Books for Asian Studies General Courses

Global Shanghai, 1850–2010

A History in Fragments

By Jeffrey N Wasserstrom

Series: Asia's Transformations/Asia's Great Cities

This book explores the play of international forces and international ideas about Shanghai, looking backward as far as its transformation into a subdivided treaty port in the 1840s, and looking forward to its upcoming hosting of China’s first World’s Fair, the 2010 Expo. As such, Global Shanghai is...

Published November 24th 2008 by Routledge

Cultural Governance and Resistance in Pacific Asia

By William A. Callahan

This text examines the politics of culture and the culture of politics in Pacific Asia through case studies on the South Pacific, China, South Korea, Thailand and Southeast Asia. The contexts and cultures of the chapters are wide-ranging and Callahan skilfully ties them together with the...

Published May 9th 2006 by Routledge