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IIAS Publications: New titles in Asian Studies The Maritime Silk Road. China’s Belt and Road at Sea Richard T. Griffiths. 2020. ISBN: 9789082381030
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he ancient maritime Silk Road that helped connect Asia and Europe has been reinvented as part of China's ambitious Belt and Road initiative. However, the seaborne international trade and shipping-lanes, that carry 80-90 per cent of world trade, were there long before China's intrusion on the scene. Even so, China's intention to build ports at key locations along these trade routes has caused considerable unease in the Western security community. This volume gives a vivid account of the many
different mechanisms used by key players to maintain profitability. It also explores the future challenges faced by the industry, including that of the 'China threat'. Read more about the author Richard Griffiths and his New Silk Roads project at the International Institute for Asian Studies: https://www.iias.asia/programmes/newsilkroad Purchase the book online: https://www.amazon.com/Maritime-Silk-RoadChinas-Belt/dp/9082381052
Published with Amsterdam University Press Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has a well-established list in Asian Studies, renowned for its solid source-based publications in the history, religion, politics, migration, and culture of the peoples and states of Asia. The Asian Studies programme is strengthened by a number of book series, focusing on a special topic or an area of study. https://www.aup.nl/en/academic/discipline/asian-studies
Asian Alleyways. An Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization
Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West: Care of the Self
Marie Gibert-Flutre and Heide Imai (eds). 2020. Series: Asian Cities, ISBN 9789463729604
Gregory Bracken, 2020. Series: Asian Cities, ISBN: 978 94 629 84721
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his volume critically explores 'Global Asia' and the metropolization process, specifically from its alleyways, which are understood as ordinary neighbourhood landscapes providing the setting for everyday urban life and place-based identities being shaped by varied everyday practices, collective experiences and forces. This turns the traditional approach of 'global cities' upside-down and contributes to a renewed conception of metropolization as a highly situated process, where forces at play locally, in each alleyway neighbourhood, are both intertwined and labile. Beyond
the mainstream, standardising vision of the metropolization process, the book offers a nuanced overview of urban production in Asia at a time of great changes. Marie Gibert-Flutre is Assistant Professor of Geography in the Department of East Asia Studies (LCAO) at the University of Paris. Heide Imai is Associate Professor at Senshu University, Faculty of Intercultural Communication, Tokyo, Japan. https://www.aup.nl/en/ book/9789463729604/asian-alleyways
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n urbanized world should be an improving place, one that is better to live in, one where humans can flourish. This collection of essays examines contemporary practices of care of the self in cities in Asia and the West, including challenges to citizenship and even the right to the city itself. Written by a range of academics from different backgrounds (from architecture and urbanism, anthropology, social science, psychology, gender studies, history, and philosophy), their trans- and multidisciplinary approaches lead to fresh perspectives. One thing that
Shadow Exchanges along the New Silk Roads
unites all of these papers is their people-centred approach, because, after all, a city is its people. Gregory Bracken is an Assistant Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy at TU Delft and one of the co-founders of ‘Footprint’, the e-journal dedicated to architecture theory. https://www.aup.nl/en/ book/9789462984721/contemporarypractices-of-citizenship-in-asia-andthe-west
The Heritage Turn in China: The Reinvention, Dissemination and Consumption of Heritage
Eva P.W. Hung, Tak-Wing Ngo (eds). 2020. Series: Global Asia, ISBN 978 94 6298 8934
Carol Ludwig, Linda Walton, Yi-Wen Wang (eds). 2020. Series: Asian Heritages, ISBN: 978 94 6298 5667
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ong before China promulgated the official One Belt One Road initiatives, vast networks of cross-border exchanges already existed across Asia and Eurasia. The dynamics of such trade and resource flow have largely been outside state control, and are pushed into the realm of the shadow economy. The official initiative is a statedriven attempt to enhance the orderly flow of resources across countries along the BeltRoad, hence extending the reach of the states into the shadow economies. This volume offers a bottom-up view of the trans-border informal exchanges across Asia and Eurasia, and analyses its clash and mesh with the state-orchestrated Belt-Road cooperation.
Eva P.W. Hung is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Science, the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. Tak-Wing Ngo is Professor of Political Science at the University of Macau. He is the editor of the refereed journal ‘China Information’ and co-editor of the ‘Journal of Contemporary Asia’. https://www.aup.nl/en/ book/9789462988934/shadowexchanges-along-the-new-silk-roads
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his volume focuses on heritage discourse and practice in China today as it has evolved from the ‘heritage turn’ of the 1990s. The contributors show how particular versions of the past are selected, (re)invented, disseminated and consumed for contemporary purposes. They explore how the Chinese state utilises heritage not only for tourism, entertainment, educational and commercial purposes, but also as part of broader political strategies. They argue that the Chinese state deploys modes of heritage governance to construct new modernities while strengthening collective national identity in support of both its political legitimacy and its claim to status as an international superpower.
Carol Ludwig is Honorary Research Fellow in Planning (Civic Design) at Liverpool University, UK. Linda Walton is Professor Emerita in the Department of History, Portland State University, and Visiting Professor at Hunan University. Yi-Wen Wang is Associate Professor in Urban Planning and Design at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. https://www.aup.nl/en/ book/9789462985667/the-heritageturn-in-china
