Book Series in Asian Studies

East Asia

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South-South Transfer

A Study of Sino-African Exchanges

By Sandra Gillespie

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2001 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3870-3 (Routledge)

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The Origins of the Bilateral Okinawa Problem

Okinawa in Postwar US-Japan Relations, 1945-1952

By Robert D. Eldridge

Using a multi-national and multi-archival approach to this diplomatic history study, the author examines comprehensively and in great detail for the first time the origins…

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2001 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3948-9 (Routledge)

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The Roots of Japan's Environmental Policies

By Anny Wong

The study focuses on Japan's policies toward international environmental issues and includes case studies on whaling, deforestation in the tropics, and acid deposition in Asia.…

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2001 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3950-2 (Routledge)

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Mao's Prey

The History of Chen Renbing, Liberal Intellectual

By Jeanette Ford Fernandez

A study of the important Chinese intellectual, Chen Renbing, this book explores his dealings with the Communist party after the 1949 revolution. The author uses…

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2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3949-6 (Routledge)

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The Unknown Cultural Revolution

Educational Reforms and Their Impact on China's Rural Development, 1966-1976

By Dongping Han

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2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3906-9 (Routledge)

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Problems of Democratization in China

By Thomas G. Lum

While evaluating competing theories of why countries become democratic, this study argues why China has not democratized. Also discusses are the Communist Party's methods of…

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2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3871-0 (Routledge)

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Modern Education, Textbooks, and the Image of the Nation

Politics and Modernization and Nationalism in Korean Education: 1880-1910

By Yoonmi Lee

By reinterpreting the way that Korean reformers confronted the process of modernization/Westernization between 1880 and 1910, this study challenges the "failure thesis" which maintains that…

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2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3874-1 (Routledge)

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