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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.

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

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 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.

Applying established theories to concrete phenomena, Asian-European Relations provides a comprehensive understanding of inter-regionalism and how co-operation between Asia and Europe should be fashioned in the new millennium. It contributes to the most recent developments in research by providing impressively rich studies to test existing theoretical frameworks

This book offers a fresh and comparative approach in questioning what education is being used for and what the effects of the politicization of education are on Asian societies in the era of globalization.

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

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

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 examines interethic relationships between groups and the dynamics of exchange networks throughout Asia and includes case studies based in Vietnam, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Nepal, China, Indonesia, and Russia.

Bringing together perspectives from Economics, Development and Area Studies, Geography, Anthropology, and Sociology, the book provides local narratives that shed light on some of the different needs, situations, and realities of minority region development among countries in East and Southeast Asia.

This analysis of the evolving Sino-Russian relationship addresses global strategy, energy politics, national security, and Central Asian links. The book will provide a profile of current Sino-Russian relations as well as in-depth treatment of their background and global ramifications.

This book offers a timely analysis of the tripartite links between the middle class, civil society and democratic experiences in Northeast and Southeast Asia. Using national case studies, it provides a new comparative typological interpretation of the triple relationship in Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand.