Hong Kong, China

Learning to belong to a nation

By Gordon Mathews, Eric Ma, Tai-Lok Lui

The idea of ‘national identity’ is an ambiguous one for Hong Kong. Returned to the national embrace of China on 1 July 1997 after 150...

Published July 20th 2008 by Routledge.

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Love in Modern Japan

Its Estrangement from Self, Sex and Society

By Sonia Ryang

This compelling and controversial book places the concept of love in both a social and historical context. Taking an approach in which state formation and...

Published July 9th 2008 by Routledge.

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Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World

Global Politics of Medical Knowledge and Practice

Edited by Laurent Pordié

The popularity of Tibetan medicine plays a central role in the international market for alternative medicine and has been increasing and extending far beyond its...

Published January 22nd 2008 by Routledge.

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Modern Japanese Culture and Society

By D.P. Martinez

Since the end of the 1980s, scholarly work on Japan has attempted to escape the bounds of the previous discourse that continuously described it as...

Published May 3rd 2007 by Routledge.

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China's New Consumers

Social Development and Domestic Demand

By Elisabeth Croll

Exploring China's consumer revolution over the past three decades, this book shows a continuing cycle leading to excess supply and disappointing demand, at the centre...

Published September 29th 2006 by Routledge.

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Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy

Essays in Honour of Jan van Bremen

Edited by Joy Hendry, Heung Wah Wong

It has been customary in the appraisal of the different approaches to the study of Japan anthropology to invoke an East-West dichotomy positing hegemonic ‘Western’...

Published August 1st 2006 by Routledge.

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Japanese Diasporas

Unsung Pasts, Conflicting Presents and Uncertain Futures

Edited by Nobuko Adachi

Japanese Diasporas examines the relationship of overseas Japanese and their descendents (Nikkei) with their home and host nations, focusing on the political, social and economic struggles...

Published April 20th 2006 by Routledge.

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The Resurgence of East Asia

500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives

Edited by Giovanni Arrighi, Takeshi Hamashita, Mark Selden

The East Asian expansion since the 1960s stands out as a global power shift with few historical precedents. The Resurgence of East Asia examines the...

Published June 12th 2003 by Routledge.

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