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1. The World Bank and the post-Washington Consensus in Vietnam and Indonesia

   Inheritance of Loss

   By Susan Engel

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   This book explores the history, structure and current operations of the World Bank, which despite being the largest development organisation and the largest development research body in the world with tremendous direct and indirect influence on developing economies, has rarely received the critical...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. Japanese Industrial Governance

   Protectionism and the Licensing State

   Edited by Yul Sohn

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
3. China on Video

   Smaller-Screen Realities

   By Paola Voci

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   China On Video is the first in-depth study that examines smaller-screen realities and the important role they play not only in the fast-changing Chinese mediascape, but also more broadly in the practice of experimental and non-mainstream cinema. At the crossroads of several disciplines—film, media,...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
4. Writing Okinawa

   Narrative acts of identity and resistance

   By Davinder L. Bhowmik

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   Writing Okinawa is the first comprehensive study in English of Okinawan fiction, from it’s emergence in the early twentieth-century through its most recent permutations. It provides readings of major authors and texts set against a carefully researched presentation of the region’s political and...

   Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
5. Popular Culture and the State in East and Southeast Asia

   Edited by Nissim Otmazgin, Eyal Ben-Ari

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   This volume examines the relations between popular culture production and export and the state in East and Southeast Asia including the urban centres and middle-classes of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Thailand, and the Philippines. It addresses the shift in...

   Published October 13th 2011 by Routledge
6. Reconciling Indonesia

   Grassroots agency for peace

   Edited by Birgit Bräuchler

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   Indonesia has been torn by massive internal conflicts over the last decade. The absence of functioning national tools of reconciliation and the often limited success of an internationally established ‘reconciliation toolkit’ of truth commissions and law enforcement, justice and human rights,...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
7. Post-Conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism

   Tourism, Politics and Development at Angkor

   By Tim Winter

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   Angkor, Cambodia’s only World Heritage Site, is enduring one of the most crucial, turbulent periods in its twelve hundred year history. Given Cambodia’s need to restore its shattered social and physical infrastructures after decades of violent conflict, and with tourism to Angkor increasing by a...

   Published June 22nd 2011 by Routledge
8. Pirate Modernity

   Delhi's Media Urbanism

   By Ravi Sundaram

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   Using Delhi’s contemporary history as a site for reflection, Pirate Modernity moves from a detailed discussion of the technocratic design of the city by US planners in the 1950s, to the massive expansions after 1977, culminating in the urban crisis of the 1990s. As a practice, pirate modernity is...

   Published March 3rd 2011 by Routledge
9. Singapore in the Malay World

   Building and Breaching Regional Bridges

   By Lily Zubaidah Rahim

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   Relations between Singapore and her immediate Malay neighbours have been perennially fraught with tension and misunderstanding. In making sense of this complex relationship, Lily Rahim explores the salience of historical animosities and competitive economic pressures, and Singapore’s janus-faced...

   Published November 8th 2010 by Routledge
10. Overseas Chinese, Ethnic Minorities and Nationalism

    De-Centering China

    By Elena Barabantseva

    Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

    Elena Barabantseva looks at the close relationship between state-led nationalism and modernisation, with specific reference to discourses on the overseas Chinese and minority nationalities. The interplay between modernisation programmes and nationalist discourses has shaped China’s national project...

    Published August 24th 2010 by Routledge