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Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies


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The Asia Pacific has seen great social, environmental and economic change. The region is now the focus of considerable attention by the academic community. This series brings together the best of the current research from right across the social sciences and humanities.

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The Australia-Japan Defence and Security Relationship 1945-2021 Making a Friend of a Former Foe

The Australia-Japan Defence and Security Relationship 1945-2021: Making a Friend of a Former Foe

1st Edition

By Peter McDermott
January 29, 2024

McDermott examines the origins, development and prospects for the Australia and Japan Defence and Security Relationship. In 1945, Japan and Australia were foes; today they are partners in security, defence and military matters, each the other’s most important strategic ally, after the United ...

Forced Displacement and NGOs in Asia and the Pacific

Forced Displacement and NGOs in Asia and the Pacific

1st Edition

Edited By Gül İnanç, Themba Lewis
September 25, 2023

This volume presents a comprehensive survey of the dynamics of conflict and climate induced forced displacement and organisational response across Asia and the Pacific. The Asia Pacific region hosts some of the largest numbers of displaced people on the planet, with some of the fewest ...

Shaping Long-Term Care in Emerging Asia Policy and Country Experiences

Shaping Long-Term Care in Emerging Asia: Policy and Country Experiences

1st Edition

Edited By Vasoontara S. Yiengprugsawan, John Piggott
December 15, 2022

Countries are facing increasing life expectancy and a shrinking family size and in effect, this may escalate demands for medical and supportive services. The role of families in providing informal care will remain important. However, the simultaneous decline in the supply of informal caregiving ...

Race and Migration in the Transpacific

Race and Migration in the Transpacific

1st Edition

Edited By Yasuko Takezawa, Akio Tanabe
November 25, 2022

Looking at a range of cases from around the Transpacific, the contributors to this book explore the complex formulations of race and racism emerging from transoceanic migrations and encounters in the region. Asia has a history of ceaseless, active, and multidirectional migration, which continues to...

Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities

Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities

1st Edition

Edited By Vivienne Lo, Chris Berry, Guo Liping
November 21, 2019

Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities is the first book to reflect on the power of film in representing medical and health discourse in China in both the past and the present, as well as in shaping its future. Drawing on both feature and documentary films from mainland China, the chapters ...

Social Work and Sustainability in Asia Facing the Challenges of Global Environmental Changes

Social Work and Sustainability in Asia: Facing the Challenges of Global Environmental Changes

1st Edition

Edited By Alice M. L. Chong, Iris Chi
January 28, 2019

The rapid trend of globalization has brought with it a variety of sustainability challenges, including global climate change, biodiversity loss, poverty, and social inequalities, which are problems with unclear boundaries, complicated interrelated components, undefined parameters, contradictory ...

Asian Worlds in Latin America

Asian Worlds in Latin America

1st Edition

By Stefania Paladini
January 12, 2018

There has been increasing Asian interest in Latin America in recent years, beginning with Japanese investment in the 1980s, and continuing into the present decade when there is growing investment by China. This book examines the nature and extent of Asian business and related activity in Latin ...

Arts and Cultural Leadership in Asia

Arts and Cultural Leadership in Asia

1st Edition

Edited By Jo Caust
January 03, 2018

Arts and cultural activity in Asia is increasingly seen as important internationally, and Asia’s growing prosperity is enabling the full range of artistic activities to be better encouraged, supported and managed. At the same time, cultural frameworks and contexts vary hugely across Asia, and it is...

Eurasia's Regional Powers Compared – China, India, Russia

Eurasia's Regional Powers Compared – China, India, Russia

1st Edition

Edited By Shinichiro Tabata
December 22, 2017

Taking a long view, and a wide perspective, this book by Japan's leading scholars on Asia and Eurasia provides a comprehensive and systematic comparison of the three greatest powers in the region and assesses how far the recent growth trajectories of these countries are sustainable in the long...

Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific Histories of Responses to Non-Communicable and Communicable Diseases

Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific: Histories of Responses to Non-Communicable and Communicable Diseases

1st Edition

Edited By Milton J. Lewis, Kerrie L. MacPherson
May 25, 2017

Chronic diseases—cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes—are not only the principal cause of world-wide mortality but also are now responsible for a striking increase in the percentage of sickness in developing countries still grappling with the acute problems of ...

The Strong and the Weak in Japanese Literature Discrimination, Egalitarianism, Nationalism

The Strong and the Weak in Japanese Literature: Discrimination, Egalitarianism, Nationalism

1st Edition

By Fuminobu Murakami
August 28, 2015

This book uses texts from classical to modern Japanese literature to examine concepts of 'respect for the strong', as a notion of an evolutionary society, and 'sympathy for the weak', as a notion of a non-violent and changeless egalitarian society. The term strong refers not just to those ...

Film Censorship in the Asia-Pacific Region Malaysia, Hong Kong and Australia Compared

Film Censorship in the Asia-Pacific Region: Malaysia, Hong Kong and Australia Compared

1st Edition

By Saw Tiong Guan
July 22, 2015

Film censorship has always been a controversial matter, particularly in jurisdictions with restrictive state-based censorship systems. This book reviews the film censorship system in the Asia-Pacific by comparing the systems used in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Australia. It identifies the key issues ...

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