Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

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1. Film Censorship in the Asia-Pacific Region

   Malaysia, Hong Kong and Australia Compared

   By Saw Tiong Guan

   Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

   Film censorship has always been a controversial matter, particularly in jurisdictions with restrictive state-based censorship systems. This book reviews the film censorship system in the Asia-Pacific by comparing the systems used in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Australia. It identifies the key issues...

   Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge
2. Education Reform and Education Policy in East Asia

   By Ka-ho Mok

   Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

   This book assesses the impact of globalization on the education systems of key East Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, Japan, and the "tiger economies" of South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, examining how the increasingly interdependent economic system has driven policy change...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Diminishing Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific

   Why Some Subside and Others Don’t

   Edited by Edward Aspinall, Robin Jeffrey, Anthony Regan

   Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

   Since the publication of the 2005 Human Security Report, scholars and policy-makers have debated the causes, interpretation and implications of what the report described as a global decline in armed conflict since the end of the Cold War. Focusing on the Asia-Pacific region, this book analyses the...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
4. Social Policy in East and Southeast Asia

   Education, Health, Housing and Income Maintenance

   By M. Ramesh

   Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

   Social Policy in East and South East Asia provides the first systematic comparison of the policy sectors of income maintenance, health, housing and education in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. It focuses particularly on the provision and financing arrangements of these four Asian...

   Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge
5. Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific

   Histories of Responses to Non-Communicable and Communicable Diseases

   Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Kerrie L. MacPherson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

   Chronic diseases—cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes—are not only the principal cause of world-wide mortality but also are now responsible for a striking increase in the percentage of sickness in developing countries still grappling with the acute problems of...

   Published September 3rd 2012 by Routledge
6. Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the US

   Practices and Policies

   Edited by Susan Orpett Long

   Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

   In an era of changing demographics and values, this volume provides a cross-national and interdisciplinary perspective on the question of who cares for and about the elderly. The contributors reflect on research studies, experimental programmes and personal experience in Japan and the United States...

   Published June 21st 2012 by Routledge
7. Civilization, Nation and Modernity in East Asia

   By Chih-Yu Shih

   Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

   This book explores the crisis of cultural identity which has assaulted Asian countries since Western countries began to have a profound impact on Asia in the nineteenth century. Confronted by Western 'civilization' and by 'modernity', Asian countries have been compelled to rethink their identity,...

   Published June 17th 2012 by Routledge
8. Public Health in Asia and the Pacific

   Historical and Comparative Perspectives

   Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Kerrie L. MacPherson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

   The Asia-Pacific region has not only the greatest concentration of population but is, arguably, the future economic centre of the world. Epidemiological transition in the region is occurring much faster than it did in the West and many countries face the emerging problem of chronic diseases at the...

   Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge
9. The Strong and the Weak in Japanese Literature

   Discrimination, Egalitarianism, Nationalism

   By Fuminobu Murakami

   Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

   This book uses texts from classical to modern Japanese literature to examine concepts of 'respect for the strong', as a notion of an evolutionary society, and 'sympathy for the weak', as a notion of a non-violent and changeless egalitarian society. The term strong refers not just to those...

   Published May 18th 2010 by Routledge
10. Sino-Japanese Relations

    Facing the Past, Looking to the Future?

    By Caroline Rose

    Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

    Over recent years, there has been increasing interest in the relationship between China and Japan, particularly as a way of understanding contemporary political, economic and security developments within the whole East Asia region. Caroline Rose presents a thorough, balanced and objective...

    Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge