The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of contemporary Asia.
By Hyungkee Kim
February 24, 2023
Hyungkee Kim analyses the model of East Asian development as it existed during periods of high growth and how it was transformed by pressures from both the Washington consensus and its own internal contradictions. Many have discussed the successes and failures of the East Asian model, but Kim is ...
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By Simon Avenell, Akihiro Ogawa
January 09, 2023
This edited volume addresses how transnational interactions among civil society actors in Asia and its sub-regions are helping to strengthen common democratic values and transform dominant processes of policymaking and corporate capitalism in the region. The contributors conceive of transnational ...
By Dennitza Gabrakova
November 18, 2022
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...
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By Scott E. Simon, Jolan Hsieh, Peter Kang
November 04, 2022
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 ...
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By Iris Haukamp, Christin Hoene, Martyn Smith
August 22, 2022
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 ...
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By Anthony Spires, Akihiro Ogawa
July 08, 2022
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 ...
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By Kuei-Tien Chou, Koichi Hasegawa, Dowan Ku, Shu-Fen Kao
May 06, 2022
Asian countries are among the largest contributors to climate change. China, India, Japan and South Korea are among the top ten largest carbon emitters in the world, with South Korea, Japan and Taiwan also some of the largest on a per capita basis. At the same time, many Asian countries, notably ...
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By Kuei-tien Chou, Koichi Hasegawa, Dowan Ku, Shu-Fen Kao
April 15, 2022
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, ...
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By Benedict S. B. Chan, Victor C. M. Chan
September 09, 2021
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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By Rahul K. Gairola, Sharanya Jayawickrama
February 08, 2021
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 ...
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By Claudia Dolezal, Alexander Trupp, Huong T. Bui
April 07, 2020
This book analyses the role tourism plays for sustainable development in Southeast Asia. It seeks to assesses tourism’s impact on residents and localities across the region by critically debating and offering new understandings of its dynamics on the global and local levels. Offering a myriad of ...
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By Hitoshi Tanaka
April 07, 2020
In the twenty-first century, East Asia has been increasingly marked both by tensions at a government level and a chauvinistic mood among the polity. While China’s rise is in one respect the proximate driver of these changes in tone, it draws on a range of unresolved grievances among the respective ...
