Book Series in Asian Studies

Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship

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The Global and Regional in China’s Nation-Formation

By Prasenjit Duara

China’s history tends to be studied from a national perspective only. The Global and Regional in China’s Nation-Formation attempts to train our eyes to see…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48290-5 (Routledge)

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China, East Asia and the Global Economy

Regional and Historical Perspectives

By Takeshi Hamashita

Takeshi Hamashita, arguably Asia's premier historian of the longue durée, has been instrumental in opening a new field of inquiry in Chinese, East Asian and…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46459-8 (Routledge)

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The Chinese State in Ming Society

By Timothy Brook

The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between state and society in Chinese history. This unique collection…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34507-1 (Routledge)

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China's Past, China's Future

By Vaclav Smil

China has a population of 1.3 billion people which puts strain on her natural resources. This volume, by one of the leading scholars on the…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31499-2 (Routledge)

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China Unbound

Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past

By Paul A. Cohen

This volume contains a number of articles on modern Chinese history and historiography written by one of the leading academic experts on the subject. The…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-29823-0 (Routledge)

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Southeast Asia

A Testament

By George McT. Kahin

Southeast Asia: A Testament covers the tragic history of post war Indonesia from its successful struggle against the Dutch to Suharto's bloody overthrow of Sukarno…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-29976-3 (Routledge)

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Women and the Family in Chinese History

By Patricia Ebrey

This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, Patricia Buckley. In the essays she has selected for…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28823-1 (Routledge)

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