Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of contemporary Asia.
Asianization of Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Chang Kyung-Sup, Kim Taekyoon, Lee Joonkoo
November 28, 2025
This book explores the Asianization of contemporary Asia, a trend that through neoliberal economic globalism has diluted the political effect of the EuroAmerican-dictated segmentation of Asia and instead facilitated and accelerated socioeconomic exchanges and collaborations among Asian nations ...
Creationism in a South Korean Culture: Science, Religion, and the Struggle against Evolution
1st Edition
By Hyung Wook Park
November 28, 2025
Park investigates the unexpected success of early Korean creationists, who were mostly scientists, and argues that creationism is not a product of the lack of intelligence or proper scientific education but a consequence of more profound social developments in the twentieth and twenty-first ...
The Politics of Japanese Language in Postcolonial Korea
1st Edition
By Jinsuk Yang
November 07, 2025
This book examines the politics of Japanese language learning in postcolonial Korea from 1945 through the 1970s, revealing the ways in which language functioned as a site of negotiations over identity, social mobility, and historical memory. By tracing how Japanese continued to circulate in ...
Population Aging in Societal Context: Evidence from Nepal
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Tausig, Janardan Subedi, Saruna Ghimire
July 31, 2025
This book offers an explanatory schema for comprehending aging in a societal context, focusing on the country of Nepal. Contributions to this book use an institutional contextual approach and a life course perspective to document and assess societal responses to the increase in the number of older ...
Asia’s Heritage Trend: Examining Asia’s Present through Its Past
1st Edition
Edited
By Jongil Kim, Minjae Zoh
December 18, 2024
Kim and Zoh bring together a team of contributors to analyse the role of heritage studies across Asia, and its impact on Asia and its constituent countries. Is there such a thing as ‘Asian heritage’? Is it more helpful to understand Asia as a single unit, or as a set of sub- regions? What can we ...
Knowledge Production and Epistemic Decolonization at the End of Pax Americana
1st Edition
Edited
By Naoki Sakai, Jon Solomon, Peter Button
November 28, 2024
This book critically analyzes the global hegemony of the United States – a hegemony whose innovative aspect consists in articulating postcoloniality to imperial control – in relation to knowledge and knowledge production. Through targeted case studies on the historical relationship between regional...
The East Asian Model: Transformation and Sustainability
1st Edition
By Hyungkee Kim
August 26, 2024
Hyungkee Kim analyses the model of East Asian development as it existed during periods of high growth and how it was transformed by pressures from both the Washington consensus and its own internal contradictions. Many have discussed the successes and failures of the East Asian model, but Kim is ...
Asian Sound Cultures: Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology
1st Edition
Edited
By Iris Haukamp, Christin Hoene, Martyn Smith
May 27, 2024
This book examines the meanings, uses, and agency of voice, noise, sound, and sound technologies across Asia. Including a series of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary case studies, the book reveals sound as central to the experience of modernity in Asia and as essential to the understanding of the ...
Indigenous Reconciliation in Contemporary Taiwan: From Stigma to Hope
1st Edition
Edited
By Scott E. Simon, Jolan Hsieh, Peter Kang
May 27, 2024
This book draws attention to the issues of Indigenous justice and reconciliation in Taiwan, exploring how Indigenous actors affirm their rights through explicitly political and legal strategies, but also through subtle forms of justice work in films, language instruction, museums, and handicraft ...
Memory and Fabrication in East Asian Visual Culture: Ruinous Garden
1st Edition
By Dennitza Gabrakova
May 27, 2024
This book examines four contemporary sites of visual culture in East Asia through the poetic prism of the “ruinous garden.” Framing destroyed, discarded, and displaced material objects within a rhetoric of development and relating this to the experience of ethnic/national culture, the book presents...
Air Pollution Governance in East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Kuei-Tien Chou, Koichi Hasegawa, Dowan Ku, Shu-Fen Kao
January 29, 2024
Focusing on Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and Mainland China, the contributors to this book analyze various cases of air pollution within East Asia. Air pollution in East Asia is a major health risk, which also has damaging impacts on the environment leading to impacts on society, economic growth, ...
Authoritarianism and Civil Society in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Anthony Spires, Akihiro Ogawa
January 29, 2024
This book represents a pioneering interdisciplinary effort to analyze Asian civil society under authoritarianism, a regime type that is re-appearing or deepening after several decades of increased political liberalization. By organizing its approach into four main themes, this volume succinctly ...