The Battle for Asia

Mark T Berger

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• Asia has long been an ideological battleground between capitalism and communism, between nationalism and Westernisation and between the nation-state a... Lees meer

Confronting the Bush Doctrine

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• There is no doubt that President George W. Bush and his administration have transformed US foreign policy and reshaped global international relations ... Lees meer

Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki

Gwyn McClelland

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• On 9 th August 1945, the US dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Of the dead, approximately 8500 were Catholic Christians, representing over si... Lees meer

China

• Paperback | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• The Qing dynasty was China's last, and it created an empire of unprecedented size and prosperity. However in 1911 the empire collapsed within a few sh... Lees meer

Remaking the Chinese State

• Paperback | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• After more than twenty years of economic and political reform, China is a vastly different country to that left by Mao. Almost all the characteristic ... Lees meer

Literature After Fukushima

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• Literature after Fukushima examines how aesthetic representation contributes to a critical understanding of the 3.11 triple disaster - the Great East ... Lees meer

Learning Chinese, Turning Chinese

Edward McDonald

• Paperback | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• In this book Edward McDonald takes a fresh look at issues of language in Chinese studies. He takes the viewpoint of the university student of Chinese ... Lees meer

The Making of Modern Korea

Adrian Buzo

• Paperback | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• This fully updated third edition of The Making of Modern Korea provides a thorough, balanced and engaging history of Korea from 1876 to the present da... Lees meer

Debating Human Rights

• Paperback | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• Human rights debates can provoke strong reactions, particularly among people of different cultural backgrounds. The debate over Asian values and the u... Lees meer

Re-writing Culture in Taiwan

• Paperback | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• 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... Lees meer

Learning Chinese, Turning Chinese

Edward McDonald

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• In this book Edward McDonald takes a fresh look at issues of language in Chinese studies. He takes the viewpoint of the university student of Chinese ... Lees meer

East Asia Beyond the History Wars

Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Morris Low, Leonid Petrov, Timothy Y Tsu

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• East Asia is now the world's economic powerhouse, but ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region, particu... Lees meer

Chinese Society

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• This bestselling introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. Th... Lees meer

Mapping Modernity in Shanghai

Samuel Y Liang

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city's colonial capitalist dev... Lees meer

National Identity, Language and Education in Malaysia

Noriyuki Segawa

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• This book explores the ways in which language and education policies have contributed to the development of national integration in Malaysia, by exami... Lees meer

State, Society and the Market in Contemporary Vietnam

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• Lively debates around property, access to resources, legal rights, and the protection of livelihoods have unfolded in Vietnam since the economic refor... Lees meer

Chinese Politics

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• Written by a team of leading China scholars this text interrogates the dynamics of state power and legitimation in 21st Century China. Despite the con... Lees meer

Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• Prior to and during the Second World War, the Japanese Army established programs of biological warfare throughout China and elsewhere. In these "facto... Lees meer

State and Society in Modern Rangoon

Donald M Seekins

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• While most of Asia's major cities are increasingly homogenized by rapid economic growth and cultural globalization, Rangoon, which is Burma's former c... Lees meer

Mao's Children in the New China

Yarong Jiang, David Ashley

• Paperback | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• Around 18 million young Chinese people were sent to the countryside between 1966 and 1976 as part of the Cultural Revolution. Mao's Children in the Ne... Lees meer

Ethnicity in Asia

Colin Mackerras

• Paperback | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• This book is designed as a comprehensive comparative introduction to ethnicity in East and Southeast Asia since 1945. Each chapter covers a particular... Lees meer

Re-writing Culture in Taiwan

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• 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... Lees meer

State and Society in Modern Rangoon

Donald M Seekins

• Paperback | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• While most of Asia's major cities are increasingly homogenized by rapid economic growth and cultural globalization, Rangoon, which is Burma's former c... Lees meer

Transnational Trajectories in East Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia's Transformations
• In recent decades, East Asia has become increasingly interconnected through trade, investment, migration, and popular culture at regional and global l... Lees meer