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  • Activism and Authoritarian Governance in Asia

    Edited by Amy Barrow, Sara Fuller ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    This interdisciplinary book offers a new analysis of the concepts, spaces, and practices of activism that emerge under diverse authoritarian modes of governance in Asia.Demonstrating the limitations of existing conceptual approaches in accounting for activism in Asia, the book also offers new understandings of authoritarian governance practices and how these shape state-civil society relations. In ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Gender, Violence and the State in Asia

    Edited by Amy Barrow, Joy L. Chia ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series
    While gender-based violence occurs in all societies irrespective of the level of development or cultural setting, whether in conflict or peacetime, the challenges for legal responses to gender-based violence are particularly acute in Asia. This bookaddresses the lack of academic discourse on gender-based violence in Asia beyond domestic violence, by demonstrating that gendered violence exists ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • What Does China Think?

    by Mark Leonard ...
    An invigorating book about the debates raging within China. We all know about the fast pace of change in this country. This book brings us the ideas being fought over in the country itself – from democracy to the idea of a ‘peaceful rise’. It challenges all of our assumptions about China.We know everything and nothing about China. We know that China is changing so fast that the maps in Shanghai ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Knowing China

    A Twenty-First Century Guide

    by Frank N. Pieke ...
    Contemporary China appears both deceptively familiar and inexplicably different. China is a cauldron of forms of entrepreneurship, social organization, ways of life and governance that are at once new and unique, recognizably Chinese and generically modern. In analyzing and interpreting these developments, Frank N. Pieke adopts a China-centric perspective to move beyond western preoccupations, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Goh Keng Swee: A Legacy Of Public Service

    by Emrys Myles Khean Aun Chew, Chong Guan Kwa ...
    Dr. Goh Keng Swee's extensive career as a public servant was dynamic as well as distinguished, in many ways decisively instrumental in the making of the Republic of Singapore. This distinctive collection of essays attempts an assessment of the long-term influence and significance of Dr. Goh's major contributions.Envisaged as a companion volume to Goh Keng Swee: A Public Career Remembered, this ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Transnational Migration and Work in Asia

    Edited by Kevin Hewison, Ken Young ...
    Series series Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series
    Focusing on the issues associated with migrating for work both in and from the Asian region, this book sheds light on the debate over migration and trafficking. With contributions from an international team of well-known scholars, the book sets labour migration firmly within the context of globalization, providing a focused, contemporary discussion of what is undoubtedly a major twenty-first ... Read more

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  • Governing Global-City Singapore

    Legacies and Futures After Lee Kuan Yew

    by Kenneth Paul Tan ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    This book provides a detailed analysis of how governance in Singapore has evolved since independence to become what it is today, and what its prospects might be in a post-Lee Kuan Yew future. Firstly, it discusses the question of political leadership, electoral dominance and legislative monopoly in Singapore’s one-party dominant system and the system’s durability. Secondly, it tracks developments ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Asian America

    by Pawan Dhingra, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez ...
    Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the country. Moreover, they provide a unique lens on the wider experiences of immigrants and minorities in the United States, both historically and today. Pawan Dhingra and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez’s acclaimed introduction to understanding this diverse group is here updated in a thoroughly revised new edition. Incorporating cutting-edge ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia

    Edited by Eva Hansson, Meredith L. Weiss ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia explores the nature and implications of civil society across the region, engaging systematically with both theoretical approaches and empirical nuance for a systematic, comparative, and informative approach.The handbook actively analyses the varying definitions of civil society, critiquing the inconsistent scrutiny of this ... Read more

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  • Online Chinese Nationalism and China's Bilateral Relations

    by Winnie King, Chun-wing Lee, Kai-chi Leung, Shih-diing Liu, Yaling Pan, James Reilly, Sow Keat Tok, Benson Wai-kwok Wong, Chun Zhang ...
    Series series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
    Since the Chinese were officially plugged into the virtual community in 1994, the usage of the internet in the country has developed at an incredible rate. By the end of 2008, there were approximately 298 million netizens in China, a number which surpasses that of the U.S. and ranks China the highest user in the world. The rapid development of the online Chinese community has not only boosted the ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Student Activism in Asia

    Between Protest and Powerlessness

    by Patricio N. Abinales, Stephan Ortmann ...
    Since World War II, students in East and Southeast Asia have led protest movements that toppled authoritarian regimes in countries such as Indonesia, South Korea, and Thailand. Elsewhere in the region, student protests have shaken regimes until they were brutally suppressed—most famously in China’s Tiananmen Square and in Burma. But despite their significance, these movements have received only a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • China's Media Go Global

    Edited by Daya Kishan Thussu, Hugo de Burgh, Anbin Shi ...
    Series series Internationalizing Media Studies
    As part of its ‘going out’ strategy, China is using the media to promote its views and vision to the wider world and to counter negative images in the US-dominated international media. China’s Media Go Global, the first edited collection on this subject, evaluates how the unprecedented expansion of Chinese media and communications is changing the global media landscape and the role of China within ... Read more

    $59.99 USD