Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Mpofu, Shepherd (ed.), Digital Humour in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from the Global South. 350 pp. 2021:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-756>
ISBN 978-3-030-79278-7 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

Digital humour in the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives from the Global South offers a groundbreaking intervention on how digital media were used from below by ordinary citizens to negotiate the global pandemic humorously. This book considers the role played by digital media during the pandemic, and indeed in the socio-political life of the Global South, as indispensable and revolutionary to human communication. In many societies, humour not only signifies laughter and frivolity, but acts as an important echo that accompanies, critiques, questions, disrupts, agitates and comments on societal affairs and the human condition. This book analyses citizens' use of social media and humour to mediate the pandemic in a diverse range of countries, including Brazil, India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The book will appeal to academics and students of media and communication studies, political studies, rhetoric, and to policy makers.

Grugel, Jean / Barlow, Matt / Lines, Tallulah et al., The Gendered Face of COVID-19 in the Global South: The Development, Gender and Health Nexus. 160 pp. 2022 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <666-741>
ISBN 978-1-5292-1883-1 hard ¥13,671.- (税込) GB￡ 47.99 *

In this important book, experts assess what the COVID-19 pandemic means for gender inequalities in the Global South, examining how threats to equitable development will impact the most marginalized and at-risk women and girls in particular. The book draws on research across sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America to examine COVID-19-related issues around gender-based violence, work and care, education and health care, and asks whether global responses are enough to mitigate the negative outcomes of deepening gender inequality. It is a guide to stimulate the important debate about how to promote women's rights during the management and recovery phases of the pandemic.

A.J.H.レイサム著　アジアにおける米と工業化
Latham, A. J. H., Rice and Industrialisation in Asia. (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) 200 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <666-626>
ISBN 978-1-03-212462-9 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-212487-2 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This book is about the introduction of modern power-driven rice milling to the main rice exporting countries of Burma (Myanmar), Siam (Thailand) and French Indo-China (Vietnam) from 1869. Rich in historical and empirical sources, the book draws extensively from the London Rice Brokers' Association Circular archives, published monthly from 1869 to 2014, as well as numerical data gathered from historic trade and custom reports. It outlines how rice had been exported in the husk to be milled in Britain prior to 1869, after which mills were transferred to Asia and the rice shipped back having been milled. Rice processed in Asia is explained not only as a major saving in transport costs, but the marker of a crucial step in the industrialisation of Asia - namely through the introduction of modern mechanised value adding rice mills powered by steam engines. This is a reversal of the concept that the development of modern technology de-industrialised Asia, turning it into a supplier of raw materials. Later chapters address the inter-war years, when Chinese companies in particular took over the operation of mills and developed an Asia-wide market for rice milled in the great milling centers of Rangoon (Yangon), Bangkok and Saigon (Ho Chi Minh). Rice and Industrialisation in Asia will prove a valuable resource to students and scholars of economic history, postcolonial studies, and Asian studies more broadly.

Arrais de Miranda Mousinho, Maria Candida, Brazil-India Renewable Energy Cooperation: Connecting the Continents. 220 pp. 2021:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-589>
ISBN 978-981-16-4876-2 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

The book is a study of the cooperation of Brazil and India on renewable energy. It is based on a research project on the energy sector of both the countries. It discusses the agreements in the energy sector between the two countries and the renewable energy policies developed in four decades. A scientific and technological mapping, a brief study of competitiveness and a primary research were carried out in order to find out the weaknesses and the opportunities for cooperation in renewable energies. This Publication will undoubtedly provoke the reader to reflect on the importance of cooperation given the growing protectionism not only in terms of energy security, but also in terms of investments in new technologies considering energy transition scenario. For Brazil and India, intensifying the dialogue is more than a strategy of visibility and the search for greater space in worldwide geopolitics.

Mori, Akihisa (ed.), China's Carbon-Energy Policy and Asia's Energy Transition: Carbon Leakage, Relocation and Halos. (Routledge Contemporary China Series) 336 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <666-605>
ISBN 978-1-03-204180-3 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-204189-6 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This book seeks to examine the impacts associated with China's carbon-energy policy in Asia and how, coupled with the Belt and Road Initiative, these effects prompt foreign direct investments in coal power and exports of renewable energy technologies.China shows a co-evolution of carbon-energy policy and energy transitions from coal to renewables. Assessing how the policy intensifies pressures and motivations to Chinese companies, chapters in this edited volume analyse how the policy has changed energy and CO2 emissions in Asia through the lens of carbon leakage, relocation, and halos. Contributors present in-depth studies on China's investments and exports, and also its impacts on Indonesia, India, Vietnam, and Japan. Using applied computable general equilibrium and scenario input-output analyses, chapters investigate if regional electricity connectivity reduces new coal power investments through efficiency gain. Arguing that China is shifting from the world's factory to the leading innovator and Asia's demand centre, it is ultimately demonstrated that China is likely to achieve climate targets whereas Asia to increase CO2 emissions and economic reliance on China.China's Carbon-Energy Policy and Asia's Energy Transition will be of significant interest to students and scholars of energy, environment, and sustainability studies, as well as Chinese studies and economics.

Seow, Victor, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia. (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) 384 pp. 2022:2 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <666-609>
ISBN 978-0-226-72199-6 hard ¥8,624.- (税込) US$ 40.00 *

A forceful reckoning with the relationship between energy and power through the history of what was once East Asia's largest coal mine. The coal-mining town of Fushun in China's Northeast is home to a monstrous open pit. First excavated in the early twentieth century, this pit grew like a widening maw over the ensuing decades, as various Chinese and Japanese states endeavored to unearth Fushun's purportedly "inexhaustible" carbon resources. Today, the depleted mine that remains is a wondrous and terrifying monument to fantasies of a fossil-fueled future and the technologies mobilized in attempts to turn those developmentalist dreams into reality. In Carbon Technocracy, Victor Seow uses the remarkable story of the Fushun colliery to chart how the fossil fuel economy emerged in tandem with the rise of the modern technocratic state. Taking coal as an essential feedstock of national wealth and power, Chinese and Japanese bureaucrats, engineers, and industrialists deployed new technologies like open-pit mining and hydraulic stowage in pursuit of intensive energy extraction. But as much as these mine operators idealized the might of fossil fuel-driven machines, their extractive efforts nevertheless relied heavily on the human labor that those devices were expected to displace. Under the carbon energy regime, countless workers here and elsewhere would be subjected to invasive techniques of labor control, ever-escalating output targets, and the dangers of an increasingly exploited earth. Although Fushun is no longer the coal capital it once was, the pattern of aggressive fossil-fueled development that led to its ascent endures. As we confront a planetary crisis precipitated by our extravagant consumption of carbon, it holds urgent lessons. This is a groundbreaking exploration of how the mutual production of energy and power came to define industrial modernity and the wider world that carbon made.

Lavers, Thomas (ed.), The Politics of Distributing Social Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. 240 pp. 2022:3 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <666-498>
ISBN 978-0-19-286252-5 hard ¥25,356.- (税込) GB￡ 89.00 *

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The Politics of Distributing Social Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia provides a systematic analysis of the political processes shaping the distribution of social transfers in six countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. In doing so, the book addresses a notable gap in recent research on social protection concerning the politics of implementation. While considerable attention has been devoted to debating the merits of different policy designs and the political factors shaping the adoption and diffusion of different policy models, ultimately the ability of any social transfer programme to deliver on its promises is dependent on the effective implementation and distribution of social transfers in line with intended objectives. The chapters in this book examine international and sub-national variation in programme implementation in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nepal, and Rwanda, drawing on a common analytical framework that highlights the importance of state capacity and reach, rooted in histories of state formation, and contemporary political competition in shaping the distribution of social transfers. Comparative analysis of the case studies supports the view that variation in the capacity and reach of the state within countries is a centrally important factor shaping the effectiveness and impartiality of distribution. Yet state capacity alone is insufficient. Rather political competition and power relations shape how this capacity is actually deployed in practice. As such, the book underscores the inherently political nature of implementation and questions common technocratic efforts to improve implementation by de-politicizing the social protection policy process.

Chettri, Mona / Eilenberg, Michael (eds.), Development Zones in Asian Borderlands. (Asian Borderlands) 284 pp. 2021:5 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <666-506>
ISBN 978-94-6372-623-8 hard ¥32,193.- (税込) GB￡ 113.00 *

Development Zones in Asian Borderlands maps the nexus between global capital flows, national economic policies, infrastructural connectivity, migration, and aspirations for modernity in the borderlands of South and South-East Asia. In doing so, it demonstrates how these are transforming borderlands from remote, peripheral backyards to front-yards of economic development and state-building. Development zones encapsulate the networks, institutions, politics and processes specific to enclave development, and offer a new analytical framework for thinking about borderlands; namely, as sites of capital accumulation, territorialisation and socio-spatial changes.

山形辰史、近藤久洋他編　日韓の国際開発協力
Kwon, Huck-ju / Yamagata, Tatsufumi / Kim, Eunju / Kondoh, Hisahiro (eds.), International Development Cooperation of Japan and South Korea: New Strategies for an Uncertain World. 268 pp. 2021:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-508>
ISBN 978-981-16-4600-3 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

This book examines the evolution of foreign aid policy in Japan and South Korea, analyzing policy rationales, institutional developments and policy choices. The book searches for new strategies of international development cooperation in an uncertain world. The book compares two countries' policies in a unique way: pairs of Japanese and Korean scholars examine same policy themes in separate chapters, contrasting differences and similarities. This book will be of great value to scholars of international development cooperation, public policy and East Asian politics.

Olivieri, Chiara / Serrano-Munoz, Jordi (eds.), East Asia, Latin America, and the Decolonization of Transpacific Studies. (Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia) 274 pp. 2021:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-1958>
ISBN 978-3-030-74527-1 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

In this collective work, researchers from different disciplines reflect upon the challenges and opportunities of decolonizing transpacific studies through the lens of a few paradigmatic case-studies that deal with connections between East Asia and Latin America. The present book offers a productive problematization of the idea of the transpacific as a concept and a space that is not restricted to a single definition. We defend that the transpacific can instead promote an understanding of agents and experiences that share many common traits that have been generally overlooked by a hegemonic interpretation of knowledge and the relationship between regions.By fostering an environment that not only accepts a plurality of views but that actively looks to accommodate analogous, tangential, and even contradicting approaches to the study of our ideas, we seek a double objective. First, we hope to highlight precisely the richness within the idea of the transpacific, avoiding sticking to any particular conception to it while at the same time acknowledging and owning each of our points of enunciation. Our second objective is part of a constant struggle in the quest towards social and epistemic justice. By adopting this stance of plurality, we can fight against structures of knowledge production and reproduction that willingly or unintentionally instill specific interpretations in ways that inculcate exclusivity.The goal of this book is opening up and expanding the debate regarding transpacific connections, examining the limits and promises of including these experiences within the conceptual paradigm of the Global South, and showcasing different ways of approaching decolonial research to the study of the relationship between East Asia and Latin America.

Pubblici, Lorenzo, Mongol Caucasia: Invasions, Conquest, and Government of a Frontier Region in Thirteenth-Century Eurasia (1204-1295). (Brill's Inner Asian Library 41) 225 pp. 2021:12 (Brill, NE) <666-1960>
ISBN 978-90-04-50352-6 hard ¥23,540.- (税込) EUR 100.00 *

The work focuses on the Mongol conquest and domination of Caucasia in the 13th century, from the Sea of Azov in the north to present-day Georgia and Armenia. While sedentary civilizations and nomadic cultures had a long history of interaction in this region, the Mongol conquest made it into a frontier in which Medieval Europe and Asia became more intensely integrated and interconnected. The Mongols made Caucasia into a coherent power based on both European and Asian experiences and traditions. The genesis of this deeply transformational process constitutes the central theme of this book.

Sharrad, Paul / Bandyopadhyay, Deb Narayan (eds.), Transnational Spaces of India and Australia. 240 pp. 2021:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-1962>
ISBN 978-3-030-81324-6 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

Transnational movements are more intricate than diasporic conflicts of 'home and away'. They operate not only as international connections but also transect and disturb national formations. What are the spaces (both physical and temporal) in and around which transnational exchanges occur? Much discussion of the transnational focuses on international movements of law, politics and economics as they relate to Europe and the Americas. This book extends the focus to dynamics across the humanities and social sciences and concentrates on the historical and now growing interactions between India and Australia. Studies come from scholars in both countries, who combine academic depth for students and researchers and writing that is clear and engaging for the general reader.

Tomich, Dale W. / Lovejoy, Paul E. (eds.), The Atlantic and Africa: The Second Slavery and Beyond. (SUNY series, Fernand Braudel Center Studies in Historical Social Science) 336 pp. 2021:8 (State U. New York Pr., US) <666-1963>
ISBN 978-1-4384-8443-3 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

岡本充弘他編　アジアにおける西洋の歴史記述
Wang, Q. Edward / Okamoto, Michihiro / Longguo, Li (eds.), Western Historiography in Asia: Circulation, Critique and Comparison. 657 S. 2022:1 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <666-1964>
ISBN 978-3-11-071734-1 hard ¥23,057.- (税込) EUR 97.95 *

This volume provides a unique and critical perspective on how Chinese, Japanese and Korean scholars engage and critique the West in their historical thinking. It showcases the dialogue between Asian experts and their Euro-American counterparts and offers valuable insights on how to challenge and overcome Eurocentrism in historical writing.

Wei, C. X. George (ed.), Asian Culture, Diplomacy and Foreign Relations. Volume I: China. (East and West 13/1) 312 pp. 2021:3 (Brill, NE) <666-1965>
ISBN 978-90-04-50824-8 hard ¥30,602.- (税込) EUR 130.00

Considering the important impact of Asian cultures on international relations, we conducted a multifaceted analysis and authentic summary of the Asian experiences and patterns of dealing with foreign relations from an Asian insider's perspective, aiming to find out where the diverging or converging diplomatic ways of the West and the East came from and what the positive diplomatic values and practices originated from Asian traditions are. Focusing on China, volume one thoroughly analyses the nature, political culture and mechanism of the tribute system from ancient time to the modern era within and beyond China. Volume two studies the culture and diplomacy of various individual Asian nations except for China, both in general and in particular cases, with an interdisciplinary approach. ?????????????????????, ?????????????, ????????????????????????????????, ??????????????????????, ????????????????????????. ???????, ????????????, ????????????????????????. ?????????, ????????????????????, ??????, ??????.

Wei, C. X. George (ed.), Asian Culture, Diplomacy and Foreign Relations. Volume II: Individual Nations and Cases. (East and West 13/2) 234 pp. 2022:3 (Brill, NE) <666-1966>
ISBN 978-90-04-50826-2 hard ¥27,071.- (税込) EUR 115.00

Considering the important impact of Asian cultures on international relations, we conducted a multifaceted analysis and authentic summary of the Asian experiences and patterns of dealing with foreign relations from an Asian insider's perspective, aiming to find out where the diverging or converging diplomatic ways of the West and the East came from and what the positive diplomatic values and practices originated from Asian traditions are. Focusing on China, volume one thoroughly analyses the nature, political culture and mechanism of the tribute system from ancient time to the modern era within and beyond China. Volume two studies the culture and diplomacy of various individual Asian nations except for China, both in general and in particular cases, with an interdisciplinary approach. ?????????????????????, ?????????????, ????????????????????????????????, ??????????????????????, ????????????????????????. ???????, ????????????, ????????????????????????. ?????????, ????????????????????, ??????, ??????.

Zaman, Mohammad / Nair, Reshmy / Guoqing, Shi (eds.), Resettlement in Asian Countries: Legislation, Administration and Struggles for Rights. (Routledge Studies in Development, Displacement and Resettlement) 328 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <666-1967>
ISBN 978-0-367-74835-7 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-74836-4 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This book examines land acquisition and resettlement experience in Asian countries, where nearly two-thirds of the world's development-induced displacement currently takes place. Faced with the complexity of balancing legal frameworks and resettlement needs, along with increasing demands for safeguarding displaced peoples, in recent years many countries within Asia have adopted integrated land and resettlement laws. This book presents a comparative review and assessment of the impact of the new land and resettlement laws and regulatory frameworks for expropriation, compensation and resettlement.Written by an international, interdisciplinary team of experts from both practice and academia, the book demonstrates the ongoing challenges and struggles associated with social and resettlement risk assessments, the social and cultural exclusion of indigenous/vulnerable groups in some countries, and the lack of institutional capacity to adequately deal with resettlement management and administration. The case studies and comparative analyses of laws and practices relating to expropriation, compensation and resettlement make significant contributions to advancing resettlement knowledge and management practices. The book will be useful as a reference for development practitioners and for researchers across the fields of global development, political science, Asian studies, planning and law. The book also has potential use as a resource for resettlement management training programs and graduatelevel courses/seminars in development studies.

Liyiyu / Dasgupta, Abhijit, Alternatives in Development: Local Politics and NGOs in China and India. 234 pp. 2021:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-1863>
ISBN 978-981-16-4697-3 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book deals with the dynamics of local-level politics in China and India. China introduced new policies to restructure local politics in 1978. In place of communes, civil society organizations and cooperatives were introduced in villages. More changes came about with the introduction of the Organic Law of the Villagers' Committees of the People's Republic of China in 1998. The new local power structure includes state-sponsored institutions like Villagers Committees and the traditional civil society organizations (CSOs) and non-government organizations (NGOs). As in China, local politics in India undergoes considerable changes during the last few decades. Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) were reformed in 1992 with a constitutional amendment act. CSOs and NGOs were allowed to function. Against this background, the present book is undertaken with the objectives first, to present two different models of local politics and second, to compare the two, finally to focus on the two different models of development. This book will interest scholars of rural governance, rural transformation, and the role of the grassroots CSOs and NGOs in shaping development program and growth in the two large countries in Asia.

Glass, Michael R. / Seybolt, Taylor / Williams, Phil (eds.), Urban Violence, Resilience and Security: Governance Responses in the Global South. 224 pp. 2022:1 (E. Elgar, UK) <666-1890>
ISBN 978-1-80037-972-5 hard ¥26,780.- (税込) GB￡ 94.00 *

Written in a comprehensive yet accessible style, Urban Violence, Resilience and Security investigates the diverse nature of urban violence within Latin America, Asia and Africa. It further analyzes how regular and irregular governing mechanisms can provide human security, despite the presence of chronic violence. The empirically rich and conceptually grounded contributions of established and emerging scholars evaluate the current state and future trajectory of urban development. They also question common explanations of the drivers of violence in urban areas and also provide measured recommendations for improved policy and future governance. Chapters thoroughly examine the opportunities and hazards of focusing on resilience as the only method to improve security and identify governance and policy practices that can move beyond the rhetoric of resilience to evaluate diverse approaches to attaining human security in urban areas of the Global South.This invigorating book will be an excellent resource for academic researchers interested in urban dynamics in the Global South as well as scholars embarking on geography, human security, political science and policy studies. Based on a set of original case studies, policymakers will also benefit from the questions and challenges to the conventional approaches to urban planning and governance that it raises.

Aixela-Cabre, Yolanda, Spain's African Colonial Legacies: Morocco and Equatorial Guinea Compared. (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia 127) 280 pp. 2022:2 (Brill, NE) <666-1932>
ISBN 978-90-04-50406-6 hard ¥33,662.- (税込) EUR 143.00

The African cities of Bata and Al-Hoceima were created during the Spanish colonial rule of Equatorial Guinea and Morocco. This book constructs their local history to analyse how Spanish colonialism worked, what its legacies were and the imprints it left on their national histories. The work explains the revision of collective memories of the past in the present as a form of decolonisation that seeks to build different foundations for the future in a transnational and glocal framework. The result is an exciting puzzle of individual and collective memories in which Africans contest their colonial cultural heritage and shape their identities at a global level.

秋田茂、桃木至郎他編　比較的視点における海域アジアの変化するダイナミクスとメカニズム
Akita, Shigeru / Liu, Hong / Momoki, Shiro (eds.), Changing Dynamics and Mechanisms of Maritime Asia in Comparative Perspectives. (Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History) 258 pp. 2021:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-1933>
ISBN 978-981-16-2553-4 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

This book attempts to reveal historical dynamism of transforming contemporary Maritime Asia and to identify key driving forces or agencies for the evolution and transformation of Maritime Asia in the context of global history studies. It seeks to accomplish these goals by connecting different experiences in Maritime Asia both historically from the late early-modern to the present and spatially covering both East and Southeast Asia. Focusing on interactions on and through oceans, seas, and islands, Maritime Asia can deal with any aspects of human society and the nature, including diplomacy, maritime trade, cultural exchange, identity and others. Its interest in supra-regional interactions and networks, migration and diaspora, combined with its microscopic concern with local and trans-border affairs, will surely contribute to the common task of contemporary social sciences and humanities, to relativize the conventional framework based on the nation-state.In this regard, research in Maritime Asia claims to be an integral part of global studies. Part I deals with long-distance trade and diplomatic relations during the late early modern era and its transition to the modern era, mainly in the nineteenth century. Part II focuses on the emergence of transregional and trans-oceanic Asian networks and the original institution-building efforts in the Asia-Pacific region in the twentieth century.

Ali, Hamid E. / Bhuiyan, Shahjahan (eds.), Institutional Reforms, Governance, and Services Delivery in the Global South. (International Series on Public Policy) 276 pp. 2021:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-1934>
ISBN 978-3-030-82256-9 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This edited book explores the link between institutional reforms, governance and services delivery in the Global South, mapping how and to what extent resource-poor governments deliver public services to their citizens. The book concludes that delivery of public services responsibly and efficiently remains largely unachievable because of weaker institutions and poor quality of governance in the Global South countries. Reforms to governance and institutions are generally considered fitting measures to overcome public service delivery challenges.

Allen, Richard B. (ed.), Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250-1900. (Studies in Global Slavery 10) 448 pp. 2021:12 (Brill, NE) <666-1935>
ISBN 978-90-04-46964-8 hard ¥38,134.- (税込) EUR 162.00 *

Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250-1900 is the first collection of studies to focus on slavery and related forms of labor throughout Asia. The 15 chapters by an international group of scholars assess the current state of Asian slavery studies, discuss new research on slave systems in Asia, identify avenues for future research, and explore new approaches to reconstructing the history of slavery and bonded labor in Asia and, by extension, elsewhere in the globe. Individual chapters examine slavery, slave trading, abolition, and bonded labor in places as diverse as Ceylon, China, India, Korea, the Mongol Empire, the Philippines, the Sulu Archipelago, and Timor in local, regional, pan-regional, and comparative contexts. Contributors are: Richard B. Allen, Michael D. Bennett, Claude Chevaleyre, Jeff Fynn-Paul, Hans Haegerdal, Shawna Herzog, Jessica Hinchy, Kumari Jayawardena, Rachel Kurian, Bonny Ling, Christopher Lovins, Stephanie Mawson, Anthony Reid, James Francis Warren, Don J. Wyatt, Harriet T. Zurndorfer.

Campbell, Yonique / Connell, John (eds.), COVID in the Islands: A comparative perspective on the Caribbean and the Pacific. 541 pp. 2021:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-1937>
ISBN 978-981-16-5284-4 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book provides the first wide-ranging account of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in two contrasting island regions - the Caribbean and the Pacific - and in several islands and island states. It traces the complexity of effects and responses, at different scales, through the first critical year. Written by a range of scholars and practitioners working in the region the book focuses on six key themes: public health; the economies (notably the collapse of tourism, the revival of local agriculture and fishing, and the rebirth of self-reliance, and even barter); the rescue by remittances; social tensions and responses; public policy; and future 'bubbles' and regional connections. Even with marine borders that excluded the virus all island states were affected by COVID-19 because of a considerable dependence on tourism - prompting urgent challenges for governance, economic management and development, as small states sought to balance lives against livelihoods in search of revitalisation or even a 'new normal'.

Cathcart, Adam / Green, Christopher / Denney, Steven (eds.), Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands. (Asian Borderlands) 440 pp. 2021:1 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <666-1939>
ISBN 978-94-6298-756-2 hard ¥41,310.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

Since the 1990s, the Chinese-North Korean border region has undergone a gradual transformation into a site of intensified cooperation, competition, and intrigue. These changes have prompted a significant volume of critical scholarship and media commentary across multiple languages and disciplines. Drawing on existing studies and new data, Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands brings much of this literature into concert by pulling together a wide range of insight on the region's economics, security, social cohesion, and information flows. Drawing from multilingual sources and transnational scholarship, this volume is enhanced by the extensive fieldwork undertaken by the editors and contributors in their quests to decode the borderland. In doing so, the volume emphasizes the link between theory, methodology, and practice in the field of Area Studies and social science more broadly.

Chochoy, Matthieu, De Tamerlan a Gengis Khan: Construction et deconstruction de l'idee d'empire tartare en France du XVIe siecle a la fin du XVIIIe siecle. (Islamicate Intellectual History 8) 2021:12 (Brill, NE) <666-1941>
ISBN 978-90-04-49901-0 hard ¥28,012.- (税込) EUR 119.00

In De Tamerlan a Gengis Khan, Matthieu Chochoy traces the stages in the construction of knowledge about the so-called Tartar Empire through French historical works produced between the 16th and 18th centuries. Dans De Tamerlan a Gengis Khan, Matthieu Chochoy retrace les etapes de la construction d'un savoir sur de ce que l'on nommait l'empire tartare a travers les oeuvres historiques francaises produites entre le XVIe et le XVIIIe siecle.

Edwin, Shirin E., The Space of the Transnational: Feminisms and Ummah in African and Southeast Asian Writing. (SUNY Series, Genders in the Global South) 248 pp. 2021:12 (State U. New York Pr., US) <666-1942>
ISBN 978-1-4384-8639-0 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Farrell, Brian P. / Long, SR Joey / Ulbrich, D. J. (eds.), From Far East to Asia Pacific: Great Powers and Grand Strategy 1900-1954. (De Gruyter Studies in Military History 4) 240 S. 2022:3 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <666-1943>
ISBN 978-3-11-071740-2 hard ¥22,350.- (税込) EUR 94.95 *

This volume illuminates Grand Strategy, Great Powers and the Asia Pacific ? and the all-important interplay between them ? by a carefully selected collection of focused studies. It sheds light on a variety of ways in which Great Powers used Grand Strategy try to bring about an Asia Pacific that suited them.

東アジアと第一次世界大戦
Jacob, Frank, East Asia and the First World War. 150 S. 2022:3 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <666-1946>
ISBN 978-3-11-073708-0 hard ¥8,226.- (税込) EUR 34.95 *

The First World War was a truely global event that changed the course of history in many participating as well as non-participating countries. In East Asia, the war stimulated the further rise of Japan as the leading power in the region during the war, yet also its radicalization and social protests after 1918. In China and Korea it stimulated nationalist eruptions, demanding freedom and equality for the (semi)colonized countries and the people living within their borders. All in all, the present book offers a consice introduction of the history of the First World War and its impact in East Asia.

Kuemmeler, Fabian / Majorossy, Judit / Hovden, E. (eds.), Practising Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia (1000-1600): Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. 608 pp. 2021:11 (Brill, NE) <666-1949>
ISBN 978-90-04-46577-0 hard ¥40,724.- (税込) EUR 173.00

This volume explores social practices of framing, building and enacting community in urban-rural relations across medieval Eurasia. Introducing fresh comparative perspectives on practices and visions of community, it offers a thorough source-based examination of medieval communal life in its sociocultural complexity and diversity in Central and Southeast Europe, South Arabia and Tibet. As multi-layered social phenomena, communities constantly formed, restructured and negotiated internal allegiances, while sharing a topographic living space and joint notions of belonging. The volume challenges disciplinary paradigms and proposes an interdisciplinary set of low-threshold categories and tools for cross-cultural comparison of urban and rural communities in the Global Middle Ages. Contributors are Maaike van Berkel, Hubert Feiglstorfer, Andre Gingrich, Karoly Goda, Elisabeth Gruber, Johann Heiss, Katerina Hornickova, Eirik Hovden, Christian Jahoda, Christiane Kalantari, Odile Kommer, Fabian Kuemmeler, Christina Lutter, Judit Majorossy, Ermanno Orlando, and Noha Sadek.

McDuie-Ra, Duncan, Skateboarding and Urban Landscapes in Asia: Endless Spots. (Consumption and Sustainability in Asia) 210 pp. 2021:2 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <666-1953>
ISBN 978-94-6372-313-8 hard ¥30,484.- (税込) GB￡ 107.00 *

As urban development in Asia has accelerated, cities in the region have become central to skateboarding culture, livelihoods, and consumption. Asia's urban landscapes are desired for their endless supply of 'spots'. Spots are not built for skateboarding; they are accidents of urban planning and commercial activity; glitches in the urban machine. Skateboarders and filmers chase these spots to make skate video, skateboarding's primary cultural artefact. Once captured, skate video circulates rapidly through digital platforms to millions of viewers, enrolling spots from Shenzhen to Ramallah into an alternative cartography of Asia. This book explores this way of desiring and consuming urban Asia, and the implications for relational and comparative hierarchies of urban development.

Montt Strabucchi, Maria / Chan, Carol / Rios, Maria Elvira, Chineseness in Chile: Shifting Representations During the Twenty-First Century. (Studies of the Americas) 227 pp. 2021:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-1954>
ISBN 978-3-030-83965-9 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book explores the role of Chineseness or lo chino in the production of Chilean national identity. It does so by discussing the many voices, images, and intentions of diverse actors who contribute to stereotyping or problematizing Chineseness in Chile. The authors argue that in general, representing and perceiving China or Chineseness as the Other is part of a broader cultural and political strategy for various stakeholders to articulate Chile as either a Western country or one that is becoming-Western. The authors trace the evolution of the symbolic role that China and Chineseness play in defining racial, gendered, and class aspects of Chilean national social imaginary. In doing so, they challenge a common idea that Chineseness is a stable signifier and the simplistic perception of the ethnic Chinese as the unassimilable foreigner within the nation. In response, the authors call for a postmigrant approach to understanding identities and Chilean society beyond stubborn Orient-Occident and us-them dichotomies.

Panda, Jagannath P. / Gunasekara-Rockwell, Ernest (eds.), Quad Plus and Indo-Pacific: The Changing Profile of International Relations. (Routledge Studies on Think Asia) 272 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <666-1838>
ISBN 978-1-03-204860-4 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-207314-9 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This book explores how the Quad Plus mechanism is set to reshape the global multilateral economic and security co-operations between Quad partner countries and the rest of the world.With the Quad partners - Australia, India, Japan and the United States - seeing deteriorating ties with China, the book provides a holistic understanding of the reasons why Quad Plus matters and what it means for the post-COVID Indo-Pacific and Asian order. It goes beyond the existing literature of the global Post-COVID reality and examines how Quad Plus can grow and find synergy with national and multilateral Indo-Pacific initiatives. The chapters analyze the mechanism's uncharacteristic yet active approach of including countries like South Korea, Israel, Brazil, New Zealand and ASEAN/Vietnam for their successful handling of the pandemic crisis, thereby reshaping the new world's geopolitical vision. A unique study focused solely on the intricacies and the broader dialogue of the 'Quad Plus' narrative, the book caters to strategic audiences as well as academics researching International Relations, Politics, and Indo-Pacific and Asian Studies.

Carothers, Christopher, Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes: Lessons from East Asia. 293 pp. 2022:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <666-1616>
ISBN 978-1-316-51328-6 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Corruption is rampant in many authoritarian regimes, leading most observers to assume that autocrats have little incentive or ability to curb government wrongdoing. Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes shows that meaningful anti-corruption efforts by nondemocracies are more common and more often successful than is typically understood. Drawing on wide-ranging analysis of authoritarian anti-corruption efforts globally and in-depth case studies of key countries such as China, South Korea and Taiwan over time, Dr. Carothers constructs an original theory of authoritarian corruption control. He disputes views that hold democratic or quasi-democratic institutions as necessary for political governance successes and argues that corruption control in authoritarian regimes often depends on a powerful autocratic reformer having a free hand to enact and enforce measures curbing government wrongdoing. This book advances our understanding of authoritarian governance and durability while also opening up new avenues of inquiry about the politics of corruption control in East Asia and beyond.

Khanna, Tarun / Szonyi, Michael (eds.), Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present. 392 pp. 2022:1 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <666-1630>
ISBN 978-0-19-760246-1 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-0-19-760247-8 paper ¥8,621.- (税込) US$ 39.99 *

How do societies identify and promote merit? Enabling all people to fulfill their potential, and ensuring the selection of competent and capable leaders are central challenges for any society. These are not new concerns. Scholars, educators, and political and economic elites in China and India have been pondering them for centuries and continue to do so today, with enormously high stakes. In Making Meritocracy, Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi have gathered over a dozen experts from a range of intellectual perspectives--political science, history, philosophy, anthropology, economics, and applied mathematics--to discuss how the two most populous societies in the world have addressed the issue of building meritocracy historically, philosophically, and in practice. They focus on how contemporary policy makers, educators, and private-sector practitioners seek to promote it today. Importantly, they also discuss Singapore, which is home to large Chinese and Indian populations and the most successful meritocracy in recent times. Both China and India look to it for lessons. Though the past, present, and future of meritocracy building in China and India have distinctive local inflections, their attempts to enhance their power, influence, and social well-being by prioritizing merit-based advancement offers rich lessons both for one another and for the rest of the world--including rich countries like the United States, which are currently witnessing broad-based attacks on the very idea of meritocracy.

Mpofu, Shepherd (ed.), The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age: Perspectives from the Global South. 302 pp. 2021:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-1675>
ISBN 978-3-030-81968-2 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age: Perspectives from the Global South brings to critical and intellectual attention the role of humour in the digital era in the Global South. Many citizens of the Global South live disempowered and precarious lives. Digital media and humour, as chapters in the volume demonstrate, have empowered these citizens through engagement with power and their peers, enabling a pursuit of a better future. Contributors to the volume, while alive to challenges associated with the digital divide, highlight the potentials of social media and humour to engage and seek redress on issues such as corruption, human rights violations, racism and sexism. Contributors expertly analyse memes, videos, cartoons and other social media texts to demonstrate how citizens mimic, disrupt, ridicule and challenge status quo. This book caters for academics and students in media and communication studies, political studies, sociology and Global South studies.