Asia's Transformations

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1. Mapping Modernity in Shanghai

   Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourners' City, 1853-98

   By Samuel Y. Liang

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city’s colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of self-contained households, towns, and natural landscapes in a continuous spread, producing a new...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. Minorities and Education in Multicultural Japan

   An Interactive Perspective

   Edited by Ryoko Tsuneyoshi, Kaori H. Okano, Sarane Boocock

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   This volume examines how Japan’s increasingly multicultural population has impacted on the lives of minority children and their peers at school, and how schools are responding to this trend in terms of providing minority children with opportunities and preparing them for the adult society. The...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
3. Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities

   Comparative Inquiries in Science, History, and Ethics

   Edited by Jing Bao Nie, Nanyan Guo, Mark Selden, Arthur Kleinman

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   Prior to and during the Second World War, the Japanese Army established programs of biological warfare throughout China and elsewhere. In these “factories of death,” including the now-infamous Unit 731, Japanese doctors and scientists conducted large numbers of vivisections and experiments on...

   Published May 21st 2011 by Routledge
4. Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism

   Spectacle, Politics and History

   By Hong Kal

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach. It looks at expositions, museums and the urban built environment at particular moments in both colonial and postcolonial eras and analyses their discursive...

   Published May 9th 2011 by Routledge
5. Girl Reading Girl in Japan

   Edited by Tomoko Aoyama, Barbara Hartley

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   Girl Reading Girl provides the first overview of the cultural significance of girls and reading in modern and contemporary Japan with emphasis on the processes involved when girls read about other girls. The collection examines the reading practices of real life girls from differing social...

   Published May 9th 2011 by Routledge
6. Learning Chinese, Turning Chinese

   Challenges to Becoming Sinophone in a Globalised World

   By Edward McDonald

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   In this book Edward McDonald takes a fresh look at issues of language in Chinese studies. He takes the viewpoint of the university student of Chinese with the ultimate goal of becoming 'sinophone': that is, developing a fluency and facility at operating in Chinese-language contexts comparable to...

   Published February 10th 2011 by Routledge
7. Re-writing Culture in Taiwan

   Edited by Fang-Long Shih, Stuart Thompson, Paul Tremlett

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting on the current state of ‘Taiwan Studies’, and for thinking about how Taiwan might be re-configured in the future. As the study of Taiwan...

   Published February 6th 2011 by Routledge
8. State and Society in Modern Rangoon

   By Donald M. Seekins

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   While most of Asia’s major cities are increasingly homogenized by rapid economic growth and cultural globalization, Rangoon, which is Burma’s former capital and largest city, still bears the imprint of a unique and often turbulent history. It is the site of the Shwedagon Pagoda, a focus of Buddhist...

   Published August 3rd 2010 by Routledge
9. Chinese Society

   Change, Conflict and Resistance, 3rd Edition

   Edited by Elizabeth J. Perry, Mark Selden

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   This bestselling introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. An interdisciplinary and international team of China scholars draw on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and political...

   Published March 9th 2010 by Routledge
10. Chinese Politics

    State, Society and the Market

    Edited by Peter Gries, Stanley Rosen

    Series: Asia's Transformations

    Written by a team of leading China scholars this text interrogates the dynamics of state power and legitimation in 21st Century China. Despite the continuing economic successes and rising international prestige of China there has been increasing social protests over corruption, land seizures,...

    Published January 20th 2010 by Routledge