Forthcoming East Asia Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Innovation and Industrialization in Asia

   Edited by Rajah Rasiah, Yeo Lin, Yuri Sadoi

   Existing accounts of East Asia’s meteoric growth and structural change has either been explained as one dictated essentially by markets with strong macroeconomic fundamentals, or a consequence of proactive governments. This book departs from such a dichotomy by examining inductively the drivers of...

   To Be Published June 19th 2012 by Routledge
2. Understanding Japanese Society

   4th Edition

   By Joy Hendry

   With the ever growing contact between Japan and the rest of the world comes an increasingly important need to understand a society that is fascinating but still often confusing to the outsider. In this brand new fourth edition of Understanding Japanese Society Joy Hendry brings the reader up to...

   To Be Published June 28th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Market and Temple Fairs of Rural China

   Red Fire

   By Gene Cooper

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   During the early communist period of the 1950s, temple fairs in China were both suppressed and secularized. Temples were closed down by the secular regime and their activities classified as feudal superstition and this process only intensified during the Cultural Revolution when even the surviving...

   To Be Published August 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora

   Edited by Chee-Beng Tan

   With around 40 million people worldwide, the ethnic Chinese and the Chinese in diaspora form the largest diaspora in the world. The economic reform of China in the late 1970s marked a huge phase of migration from China, and the new migrants, many of whom were well educated, have had a...

   To Be Published September 23rd 2012 by Routledge
5. The Cultural Politics of Talent Migration in East Asia

   Edited by Brenda Yeoh, Shirlena Huang

   As the world globalises, more people than ever are on the move, including the many professional, managerial and entrepreneurial elites—often referred to as ‘international talent’—who circulate between cities in response to career and business opportunities. While much has been written about...

   To Be Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Middle Class in Neoliberal China

   Governing Risk, Life-Building, and Themed Spaces

   By Hai Ren

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Since the late 1970s, China’s move towards neoliberalism has made it not only one of the world’s fastest growing economies, but also one of the most polarised states. This economic, social and political transformation has led to the emergence of a new Chinese middle class, and understanding the...

   To Be Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge
7. Japanese Social Welfare

   The Development of Diversity

   By HyunSun Lee

   Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

   To Be Published January 29th 2013 by Routledge
8. Gender, Modernity and Male Migrant Workers in China

   Becoming a 'Modern' Man

   By Xiaodong Lin

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Rural-urban migration within China has transformed and reshaped rural people’s lives during the past three decades. Within this context, feminist scholars have addressed rural women’s experience of struggle and empowerment in urban China, but in contrast, research on rural men’s experience of...

   To Be Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Japan: The Basics

   By Christopher P Hood

   Series: The Basics

   In recent years media attention has focused on Japan in the wake of the East Japan earthquake and resulting nuclear disaster, however what increased media coverage has revealed is significant gaps in global society’s understanding of Japanese culture and society. This book examines key aspects of...

   To Be Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
10. Technology, Gender and China’s Great Transformations

    By Francesca Bray

    Series: Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship

    What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow a well-worn plot: in about 1400, they tell us, after an early ferment of creativity that made it the most technologically sophisticated civilisation in...

    To Be Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge