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1. Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region

   Edited by Shirlena Huang, Peggy Teo, Brenda S. A. Yeoh

   Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

   Amidst the unevenness and unpredictability of change in the Asia-Pacific region, women's lives are being transformed. This volume takes up the challenge of exploring the ways in which women are active players, collaborators, participants, leaders and resistors in the politics of change in the...

   To Be Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Politics of Heritage Tourism in China

   A View from Lijiang

   By Xiaobo Su, Peggy Teo

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   This volume unravels the politics surrounding behind China’s hegemonic project of heritage tourism development in Lijiang. It provides a compelling study of the dialectical relationships between global and domestic capital, the state, tourists and locals as they collude, collaborate and...

   Published July 5th 2011 by Routledge
3. Asia on Tour

   Exploring the rise of Asian tourism

   Edited by Tim Winter, Peggy Teo, T.C. Chang

   With the vast majority of academic theory on tourism based on ‘Western’ tourists, Asia on Tour illustrates why the rapid growth of travel for leisure and recreation in Asia demands a reappraisal of how tourism is analyzed and understood. Examining domestic and intra-regional tourism, the book...

   Published September 23rd 2008 by Routledge
4. Ageing in Singapore

   Service needs and the state

   By Peggy Teo, Kalyani Mehta, Leng Leng Thang, Angelique Chan

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

   Older persons are often portrayed as social and financial burdens because pensions, health and social care have to withstand increasing old age dependency ratios. Due to a lack of access to representation or a lack of social and economic power, older people have found few opportunities to have...

   Published June 27th 2006 by Routledge