Asian Studies

Fang Lee Cooke builds on the foundations of traditional Chinese HRM practice and brings it right up to date, including analysis of currently under-explored issues such as diversity management, talent management, new pay schemes, and performance management.

"There has long been a need for an up-to-date textbook such as Understanding Chinese Society, in which leading scholars cover major developments in China's rapidly changing society...It should be welcomed for a variety of courses on Chinese politics and society, as well as general education and sociology courses where China is placed in a comparative perspective."  - Stanley Rosen, Director of the East Asian Studies Center and Professor of Political Science, University of Southern California, USA.

Edited by Dafydd Fell of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, this series provides context and analysis of a broad range of topics on Taiwan.

Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society
"This is a tremendous book and should jump the queue of all those books on contemporary Japan you have been intending to read. The editors deserve kudos for putting together a stellar group of specialists and our gratitude for making them abandon the usually scholarly trappings." - Jeff Kingston, The Japan Times

China Real Time (Wall Street Journal) recently interviewed Tim Wright to discuss the challenges facing China’s coal industry — from safety to corruption to power shortages — and how long the country can count on its stores of coal to fuel its fast-burning economy.

Congratulations to David Arase and Tsuneo Akaha, editors of The US-Japan Alliance: Balancing Soft and Hard Power in East Asia, which was the winner of The Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Special Prize, 2011.

Congratulations to Prof. Vera Mackie who has been awarded the 2011 Inoue Yasushi Award for Outstanding Research on Japanese Literature in Australia.