Routledge Contemporary Asian Societies
About the Book Series
Routledge Contemporary Asian Societies provides an original and distinctive contribution to current debates on evolutions shaping societies, cultures, politics and media across North and South East Asia. It is interdisciplinary in its approach and the editors welcome proposals across the social sciences and humanities; from political, social, cultural and economic studies to gender, media, literature, anthropology, philosophy and religion.
State, Society, and Covid-19 in East Asia
1st Edition
By Taisuke Fujita, Hidehiro Yamamoto, Youngho Cho, Sang-Jin Han, Yida Zhai
March 18, 2025
This book elucidates state-society relations in East Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic from a comparative perspective. Based on the findings of cross-national surveys in Japan, South Korea, and China, the book scrutinizes the dynamics of the state–society relationships in each country, examining ...
National Identity and Millennials in Northeast Asia: Power and Contestations in the Digital Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Vanessa Frangville, Thierry Kellner, Frederik Ponjaert
December 18, 2024
This book examines how the young in Northeast Asia engage with the political, especially in terms of the production, reformulation, or contestation of their national identities. Through case studies covering China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea and Taiwan, the contributions provide a study of ...
China's Green Consensus: Participation, Co-optation, and Legitimation
1st Edition
By Virginie Arantes
May 27, 2024
Despite contrasting approaches, democratic and authoritarian governments all underline the fact that environmental protection is crucial and inevitable—and China’s enthusiasm in stepping up its efforts to protect the environment has not gone unnoticed. This book highlights how the consensual ...
China-Latin America and the Caribbean: Assessment and Outlook
1st Edition
Edited
By Thierry Kellner, Sophie Wintgens
November 04, 2022
This book assesses the political, economic and geopolitical dynamics that China’s presence has initiated throughout Latin America and the Caribbean between 2008 and 2020. Written by experts across three continents, contributions to this edited volume explore the bilateral relations that China...
China’s Youth Cultures and Collective Spaces: Creativity, Sociality, Identity and Resistance
1st Edition
Edited
By Vanessa Frangville, Gwennaël Gaffric
June 30, 2021
Presenting the collaborative work of 13 international specialists of contemporary Chinese culture and society, this book explores the spaces of creation, production, and diffusion of "youth cultures" in China among generations born since the 1980s. Defining the concept of "youth culture" as ...
History, Memory, and Territorial Cults in the Highlands of Laos: The Past Inside the Present
1st Edition
By Pierre Petit
June 30, 2021
This book captures the dynamics of history, memory, and territorial cults in Houay Yong, a Tai Vat village situated in the multiethnic highland frontier between Laos and Vietnam. By taking seriously the experiences of the villagers, it partakes in a broader movement to reintegrate highlanders and ...