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Asian Politics
Japan’s New Regional Reality Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific Saori N. Katada Stating the Sacred Religion, China, and the Formation of the Nation-State Michael J. Walsh
Japan’s New Regional Reality offers a comprehensive analysis of Japan’s geoeconomic strategy that reveals the country’s role in shaping regional economic order in the Asia-Pacific. Saori N. Katada explains Japanese foreign economic policy in light of both international and domestic dynamics. She points out the hurdles to implementing a state-led liberal strategy, detailing how domestic political and institutional changes have been much slower and stickier than the changing regional economics.
$35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-19073-2 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-19072-5 2020 344 pages
China’s Fintech Explosion Disruption, Innovation, and Survival Sara Hsu and Jianjun Li Stating the Sacred offers a novel approach to nation-state formation, arguing that its most critical element is how the state sacralizes the nation. Focusing primarily on China, Michael J. Walsh argues that the foundational role of the sacred makes all nation-states religious states.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19357-3 $95.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-19356-6 2020 272 pages
The Chinese Economy Stephen L. Morgan
Sara Hsu and Jianjun Li explore the transformative potential of China’s financial-technology industry, describing the risks and rewards for participants as well as the impact on consumers. Offering expert analysis of market potential, risks, and competition, as well as case studies of firms, China’s Fintech Explosion is a must read.
$35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19656-7 2020 320 pages 39 illus.
COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING
Stephen L. Morgan examines debates about the Chinese economic story from the time of the great divergence to the present day and considers wider issues beyond the usual GDP indicators, including well-being and human capital, business and the culture of management, aging, urbanization, and sustainability, consumerism, health, education, and the environment.
$25.00 paper 978-1-78821-081-2
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cloth 978-1-78821-080-5 December 2020 240 pages
AGENDA PUBLISHING
Taiwan’s Exceptionalism Edited by Anna Rudakowska, Ewa Trojnar, and Agata W. Ziętek
This volume explores how Taiwan's 'specific international situation' influences the developments in its external and internal affairs. Contributors examine Taiwan’s democratic development and challenges, civil society activism, indigenous tourism clusters, ecotourism and the image of the island in Polish dailies.
$50.00 /£42.00 paper 978-83-2334-799-6 October 2020 224 pages 9 illus.
JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
To the End of Revolution The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949–1959 Xiaoyuan Liu The Great Smog of China A Short Event History of Air Pollution Anna L. Ahlers, Mette Halskov Hansen, and Rune Svarverud
The Great Smog of China traces Chinese air pollution events dating back to more than two-thousand years ago. Based on fieldwork, interviews, and text studies, the book offers a short and concise history of selected air pollution incidents that for varying reasons prompted different kinds of responses and forms of engagement in Chinese society.
$16.00 /£13.99 paper 978-0-924-304-92-7 2020 148 pages 16 illus.
ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES
Waiting Town Life in Transit and Mumbai's Other WorldClass Histories Lisa Björkman
The status of Tibet is one of the most controversial and complex issues in the history of modern China. In To the End of Revolution, Xiaoyuan Liu draws on unprecedented access to the archives of the Chinese Communist Party to offer a groundbreaking account of Beijing’s evolving Tibet policy during the critical first decade of the People’s Republic.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19527-0 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-19526-3 2020 416 pages Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research in the Indian city of Mumbai, Waiting Town is a formally experimental book about how we come to know the worlds about which we write. The narrative follows the author’s fieldnotes through a series of ethnographic puzzles that emerge in the wake of a high-profile mega-infrastructure project.
$16.00 / £13.99 paper 978-0-924-304-93-4 October 2020 160 pages 20 illus.
