Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series
About the Book Series
This series aims to publish the best new scholarly work focusing on Japan, Greater China and North and South Korea. It will examine political, historical, economic and social themes from the region, and include the work of both established scholars and those at earlier stages in their careers.
The Politics of Korean Language Textbooks in the Two Koreas: Nationalism, Ideologies and Education
1st Edition
By Dong Bae Lee
May 06, 2025
This book investigates the politics embedded in the Korean-language textbooks utilised between 1895 and 2019, within the context of one Korea (pre-colonial and colonial eras), the divided Koreas, and an ethnic Korean group residing in Japan (Chongryon). By analysing the inclusions and omissions ...
Masculinity, Marriage and Rural Men in Urban China: Modest Expectations
1st Edition
By Sarah Gosper
January 31, 2025
This book explores the conjuncture and interrelationship between three so-called ‘crises’ facing Chinese society: a crisis of marriage, a crisis of masculinity and a crisis of mobility. Based on sustained ethnographic research on unmarried lower-class rural men from two distinct social and class ...
Reporting Mental Illness in China
1st Edition
By Guy Ramsay
May 06, 2022
This book examines how Chinese-language newspapers across greater China report on severe mental illness, and why they do so in the ways they do, given that reporting in local newspapers can strongly influence how Chinese readers view the illness. By assessing how the reporting in three leading ...
The Representation of Japanese Politics in Manga: The Visual Literacy Of Statecraft
1st Edition
Edited
By Roman Rosenbaum
April 29, 2022
This edited volume explores political motives, discourses and agendas in Japanese manga and graphic art with the objective of highlighting the agency of Japanese and wider Asian story-telling traditions within the context of global political traditions. Highly illustrated chapters presented here ...
Japan in Australia: Culture, Context and Connection
1st Edition
Edited
By David Chapman, Carol Hayes
June 30, 2021
Japan in Australia is a work of cultural history that focuses on context and connection between two nations. It examines how Japan has been imagined, represented and experienced in the Australian context through a variety of settings, historical periods and circumstances. Beginning with the first ...
Mental Illness, Dementia and Family in China
1st Edition
By Guy Ramsay
December 09, 2019
With rapid economic progress and increasing life expectancy in East Asian societies, more attention is being paid by their governments, the media and the academy to mental illness and dementia. While clinical research on mental illness and dementia in Chinese societies acknowledges the importance ...
Anti-nuclear Protest in Post-Fukushima Tokyo: Power Struggles
1st Edition
By Alexander Brown
August 08, 2019
This book explores the politics of anti-nuclear activism in Tokyo after the Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011. Analyzing the protests in the context of a longer history of citizen activism in Tokyo, it also situates the movement within the framework of a global struggle for democracy, from ...
Chinese Stories of Drug Addiction: Beyond the Opium Dens
1st Edition
By Guy Ramsay
June 28, 2018
Addiction to illicit drugs is a pressing social concern across greater China, where there are likely several million drug addicts at present. This research breaks new ground by examining Chinese people’s stories of drug addiction. Chinese Stories of Drug Addiction systematically evaluates how ...
Japan's New Left Movements: Legacies for Civil Society
1st Edition
By Takemasa Ando
March 03, 2016
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident that followed the March 2011 tsunami and earthquake in Japan shocked the world. In the wake the of the disaster, questions were asked as to why Japanese antinuclear movements were not able to prevent those with vested interests, such as businesses, bureaucrats...
Defending Rights in Contemporary China
1st Edition
By Jonathan Benney
February 27, 2015
The growth of rights defence movements in China reflects the increasing capacity of Chinese citizens to shape their own civic discourse in order to achieve diverse goals. Rights defence campaigns have taken novel forms which are unprecedented in China, including the use of the Internet by rights ...
The Manchurian Crisis and Japanese Society, 1931-33
1st Edition
By Sandra Wilson
May 16, 2014
This book explores the reactions to the Manchurian crisis of different sections of the state, and of a number of different groups in Japanese society, particularly rural groups, women's organizations and business associations. It thus seeks to avoid a generalized account of public relations to the ...
Rethinking Identity in Modern Japan: Nationalism as Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Yumiko Iida
December 12, 2013
This volume is a major reconsideration of Japanese late modernity and national hegemony which examines the creative and academic works of a number of influential Japanese thinkers. The author situates the process of Japanese knowledge production in the interface between the immediate historical and...