Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

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1. Sino-Japanese Relations

   History, Politics, Economy, Security

   Edited by Caroline Rose

   Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

   Academic and popular interest in China and Japan, the two major powers in East Asia, has risen dramatically in the last decade. While on the one hand their relationship has benefited from high levels of two-way trade and investment underscoring their growing economic interdependence, political...

   Published June 7th 2011 by Routledge
2. Ethnic Minorities in Modern China

   Edited by Colin Mackerras

   Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

   China is the world’s most populous country with fifty-five state-recognized ethnic minorities: approximately 123 million people, taking up over 60 per cent of China’s territory. And, while China’s dizzying growth has made it a major world force, both economically and strategically, one of the chief...

   Published March 10th 2011 by Routledge
3. Imperial Japan and the World, 1931-1945

   Edited by Antony Best

   Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

   The transformation of Japan in the years between 1931 and 1945 into an expansionist and potentially hegemonic power that threatened the stability of the international order in East Asia is a topic that is central to any understanding of the region’s history in the twentieth century. This new...

   Published November 15th 2010 by Routledge
4. Modern Indian Culture and Society

   Edited by Knut A. Jacobsen

   Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

   Research on Indian culture and society has been conducted from a dizzying range of perspectives. However, in recent decades it has been particularly characterized by a change in focus from the past to the present; from the worldview of the élites to that of the subalterns; from philosophy to...

   Published June 7th 2009 by Routledge
5. Women in Asia

   Edited by Louise Edwards, Mina Roces

   Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

   The academic study of women in Asia developed in the 1970s as a result of the convergence of the then emerging disciplines of Asian Studies and Women’s Studies. Initially, work on women in Asia grew from traditional branches of learning such as history, anthropology, politics, and literary studies....

   Published March 9th 2009 by Routledge
6. Contemporary Chinese Society and Politics

   Edited by Andrew Kipnis, Luigi Tomba, Jonathan Unger

   Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

   Chinese society and its political system are predicated on traditions of governing that are deeply alien to most readers from liberal, Western powers. Chinese governance reflects both a long, indigenous tradition of statecraft and the Leninist legacies of the People’s Republic’s ruling Communist...

   Published January 27th 2009 by Routledge
7. Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution

   Edited by GREGOR BENTON

   Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

   Academic interest in Mao Zedong’s role in the Chinese Revolution remains intense, as scholars and commentators continue to analyze his thinking and the history of the movement for clues about the Chinese model and its supposedly unique features. The debate about Mao’s career and influence is now...

   Published October 11th 2007 by Routledge