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This book unpacks the organized sets of practices that govern contemporary Asian medicine from their production in the lab to their circulation within circuits and networks of all kinds and examines the plurality of actors involved in such governance.

This book analyses the mobilisation of race, rights and the law in Malaysia.

This book analyses the role tourism plays for sustainable development in Southeast Asia.

Hyungkee Kim analyses the model of East Asian development as it existed during periods of high growth and how it was transformed by pressures from both the Washington consensus and its own internal contradictions.

This book examines four contemporary sites of visual culture in East Asia through the poetic prism of the "ruinous garden".

This book draws attention to the issues of Indigenous justice and reconciliation in Taiwan, exploring how Indigenous actors affirm their rights through explicitly political and legal strategies, but also through subtle forms of justice work in films, language instruction, museums, and handicraft production.

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 book examines the meanings, uses, and agency of voice, noise, sound, and sound technologies across Asia.

This edited collection provides a timely review of the current state of hate speech research in Asia and Europe, through the comparative examples of Korea, Japan and France.

Focussing on Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and Mainland China, the contributors to this book analyse various cases of air pollution within East Asia. A valuable read for researchers and policy-makers looking at air pollution and transboundary governance challenges within and beyond East Asia.

This book brings together East Asian scholars from a range of academic disciplines, including China historians, political historians and political scientists to illuminate the interconnectedness of East Asia and discuss how a shared historical narrative might be constructed.

This book provides much new thinking on the phenomenon of whole person education, a phenomenon which features strongly in East Asian universities, and which aims to develop students intellectually, spiritually, and ethically, to master critical thinking skills.

This edited volume addresses how transnational interactions among civil society actors in Asia and its sub-regions are helping to strengthen common democratic values and transform dominant processes of policymaking and corporate capitalism in the region.

Examines Taiwan's economic diplomacy towards post-communist states in Central and Eastern Europe.

Soft power has tended to be overlooked in the field of international relations, often dismissed as lacking relevance or robustness as a theoretical concept. This book expands upon the idea of 'soft power' in international relations and investigates how it functions by looking at case studies in Japan-China relations during the post-war period.

Gives a critical assessment of the ASEM process, which brings together 27 EU members, the European Commission and 16 East Asian states, and examines its progress in terms of economic and social development, politics and culture.

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.

Analyses collaboration in the Greater Mekong Subregion, which is a manifestation of the so-called 'new regionalism' in growth triangles (GTs) in Northeast and Southeast Asia. This title explores inter-state cooperation and the role of subnational units and transnational actors (NGOs, firms) in building and maintaining the subregion.

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.