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Asia's Transformations
New & Published Titles:

Re-writing Culture in Taiwan
This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46666-0 (Routledge)

The Making of Modern Korea
This fully updated second edition of The Making of Modern Korea provides a thorough, balanced and engaging history of Korea from 1910 to the present…
read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41483-8 (Routledge)

Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History
Colonialism, Regionalism and Borders
Regionalism has played an increasingly important role in the changing international relations of East Asia in recent decades, with early signs of integration and growing…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-37216-9 (Routledge)
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Singapore
The State and the Culture of Excess
Taking ideas and frameworks from philosophy, psychology, political science, cultural studies and anthropology, this book tells the larger ‘truth’ about the Singapore state. This book…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41712-9 (Routledge)

Korean Society
Civil Society, Democracy and the State
While most analyses of Korean politics have looked to elites to explain political change, this new and revised edition of Korean Society examines the role…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77058-3 (Routledge)
Korean Society
Civil Society, Democracy and the State
While most analyses of Korean politics have looked to elites to explain political change, this new and revised edition of Korean Society examines the role…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77057-6 (Routledge)

Working in China
Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation
After a quarter of a century of market reform, China has become the workshop of the world and the leading growth engine of the global…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77000-2 (Routledge)

The Future of US-Korean Relations
The Imbalance of Power
US relations with North and South Korea have been characterized by profound asymmetries of power and perception which in recent years have led to increased…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77038-5 (Routledge)

China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949
Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text presents a nation's story of trauma and growth during the early twentieth century.… read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36448-5 (Routledge)
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Confronting the Bush Doctrine
Critical Views from the Asia-Pacific
There is no doubt that President George W. Bush and his administration have transformed US foreign policy and reshaped global international relations in a very… read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35534-6 (Routledge)
Series Details:
The books in this series explore the political, social, economic and cultural consequences of Asia's twenty-first century transformations. The series emphasizes the tumultuous interplay of local, national, regional and global forces as Asia bids to become the hub of the world economy. While focusing on the contemporary, it also looks back to analyze the antecedents of Asia's contested rise. Asia's Transformations aims to address the needs of students and teachers.
Forthcoming Titles:
Reclaiming Chinese Society
Edited by You-tien Hsing, Ching Kwan Lee
To be published June 15th 2009
