Books in the Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship series

By one of the leading experts on modern Chinese history and historiography, this volume argues for fresh ways of approaching the Chinese past, spotlighting Western historians, Chinese historians, and the history itself.

China's population of 1.3 billion people puts strain on her natural resources. This account of the environmental challenges that China faces examines China's energy resources, their uses, impacts and prospects, from the 1970s oil crisis to the present and analyses the question of how China can best produce enough food to feed its population.

Takeshi Hamashita, arguably Asia's premier historian of the longue duree, has been instrumental in opening a new field of inquiry in Chinese, East Asian and world historical research. This book presents a selection of essays from Takeshi Hamashita's oeuvre on Asian trade to introduce this important historian's work.

Covers the major historical problems of China in the twentieth century, namely imperialism, nationalism, state-building, religion and the role of history. This book views imperialism and nationalism in China from the perspective of global and regional circulations and interactions.

This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, it explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems and places them in a historical context.

Southeast Asia: A Testament gives a personal account of the US involvement in Indochina and covers the tragic history of post war Indonesia from its successful struggle against the Dutch to Suharto's bloody overthrow of Sukarno in 1965.

The Ming dynasty era (1368-1644) saw the development of a relationship between the state and society that continues in China today. Brook argues that this was in response to changes in commercial relations and social networks, which created a stable society and a corresponding 'demand' for a stable government.