the contributors to this book analyze various cases of air pollution within East Asia. Air pollution in East Asia is a major health risk, which also has damaging impacts on the environment leading to impacts on society, economic growth, ...
Authoritarianism and Civil Society in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Anthony Spires, Akihiro Ogawa
January 29, 2024
This book represents a pioneering interdisciplinary effort to analyze Asian civil society under authoritarianism, a regime type that is re-appearing or deepening after several decades of increased political liberalization. By organizing its approach into four main themes, this volume succinctly ...
Memory, Trauma, Asia: Recall, Affect, and Orientalism in Contemporary Narratives
1st Edition
Edited
By Rahul K. Gairola, Sharanya Jayawickrama
May 31, 2023
The contributors to this volume re-think established insights of memory and trauma theory and enrich those studies with diverse Asian texts, critically analyzing literary and cultural representations of Asia and its global diasporas. They broaden the scope of memory and trauma studies by examining ...
Whole Person Education in East Asian Universities: Perspectives from Philosophy and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Benedict S. B. Chan, Victor C. M. Chan
May 31, 2023
This book provides much new thinking on the phenomenon of whole-person education, a phenomenon which features strongly in East Asian universities, and which aims to develop students intellectually, spiritually, and ethically, to master critical thinking skills, to explore ethical challenges in the ...
Transnational Civil Society in Asia: The Potential of Grassroots Regionalization
1st Edition
Edited
By Simon Avenell, Akihiro Ogawa
January 09, 2023
This edited volume addresses how transnational interactions among civil society actors in Asia and its sub-regions are helping to strengthen common democratic values and transform dominant processes of policymaking and corporate capitalism in the region. The contributors conceive of transnational ...