Asian Studies Catalogue 2023

ASIAN STUDIES

American literature

American literature

Langston Hughes in Context

Vera M. Kutzinski | Vanderbilt University, Tennessee

This volume is for students, scholars, and general readers interested in the many facets of Langston Hughes’s career. Reading essays that track his career from Harlem to the Caribbean, Europe, South America, Asia and the African continent, readers will come away with a different sense of the twentieth century.

Literature in Context

400pp Dec. 2022 9781316512128 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009057783

Race in American Literature and Culture

John Ernest | University of Delaware

A comprehensive, multicultural study of the influential and complex presence of race in American literature by top scholars in African American, Latinx, Asian American, Native American, and white American studies. It explores how this history has been represented in literature, and how those representations have influenced American culture.

466pp Jun. 2022 9781108487399 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108766654

Art Architecture

Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenthcentury Ottoman Empire

Patricia Blessing | Princeton University, New Jersey

This book examines how buildings and construction sites reflect shifting attitudes towards architectural practice, style, and representation in the fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire. The book demonstrates how workers from Anatolia, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, Iran and Central Asia participated in such construction projects.

296pp Aug. 2022 9781316517604 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009042727

British and

Irish

history

History of Britain after 1450

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How Central and South Asian Travelers Imagined the West, 1750–1857

Humberto Garcia

Examines how Central and South Asian travelers provincialized Britishness between 1750 and 1857 and how, by appropriating metropolitan media, they recalibrated Eurasian ways of behaving and knowing to counter a chauvinistic British imperialism with Indo-Persian masculine gentility.

Critical Perspectives on Empire 366pp

Nov. 2022 9781108797252 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Nov. 2022 9781108495646 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108862486

Classical studies

Ancient history

Thecla and Medieval Sainthood

The Acts of Paul and Thecla in Eastern and Western Hagiography

Ghazzal Dabiri | University of Maryland, College Park Saint Thecla, an immensely popular figure of early Christianity, inspired bishops, saints, emperors, church fathers, ordinary readers, and hagiographers who viewed her as an exemplary model. This volume explores the impact of her story on medieval hagiography written in a variety of languages across Eurasia and North Africa.

320pp May. 2022 9781316519219 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009008631

Earth and environmental science

Environmental policy, economics and law

Sustainable Development: Asia-Pacific Perspectives

Pak Sum Low

Issues of global change and sustainable development are of particular importance in the Asia-Pacific region given especially rapid development and population increase. This book presents chapters by leading international experts on global change and sustainable development and provides an invaluable reference for all researchers and policy makers in the region. 500pp 200 b/w illus.

Jan. 2022 9780521897174 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9780511977961

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Economics, business studies

Economic development and growth

The Connections World The Future of Asian Capitalism

Simon Commander

Asia’s economic resurgence has relied on networks of close ties between politicians and businesses. Yet this connections world now impedes critical innovation and job creation, whilst spawning huge inequality and risking political instability. A break with the connections world is needed if Asia’s claims to the 21st century are not to be derailed. 360pp 15 b/w illus. 10 colour illus.

Oct. 2022 9781009169790 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 Oct. 2022 9781009169776 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781009169783

The Great Upheaval

Resetting Development Policy and Institutions for the Decade of Action in Asia and the Pacific’ Swarnim Waglé

This volume examines the strengths of the AsianPacific response to the pandemic and weaknesses that the region must re-engineer to rebound. It reimagines social and economic pathways to revamp production modes and networks to rekindle sustainable growth. 426pp May. 2022 9781009224321 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781009224314

Macroeconomics and monetary economics

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Macroeconomics for Emerging East Asia

Calla Wiemer

Macroeconomics for Emerging East Asia presents a regionally tailored approach to the study of macroeconomic theory and policy. Concepts are illustrated using the latest empirical data and extensive case study analysis for 13 economies of Northeast and Southeast Asia.

400pp Oct. 2022 9781009152518 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 Oct. 2022 9781009152532 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009152525

Public economics and public policy

Rethinking Policy Piloting Insights from Indian Agriculture

Sreeja Nair

This book will be a useful reference material for students of public policy, public management, environmental policy and governance and agricultural risk management in India. Agriculture universities and policy think tanks in agrarian economies in Asia will particularly find insights on agriculture policy formulation useful.

192pp Feb. 2022 9781108840392 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108885867

English literature

Literary theory

Deep History, Climate Change, and the Evolution of Human Culture

Louise Westling | University of Oregon

This Element follows the development of humans in constantly changing climates and environments from Homo erectus 1.9 million years ago, to fully modern humans who moved out of Africa to Europe and Asia 70,000 years ago.

Elements in Environmental Humanities 75pp Sep. 2022 9781009257336 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009257343

European and world literature

European and world literature (general)

South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English

Roanne Kantor | Stanford University, California

This book traces an unexpected journey to Latin America for South Asian literature in English. It shows how this encounter fundamentally shaped the way in which South Asian literature exploded into popularity from the 1980s until the mid2000s.

Cambridge Studies in World Literature 274pp Feb. 2022 9781316510797 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009039727

European history

Russian, East European history

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The Russian Conquest of Central Asia

A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914 Alexander Morrison | New College, Oxford Russia’s conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century’s most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion.

Alexander Morrison provides a definitive diplomatic and military history, explaining how and why a vast region of steppe, desert, mountain and oasis, mainly populated by Muslims, came under Russian rule. 639pp Aug. 2022 9781107640177 Paperback GBP 35.99 / USD 54.99 Dec. 2020 9781107030305 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781139343381

Film, media and sport

Film, cinema

Evacuee Cinema

Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit, 1940–1960

Salma Siddique | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian history and popular culture. It examines partition’s impact on cultural production, based on hard to access archives and collections situated in India, Pakistan, United Kingdom and the United States.

Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches

285pp Nov. 2022 9781009151207 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009151214

History - cross discipline

Diplomatic, international history

The Tricontinental Revolution

Third World Radicalism and the Cold War R. Joseph Parrott | Ohio State University

The book provides a major reassessment of the global origins and impact of Tricontinentalism.

As Cold War interventions revealed the limits of decolonization, socialist revolutions in Asia, Africa, and Latin America used armed revolts and confrontational diplomacy to challenge the United States and the inequitable international system it supported.

Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations 313pp Jan. 2022 9781316519110 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009004824

Global history

Eurasian Musical Journeys

Five Tales

Gabriela Currie | University of Minnesota

Explores the circulation of musical instruments, practices, and thought in pre-modern Eurasia at the crossroads of empires and nomadic cultures. It considers the mechanisms of transmission, appropriation, adaptation, and integration that helped shape musical traditions perceived as culturally and geographically distinct yet are historically linked.

Elements in the Global Middle Ages

75pp May. 2022 9781108823296 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108913805

The Modern City in Asia

Kristin Stapleton | University at Buffalo, State University of New York

This Element analyzes how concepts and practices associated with the ‘modern city’ were received, transformed, and contested in Asia over the past 150 years.

Elements in Global Urban History 75pp

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The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750

David Veevers | Queen Mary University of London

This is a revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period.

David Veevers shows that it was the integration of Europeans into non-European economies, states and societies which was central to British imperial and commercial success rather than national or mercantilist enterprise. 309pp 4 maps Mar. 2022 9781108705646 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Jun. 2020 9781108483957 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108669344

Military history

An Army of Influence

Eighty Years of Regional Engagement

Craig Stockings | University of New South Wales, Sydney The importance of regional cooperation is becoming more apparent as the world moves into the third decade of the 21st century. An Army of Influence is a thought-provoking analysis of the Australian Army’s capacity to change, with a particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region. 352pp Apr. 2022 9781316514399 Hardback GBP 44.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781009086929

History - other areas

East Asian history

Bronze Age Maritime and Warrior Dynamics in Island East Asia

Mark Hudson

Recent interdisciplinary studies have provided a new perspective on the European Bronze Age. Hudson examines if these approaches can be applied to East Asia, analysing trade, maritime interactions and warrior culture in comparative Eurasian framework. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core. Elements in Ancient East Asia 75pp

Jul. 2022 9781108987318 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108982955

NEW IN PAPERBACK In the Shadow of the Mongol Empire

Ming China and Eurasia

David M. Robinson | Colgate University, New York

In 1368, at the founding of the Ming Dynasty, all Eurasia knew of the Mongol empire. The Ming used this to tell a story that ‘proved’ that their dynasty was the Mongols’ inevitable, legitimate successor. This study is for anyone interested in the Mongols, Chinese history, and the uses of historical memory. 386pp

Aug. 2022 9781108729338 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Nov. 2019 9781108482448 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108687645

Aug. 2022 9781108994927

Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108992947

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Korea and the Fall of the Mongol Empire

Alliance, Upheaval, and the Rise of a New East Asian Order

David M. Robinson | Colgate University, New York

David Robinson explores the collapse of the Mongol empire and the rise of its successors across Eurasia through the experiences of King Gongmin of Goryeo. Charting the way this East Asian ruler navigated the upheavals of the mid-fourteenth century, Robinson offers a fresh perspective on a transformative period of history.

327pp Mar. 2022 9781009098960 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009106672

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Soju

A Global History

Hyunhee Park | City University of New York

The first global study of the distinctive Korean soju beverage. Tracing the history of soju from the premodern world to the twenty-first century, Hyunhee Park provides fascinating new insights into the transfer of technology, flows of trade, cross-cultural encounters, and Korea’s place in Eurasian history.

Asian Connections

297pp

Aug. 2022 9781108816113 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Feb. 2021 9781108842013 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108895774

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The Nanyang Revolution

The Comintern and Chinese Networks in Southeast Asia, 1890–1957

Anna Belogurova | Freie Universität Berlin

An innovative analysis of the Malayan Communist Party in the context of the emergence of nationalism in Southeast Asia and the interplay of overseas Chinese networks and the Comintern.

Based on new archival research, Belogurova provides fresh international perspectives on the history of Malaysia, Chinese communism, the Cold War, and decolonization.

277pp 8 b/w illus. 2 tables

Oct. 2022 9781108458184 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Sep. 2019 9781108471657 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108635059

Violence and the Rise of Centralized States in East Asia

Mark Edward Lewis | Stanford University, California

This Element examines how states in ancient East Asia wielded violence to create and display authority. It also explores how their licit violence was entangled in the violence whose suppression justified their power, suggesting that violence is a version of the problem it claims to solve.

Elements in Ancient East Asia

75pp Mar. 2022 9781108972147 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108975551

History (general) after 1500

The Cambridge History of Socialism

Marcel van der Linden | International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam

Volume I describes the various movements and thinkers who wanted social change without state intervention, and includes egalitarianism, utopian and early socialism, anarchism and syndicalism. It covers cases in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. A work intended for a general, educated readership and for all those interested in socialism.

The Cambridge History of Socialism 685pp Nov. 2022 9781108481342 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781108611022

South Asian history

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Boundaries of Belonging

Localities, Citizenship and Rights in India and Pakistan

Sarah Ansari | Royal Holloway, University of London Boundaries of Belonging explores citizenship, rights and belonging in post-Independence South Asia. Focusing on Uttar Pradesh, India and Sindh, Pakistan, and investigating citizenship’s meanings for ordinary people, Ansari and Gould suggest key commonalities and even interdependence between regions and cities of each state.

334pp 15 b/w illus. 3 maps Oct. 2022 9781316647172 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Oct. 2019 9781107196056 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108164511

Paper, Performance, and the State

Social Change and Political Culture in Mughal India

Farhat Hasan | University of Delhi

Looking at the political processes in early modern South Asia as shaped by state formation from below, this work argues that, outside the imperial and trans-regional contexts, the Mughal state subsisted on the mutually-empowering relations with the elites and common people.

168pp Feb. 2022 9781316516812 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009025256

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Revolutionary Pasts

Communist Internationalism in Colonial India

Ali Raza | Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan

In this history of the communist movement in South Asia from the eve of the First World War to Independence, Ali Raza reveals the lives, dreams, geographies, and anti-colonial struggles of Indian revolutionaries and their utopian visions of remaking the world.

296pp

Oct. 2022 9781108741491 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Apr. 2020 9781108481847 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108693875

South-East Asian history

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Pirates of Empire

Colonisation and Maritime Violence in Southeast Asia

Stefan

Eklöf Amirell

The suppression of piracy and maritime raiding was a keystone in the colonisation of Southeast Asia. This comparative study in colonial history explores how piracy was defined, contested and used to resist or justify colonial expansion, particularly from c.1850 to c.1920. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. 276pp

Oct. 2022 9781108706100 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Aug. 2019 9781108484213 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108594516

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The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia

A Cultural History

Marieke Bloembergen

This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, through the lens of colonial and post-colonial Indonesia. It focuses on the mobility of heritage as a multi-sited phenomenon that engages with, and goes beyond, the interests of states.

Asian Connections 339pp 29 b/w illus.

Oct. 2022 9781108713061 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Jan. 2020 9781108499026 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108614757

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World War II and Southeast Asia Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation

Gregg Huff | University of Oxford Gregg Huff presents the first comprehensive account of the economic and social impact of Japanese occupation on Southeast Asia during World War II. This is vital reading for anyone wishing to understand the history and economies of Southeast Asia before, during, and in the decades after the Pacific War. 553pp Jun. 2022 9781107492011 Paperback GBP 31.99 / USD 49.99 Oct. 2020 9781107099333 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781316162934

Language and linguistics

African, Caribbean language, linguistics

A History of the Hausa Language

Reconstruction and Pathways to the Present Paul Newman | Indiana University

Written by the world’s leading expert on Hausa, this book provides a lucid and comprehensive linguistic history of the language, highlighting changes in phonology, tonology, morphology, grammar, and lexicon. It is an invaluable resource for specialists in African and Afroasiatic languages, as well as general historical linguists and typologists. 215pp Mar. 2022 9781009123105 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009128070

Asian language, linguistics

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The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese

Nathan W. Hill | School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

A systematic exploration of the shared history of Burmese, Chinese, and Tibetan languages. Tracing the history of their pronunciation, this book sheds light on the prehistoric language from which they descend. It will be welcomed by scholars and advanced students of phonology, language typology, and Asian languages and linguistics. 387pp Jun. 2022 9781316601518 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 Aug. 2019 9781107146488 Hardback GBP 88.99 / USD 116.00 eISBN 9781316550939

Phonetics and phonology

A Historical Phonology of Central Chadic

Prosodies and Lexical Reconstruction

H. Ekkehard Wolff | Universität Leipzig

A pioneering study into the deep linguistic history of Central Chadic languages, this book applies refined comparative methodology to unpack the principles that underpin the Chadic languages’ diverse phonological evolution. It is essential reading for researchers in African and Afroasiatic languages, historical linguistics and linguistic typology. 320pp Jun. 2022 9781316519547 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009024310

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Law

Competition law, anti-trust law

Confucian Culture and Competition Law in East Asia

Jingyuan Ma

This timely book explores the relevance of culture in the development and practice of competition law in East Asia, shedding light on differences that may present challenges to deeper convergence of competition laws between East and West.

Interested readers will include legal scholars, practitioners and competition agency officials.

400pp Sep. 2022 9781108488235 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781108762342

Leniency in Asian Competition Law

Steven Van Uytsel

Scholars, policymakers and practitioners analyse the recent trend in Asia to experiment with leniency programmes, a tool unique to competition law to detect, punish and deter cartel formation. This volume explains what forces have shaped these programmes and how cartel participants are responding to them.

360pp Sep. 2022 9781009152709 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781009152693

Constitutional and administrative law, public law

Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law

Tom Ginsburg | University of Chicago

Filling a gap in the fields of comparative law, religious studies, and political science, this is the first comprehensive account of Buddhism’s complex entanglement with constitutional law, written by experts from across Asia and beyond. Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy 300pp Dec. 2022 9781009286046 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781009286022

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Proportionality in Asia

Po Jen Yap | The University of Hong Kong

This book is for lawyers, political scientists, and students of law and political science who seek to understand how proportionality analysis – a legal transplant from the West – is blossoming and, in some cases, flourishing in Asia.

309pp

Sep. 2022 9781108797733 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 35.99

Aug. 2020 9781108495752 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

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Corporate law, commercial law, company law

Convergence and Divergence of Private Law in Asia

Gary Low

Eminent scholars and practitioners set the scene for debating greater legal integration across Asia – drawing on examples and inspiration from the UN, the EU and within Asia itself. Each contribution examines, in its own field, whether convergence is desirable and if so, how it ought to be attained. 350pp Feb. 2022 9781108475150 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108566391

Social Enterprises in Asia

A New Legal Form

Ernest Lim | National University of Singapore

The first and only book to provide a legal analysis of social enterprises in Asia from a critical and comparative perspective. This indispensable work advances a comprehensive and nuanced legal framework for social enterprises, allowing policymakers and regulators to evaluate, design and implement the laws and regulations on social enterprises.

International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation 350pp Jan. 2023 9781108838153 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108937313

Human rights

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Chinese Refugee Law and Policy

Lili Song | University of Otago, New Zealand

This book systematically and critically examines Chinese refugee law and policy. It provides in-depth legal and policy analysis and is a timely response to rapidly growing international interest in and demand for information about Chinese and Asian approaches to refugee protection in academia and the policy sector. 227pp 3 b/w illus. 2 maps 1 table Sep. 2022 9781009305860 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 32.99 Mar. 2020 9781108483988 Hardback GBP 88.99 / USD 116.00 eISBN 9781108669474

Human Dignity in Asia

Dialogue between Law and Culture

Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu | Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Using interdisciplinary methods, this book explores Asian understandings of human dignity and human rights in the context of courts, religious traditions, and socio-political change. Furthering the dialogue between Asian and Western social values, this comparative study offers an alternative to a rigidified social imagination.

480pp

Sep. 2022 9781108835749 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 140.00 eISBN 9781108886598

Intellectual property

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Patent Remedies and Complex Products

Toward a Global Consensus C. Bradford Biddle

Through a collaboration among twenty legal scholars from North America, Europe and Asia, this book presents an international consensus on the use of patent remedies for complex products such as smartphones, computer networks, and the Internet of Things. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. 377pp May. 2022 9781108445498 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 39.99 Jun. 2019 9781108426756 Hardback GBP 99.99 / USD 131.00 eISBN 9781108445504

International economic and trade law, WTO law

ICSID Reports

Volume 20

Jorge Viñuales | University of Cambridge, Research Centre for International Law Volume 20 of the ICSID Reports includes summaries, digests and excerpts of decisions rendered between 2009 and 2020 in 16 cases involving States from across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, reflecting the breadth of contemporary practice.

International Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes Reports 738pp

Jul. 2022 9781107060678 Hardback GBP 230.00 / USD 300.00 eISBN 9781107447493

Medical law, health law

Advance Directives across Asia

A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis

Daisy Cheung | The University of Hong Kong

This book will appeal not only to Asian scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners in the fields of health law and ethics and end-of-life care more generally, but will also be of wider interest to an international academic audience in the fields of law, ethics and health and social care research.

350pp

Public international law

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Adapting International Criminal Justice in Southeast Asia

Beyond the International Criminal Court

Emma Palmer | Griffith University, Queensland States in Southeast Asia exhibit a range of adapted approaches toward prosecuting international crimes. This book examines engagement with international criminal justice in Cambodia, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Myanmar and demonstrates how norms can be adapted in multiple spatial and temporal directions beyond the International Criminal Court. 347pp 4 tables

Sep. 2022 9781009305853 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 35.99 May. 2020 9781108483971 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108669450

Socio-legal studies

Investment Treaties and the Rule of Law Promise

An Examination of the Internalisation of International Commitments in Asia N. Jansen Calamita

This book will be of value to students and researchers in the fields of international law, international investment law, international relations, and political science. It will also be of particular interest to students and researchers interested in Asia because it examines the impact of international treaties on governance in Asia. 384pp

Sep. 2022 9781009153010 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781009152990

Seeking Supremacy

The Pursuit of Judicial Power in Pakistan Yasser Kureshi | University of Oxford

Using qualitative methods, this book shows how Pakistan’s judiciary shifted from deference to competition with the military, developing a framework that explains judicial-military relations in authoritarian and post-authoritarian states. It illuminates ongoing debates in the fields of law, political science, postcolonial and South Asian studies.

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Jan. 2023 9781009152624

Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781009152631

Cambridge Studies in Law and Society 234pp 6 b/w illus. 10 tables Sep. 2022 9781316516935 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009025515

The Asian Law and Society Reader

Culture, Power, Politics

Lynette J. Chua | National University of Singapore

Asian law and society research has rapidly expanded worldwide. This first-ever reader features original commentaries on key works, debates, and methods. For students and scholars interested in law, culture, politics, and society in Asian countries, it is an essential teaching tool for courses in law, social sciences, and justice studies.

450pp

Nov. 2022 9781108836418 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120.00

Nov. 2022 9781108818995 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108864824

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The Role of Lawyers in Access to Justice

Asian and Comparative Perspectives

Helena Whalen-Bridge | National University of Singapore Law may provide relief for some of life’s troubles, but that requires access to justice. This book expands analysis of access to justice beyond the US and the UK, to Asia and other jurisdictions. It considers functioning systems of mandatory public interest activities and provides English translations of relevant regulation.

470pp Sep. 2022 9781316517451 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 140.00 eISBN 9781009042253

Medicine Nursing

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Paediatric Nursing in Australia and New Zealand

Third edition

Jennifer Fraser | University of Sydney Paediatric Nursing in Australia and New Zealand equips students with essential knowledge to become informed partners in the nursing care of infants, children, young people and their families in a range of clinical and community settings across Australasia.

356pp May. 2022 9781108984652 Paperback GBP 53.99 / USD 71.99 eISBN 9781108980944

Philosophy Ethics

Aristotle’s Ethics

Paula Gottlieb | University of Wisconsin, Madison

This Element is an examination of the philosophical themes presented in Aristotle’s Nicomachean and Eudemian Ethics. Topics include happiness, the voluntary and choice, the doctrine of the mean, particular virtues of character and temperamental means, virtues of thought, akrasia, pleasure, friendship, and luck.

Elements in Ethics

75pp Jun. 2022 9781108706575 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108588034

Politics, social theory, history of ideas

Comparative politics

Patchwork States

The Historical Roots of Subnational Conflict and Competition in South Asia Adnan Naseemullah

Patchwork States argues that South Asia’s politics of violence, development and electoral competition are rooted in colonial and post-colonial statebuilding. It lays out a framework that links different forms of governance under colonialism to subnational political outcomes, providing a new way of looking at colonial legacies in social science.

280pp

Jun. 2022 9781009158428 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 Jun. 2022 9781009158411 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781009158404

East Asian government, politics, policy Hong Kong

Global China’s Restive Frontier Ching Kwan Lee | University of California, Los Angeles CK Lee situates the post-1997 China–Hong Kong contestation in the broader context of ‘global China.’ While Beijing deploys numerous power mechanisms globally, this Chinese power project has triggered countermovements from Asia to Africa. Hong Kong, stunning and singular in its many peculiarities, offers lessons about China as a global force.

Elements in Global China 75pp Sep. 2022 9781108823913 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108914895

The East Asian Covid-19 Paradox

Yves Tiberghien | University of British Columbia, Vancouver This Element argues that high levels of institutional preparation, social cohesion, and global strategic reinforcement in a context of situational convergence explain why East Asian countries (with caveats) managed to control Covid-19 better than most other countries.

Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia 75pp Mar. 2022 9781108977913 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108973533

International relations, international organisations

Before the West

The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders

Ayşe Zarakol | University of Cambridge

Before the West presents the first comprehensive account of the international relations in ‘the East’, weaving together histories of the regions we today call East Asia, Central Asia, Eurasia (Russia), the Middle East and South Asia, and also rethinks the concepts of ‘sovereignty’, ‘international order’ and ‘decline’.

LSE International Studies 300pp 4 b/w illus. 3 maps Mar. 2022 9781108838603

Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 Mar. 2022 9781108971676 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108975377

States and Nature

The Effects of Climate Change on Security

Joshua W. Busby | University of Texas, Austin Busby explains how climate change can affect security outcomes, including violent conflict and humanitarian emergencies. Through case studies from sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, the book develops a novel argument explaining why climate change leads to especially bad security outcomes in some places but not in others.

The Politics of Climate Change 348pp Mar. 2022 9781108832465 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 Mar. 2022 9781108958462 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108957922

Political economy

The Odds Revisited

Political Economy of the Development of Bangladesh

K. A. S. Murshid

Provides a comprehensive multi-sectoral approach combining economics, politics, history and the role of individual actors to explain Bangladesh’s record of ‘outlier’ development. This book is an essential read for diplomats, students and scholars interested in the economic development of Bangladesh and South Asia.

South Asia in the Social Sciences 240pp Sep. 2022 9781009123136 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009128230

South Asian government, politics, policy

A Broken Record

Institutions, Community and Development in Pakistan

Atiyab Sultan

This book examines economic reform in the Punjab in the period 1900-47 in an attempt to historicise theories of institutional change and community development. It will be useful for readers interested in development studies, and South Asia, and in the long-lasting economic and institutional impacts of colonialism.

Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology 230pp Sep. 2022 9781108832632 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108961868

Politics, social theory, history of ideas

Freedom in Captivity

Negotiations of Belonging along Kashmir’s Frontier

Radhika Gupta | Leiden University, The Netherlands

N ethnography of postcolonial sectarian politics in South Asia along the frontiers of Kashmir, this book speaks to interdisciplinary audience from anthropology, sociology and political science. It is a transregional study that explores how politics in South Asia are informed by the travel of religiouscultural ideas from west Asia. 290pp Nov. 2022 9781009201612 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009201629

Gender in Southeast Asia

Mina Roces | University of New South Wales, Sydney

This Element examines gender in Southeast Asia by focusing on two main themes: hegemonic cultural constructions of gender and the way hegemonic ideals influence the gendering of power and politics.

Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia 75pp

Apr. 2022 9781108741637 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108680493

Mobilizing for Elections

Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia

Edward Aspinall | Australian National University, Canberra This book compares patronage politics in Southeast Asia, examining the sources and implications of cross-national and sub-national differences. It will be useful for scholars and students interested in comparative and Southeast Asian politics, electoral politics, clientelism and patronage, and the historical development of political institutions. 380pp

Aug. 2022 9781316513804 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009075015

Sexuality and Gender Diversity Rights in Southeast Asia

Anthony J Langlois

This Element explains that the articulation of political struggle through a shared set of rights claims, which in turn relates to shared experiences of violence and discrimination, and a visceral demand and hope for change, is a potent mechanism for political participation to pave way for sexuality and gender diversity rights in Southeast Asia.

Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia 75pp

Jun. 2022 9781108927819 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108933216

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NEW IN PAPERBACK Stateness and Democracy in East Asia

Aurel Croissant | Universität Heidelberg

Through theoretically-grounded case studies and comparative analysis of consolidating, low quality, and failed democracies in East Asia, this volume challenges the dominant ‘state first, democracy later’ argument in the existing political science literature. It will interest scholars and students of comparative democratization, state building, and East Asian politics.

291pp 13 b/w illus. 12 tables

Apr. 2022 9781108797382 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 May. 2020 9781108495745 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108862783

The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia

Lynette J. Chua | National University of Singapore

This Element is for practitioners, policy-makers and researchers interested in the rights-culturepolitics nexus in Southeast Asia. It investigates the contested nature of rights, and explores the debates over who are entitled to rights, what sorts of rights they should have, and even who get to decide on such issues.

Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia

75pp

Jul. 2022 9781108719353 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108750783

Urban Development in Southeast Asia

Rita Padawangi

This Element examines the political nature of urban development; scrutinizes the implications of power inequality in urban development discussions; and highlights topical and methodological contributions to urban studies from Southeast Asia.

Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia 75pp Jul. 2022 9781108705608 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108669108

Religion

Biblical studies - New Testament

Ephesians

David A. deSilva

A new approach to how first-century audiences in Roman Asia would have understood and responded to Ephesians, while offering guidance for how the text might form - and challengemodern Christian perspectives. New Cambridge Bible Commentary 350pp

Apr. 2022 9781108493710 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120.00

Apr. 2022 9781108725446 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108643054

Philosophy of religion Eastern Philosophy of Religion

Victoria S. Harrison | Universidade de Macau

This Element examines ideas and arguments drawn from the philosophical traditions of South and East Asia. It introduces key debates about the self and the nature of reality that unite philosophies of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism. It clearly explains key issues, with a view to their contemporary relevance to ongoing philosophical debates.

Elements in the Philosophy of Religion 75pp

Oct. 2022 9781108457484 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108558211

Sociology

Historical sociology State Formation through Emulation

The East Asian Model

Chin-Hao Huang

This book counters the conventional narrative of state formation, which overlooks the fact that state bureaucracies in East Asia had emerged 1,000 years earlier than in Europe. It argues that state formation in Korea, Japan, Vietnam occurred through emulation of China—the hegemon with a civilizational influence—not in direct competition with it. 270pp

Aug. 2022 9781009098533 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 Aug. 2022 9781009096317 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781009089616

Political sociology Colossus

The Anatomy of Delhi

Sanjoy Chakravorty | Temple University, Philadelphia Colossus is a comprehensive, data-driven, theory-rich, and multidisciplinary compilation that dissects the figurative anatomy of Delhi and India’s National Capital Region. It will find a prominent place in studies on South Asia, urbanization and urban social behavior, and become a standard resource on these subjects. South Asia in the Social Sciences 460pp

Feb. 2022 9781108832243 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108935654

The Street and the Ballot

Box Interactions Between Social Movements and Electoral Politics in Authoritarian Contexts

Lynette H. Ong | University of Toronto

This Element examines the 2018 Malaysian election and a range of cases from other authoritarian regimes across Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa to illustrate these arguments.

Elements in Contentious Politics 75pp

Feb. 2022 9781009158305 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009158268

Sociology (general)

Temporary Migrants from Southeast Asia in Australia

Lost Opportunities

Juliet Pietsch | Griffith University, Queensland

This research explores the experiences of temporary migrant workers from Southeast Asia in Australia, demonstrating that migrant workers, on the whole, live without a political voice or clear pathway to permanent residency and citizenship.

Elements in Global Development Studies

75pp Sep. 2022 9781009224208 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009224215

Sociology of gender

Beyond Emasculation

Pleasure and Power in the Making of hijra in Bangladesh

Adnan Hossain | Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands

This book is based on long term ethnographic research with hijras, the emblematic figure of South Asian sexual and gender difference in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and proposes the hijra as a counter-cultural formation It brings gender and sexuality into conversation with concepts of class, power, pleasure, kinship, masculinity and globalization.

244pp Feb. 2022 9781316517048 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009037914

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