Hartley Barbara - Girl Reading Girl in Japan

Edited by Mark Selden, Cornell University, USA

The books in this series explore the political, social, economic and cultural consequences of Asia's transformations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The series emphasizes the tumultuous interplay of local, national, regional and global forces as Asia bids to become the hub of the world economy. While focusing on the contemporary, it also looks back to analyze the antecedents of Asia's contested rise.

This series comprises several strands:

Asias Transformations aims to address the needs of students and teachers. Titles include:

Debating Human Rights
Critical essays from the United
States and Asia
Edited by Peter Van Ness

Hong Kong's History
State and society under colonial rule
Edited by Tak-Wing Ngo

Japan's Comfort Women
Sexual slavery and prostitution
during World War II and the US
occupation
Yuki Tanaka

Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy
Carl A. Trocki

Chinese Society
Change, conflict and resistance
Edited by Elizabeth J. Perry and
Mark Selden

Mao's Children in the New China
Voices from the Red Guard
generation
Yarong Jiang and David Ashley

Remaking the Chinese State
Strategies, society and security
Edited by Chien-min Chao and
Bruce J. Dickson

Korean Society
Civil society, democracy and
the state
Edited by Charles K. Armstrong

The Making of Modern Korea
Adrian Buzo

The Resurgence of East Asia
500, 150 and 50 Year perspectives
Edited by Giovanni Arrighi, Takeshi
Hamashita and Mark Selden

Chinese Society, second edition
Change, conflict and resistance
Edited by Elizabeth J. Perry and
Mark Selden

Ethnicity in Asia
Edited by Colin Mackerras

The Battle for Asia
From decolonization to
globalization
Mark T. Berger

State and Society in 21st Century China
Edited by Peter Hays Gries and
Stanley Rosen

Japan's Quiet Transformation
Social change and civil society in
the 21st century
Jeff Kingston

Confronting the Bush Doctrine
Critical views from the Asia-Pacific
Edited by Mel Gurtov and
Peter Van Ness

China in War and Revolution, 18951949
Peter Zarrow

The Future of USKorean Relations
The imbalance of power
Edited by John Feffer

Working in China
Ethnographies of labor and
workplace transformations
Edited by Ching Kwan Lee

Korean Society, second edition
Civil society, democracy and the
state
Edited by Charles K. Armstrong

Singapore
The state and the culture of excess
Souchou Yao

Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese
History
Colonialism, regionalism and
borders
Edited by Sven Saaler and
J. Victor Koschmann

The Making of Modern Korea, second edition
Adrian Buzo

Re-writing Culture in Taiwan
Edited by Fang-long Shih,
Stuart Thompson, and
Paul-Franois Tremlett

Girl Reading Girl in Japan
Edited by Tomoko Aoyama and
Barbara Hartley

Asias Great Cities

Each volume aims to capture the heartbeat of the contemporary city from multiple perspectives emblematic of the authors own deep familiarity with the distinctive faces of the city, its history, society, culture, politics and economics, and its evolving position in national, regional and global frameworks. While most volumes emphasize urban developments since the Second World War, some pay close attention to the legacy of the longue dure in shaping the contemporary. Thematic and comparative volumes address such themes as urbanization, economic and financial linkages, architecture and space, wealthand power, gendered relationships, planning and anarchy, and ethnographies in national and regional perspective.

Titles include:

Bangkok
Place, practice and representation
Marc Askew

Hong Kong
Global city
Stephen Chiu and Tai-Lok Lui

Representing Calcutta
Modernity, nationalism and the colonial uncanny
Swati Chattopadhyay

Singapore
Wealth, power and the culture of control
Carl A. Trocki

The City in South Asia
James Heitzman

Global Shanghai, 18502010
A history in fragments
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

Asia.com is a series which focuses on the ways in which new information and communication technologies are influencing politics, society and culture in Asia.

Titles include:

Japanese Cybercultures
Edited by Mark McLelland and
Nanette Gottlieb

asia.com
Asia encounters the Internet
Edited by K. C. Ho, Randolph
Kluver and Kenneth C. C. Yang

The Internet in Indonesia's New Democracy
David T. Hill and Krishna Sen

Chinese Cyberspaces
Technological changes and political
effects
Edited by Jens Damm and Simona
Thomas

Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific
Gender and the art of being mobile
Larissa Hjorth

Literature and Society is a series that seeks to demonstrate the ways in which Asian Literature is influenced by the politics, society and culture in which it is produced. Titles include:

The Body in Postwar Japanese Fiction
Edited by Douglas N. Slaymaker

Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 190548
Haiping Yan

Routledge Studies in Asias Transformations is a forum for innovative new research intended for a high-level specialist readership, and the titles will be available in hardback only. Titles include: