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.
Circulation and Governance of Asian Medicine
1st Edition
Edited
By Céline Coderey, Laurent Pordié
August 29, 2022
This book unpacks the organized sets of practices that govern contemporary Asian medicine, from production of medications in the lab to their circulation within circuits and networks of all kinds, and examines the plurality of actors involved in such governance.Chapters analyze the process of ...
Minorities, Rights and the Law in Malaysia
1st Edition
By Thaatchaayini Kananatu
August 29, 2022
This book analyses the mobilisation of race, rights and the law in Malaysia. It examines the Indian community in Malaysia, a quiet minority which consists of the former Indian Tamil plantation labour community and the urban Indian middle-class.The first part of the book explores the role played by ...
Tourism and Development in Southeast Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Claudia Dolezal, Alexander Trupp, Huong T. Bui
August 29, 2022
This book analyses the role tourism plays for sustainable development in Southeast Asia. It seeks to assesses tourism’s impact on residents and localities across the region by critically debating and offering new understandings of its dynamics on the global and local levels. Offering a myriad of ...
Climate Change Governance in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Kuei-Tien Chou, Koichi Hasegawa, Dowan Ku, Shu-Fen Kao
May 06, 2022
Asian countries are among the largest contributors to climate change. China, India, Japan and South Korea are among the top ten largest carbon emitters in the world, with South Korea, Japan and Taiwan also some of the largest on a per capita basis. At the same time, many Asian countries, notably ...
Hate Speech in Asia and Europe: Beyond Hate and Fear
1st Edition
Edited
By Myungkoo Kang, Marie-Orange Rivé-Lasan, Wooja Kim, Philippa Hall
December 13, 2021
This edited collection provides a timely review of the current state of hate speech research in Asia and Europe, through the comparative examples of Korea, Japan and France. Extending the study of hate speech studies beyond the largely western emphasis on European and US contexts dominant in the ...
Historical Narratives of East Asia in the 21st Century: Overcoming the Politics of National Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By Hitoshi Tanaka
December 13, 2021
In the twenty-first century, East Asia has been increasingly marked both by tensions at a government level and a chauvinistic mood among the polity. While China’s rise is in one respect the proximate driver of these changes in tone, it draws on a range of unresolved grievances among the respective ...
Normalization of Violence: Conceptual Analysis and Reflections from Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Irm Haleem
June 30, 2021
This book offers both a conceptual and an empirical analysis of how violence is normalized. In its conceptual analysis, Irm Haleem offers a framework of explanation that she argues is universal in its narratives, which she submits is premised on moralizing, legalizing, and popularizing violence. ...
Sino-Pakistani Relations: Politics, Military and Regional Dynamics
1st Edition
By Filippo Boni
June 30, 2021
This book analyses the relationship between Pakistan and China in the post 9/11 period against the backdrop of Pakistan’s domestic politics and proposes that the major source of continuity in the ties between the two countries is represented by the military.The evolution and continuity of ...
Transcontinental Silk Road Strategies: Comparing China, Japan and South Korea in Uzbekistan
1st Edition
By Timur Dadabaev
June 30, 2021
This book analyzes initiatives and concepts initiated by China, Japan and South Korea (the Republic of Korea) toward Central Asia to ascertain their impact on regionalism and regional cooperation in Central Asia.Using the case study of Uzbekistan, the book focuses on the formation of the discourse ...
Protecting the Weak in East Asia: Framing, Mobilisation and Institutionalisation
1st Edition
Edited
By Iwo Amelung, Moritz Bälz, Heike Holbig, Matthias Schumann, Cornelia Storz
March 31, 2021
This book investigates public claims for the protection of weak groups and interests in Japan and China from the nineteenth century to the present day. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it engages with ongoing global debates relevant to both Western and non-Western societies whilst also ...
Conflict in India and China's Contested Borderlands: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
By Kunal Mukherjee
September 30, 2020
For a long time, India and China have been seen as the rising economic giants on the Asiatic mainland. Studies of the conflicts which have plagued the borderlands of India and China however have tended to only analyse individual case studies without attempting to compare and contrast the situation ...
Energy Security in Asia and Eurasia
1st Edition
Edited
By Mike M. Mochizuki, Deepa M. Ollapally
December 12, 2019
Many states appear to have strong sentiment on energy security and energy transit vulnerability. Some analysts see the rapidly increasing demand for energy and competition for energy resources leading to nationalistic energy policies. Others argue that global trends with efficient energy markets ...