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Asia's Transformations

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Re-writing Culture in Taiwan

Edited by Fang-Long Shih, Stuart Thompson, Paul Tremlett

This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting…

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November 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46666-0 (Routledge)

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The Making of Modern Korea

By Adrian Buzo

This fully updated second edition of The Making of Modern Korea provides a thorough, balanced and engaging history of Korea from 1910 to the present…

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2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41483-8 (Routledge)

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Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History

Colonialism, Regionalism and Borders

Edited by Sven Saaler, J. Victor Koschmann

Regionalism has played an increasingly important role in the changing international relations of East Asia in recent decades, with early signs of integration and growing…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-37216-9 (Routledge)

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Singapore

The State and the Culture of Excess

By Souchou Yao

Taking ideas and frameworks from philosophy, psychology, political science, cultural studies and anthropology, this book tells the larger ‘truth’ about the Singapore state. This book…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41712-9 (Routledge)

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Korean Society

Civil Society, Democracy and the State

Edited by Charles K. Armstrong

While most analyses of Korean politics have looked to elites to explain political change, this new and revised edition of Korean Society examines the role…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77058-3 (Routledge)

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Korean Society

Civil Society, Democracy and the State

Edited by Charles K. Armstrong

While most analyses of Korean politics have looked to elites to explain political change, this new and revised edition of Korean Society examines the role…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77057-6 (Routledge)

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Working in China

Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation

Edited by Ching Kwan Lee

After a quarter of a century of market reform, China has become the workshop of the world and the leading growth engine of the global…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77000-2 (Routledge)

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The Future of US-Korean Relations

The Imbalance of Power

Edited by John Feffer

US relations with North and South Korea have been characterized by profound asymmetries of power and perception which in recent years have led to increased…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77038-5 (Routledge)

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China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949

By Peter Zarrow

Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text presents a nation's story of trauma and growth during the early twentieth century.…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36448-5 (Routledge)

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Confronting the Bush Doctrine

Critical Views from the Asia-Pacific

Edited by Melvin Gurtov, Peter Van Ness

There is no doubt that President George W. Bush and his administration have transformed US foreign policy and reshaped global international relations in a very…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35534-6 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

The Struggle for Rangoon: Revolutionary Nationalism and Military Rule in Burma's Capital
By Donald Seekins
To be published October 31st 2009

Reclaiming Chinese Society
Edited by You-tien Hsing, Ching Kwan Lee
To be published June 15th 2009