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Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948

By Haiping Yan

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

By Adrian Buzo

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

Edited by Sven Saaler, J. Victor Koschmann

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

By Souchou Yao

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

Edited by Charles K. Armstrong

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

Edited by Ching Kwan Lee

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

Edited by John Feffer

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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Singapore

Wealth, Power and the Culture of Control

By Carl A. Trocki

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

By Peter Zarrow

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

By Timothy Brook

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

Edited by Melvin Gurtov, Peter Van Ness

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

By Jeff Kingston

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

Edited by Peter Hays Gries, Stanley Rosen

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

By Vaclav Smil

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

By Mark T. Berger

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

Edited by K. C. Ho, Randy Kluver, C.C. Yang

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

By Colin Mackerras

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

Edited by Elizabeth J. Perry, Mark Selden

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

Edited by Giovanni Arrighi, Takeshi Hamashita, Mark Selden

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

By Paul A. Cohen

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

Edited by Nanette Gottlieb, Mark McLelland

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

By George McT. Kahin

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

By Patricia Ebrey

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

By Marc Askew

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

Edited by Chao Chien-min, Bruce Dickson

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

By Yarong Jiang, David Ashley

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

By Carl A. Trocki

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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Hong Kong's History

State and Society Under Colonial Rule

Edited by Tak-Wing Ngo

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

Edited by Peter Van Ness

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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