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.
Japanese Diasporas: Unsung Pasts, Conflicting Presents and Uncertain Futures
1st Edition
Edited
By Nobuko Adachi
January 30, 2009
Japanese Diasporas examines the relationship of overseas Japanese and their descendents (Nikkei) with their home and host nations, focusing on the political, social and economic struggles of Nikkei. Frequently abandoned by their homeland, and experiencing alienation in their host nations, the ...
medi@sia: Global Media/tion In and Out of Context
1st Edition
By T.J.M. Holden, Timothy J. Scrase
July 21, 2008
This new inter-disciplinary book is the first comparative, case-based analysis of media panoply in (and out of) Asia today. Examining what the authors call the "media/tion equation", the contributors demonstrate the multiple links between media, society and culture, and advance ...
Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Matthew Allen, Rumi Sakamoto
March 24, 2008
Japanese popular culture is constantly evolving in the face of internal and external influence. Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan examines this evolution from a new and challenging perspective by focusing on the movements of popular culture into and out of Japan. Taking a multidisciplinary ...
Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark McLelland, Romit Dasgupta
December 15, 2005
Incorporating Japanese language materials and field-based research, this compelling collection of essays takes a comparative look at the changing notions of gender and sexual diversity in Japan, considering both heterosexual and non-heterosexual histories, lifestyles and identities. Written by key...
Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin
1st Edition
Edited
By Sonia Ryang
December 12, 2005
Koreans in Japan are a barely known minority, not only in the West but also within Japan itself. This pioneering study analyses these relations in the context of the particular conditions and constraints that Koreans face in Japanese society. The contributors cover a wide range of topics, including...
Imperialism in Southeast Asia
1st Edition
By Nicholas Tarling
November 11, 2004
Imperialism in Southeast Asia examines its subject against a backdrop of those countries that could at a given time be called imperialist: Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands and the US. Examining the imperialist phenomenon from this wide-ranging perspective reveals imperialism as driven by ...
Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, nation and the global city
1st Edition
Edited
By Agnes S. Ku, Ngai Pun
September 24, 2004
This book provides a detailed comparative account of the development of citizenship and civil society in Hong Kong from its time as a British colony to its current status as a special autonomous region of China....
Internationalizing the Pacific: The United States, Japan and the Institute of Pacific Relations, 1919-1945
1st Edition
By Tomoko Akami
December 14, 2001
The Institute of Pacific Relations was a pioneering intellectual-political organization that shaped public knowledge and both elite and popular discourse throughout the Asia-Pacific region and beyond during the inter-war years. Inspired by Wilsonian internationalism after the 1919 formation of the ...
The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa: Literature and Memory
1st Edition
By Michael S. Molasky
April 30, 2001
How do the Japanese and Okinawans remember Occupation? How is memory constructed and transmitted? Michael Molasky explores these questions through careful, sensitive readings of literature from mainland Japan and Okinawa. This book sheds light on difficult issues of war, violence, prostitution, ...