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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.

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State, Society, and Covid-19 in East Asia

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

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

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

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...

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