Books in the Routledge Contemporary Asia Series series

Explains the changing pattern of contentious politics in the democratization process of the two city-states Singapore and Hong Kong. This book explores the causal connections between popular contention and democratization by applying a multi-disciplinary approach, using theoretical insights from the political sciences, sociology and psychology.

Reveals the problems facing knowledge transfer, such as persisting difficulties in communication, technology transfer, and indigenous learning in regional nodes of Nikkei Value Chains and the persistence of earlier patterns of hierarchical coordination in information flows despite the shift towards more horizontal network organization.

What have we learned from the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis? Do Thailand's problems suggest that other countries have not learned the appropriate lessons, nor implemented sufficiently corrective measures? This book provides an overview of developments in the main affected countries during the 1997 Asian financial crisis.

Explores the trends of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Asia and their effects on multilateral regulation of FDI. This book reviews the increasing attraction of FDI and the rise of Asian transnational corporations (TNCs) from an economic perspective. It is suitable for postgraduates in Asian studies, Asian economics and international economics.

Investigates the features of regionalism from a comparative perspective, looking at economic and currency cooperation and comparing Asian regionalism with Europe and Latin America. This book looks at the legal features of regionalism. It suggests an essential groundwork for the institutionalisation of an East Asian Community.

Deals with the role of Taiwan's leadership politics in the development of Taiwan's mainland policy and the consequences for US-Taiwan relations.

Applying theories to concrete phenomena, this title provides a comprehensive understanding of inter-regionalism and how co-operation between Asia and Europe should be fashioned. It is intended for graduates and researchers in the fields of international relations, international economics, regional integration, and interregionalism.

Despite intensified governmental and public efforts at corruption control, official transgression continues to surface in various ways of abusing the unique power that a government holds. Focusing on institutional designs and policy choices, this book examines various aspects of clean government.

Investigates human genetic biobanking and its regulation in various Asian countries and areas, including Japan, Taiwan, and India. This volume focuses on how cultural, socio-political and economic factors influence the set-up of bioethical regulation for human genetic biobanks and how bioethical sensitivities surrounding biobanks are handled.

Examines the causes of Taiwan's environmental predicament, engaging in Taiwan's unique geological, historical and economic circumstances. Assessing the efforts of the government, NGOs and private citizens to create a "green" environmentally sustainable island, this work discusses what can be done to improve Taiwan's environmental future.

Explores how and why civic spaces are used by different communities in Asia and what role urban governance and public participation play in the support or demise of communities. This book provides insights into the importance and value of civic space. It is suitable for those interested in urban planning, urban design, as well as Asian studies.

Provides an ethno-historical study of the trade system in Ladakh (India), a busy entrepot for Silk Route trade between Central and South Asia. This work details the social lives of historical Ladakhi traders and identifying their community as a cosmopolitan social group.

This analysis of the evolving Sino-Russian relationship addresses global strategy, energy politics, national security, and Central Asian links. The book will provide a profile of current Sino-Russian relations as well as in-depth treatment of their background and global ramifications.

The purpose of this volume is to highlight the impacts on civic engagement of social capital, and its various component parts (trust, norms, networks and associations), in diverse parts of Asia. Addressing the pressing need for improved governance within the spatial, political and cultural realities in the rapidly transforming landscapes of Asia the contributors to the book bring together interdisciplinary work that focuses on the ways in which civic engagement can link with social capital building efforts, particularly in terms of enhancing the interaction between state and community efforts, to create vibrant societies.

This book tackles the important issue of what happened to Asia's political systems after the fall of various political strongmen. It is generally assumed that once strongmen who dictate a nations' politics with a dictatorial or authoritarian fashion fall, the political landscape then drastically changes and the prospects for democracy comes in a matter of time. As the contributors of this book show, the stories were not so simple and straightforward in the contexts of Northeast and Southeast Asia. Democratic governance is only one of the three possible and feasible outcomes, the other two outcomes are either a weakening/ unstable political leadership or a sustained authoritarian system.

Documents urban experiences of dissent and resistance against disjunctive global and local capital, technology and labor flows that converge in some of Asia's fastest growing cities. This book presents ways in which people are using strategies embedded in cultural practice to challenge dominant socio-economic forces impacting on urban space.

Covering the diversity of climate change governance in Asia, this book presents cosmopolitan governance from the perspective of urban and rural communities, local and central governments, state-society relations and international relations.

With a particular focus on international policy and practice, this book builds upon current scholarship of homelessness across the Asia Pacific. Through examining and comparing a range of state responses, it explores the differing definitions and lived experiences of the issue in a number of countries, including Japan, China, India and Australia.

An intervention in one of the most fundamental debates confronting the social science and humanities, namely how to understand global and local historical processes as interconnected developments affecting human actors.

This thought-provoking book defines land grabbing, and examines aspects of the land grabs phenomenon in seven Asian countries. It provides unique perspectives on how and why land grabbing is practised in China, India, Pakistan, Cambodia, Malaysia, Myanmar and Indonesia, and explores the surprising role that law plays in facilitating and legitimizing land grabs in each country. Finding that Asian States need to move beyond existing regimes that govern land to a regime that encourages more equitable land rights allocation and protection of stakeholders¿ rights, the book urges further research in the nexus between the use of law to facilitate development.This book was facilitated by grant No. R-241-000-116-112 (Ministry of Education, Singapore, and NUS Academic Research Fund).

Placing sex acts in Asia at the forefront of historical investigation, this book explores the history of sodomy and other so-called transgressive sexual practices, such as anal sex, same-sex erotic encounters, pederasty, bestiality, incest, transgenderism, and oral sex, in East, Southeast and South Asia.

This book assesses the varying interests of China and India in economics, environment, energy, and water and addresses the possibility of cooperation in these domains. Containing analyses by leading authorities on China and India, it analyses the nature of existing and emerging conflict, describes the extent of cooperation, and suggests possibilities for collaboration in the future. This book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Asian Studies, International Relations, and Asian Politics.

This book assesses the varying interests of China and India in economics, environment, energy, and water and addresses the possibility of cooperation in these domains. Containing analyses by leading authorities on China and India, it analyses the nature of existing and emerging conflict, describes the extent of cooperation, and suggests possibilities for collaboration in the future. This book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Asian Studies, International Relations, and Asian Politics.