Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
About the Book Series
Routledge Studies in Asia’s Transformations is a forum for innovative new research intended for a high-level specialist readership, and the titles will be available in hardback only.
Pirate Modernity: Delhi's Media Urbanism
1st Edition
By Ravi Sundaram
March 11, 2011
Using Delhi’s contemporary history as a site for reflection, Pirate Modernity moves from a detailed discussion of the technocratic design of the city by US planners in the 1950s, to the massive expansions after 1977, culminating in the urban crisis of the 1990s. As a practice, pirate modernity is ...
Singapore in the Malay World: Building and Breaching Regional Bridges
1st Edition
By Lily Zubaidah Rahim
January 14, 2011
Relations between Singapore and her immediate Malay neighbours have been perennially fraught with tension and misunderstanding. In making sense of this complex relationship, Lily Rahim explores the salience of historical animosities and competitive economic pressures, and Singapore’s janus-faced ...
Vientiane: Transformations of a Lao landscape
1st Edition
By Marc Askew, Colin Long, William Logan
September 10, 2010
Providing insights into this neglected Southeast Asian city, this interesting book interprets Vientiane’s landscape - physical as well as imagined - as a reflection of key aspects of Lao geo-political history, the nature of Lao urbanism, and its critical relation to constructions of Lao ...
Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos
1st Edition
By Boike Rehbein
July 20, 2010
Incorporating original fieldwork carried out over a period of more than ten years, combined with innovative theoretical argument, Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos presents one of the first sociological investigations into modern Laos. Boike Rehbein gives a fascinating overview of ...
Maid In China: Media, Morality, and the Cultural Politics of Boundaries
1st Edition
By Wanning Sun
June 01, 2010
Maid in China is the first systematic, book-length investigation of internal rural migration in post-Mao China focused on the day-to-day production and consumption of popular media. Taking the rural maid in the urban home as its point of departure, the book weaves together three years of engaged ...
Democracy in Occupied Japan: The U.S. Occupation and Japanese Politics and Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark E. Caprio, Yoneyuki Sugita
October 13, 2009
With expert contributions from both the US and Japan, this book examines the legacies of the US Occupation on Japanese politics and society, and discusses the long-term impact of the Occupation on contemporary Japan. Focusing on two central themes – democracy and the interplay of US-initiated ...
Education and Reform in China
1st Edition
Edited
By Emily Hannum, Albert Park
July 24, 2009
Transformative market reforms in China since the late 1970s have improved living standards dramatically, but have also led to unprecedented economic inequality. During this period, China’s educational system was restructured to support economic development, with educational reforms occurring at a ...
Transcultural Japan: At the Borderlands of Race, Gender and Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By David Blake Willis, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
June 29, 2009
Historically Japan has alternated between periods of celebration of a diverse, multicultural society and severe spells of xenophobia and persecution of the Other. This collection of multidisciplinary essays re-introduces the idea of Japan as a multicultural society and reflects a rapidly changing ...
Chinese Media, Global Contexts
1st Edition
By Lee Chin-Chuan
May 19, 2009
Virtually every major media, information and telecommunications enterprise in the world is significantly tied to China. This volume provides the most expert, up-to-date and multidisciplinary analyses on how the contemporary media function in what has rapidly become the world's biggest market. As ...
Fertility, Family Planning and Population Policy in China
1st Edition
Edited
By Chiung-Fang Chang, Che-Fu Lee, Sherry L. McKibben, Dudley L. Poston, Carol S. Walther
April 15, 2009
China's one-child population policy, first initiated in 1979, has had an enormous effect on the country’s development. By reducing its fertility in the past two decades to less than two children per woman, and developing a family planning program focused heavily on sterilization and abortion, China...
Developmental Dilemmas: Land Reform and Institutional Change in China
1st Edition
By Peter Ho
March 10, 2009
Developmental Dilemmas singles out land as an object of study and places it in the context of one of the world's largest and most populous countries undergoing institutional reform: the People's Republic of China. The book demonstrates that private property protected by law, the principle of '...
How China Works: Perspectives on the Twentieth-Century Industrial Workplace
1st Edition
Edited
By Jacob Eyferth
March 10, 2009
Spanning the whole of the twentieth century, How China Works examines the labour issues surrounding the workplace in China in both the Republican and People's Republic epochs. The international team of contributors treat China's twentieth-century revolution as an industrial ...