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

日本、韓国、インドネシアにおけるグローバル資本主義と労働
Kalleberg, Arne L. / Hewison, Kevin / Shin, Kwang-Yeong, Precarious Asia: Global Capitalism and Work in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia. (Emerging Frontiers in the Global Economy) 248 pp. 2021:12 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <667-412>
ISBN 978-1-5036-1025-5 hard ¥17,248.- (税込) US$ 80.00 *

Precarious Asia assesses the role of global and domestic factors in shaping precarious work and its outcomes in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia as they represent a range of Asian political democracies and capitalist economies: Japan and South Korea are now developed and mature economies, while Indonesia remains a lower-middle income country. With their established backgrounds in Asian studies, comparative political economy, social stratification and inequality, and the sociology of work, the authors yield compelling insights into the extent and consequences of precarious work, examining the dynamics underlying its rise. By linking macrostructural policies to both the mesostructure of labor relations and the microstructure of outcomes experienced by individual workers, they reveal the interplay of forces that generate precarious work, and in doing so, synthesize historical and institutional analyses with the political economy of capitalism and class relations. This book reveals how precarious work ultimately contributes to increasingly high levels of inequality and condemns segments of the population to chronic poverty and many more to livelihood and income vulnerability.

Anshan, Li, China and Africa in Global Context: Encounters, Policy, Cooperation and Migration. (China Perspectives) 592 pp. 2022:2 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <667-1515>
ISBN 978-1-03-211499-6 hard ¥62,678.- (税込) GB￡ 220.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-211500-9 paper ¥17,660.- (税込) GB￡ 61.99 *

This book studies the relationship between China and Africa by reviewing this history and current state of interactions, offering a valuable addition to the often heated and contentious debate surrounding China's engagement in Africa from a Chinese angle. Comprising four parts, the book covers a kaleidoscopic range of topics on China-Africa relations based on materials from different languages. Part I looks into early historical contact between China and Africa and the historiography of African Studies in China in recent decades. Part II probes the origins, dynamics, challenges and cultural heritage of China's policies towards Africa. Part III explores the issue of development cooperation from both a theoretical and a practical point of view, with a focus on the case of Chinese medical teams in Africa and China's technology transfer to the continent. Part IV illustrates bilateral migration, discussing the history and life of Chinese immigrants in Africa and the African diaspora in China.The insights in this book, as well as real life case studies, will make this work an indispensable reference for academics, students, policy-makers and general readers who are interested in international issues and area studies, especially China-Africa relations, China's rise and African development.

Bajpaee, Chietigj, China in India's Post-Cold War Engagement with Southeast Asia. (Routledge Studies on Think Asia) 272 pp. 2022:2 (Routledge, UK) <667-1516>
ISBN 978-0-367-46406-6 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book examines the role of China in driving and sustaining India's post-Cold War engagement with Southeast Asia. In doing so, it provides a unique insight into the regional dimensions of the Sino-Indian relationship.India launched its Look East Policy in the early 1990s as part of a concerted effort to revive the importance of Southeast Asia in the country's foreign policy agenda. This study assesses the role of the China factor - defined here as China's regional role, which has been interpreted through the prism of the Sino-Indian relationship - in the inception and evolution of the policy. More specifically, it establishes the extent to which China has been raised as a priority in discourses of India's Look East Policy and how this has varied over time from the origins of the policy through to the most recent phase of the renamed Act East Policy. Addressing the distinction between what policymakers signal in their official statements and their true or underlying motivations, the book alludes to the fact that government officials may not always reflect true intentions in their official statements, and it is often what is not said that may reveal more about their real motivations. This is particularly relevant in the context of the Sino-Indian relationship where diplomatic rhetoric often masks more competitive and confrontational aspects of the bilateral relationship. An important analysis of the interplay between India's relations with Southeast Asia and China, this book will be of interest to academics, policymakers and students in the fields of International Relations, Asian Security, Southeast Asian politics, and in particular, Indian foreign policy, the Sino-Indian relationship, and India's Look East/Act East Policy.

Ball, Warwick, The Eurasian Steppe: People, Movement, Ideas. 424 pp. 2021:10 (Edinburgh U. Pr., UK) <667-1517>
ISBN 978-1-4744-8804-4 hard ¥27,065.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4744-8806-8 paper ¥7,119.- (税込) GB￡ 24.99 *

Finck Carrales, Juan Carlos / Suarez-Krabbe, Julia (eds.), Transdisciplinary Thinking from the Global South: Whose Problems, Whose Solutions? (Routledge Research on Decoloniality and New Postcolonialisms) 154 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <667-1519>
ISBN 978-1-03-200035-0 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-200038-1 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This book promotes constructive and nuanced transdisciplinary understandings of some of the critical problems that we face on a global scale today by thinking with and from the Global South. It is engaged in transmodernising, pluriversalising, decolonising, queering, and/or posthumanising thinking and practice. The book aims to contribute to and challenge current debates regarding knowledge, diversity, and change. This is achieved through the application of transdisciplinary and indisciplined perspectives to the Himalayan Anthropocene; transport services in Mexico City; the EU-Turkey border regimes and policy; egoism and the decolonisation of whiteness; the Witch and the decolonisation of the gender binary; Nepalese students in Denmark; and the decolonisation of global health promotion. The book thereby provides the reader a multiplicity of pathways of knowledges and practices that address current problems co-produced by the dominant Western colonial onto-epistemic outset, giving way to 'other' knowledge-practices, towards a pluriversal approach.This book will be of interest to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in disciplines such as human geography, development studies, politics, international relations, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, planning, and philosophy. It is also relevant to researchers, development workers and human rights/environmental activists, and other intellectual practitioners.

Fletcher, Robert S. G. / Hellyer, Robert (eds.), Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-Century East Asia: Lives, Linkages, and Imperial Connections. (SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan) 256 pp. 2022:5 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <667-1520>
ISBN 978-1-350-23890-9 hard ¥25,641.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

This book presents intimate, engaging, and largely untold portraits of Western lives and livelihoods in Japanese and Chinese treaty ports, as well as in the British colonies of Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, during the 19th century. It does so by examining how Westerners 'chronicled' their overseas lives in personal letters, diplomatic dispatches, business records, and academic papers. By utilizing these rich but often overlooked sources, Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-Century East Asia presents new insights into the pace and challenges of daily life, especially in the Japanese treaty ports of Nagasaki and Yokohama but also in Shanghai and Hong Kong. In the process, the volume stresses the 'connectivities' between its subjects, as Westerners' lives intersected, and as they moved between Japanese and Chinese port cities. Contributors based in the USA, Japan, the UK, New Zealand and Switzerland reveal the various commercial, maritime, and imperial connections, linked in surprising ways to Westerners in East Asia portrayed here, which shaped colonial development in Australia and New Zealand. Through a broad investigation of Westerners recording their lives, the book re-examines wider histories of the so-called 'openings' of China and Japan in the 1850s and 1860s, as well as how Westerners sought to make sense of these events, and to narrate their place within them. Finally the volume considers how flows of people, capital, commerce, and communications not only cut across the histories of distinct treaty ports in Japan and China, but also shows their implications for empire and exchange beyond East Asia, including Australia, New Zealand, and the 19th-century maritime world.

Guo, Yanjun / Yang, Yue (eds.), ASEAN-China Cooperation on Regional Connectivity and Sustainability. (Series on Asian Regional Cooperation Studies 4) 236 pp. 2021:8 (World Scientific, SI) <667-1521>
ISBN 978-981-12-2182-8 hard ¥18,972.- (税込) US$ 88.00 *

Since 2019, Network of ASEAN-China Think-tanks (NACT) has been publishing joint researches of all its Working Groups. This book is a collection of research papers contributed by ASEAN and China scholars.This book is published at a time of growing debate in the region over connectivity. The contributing scholars provide their ingenious and insightful thoughts from either a national or regional perspective. The book also contains Working Group Report that include innovative and practical policy recommendations on strengthening the connectivity between ASEAN and China.

服部龍二著　日中の和解と米国－ニクソンの北京訪問後
Hattori, Ryuji, China-Japan Rapprochement and the United States: In the Wake of Nixon's Visit to Beijing. (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) 184 pp. 2022:1 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <667-1522>
ISBN 978-1-03-220193-1 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-220194-8 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

Based on extensive original research including interviews with key participants, this book examines how, following Richard Nixon's famous visit to China in 1972, Japan established formal diplomatic relations with China, doing so before the United States and other Western countries. It considers the key personalities - Prime Minister Tanaka and Foreign Minister Ohira on the Japanese side, and Zhou Enlai on the Chinese side, outlines how the discussions unfolded, and discusses the key issues which divided the two sides and how these issues were resolved: Japanese war reparations to China, how the two countries perceived their past, how Taiwan should be treated, and possession of the Senkaku Islands. The book also shows how Tanaka and Ohira sought to reconcile China-Japan relations with the US-Japan Security Treaty and to continue non-governmental exchanges with Taiwan following the severing of relations. Overall, the book emphasises that the nature of the relationship established in 1972 continues to be very important for understanding present day China-Japan relations.

Hudson, Mark, Bronze Age Maritime and Warrior Dynamics in Island East Asia. (Elements in Ancient East Asia) 2021:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <667-1523>
ISBN 978-1-108-98731-8 paper ¥4,843.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

Recent interdisciplinary studies, combining scientific techniques such as ancient DNA analysis with humanistic re-evaluations of the transcultural value of bronze, have presented archaeologists with a fresh view of the Bronze Age in Europe. The new research emphasises long-distance connectivities and political decentralisation. 'Bronzisation' is discussed as a type of proto-globalisation. In this Element, Mark Hudson examines whether these approaches can also be applied to East Asia. Focusing primarily on Island East Asia, he analyses trade, maritime interactions and warrior culture in a comparative Eurasian framework. He argues that the international division of labour associated with Bronze Age trade provided an important stimulus to the rise of decentralised complexity in regions peripheral to alluvial states. Building on James Scott's work, the concept of the 'barbarian niche' is proposed as a way to model the longue duree of premodern Eurasian history. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Louro, Michele / Stolte, Carolien et al. (eds.), The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives. (Global Connections: Routes and Roots) 408 pp 2020:10 (Leiden U. Pr., NE) <667-1527>
ISBN 978-90-8728-341-4 paper ¥12,820.- (税込) GB￡ 45.00 *

T.J.ペンペル著　アジア太平洋における繁栄と略奪
Pempel, T. J., A Region of Regimes: Prosperity and Plunder in the Asia-Pacific. (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) 252 pp. 2021 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <667-1529>
ISBN 978-1-5017-5879-9 hard ¥28,028.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5017-5880-5 paper ¥6,888.- (税込) US$ 31.95 *

A Region of Regimes traces the relationship between politics and economics-power and prosperity-in the Asia-Pacific in the decades since the Second World War. This book complicates familiar and incomplete narratives of the "Asian economic miracle" to show radically different paths leading to high growth for many but abject failure for some. T. J. Pempel analyzes policies and data from ten East Asian countries, categorizing them into three distinct regime types, each historically contingent and the product of specific configurations of domestic institutions, socio-economic resources, and external support. Pempel identifies Japan, Korea, and Taiwan as developmental regimes, showing how each then diverged due to domestic and international forces. North Korea, Myanmar, and the Philippines (under Marcos) comprise "rapacious regimes" in this analysis, while Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand form "ersatz developmental regimes." Uniquely, China emerges as an evolving hybrid of all three regime types. A Region of Regimes concludes by showing how the shifting interactions of these regimes have profoundly shaped the Asia-Pacific region and the globe across the postwar era.

岩渕功一他編　グローバルな東アジア－21世紀へ
Pieke, Frank N. / Iwabuchi, Koichi (eds.), Global East Asia: Into the Twenty-First Century. (The Global Square 4) 352 pp. 2021:8 (U. California Pr., US) <667-1530>
ISBN 978-0-520-29986-3 hard ¥20,482.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-520-29987-0 paper ¥7,535.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

Home to a rapidly rising superpower and the two largest economies in the world after the US, a global East Asia is seen and felt everywhere. This dynamic text views the global square from the perspective of the world's most important rising global center. East Asia's global impact is built on a dizzying combination: a strong and deep civilizational self-consciousness fused with hypermodernity, wealth, influence, and power, which have made the region a beacon for the world and an alternative to the West. Short, accessible essays by prominent experts on the region cover the core of East Asian-Japan, China, and Korea-as well as Mongolia and Taiwan. Topics include contemporary culture, artistic production, food, science, economic development, digital issues, education and research, and international collaboration. Students will glean new perspectives about the region using the insights of global studies.

Reynaud, Maxime, La Premiere Guerre mondiale dans le Pacifique: de la colonisation a Pearl Harbor. 2021:10 (Passes Coomposes, FR) <667-1531>
ISBN 978-2-37933-635-5 paper ¥5,414.- (税込) EUR 23.00

Robinson, David M., Korea and the Fall of the Mongol Empire: Alliance, Upheaval, and the Rise of a New East Asian Order. 327 pp. 2022:5 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <667-1532>
ISBN 978-1-00-909896-0 hard ¥21,367.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00 *

Korea and the Fall of the Mongol Empire explores the experiences of the enigmatic and controversial King Gongmin of Goryeo, Wang Gi, as he navigated the upheavals of the mid-fourteenth century, including the collapse of the Mongol Empire and the rise of its successors in West, Central, and East Asia. Drawing on a wealth of Korean and Chinese sources and integrating East Asian and Western scholarship on the topic, David Robinson considers the single greatest geopolitical transformation of the fourteenth century through the experiences of this one East Asian ruler. He focuses on the motives of Wang Gi, rather than the major contemporary powers, to understand the rise and fall of empire, offering a fresh perspective on this period of history. The result is a more nuanced and accessible appreciation of Korean, Mongolian, and Chinese history, which sharpens our understanding of alliances across Eurasia.

Rui, Chuanming, On the Ancient History of the Silk Road. 408 pp. 2021:7 (World Scientific, SI) <667-1533>
ISBN 978-981-12-3296-1 hard ¥25,440.- (税込) US$ 118.00 *
ISBN 978-981-12-3447-7 paper ¥12,504.- (税込) US$ 58.00 *

The Silk Road was a network of trade routes which connected the East and West, and was central to the economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between these regions from the 2nd century BCE to the 18th century. This book studies various aspects of the ancient history of the silk road. The 16 chapters in the book are divided into three parts: Silk Road and The Nomads; The Sogdians, the Special Role on the Silk Road; Silk Road and the Spread of Religious Ideas. It studies the purpose and effects of silk exportation, the intermarriage between China and other ethnic groups, the origin of the Turks, the influence and domination of the Sogdians on the nomads, and the religious ideas, especially the Manicheism, spreading across the Silk Road.

坂井一成他編　アジアにおける移民のガバナンス
Sakai, Kazunari / Lanna, Noemi (eds.), Migration Governance in Asia: A Multi-level Analysis. (Global Perspectives on Immigration and Multiculturalisation) 256 pp. 2022:1 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <667-1534>
ISBN 978-1-03-205836-8 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-205837-5 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

The contributors to this book investigate migration governance in Asia through a multilevel analysis, addressing its local, national and regional dimensions as well as placing it in the wider context of global migration governance.Core case studies include migration to and within Japan, the migration of Burmese and Tibetan refugees to India, and the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar. Evaluating the rules, norms and processes put in place by state and non-state actors to cope with international migration, the contributors focus especially on migration flows and the extent to which Asian cases are distinct from those elsewhere. This includes comparative cases from Europe and the United States to provide a comparative context for the analysis of Asia.A valuable resource for students and scholars of migration studies, especially those with a particular interest in Asia.

Schrikker, Alicia / Wickramasinghe, Nira (eds.), Being a Slave: Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean. (Critical, Connected Histories) 298 pp 2020:9 (Leiden U. Pr., NE) <667-1535>
ISBN 978-90-8728-344-5 paper ¥17,378.- (税込) GB￡ 61.00 *

松村昌廣他編　防衛政策と戦略的開発－日台の協調
Liu, Fu-kuo / Karalekas, Dean / Matsumura, Masahiro (eds.), Defense Policy and Strategic Development: Coordination between Japan and Taiwan. 164 pp. 2021:8 (World Scientific, SI) <667-1480>
ISBN 978-981-12-3817-8 hard ¥14,660.- (税込) US$ 68.00 *

Many possibilities for bilateral coordination between Taiwan and Japan exist in the face of China's rapid military development, growing international influence, and increasingly belligerent regional behavior. This volume examines several facets of such potential coordination between Japan and Taiwan, in such areas as Security Policy, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Nuclearization, Missile Defense, and others.

Murphy, Dawn C., China's Rise in the Global South: The Middle East, Africa, and Beijing's Alternative World Order. 408 pp. 2022:1 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <667-1485>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3009-3 hard ¥18,326.- (税込) US$ 85.00 *

As China and the U.S. increasingly compete for power in key areas of U.S. influence, great power conflict looms. Yet few studies have looked to the Middle East and Africa, regions of major political, economic, and military importance for both China and the U.S., to theorize how China competes in a changing world system. China's Rise in the Global South examines China's behavior as a rising power in two key Global South regions, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa. Dawn C. Murphy, drawing on extensive fieldwork and hundreds of interviews, compares and analyzes thirty years of China's interactions with these regions across a range of functional areas: political, economic, foreign aid, and military. From the Belt and Road initiative to the founding of new cooperation forums and special envoys, China's Rise in the Global South offers an in-depth look at China's foreign policy approach to the countries it considers its partners in South-South cooperation. Intervening in the emerging debate between liberals and realists about China's future as a great power, Murphy contends that China is constructing an alternate international order to interact with these regions, and this book provides policymakers and scholars of international relations with the tools to analyze it.

Acharya, Arabinda / Desai, Antara, South China Sea Developments and Implications for Freedom of Navigation. 200 pp. 2021:10 (World Scientific, SI) <667-1396>
ISBN 978-1-80061-033-0 hard ¥21,128.- (税込) US$ 98.00 *

The South China Sea (SCS) has emerged as a theatre of political, economic, and security concerns not only for the countries in the region but also for the world at large. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the SCS issue is not about contestation over territory or control over resources alone. With military facilities including airstrips and artificial islands or structures being built in the area, concerns about freedom of navigation and the right to innocent passage have also become an overwhelming security issue and made the SCS region a flashpoint which, according to many assessments, can lead to confrontations including those involving conventional military means. Disruption of maritime passage could also hamper trade and commerce with very negative impacts on the economic development of the region and other countries. It is now being held that China could also be using the SCS disputes as part of a consorted effort to deflect geo-political pressures on account of the COVID-19 pandemic-related cover-ups and misinformation. This book explores the historical and strategic context of the South China Sea disputes and makes an assessment of the implications of the same for freedom of navigation and other regimes at sea.

墓田桂他編　インド太平洋戦略
Cannon, Brendon J. / Hakata, Kei (eds.), Indo-Pacific Strategies: Navigating Geopolitics at the Dawn of a New Age. (Routledge Studies on Think Asia) 248 pp. 2022:1 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <667-1401>
ISBN 978-1-03-205766-8 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-207443-6 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This book focuses on the Indo-Pacific region's growing prominence as the world's major powers gravitate toward this space to expand their influence. With dynamic shifts taking place in the globe's most strategically volatile region, Indo-Pacific Strategies aims at clarifying the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific, expounded both as a strategic concept and nascent region, thus contributing to the burgeoning policy and academic debate. The book offers indispensable insights and appropriate remedies to maintain the rules-based international order as threatened by China's increasingly assertive and bellicose posturing. It offers up-to-date analyses of Covid-19-related geopolitical trends, the strategies of various Indo-Pacific states against the backdrop of great power competition, the increasingly confrontational stance of Indo-Pacific states against China and the 2020 US election results. This unique book presents deep insights into the roles of Eurasia, small island states, the Middle East and Africa, in addition to Australia, India, Japan and the US, thereby providing much needed comparative studies. It also closely investigates the strategic and tactical operationalization of the Indo-Pacific, making it an essential read for scholars, policymakers, students, and strategists in the field of international politics and Area Studies.Excerpt from the foreword by ABE Shinzo, (former) Prime Minister of Japan"I think this book is the timeliest attempt to bring together the wisdom of eleven people to present a multifaceted view of the FOIP [Free and Open Indo-Pacific]. As a reader, I would like to express my gratitude to the editors and contributors for their valuable intellectual contributions."See the preview function on this website to access the full text.

Inanc, Guel / Lewis, Themba (eds.), Forced Displacement and NGOs in Asia and the Pacific. (Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies) 264 pp. 2022:1 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <667-1435>
ISBN 978-0-367-70251-9 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-70249-6 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

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 protections available and sparse frameworks for advancing rights, livelihood, and policy. The region maintains the lowest number of signatory states to international refugee protection covenants, and the majority of national protection and support systems are ad hoc, precarious, and unpredictable. Civil society has very often filled in the gaps but, with the rise of nationalist rhetoric, civil society space has been shrinking. Drawing upon the expertise of academics, practitioners, historians, theorists, policy makers, political scientists, economists, and the voices of affected communities across the region, this book examines both key case studies and larger regional trends.This book is a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners looking to understand the complexities of responses to refugees and forced migrants in the Asia Pacific Region.