Asian Studies: Asian Social Policy

By Yasuko Kameyama

Amidst growing environmental concerns worldwide, Japan is seen as particularly vulnerable to the effects of changing climate. This book considers Japan’s response to the climate change problem from the late 1980s up to the present day, assessing how the Japanese government’s policy-making…

Paperback – 2019-05-01 
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Routledge Studies in Asia and the Environment

By Jessica Walton

This book investigates the experiences of South Koreans adopted into Western families and the complexity of what it means to ‘feel identity’ beyond what is written in official adoption files. Korean Adoptees and Transnational Adoption is based on ethnographic fieldwork in South Korea and…

Hardback – 2019-04-10 
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Routledge Advances in Korean Studies

By Mom Bishwakarma

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the interrelationship between long-standing caste discrimination in Nepal, its vicious circle of impact to the Dalit groups and the changes brought by the recent political transformations. It explores the links between identity politics, Dalit struggle and…

Hardback – 2019-03-21 
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Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

Edited by Christian Aspalter, Kenny Teguh Pribadi

In recent years, government and policymakers around the world have shifted their attention away from money-oriented, supply-side economics to institutional economics and people-oriented social and economic development. Issues such as poverty reduction, win-win solutions and strategies in social…

Paperback – 2019-01-17
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Edited by Carole Zufferey, Nilan Yu

Across the Asia Pacific, there are a vast range of experiences of homelessness and an equally diverse range of responses from state systems. Since understandings of homelessness are also heavily dependent on geographical, cultural, and historical contexts, attitudes towards it as a ‘social problem’…

Paperback – 2019-01-17
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By Pál Nyíri, Igor Saveliev

This title was first published in 2003. Globalizing Chinese Migration is the first volume to deal comprehensively with the most recent wave of the migration from the People's Republic of China to Europe and Asia. By analyzing the Chinese state’s role in this migration, the authors dismiss as…

Paperback – 2019-01-14
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Routledge Revivals

By Peter Nan-shong Lee

Presenting a comprehensive examination of China’s medical care system, this book tackles issues of policymaking, organization, management and financing in the context of the provision of affordable care in China. Making use of extensive field investigations, interviews and a thorough analysis of…

Hardback – 2018-12-17
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Routledge Contemporary China Series

Edited by Ashok K. Pankaj, Ajit K. Pandey

The linguistic origin of the term Dalit is Marathi, and pre-dates the militant-intellectual Dalit Panthers movement of the 1970s. It was not in popular use till the last quarter of the 20th century, the origin of the term Dalit, although in the 1930s, it was used as Marathi-Hindi translation of the…

Hardback – 2018-11-05
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Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

Edited by Anqi XU, John DeFrain, Wenrong LIU

The Chinese economy is undergoing dramatic changes and the world is watching and changing along with it. The Chinese family is also changing in many ways in response to the economic transformation that is moving the world’s most populous nation from an agrarian economy to a global superpower. This…

Paperback – 2018-08-14
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Edited by David Bray, Elaine Jeffreys

China continues to transform apace, flowing from the forces of deregulation, privatization and globalization unleashed by economic reforms which began in late 1978. The dramatic scope of economic change in China is often counterposed to the apparent lack of political change as demonstrated by…

Paperback – 2018-08-14
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By Pál Nyíri, Igor Saveliev

This title was first published in 2003. Globalizing Chinese Migration is the first volume to deal comprehensively with the most recent wave of the migration from the People's Republic of China to Europe and Asia. By analyzing the Chinese state’s role in this migration, the authors dismiss as…

Hardback – 2018-08-06
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Routledge Revivals

By Enshen Li

Punishment in contemporary China has experienced dramatic shifts over the last seven decades or so. This book focuses on the evolution, development and change of punishment in the Maoist (1949-1977), reform (1978-2001) and post-reform eras (2002-) of China to understand the shaping and…

Hardback – 2018-07-09
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Routledge Studies in Crime and Justice in Asia and the Global South