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Routledge Contemporary Asia Series


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The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of contemporary Asia.

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Varieties of Civil Society Across Asia

Varieties of Civil Society Across Asia

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Edited By Akihiro Ogawa, Anthony Spires
August 09, 2024

This book explores civil societies with distinct characteristics in Asian countries and regions to redefine the dynamic and interconnected formation that is Asia. This book documents how civil society organizations, such as charities and foundations, across Asia which have traditionally been ...

Asianization of Asia

Asianization of Asia

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Edited By Chang Kyung-Sup, Kim Taekyoon, Lee Joonkoo
June 21, 2024

This book explores the Asianization of contemporary Asia, a trend which through neoliberal economic globalism has diluted the political effect of the EuroAmerican dictated segmentation of Asia and instead facilitated and accelerated socioeconomic exchanges and collaborations among Asian nations ...

Creationism in a South Korean Culture Science, Religion, and the Struggle against Evolution

Creationism in a South Korean Culture: Science, Religion, and the Struggle against Evolution

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By Hyung Wook Park
June 07, 2024

Park investigates the unexpected success of early Korean creationists, who were mostly scientists, and argues that creationism is not a product of the lack of intelligence or proper scientific education, but a consequence of more profound social developments in the twentieth and twenty-first ...

Asian Sound Cultures Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology

Asian Sound Cultures: Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology

1st Edition

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Edited By Iris Haukamp, Christin Hoene, Martyn Smith
May 27, 2024

This book examines the meanings, uses, and agency of voice, noise, sound, and sound technologies across Asia. Including a series of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary case studies, the book reveals sound as central to the experience of modernity in Asia and as essential to the understanding of the ...

Indigenous Reconciliation in Contemporary Taiwan From Stigma to Hope

Indigenous Reconciliation in Contemporary Taiwan: From Stigma to Hope

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Edited By Scott E. Simon, Jolan Hsieh, Peter Kang
May 27, 2024

This book draws attention to the issues of Indigenous justice and reconciliation in Taiwan, exploring how Indigenous actors affirm their rights through explicitly political and legal strategies, but also through subtle forms of justice work in films, language instruction, museums, and handicraft ...

Memory and Fabrication in East Asian Visual Culture Ruinous Garden

Memory and Fabrication in East Asian Visual Culture: Ruinous Garden

1st Edition

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By Dennitza Gabrakova
April 30, 2024

This book examines four contemporary sites of visual culture in East Asia through the poetic prism of the “ruinous garden.” Framing destroyed, discarded, and displaced material objects within a rhetoric of development and relating this to the experience of ethnic/national culture, the book presents...

Air Pollution Governance in East Asia

Air Pollution Governance in East Asia

1st Edition

Edited By Kuei-tien Chou, Koichi Hasegawa, Dowan Ku, Shu-Fen Kao
January 29, 2024

Focusing on Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and Mainland China, the contributors to this book analyze various cases of air pollution within East Asia. Air pollution in East Asia is a major health risk, which also has damaging impacts on the environment leading to impacts on society, economic growth, ...

Authoritarianism and Civil Society in Asia

Authoritarianism and Civil Society in Asia

1st Edition

Edited By Anthony Spires, Akihiro Ogawa
January 29, 2024

This book represents a pioneering interdisciplinary effort to analyze Asian civil society under authoritarianism, a regime type that is re-appearing or deepening after several decades of increased political liberalization. By organizing its approach into four main themes, this volume succinctly ...

Asia’s Heritage Trend Examining Asia’s Present through Its Past

Asia’s Heritage Trend: Examining Asia’s Present through Its Past

1st Edition

Edited By Jongil Kim, Minjae Zoh
September 20, 2023

Kim and Zoh bring together a team of contributors to analyse the role of heritage studies across Asia, and its impact on Asia and its constituent countries. Is there such a thing as ‘Asian heritage’? Is it more helpful to understand Asia as a single unit, or as a set of sub- regions? What can we ...

Knowledge Production and Epistemic Decolonization at the End of Pax Americana

Knowledge Production and Epistemic Decolonization at the End of Pax Americana

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Edited By Naoki Sakai, Jon Solomon, Peter Button
July 21, 2023

This book critically analyzes the global hegemony of the United States – a hegemony whose innovative aspect consists in articulating postcoloniality to imperial control – in relation to knowledge and knowledge production. Through targeted case studies on the historical relationship between regional...

Memory, Trauma, Asia Recall, Affect, and Orientalism in Contemporary Narratives

Memory, Trauma, Asia: Recall, Affect, and Orientalism in Contemporary Narratives

1st Edition

Edited By Rahul K. Gairola, Sharanya Jayawickrama
May 31, 2023

The contributors to this volume re-think established insights of memory and trauma theory and enrich those studies with diverse Asian texts, critically analyzing literary and cultural representations of Asia and its global diasporas. They broaden the scope of memory and trauma studies by examining ...

Whole Person Education in East Asian Universities Perspectives from Philosophy and Beyond

Whole Person Education in East Asian Universities: Perspectives from Philosophy and Beyond

1st Edition

Edited By Benedict S. B. Chan, Victor C. M. Chan
May 31, 2023

This book provides much new thinking on the phenomenon of whole-person education, a phenomenon which features strongly in East Asian universities, and which aims to develop students intellectually, spiritually, and ethically, to master critical thinking skills, to explore ethical challenges in the ...

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