Asia Pacific Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Racial Attitudes and Asian Pacific Americans

   Demystifying the Model Minority

   By Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   This study examines the complex sources and implications of the racial attitudes of Asian Pacific American (APA) college students, who, as one of the fastest growing demographics in higher education enrollments, play an increasingly significant role in campus race relations....

   Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
2. 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
3. Reshaping the Asia Pacific Economic Order

   Edited by Christopher Findlay, Hadi Soesastro

   Series: PAFTAD (Pacific Trade and Development Conference Series)

   Relationships and alignments among the nations of the world’s most populous and productive region, the Asia Pacific, are in flux. Current global political, economic and security uncertainty, heightened by 9/11 and the subsequent War on Terror, has fuelled a reassessment by many Asia Pacific nations...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Public Management and Governance in Malaysia

   Trends and Transformations

   Edited by Noore Siddiquee

   Series: Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series

   The past two and a half decades have seen major transformations in public sector management and governance across the globe. This book examines the ways public sector management and governance in Malaysia has changed and is changing under contemporary reform models. Chapters are written by...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
5. Migration, Ethnic Relations and Chinese Business

   By Kwok-bun Chan

   Series: Chinese Worlds

   Incorporating research carried out over the last twenty years, this book documents the personal and collective responses of Chinese migrants and refugees to the prejudice and discrimination they have experienced. Using case studies of Chinese communities in Canada, Chan explores the different...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. China’s Search for Energy Security

   Domestic Sources and International Implications

   Edited by Suisheng Zhao

   China’s rapid economic growth in the recent decades has produced an unprecedented energy vulnerability that could threaten the sustainability of its economic development, a linchpin to social stability and ultimately the regime legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as well as the...

   Published October 16th 2012 by Routledge
7. Millennium Development Goals

   Looking Beyond 2015

   Edited by Matthew Clarke, Simon Feeny

   In the year 2000, the international community agreed to a framework to address global poverty. This framework, known as the Millennium Development Goals, was time-bound with an end date of 2015. With this end now in sight, the international community is focusing on the achievement of these goals....

   Published September 26th 2012 by Routledge
8. 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
9. Managing Across Diverse Cultures in East Asia

   Issues and challenges in a changing globalized world

   Edited by Malcolm Warner

   Why ‘Managing across diverse cultures in East Asia’? We re-examine in this book the link between culture and management across the region vis a vis the new economic, political and social landscape that has appeared over the last decade. We accordingly present a set of chapters on East Asian...

   Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge
10. Energy Security in Asia

    Edited by Michael Wesley

    Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

    This book explores the various dimensions of energy security in Asia – which has become an increasingly important geopolitical issue. Reputable international contributors look at the roles played by each of the major energy importers: the United States, China, Japan and India, as well as the main...

    Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge