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Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948
Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948 provides a compelling study of leading women writers in modern China, charting their literary works and life...
ISBN: 978-0-415-47458-0 | Published May 1st 2008 by Routledge.
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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...
ISBN: 978-0-415-41483-8 | Published December 20th 2007 by Routledge.
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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...
ISBN: 978-0-415-37216-9 | Published December 20th 2006 by 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...
ISBN: 978-0-415-41712-9 | Published December 7th 2006 by Routledge.
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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...
ISBN: 978-0-415-77058-3 | Published November 14th 2006 by Routledge.
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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...
ISBN: 978-0-415-77000-2 | Published August 30th 2006 by Routledge.
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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...
ISBN: 978-0-415-77038-5 | Published May 4th 2006 by Routledge.
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Wealth, Power and the Culture of Control
This volume examines Singapore’s culture of control, exploring the city-state’s colonial heritage as well as the forces that have helped to mould its current social landscape....
ISBN: 978-0-415-26386-3 | Published October 13th 2005 by Routledge.
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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....ISBN: 978-0-415-36448-5 | Published September 8th 2005 by Routledge.
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The Chinese State in Ming Society
The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between state and society in Chinese history. This unique collection...ISBN: 978-0-415-34507-1 | Published November 25th 2004 by 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...ISBN: 978-0-415-35534-6 | Published October 28th 2004 by Routledge.
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Japan's Quiet Transformation
Social Change and Civil Society in 21st Century Japan
The 1990s have been termed as 'Japan's lost decade' to describe how the phenomenal growth in the Japanese economy ground to a halt and the...ISBN: 978-0-415-27483-8 | Published August 19th 2004 by Routledge.
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State and Society in 21st Century China
Crisis, Contention and Legitimation
Written by a team of leading China scholars, this book explores the dynamics of state power and legitimation in twenty-first century China, and the implications of...
ISBN: 978-0-415-33205-7 | Published May 13th 2004 by Routledge.
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China's Past, China's Future
China has a population of 1.3 billion people which puts strain on her natural resources. This volume, by one of the leading scholars on the...ISBN: 978-0-415-31499-2 | Published November 6th 2003 by Routledge.
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The Battle for Asia
From Decolonization to Globalization
Asia has long been an ideological battleground between capitalism and communism, between nationalism and Westernisation and between the nation-state and globalization. This book is a...ISBN: 978-0-415-32529-5 | Published October 23rd 2003 by Routledge.
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Asia.com
Asia Encounters the Internet
The internet is developing quicker in Asia than in any other region of the world. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the information...ISBN: 978-0-415-31504-3 | Published August 21st 2003 by Routledge.
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Ethnicity in Asia
This book is designed as a comprehensive comparative introduction to ethnicity in East and Southeast Asia since 1945. Each chapter covers a particular country looking...ISBN: 978-0-415-25817-3 | Published August 21st 2003 by Routledge.
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Chinese Society
Change, Conflict and Resistance
This introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. The book draws on...ISBN: 978-0-415-30169-5 | Published July 31st 2003 by Routledge.
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The Resurgence of East Asia
500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives
The East Asian expansion since the 1960s stands out as a global power shift with few historical precedents. The Resurgence of East Asia examines the...ISBN: 978-0-415-31637-8 | Published June 12th 2003 by Routledge.
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China Unbound
Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past
This volume contains a number of articles on modern Chinese history and historiography written by one of the leading academic experts on the subject. The...ISBN: 978-0-415-29823-0 | Published May 22nd 2003 by Routledge.
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Japanese Cybercultures
Japan is rightly regarded as one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, yet the development and deployment of Internet technology in Japan...ISBN: 978-0-415-27919-2 | Published December 19th 2002 by Routledge.
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Southeast Asia
A Testament
Southeast Asia: A Testament covers the tragic history of post war Indonesia from its successful struggle against the Dutch to Suharto's bloody overthrow of Sukarno...ISBN: 978-0-415-29976-3 | Published September 19th 2002 by Routledge.
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Women and the Family in Chinese History
This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, Patricia Buckley. In the essays she has selected for...ISBN: 978-0-415-28823-1 | Published August 29th 2002 by Routledge.
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Bangkok
Place, Practice and Representation
Bangkok is one of Asia's most interesting, varied, controversial and challenging cities. It is a city of contradictions, both in its present and past. This...ISBN: 978-0-415-18854-8 | Published June 27th 2002 by Routledge.
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Remaking the Chinese State
Strategies, Society, and Security
After more than twenty years of economic and political reform, China is a vastly different country to that left by Mao. Almost all the characteristic...ISBN: 978-0-415-26026-8 | Published August 23rd 2001 by Routledge.
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Mao´s Children in the New China
Voices From the Red Guard Generation
Around 18 million young Chinese people were sent to the countryside between 1966 and 1976 as part of the Cultural Revolution. Mao's Children in the...
ISBN: 978-0-415-22331-7 | Published May 18th 2000 by Routledge.
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Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy
A Study of the Asian Opium Trade 1750-1950
Drug epidemics are clearly not just a peculiar feature of modern life; the opium trade in the nineteenth century tells us a great deal about...ISBN: 978-0-415-21500-8 | Published August 26th 1999 by Routledge.
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State and Society Under Colonial Rule
Rewriting Hong Kong's history from the bottom up, the chapters investigate vital, but hitherto obscured, aspects of the colony's rise. They cover the Chinese collaboration...ISBN: 978-0-415-20868-0 | Published August 12th 1999 by Routledge.
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Debating Human Rights
Critical Essays from the United States and Asia
Human rights debates can provoke strong reactions, particularly among people of different cultural backgrounds. The debate over Asian values and the use of human rights...ISBN: 978-0-415-18507-3 | Published December 3rd 1998 by Routledge.
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