Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

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1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. Vientiane

   Transformations of a Lao landscape

   By Marc Askew, Colin Long, William Logan

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   Providing insights into this neglected Southeast Asian city, this interesting book interprets Vientiane’s landscape - physical as well as imagined - as a reflection of key aspects of Lao geo-political history, the nature of Lao urbanism, and its critical relation to constructions of Lao...

   Published July 30th 2010 by Routledge
9. Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos

   By Boike Rehbein

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   Incorporating original fieldwork carried out over a period of more than ten years, combined with innovative theoretical argument, Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos presents one of the first sociological investigations into modern Laos. Boike Rehbein gives a fascinating overview of...

   Published July 19th 2010 by Routledge
10. Maid In China

    Media, Morality, and the Cultural Politics of Boundaries

    By Wanning Sun

    Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

    Maid in China is the first systematic, book-length investigation of internal rural migration in post-Mao China focused on the day-to-day production and consumption of popular media. Taking the rural maid in the urban home as its point of departure, the book weaves together three years of engaged...

    Published May 31st 2010 by Routledge