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.
European Studies in Asia: Contours of a Discipline
1st Edition
By Georg Wiessala
May 03, 2017
As countries across Asia continue to rise and become more assertive global powers, the role that Higher Education has played, and continues to play, in this process is an issue of growing pertinence. Furthermore, understanding the relationship between Europe and Asia fostered by historical and ...
Alterities in Asia: Reflections on Identity and Regionalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Leong Yew
May 26, 2016
This book investigates the politics of identity in Asia and explores how different groups of people inside and outside Asia have attempted to relate to the alterity of the places and cultures in the region through various modes (literary and filmic representation, scholarly knowledge, and so on) ...
Democracy or Alternative Political Systems in Asia: After the Strongmen
1st Edition
Edited
By Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao
March 03, 2016
From the 1980s onwards, a tide of democratization swept across the Asian region, as the political strongmen who had led since the end of World War II began to fall. Although it is generally assumed that once authoritarian leaders no longer hold power, the political landscape will drastically change...
Eurasia’s Ascent in Energy and Geopolitics: Rivalry or Partnership for China, Russia, and Central Asia?
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Bedeski, Niklas Swanström
August 19, 2015
The Sino-Russian relationship has experienced several permutations in recent decades as both states have undergone radical domestic changes, including the end of Soviet communism and the abandonment of Maoism. This volume brings together scholars to address the current status of Sino-Russian ...
Regionalism in China-Vietnam Relations: Institution-Building in the Greater Mekong Subregion
1st Edition
By Oliver Hensengerth
February 27, 2015
This book analyses collaboration in the Greater Mekong Subregion. It explores inter-state cooperation and the role of subnational units (provincial and local governments) and transnational actors (NGOs, firms) in building and maintaining the subregion. It also considers the relationships between ...
The Dynamics of Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Amrita Daniere, Hy Van Luong
February 27, 2015
The purpose of this volume is to highlight the impacts on civic engagement of social capital, and its various component parts (trust, norms, networks and associations), in diverse parts of Asia. Addressing the pressing need for improved governance within the spatial, political and cultural ...
The Politics of Religion in South and Southeast Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Ishtiaq Ahmed
March 27, 2014
This book presents comparative country case studies on the politics of religion in South and Southeast Asia, including India, Pakistan and Indonesia. It deals with politicized religious revivals that cannot reasonably be depicted as mere quest for a moral anchor in a world of flux and change....
Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture: Asia in Flight
1st Edition
By Sheng-mei Ma
March 19, 2014
This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma’s engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century. Using examples ...
Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia’s Cities
1st Edition
Edited
By Melissa Butcher, Selvaraj Velayutham
February 25, 2014
This book documents urban experiences of dissent and emergent resistance against disjunctive global and local capital, technology and labour flows that converge and intersect in some of Asia’s fastest growing cities. Rather than constructing occupants of the city as simply passive victims of ...
The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora: Revisiting the boat people
1st Edition
Edited
By Yuk Wah Chan
February 13, 2014
Over three decades have passed since the first wave of Indochinese refugees left their homelands. These refugees, mainly the Vietnamese, fled from war and strife in search of a better life elsewhere. By investigating the Vietnamese diaspora in Asia, this book sheds new light on the Asian refugee ...
Child Security in Asia: The Impact of Armed Conflict in Cambodia and Myanmar
1st Edition
By Cecilia Jacob
August 16, 2013
Millions of children around the world are affected by conflict, and the enduring aftermath of war in post-conflict societies. This book reflects on the implications of children’s insecurity for governments and the international humanitarian community by drawing on original field research in ...
Asia and Latin America: Political, Economic and Multilateral Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Jörn Dosch, Olaf Jacob
June 07, 2013
Until the late 1980s, Japan was the only country in Asia with notable political and economic relations. Since then, however, several Asian nations have perceived growing links with the Latin American region as a means of diversifying their political and particularly economic relations while ...