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The transformation of Japan in the years between 1931 and 1945 into an expansionist and potentially hegemonic power that threatened the stability of the international order in East Asia is a topic that is central to any understanding of the region's history in the twentieth century. This book offers influential scholarship on the period.

Includes scholarly studies by Westerners on Mao Zedong's role in the Chinese Revolution. This book studies his role in the urban years, the rural period, the Japanese War, the Civil War, the 1950s, the deepening of the revolution under the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, and the final years.

Research on India has gone through a number of changes in focus and perspective. This title collects and organizes the scholarship on modern Indian culture and society. It provides writings on central dimensions of modern Indian culture and society.

Chinese society and its political system are predicated on traditions of governing that are deeply alien to most readers from liberal, Western powers. Providing a comprehensive introduction, this work collects the foundational scholarship on Mao-era and contemporary Chinese society and politics. It is of interest to scholars and students.

Drawing together the key research which has shaped the dynamic academic field that explores women's lives in the Asian region, this title surveys the major issues relating to women in the world's fastest changing and most culturally diverse region. It is of interest to scholars and students - as well as policy-makers and community activists.