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

Espiritu Gandhi, Evyn Le, Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine. (American Crossroads 65) 298 pp. 2022:4 (U. California Pr., US) <671-921>
ISBN 978-0-520-37965-7 paper ¥7,841.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What happens when refugees encounter Indigenous sovereignty struggles in the countries of their resettlement? From April to November 1975, the US military processed over 112,000 Vietnamese refugees on the unincorporated territory of Guam; from 1977 to 1979, the State of Israel granted asylum and citizenship to 366 non-Jewish Vietnamese refugees. Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi analyzes these two cases to theorize what she calls the refugee settler condition: the fraught positionality of refugee subjects whose resettlement in a settler colonial state is predicated on the unjust dispossession of an Indigenous population. This groundbreaking book explores two forms of critical geography: first, archipelagos of empire, examining how the Vietnam War is linked to the US military buildup in Guam and unwavering support of Israel, and second, corresponding archipelagos of trans-Indigenous resistance, tracing how Chamorro decolonization efforts and Palestinian liberation struggles are connected through the Vietnamese refugee figure. Considering distinct yet overlapping modalities of refugee and Indigenous displacement, Gandhi offers tools for imagining emergent forms of decolonial solidarity between refugee settlers and Indigenous peoples.

COVID-19 and Livable Cities in Asia and the Pacific: Guidance Note. 32 pp. 2020:12 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <671-603>
ISBN 978-92-9262-637-2 paper ¥5,834.- (税込) US$ 26.00 *

This guidance note aims to support cities in ADB developing member countries to effectively and immediately respond to the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and Obuild back betterO in the short and medium terms.COVID-19 is causing an unprecedented global impact on cities across the world. The proposed approaches and actions discussed in this guidance note are anchored to the core principles of ADBOs Strategy 2030 Operational Plan for Priority 4: Making Cities More Livable and also considers the public health and economic impacts of the pandemic. The guidance note is one of a series produced by ADB for key sectors and thematic areas.

One Year of Living with COVID-19: An Assessment of How ADB Members Fought the Pandemic in 2020. 124 pp. 2021:5 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <671-611>
ISBN 978-92-9262-813-0 paper ¥7,629.- (税込) US$ 34.00 *

Using the ADB COVID-19 Policy Database, this report examines how ADB members have dealt with the pandemic. It includes information on the amounts of the packages announced by ADB members during 2020 to combat the effects of COVID-19.The report analyzes the specific measures taken, classified into liquidity support, credit creation, long-term lending, equity support, and health and income support. The analysis focuses on the financial statement effects of a given measure, in particular: (i) who, if anyone, bears the financial burden of the measure and in what form?; and (ii) does the measure create more debt or more income (e.g., net worth or equity, other things being equal) for the recipients?

Susantono, Bambang (ed.), Navigating COVID-19 in Asia and the Pacific. 258 pp. 2020:11 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <671-649>
ISBN 978-92-9262-355-5 paper ¥6,956.- (税込) US$ 31.00 *

This book gathers analysis and ideas to help policy makers tackle the impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and build a more resilient and sustainable future.COVID-19 has unleashed unparalleled challenges, yet provides opportunities to rethink strategies to tackle inequality, socioeconomic vulnerability, and environmental issues. This book collects contributions from ADB staff and experts to help inform policy on diverse themes. These include tackling the economic fallout, supporting SMEs, protecting the vulnerable, ensuring food security, and building resilient trade and supply chains. The authors highlight the importance of quality infrastructure, disaster risk management, digital acceleration, and regional cooperation in building back better together.

アジアの水の開発概況　2020年
Asian Water Development Outlook 2020: Advancing Water Security across Asia and the Pacific. 156 pp. 2021:3 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <671-487>
ISBN 978-92-9262-616-7 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

The Asian Water Development Outlook (AWDO) assesses national water security across the Asia and the Pacific, with a focus on five key dimensions: rural, economic, urban, environmental, and water-related disaster.Despite considerable achievements in the region since the AWDO 2013 edition, 1.5 billion people in rural areas and 0.6 billion in urban areas still lack adequate water supply and sanitation. Sound water management and access to reliable service delivery remain vital to inclusive economic growth and social well-being, especially after the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. AWDO 2020 includes two new sections highlighting the importance of finance and governance to water security as well as case studies demonstrating how the AWDO has influenced policy development in four countries.

Susantono, Bambang / Park, Cyn-Young, Future of Regional Cooperation in Asia and the Pacific. 674 pp. 2021:3 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <671-367>
ISBN 978-92-9262-492-7 paper ¥11,668.- (税込) US$ 52.00 *

This book reviews progress with regional cooperation and integration in Asia and the Pacific and explores how it can be reshaped to achieve a more resilient, sustainable, and inclusive future.Consisting of papers contributed by renowned scholars and Asian Development Bank staff, the book covers four major areas: public goods, trade and investment, financial cooperation, and regional health cooperation. The book emphasizes how the region can better leverage regional integration to realize its vast potential as well as overcome challenges such as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

Supporting Quality Infrastructure in Developing Asia. 72 pp. 2021:9 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <671-358>
ISBN 978-92-9262-977-9 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

This report explains how the quality of infrastructure investments in developing Asia can be enhanced and why this is vital for the region's sustainable recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.It emphasizes the need to balance urgent demand for infrastructure financing with governance approaches that focus on boosting efficiency and integrating infrastructure systems. The report also explores opportunities for the Asian Development Bank to strengthen its support for quality infrastructure in the region through its financing instruments, programs, and projects.

McCann, Gerard / Mishra, Nita / Carmody, Padraig (eds.), COVID-19, the Global South and the Pandemic's Development Impact. (Bristol Shorts Research) 160 pp. 2022:7 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <671-298>
ISBN 978-1-5292-2565-5 paper ¥5,764.- (税込) GB￡ 20.00 *

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Though a globally shared experience, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected societies across the world in radically different ways. This book examines the unique implications of the pandemic in the Global South. With international contributors from a variety of disciplines including health, economics and geography, the book investigates the pandemic's effects on development, medicine, gender (in)equality and human rights, among other issues. Its analysis illuminates further subsequent crises of interconnection, a pervasive health provision crisis and a resulting rise in socioeconomic inequality. The book's assessment offers an urgent discourse on the ways in which the impact of COVID-19 can be mitigated in some of the most challenging socioeconomic contexts in the world.

2017 International Comparison Program for Asia and the Pacific: Purchasing Power Parities and Real Expenditures: A Summary Report. 114 pp. 2020:9 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <671-302>
ISBN 978-92-9262-199-5 paper ¥6,058.- (税込) US$ 27.00 *

This publication provides estimates of purchasing power parities (PPPs) and real expenditures for 22 economies in Asia and the Pacific. These are summary regional results from the 2017 cycle of the International Comparison Program (ICP).The report provides estimates of PPPs, real expenditures for total and per capita gross domestic product (GDP) and its component expenditures derived using PPPs, and price level indexes showing relative costs of living. The PPPs enable comparison in real terms across economies by removing the price level differences among them. The ICP is a worldwide statistical initiative under the auspices of the United Nations Statistical Commission. ADB is the regional implementing agency for the ICP in Asia and the Pacific.

100 Climate Actions from Cities in Asia and the Pacific. 152 pp. 2021:9 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <671-1352>
ISBN 978-92-9262-870-3 paper ¥8,302.- (税込) US$ 37.00 *

This publication showcases 100 projects and programs tackling climate change and its impacts on people and the environment in cities across Asia and the Pacific.The climate actions are drawn from multiple sectors-renewable energy, carbon finance, transport, land use, information and communication technology, climate action plans, building energy efficiency, solid waste management, sustainable and low-carbon communities, and climate resilience. The examples show how city-level initiatives contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and building resilience, all while delivering economic, environmental, health, and social co-benefits.

Futures Thinking in Asia and the Pacific: Why Foresight Matters for Policy Makers. 108 pp. 2020:6 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <671-1358>
ISBN 978-92-9262-181-0 paper ¥5,834.- (税込) US$ 26.00 *

This handbook shows how the Asian Development Bank (ADB) piloted futures thinking and foresight to understand entry points to support transformational change and ?nance the future of Asia and the Paci?c.Futures thinking and foresight is a powerful planning approach that can help the region meet economic, political, social, and environmental and climate change challenges. The publication compiles lessons from an ADB initiative to apply futures and foresight tools in Armenia, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the People's Republic of China, the Philippines, and Timor-Leste. Futures terminology is introduced as are specific tools such as emerging issues analysis, scenario planning, and backcasting. It also describes how futures and foresight tools were applied in the countries.

Acharya, Alka, The 1914 Simla Convention: Boundaries and Borderlands a Hundred Years on. 228 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-1361>
ISBN 978-1-03-218198-1 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

The Simla Convention of 1914, held between Great Britain, China, and Tibet, demarcated the border between India and Tibet and gave birth to the McMahon Line. This volume critically examines the legacy of the 1914 Convention and explores its relevance in scholarly discourse about the status of Tibet and Sino-Indian relations more than a hundred years later. The book discusses the significance of the Simla Convention, both in terms of the geopolitics of boundaries as well as the people and the liminal borderlands they occupy, encapsulating the culture and diversity of the trans-Himalayan regions. The book explicates how colonial legacies, namely, the 1914 Simla Convention, have become virtual straitjackets, hardening the positions on the boundaries between India and China. It also looks at the debilitating consequences of the nation-state framework on more substantial investigations of the borderlands. Rich in archival material and drawing from the authors' fieldwork in the Himalayan regions, this book analyses muted voices of the inhabitants of the region to bring into focus the larger question of the political, economic, religious, ecological, and social life of the Himalayan peoples, which has enormous implications for both India and China. This volume will be of interest to students of history, international relations, sociology, strategic studies, Asian studies, and anthropology.

Bezuidenhout, Andries / Mnwana, Sonwabile et al. (eds.), Critical Engagement with Public Sociology: A Perspective from the Global South. (Public Sociology) 208 pp. 2022:7 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <671-1362>
ISBN 978-1-5292-2114-5 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

The idea of public sociology, as introduced by Michael Burawoy, was inspired by the sociological practice in South Africa known as 'critical engagement'. This volume explores the evolution of critical engagement before and after Burawoy's visit to South Africa in the 1990s and offers a Southern critique of his model of public sociology. Involving four generations of researchers from the Global South, the authors provide a multifaceted exploration of the formation of new knowledge through research practices of co-production. Tracing the historical development of 'critical engagement' from a Global South perspective, the book deftly weaves a bridge between the debates on public sociology and decolonial frameworks.

Ching-Hwang, Yen, While East Meets West: A Chinese Diaspora Scholar and Social Activist in Asia-Pacific. 450 pp. 2022:3 (World Scientific, SI) <671-1363>
ISBN 978-981-12-4672-2 hard ¥17,503.- (税込) US$ 78.00

Fletcher, Robert S. G. / Mountford, B. et al. (eds.), Connected Empires, Connected Worlds: Essays in Honour of John Darwin. 284 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-1365>
ISBN 978-1-03-225578-1 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Connected Empires, Connected Worlds: Essays in Honour of John Darwin contains diverse essays on the expansion, experience, and decline of empires. The volume is offered in honour of John Darwin's contribution to the study of empire and its endings. Written by his former students and colleagues, the book's chapters discuss topics from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.While each author has contributed according to their expertise, they also reflect on how John's ideas and approaches continue to stimulate new work in disparate fields. Touching on the experience of empire in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia, the authors have engaged with concepts from across Darwin's writings, including his earlier work on decolonisation, 'decline', and 'the dynamics of territorial expansion'. As such, the work in this volume operates across a number of different scales of analysis: from case studies of transnational communities, state formation and military intervention, to imperial politics, inter-imperial comparison, and global historical frameworks.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.

Gounder, Farzana / Brereton, B. / Egger, J. et al. (eds.), Collective Memory, Identity and the Legacies of Slavery and Indenture. 252 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-1366>
ISBN 978-1-03-227804-9 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

The Caribbean history provides a rich study of the different forms of labour systems that have historically marked the politics of the coloniser and the colonised. It further provides the basis for an essential study for discourses on colonialism and capitalism. This interdisciplinary volume bridges the gap between historiography and the present-day diasporic communities, which emerged from the slave trade and indenture. Through case studies from the Caribbean context, the volume demonstrates how the region's historical labour mobility remains central to performances and negotiations of collective memory and identity.Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Kou, Chien-Wen / Huang, Chiung-Chiu / Job, Brian (eds.), The Strategic Options of Middle Powers in the Asia-Pacific. (Politics in Asia) 288 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-1369>
ISBN 978-0-367-74159-4 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book analyses the responses of middle powers in the Asia-Pacific toward the contemporary great powers' rivalry of the United States and China, through specific cases studies of South Korea, Australia, Japan, India, Taiwan, and Vietnam.Presenting local perspectives from multiple middle powers as they face the task of maintaining the international order in light of the recent competition between China and the United States, it further develops theories of foreign policy analyses, forming a systematic framework through initiating crucial concepts, including reluctant hedging, economic statecraft, and strategic position-taking. The contributions also provide an in-depth examination of the contemporary geo-politics of the region, including the impact of both the Trump and Biden administrations, Beijing's "Wolf Warrior" diplomacy, cross-strait relations with Taiwan, and the influences of Japan, Vietnam, Australia and South Korea, revealing that regional middle powers do indeed exert influence on the direction of regional cooperation in the Asia-Pacific.Providing comprehensive studies of many regional powers in the Asia-Pacific, this will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of International Politics, Asian Politics, Asian Studies as well as policy makers on Asia-Pacific relations.

Lim, Jie-Hyun, Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing. (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture) 344 pp. 2022:6 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <671-1370>
ISBN 978-0-231-20676-1 hard ¥31,416.- (税込) US$ 140.00 *
ISBN 978-0-231-20677-8 paper ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

South Korean historian Jie-Hyun Lim, raised under an anticommunist dictatorship, turned to Marxian thought to explain his country's development, even as he came to struggle with its Eurocentrism. As a transnational scholar working in postcommunist Poland, Lim recognized striking similarities between Korean and Polish history and politics. One realization stood out: Both Korea and Poland-at once the "West" for Asia yet "Eastern" Europe-had been assigned the role of "East."This book explores entangled Easts to reconsider global history from the margins. Examining the politics of history and memory, Lim reveals the affinities linking Eastern Europe and East Asia. He draws out commonalities in their experiences of modernity, in their transitions from dictatorship to democracy, and in the shaping of collective memory. Ranging across Poland, Germany, Israel, Japan, and Korea, Lim traces the global history of how notions of victimhood have become central to nationalism. He criticizes mass dictatorships of right and left in the Global Easts, considering Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt's notion of sovereign dictatorship and the concept of decisionist democracy. Lim argues that nationalism is inherently transnational, critiquing how the nationalist imagination of the Global East has influenced countries across borders. Theoretically sophisticated and conceptually innovative, this book sheds new light on the transnational complexity of historical memory and imagination, the boundaries between democracy and mass dictatorship, and the fluidity of East and West.

Milner Davis, Jessica (ed.), Humour in Asian Cultures: Tradition and Context. (Routledge Studies on Asia in the World) 336 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-1372>
ISBN 978-1-03-200916-2 hard ¥43,230.- (税込) GB￡ 150.00 *

This innovative book traces the impact of tradition on modern humour across several Asian countries and their cultures. Using examples from Japan, Korea, Indonesia and Chinese cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the contributors explore the different cultural rules for creating and sharing humour.Humour can be a powerful lubricant when correctly interpreted; mis-interpreted, it is likely to cause considerable setbacks. Over time, it has emerged and submerged in different periods and different forms in all these countries but today's conventions still reflect traditional attitudes to and assumptions about what is appropriate in creating and using humour. Under close examination, Milner Davis and her colleagues show how forms and conventions that differ from those in the west can also be seen to possess elements in common. With examples including Mencian and other classical texts, Balinese traditional verbal humour, Korean and Taiwanese workplace humour, Japanese laughter ceremonies, performances and cartoons, as well as contemporary Chinese-language films and videos, they engage with a wide range of forms and traditions.This fascinating collection of studies will be of great interest to students and scholars of many Asian cultures, and also to those with a broader interest in humour studies. It highlights the increasing importance of understanding a wider range of cultural values in the present era of globalized communication and the importance of reliable studies of why and how cultures that are geographically related differ in their traditional uses of and assumptions about humour.

Murthy, Viren, The Politics of Time in China and Japan: Back to the Future. (Routledge Approaches to History) 208 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-1374>
ISBN 978-0-367-67544-8 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Drawing on a wide range of texts and using an interdisciplinary approach, this volume shows how Chinese and Japanese intellectuals mobilized the past to create a better future. It is especially significant today given a world where, amidst tensions within Asia and the rise of China, East Asian intellectuals and governments constantly find new political meanings in their traditions. The essays illuminate how throughout Chinese and Japanese history, thinkers constantly weaved together nationalism, internationalism, and a politics of time. This volume explores a broad range of subjects such as premodern and early modern attempts to conjure a politics of Confucianism, twentieth-century Japanese Marxist interpretations of Buddhism, and Japanese and Chinese endeavors to imagine a new world order. In sum, this book shows us why understanding East Asian pasts are essential to making sense of ideological trends in contemporary China and Japan. For example, without understanding Confucianism and how modern intellectuals in China grappled with this body of thought, we would be unable to make sense of the Chinese government's current promotion of the Chinese classics. This book will interest students and scholars of political science, history, Asian studies, sociology, and philosophy.

Robertson, Shanthi, Temporality in Mobile Lives: Contemporary Asia-Australia Migration and Everyday Time. (Global Migration and Social Change) 224 pp. 2021 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) * paper 2022:7 <671-1376>
ISBN 978-1-5292-1151-1 hard ¥23,056.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5292-1152-8 paper ¥8,066.- (税込) GB￡ 27.99 *

Shanthi Robertson provides fresh perspectives on 21st-century migratory experiences in this innovative study of young Asian migrants' lives in Australia. Exploring the aspirations and realities of transnational mobility, the book shows how migration has reshaped lived experiences of time for middle-class young people moving between Asia and the West for work, study and lifestyle opportunities. Through a new conceptual framework of 'chronomobilities,' which looks at 'time-regimes' and 'time-logics', Robertson demonstrates how migratory pathways have become far more complex than leaving one country for another, and can profoundly affect the temporalities of everyday life, from career pathways to intimate relationships. Drawing on extensive ethnographic material, Robertson deepens our understanding of the multifaceted relationship between migration and time.

Sablin, Ivan / Bandeira, Egas Moniz (eds.), Parties as Governments in Eurasia, 1913-1991: Nationalism, Socialism, and Development. (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) 376 pp. 2022:5 (Routledge, UK) <671-1377>
ISBN 978-1-03-220733-9 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book examines the political parties which emerged on the territories of the former Ottoman, Qing, Russian, and Habsburg empires and not only took over government power but merged with government itself. It discusses how these parties, disillusioned with previous constitutional and parliamentary reforms, justified their takeovers with programs of controlled or supervised economic and social development, including acting as the mediators between the various social and ethnic groups in the respective territories. It pays special attention to nation-building through the party, to institutions (both constitutional and de facto), and to the global and comparative aspects of one-party regimes. It explores the origins of one-party regimes in China, Czechoslovakia, Korea, the Soviet Union, Turkey, Yugoslavia, and beyond, the roles of socialism and nationalism in the parties' approaches to development and state-building, as well the pedagogical aspirations of the ruling elites. Hence, by revisiting the dynamics of the transition from the earlier imperial formations via constitutionalism to one-party governments, and by assessing the internal and external dynamics of one-party regimes after their establishment, the book more precisely locates this type of regime within the contemporary world's political landscape. Moreover, it emphasises that one-party regimes thrived on both sides of the Cold War and in some of the non-aligned states, and that although some state socialist one-party regimes collapsed in 1989-1991, in other places historically dominant parties and new parties have continued to monopolize political power.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

アジア太平洋地域における文化的景観の遺産ハンドブック
Silva, Kapila D. / Taylor, Ken / Jones, David S. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in the Asia-Pacific. (Routledge Handbooks on Museums, Galleries and Heritage) 614 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-1378>
ISBN 978-0-367-56938-9 hard ¥61,963.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00 *

The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in the Asia-Pacific revisits the use, growth, and potential of the cultural landscape methodology in the conservation and management of culture-nature heritage in the Asia-Pacific region. Taking both a retrospective and prospective view of the management of cultural heritage in the region, this volume argues that the plurality and complexity of heritage in the region cannot be comprehensively understood and effectively managed without a broader conceptual framework like the cultural landscape approach. The book also demonstrates that such an approach facilitates the development of a flexible strategy for heritage conservation. Acknowledging the effects of rapid socio-economic development, globalization, and climate change, contributors examine the pressure these issues place on the sustenance of cultural heritage. Including chapters from more than 20 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, the volume reviews the effectiveness of theoretical and practical potentials afforded by the cultural landscape approach and examines how they have been utilized in the Asia-Pacific context for the last three decades. The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in the Asia-Pacific provides a comprehensive analysis of the processes of cultural landscape heritage conservation and management. As a result, it will be of interest to academics, students, and professionals who are based in the fields of cultural heritage management, architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture, and landscape management.

Spector, Ronald H., A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955. 608 pp. 2022:8 (Norton, US) <671-1379>
ISBN 978-0-393-25465-5 hard ¥8,976.- (税込) US$ 40.00 *

The end of the Second World War led to the United States' emergence as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe it marked the beginning of decades of unprecedented cooperation and prosperity that one historian has labeled "the long peace". Yet half a world away, in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea and Malaya-the fighting never really stopped, as these regions sought to completely sever the yoke of imperialism and colonialism with all-too-violent consequences. East and Southeast Asia quickly became the most turbulent regions of the globe. Within weeks of the famous surrender ceremony aboard the USS Missouri, civil war, communal clashes and insurgency engulfed the continent, from Southeast Asia to the Soviet border. By early 1947, full-scale wars were raging in China, Indonesia and Vietnam, with growing guerrilla conflicts in Korea and Malaya. Within a decade after the Japanese surrender, almost all of the countries of South, East and Southeast Asia that had formerly been conquests of the Japanese or colonies of the European powers experienced wars and upheavals that resulted in the deaths of at least 2.5 million combatants and millions of civilians. With A Continent Erupts, acclaimed military historian Ronald H. Spector draws on letters, diaries and international archives to provide, for the first time, a comprehensive military history and analysis of these little-known but decisive events. Far from being simply offshoots of the Cold War, as they have often been portrayed, these shockingly violent conflicts forever changed the shape of Asia, and the world as we know it today.

Stone, Amy L., Queer Carnival: Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South. 272 pp. 2022:4 (New York U. Pr., US) <671-1380>
ISBN 978-1-4798-0196-1 hard ¥19,971.- (税込) US$ 89.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4798-0198-5 paper ¥7,180.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

The importance of citywide festivals like Mardi Gras and Fiesta for the LGBTQ community Festivals like Mardi Gras and Fiesta have come to be annual events in which entire cities participate, and LGBTQ people are a visible part of these celebrations. In other words, the party is on, the party is queer, and everyone is invited. In Queer Carnival, Amy Stone takes us inside these colorful, eye-catching, and often raucous events, highlighting their importance to queer life in America's urban South and Southwest. Drawing on five years of research, and over a hundred days at LGBTQ events in cities such as San Antonio, Santa Fe, Baton Rouge, and Mobile, Stone gives readers a front-row seat to festivals, carnivals, and Mardi Gras celebrations, vividly bringing these queer cultural spaces and the people that create and participate in them to life. Stone shows how these events serve a larger fundamental purpose, helping LGBTQ people to cultivate a sense of belonging in cities that may be otherwise hostile. Queer Carnival provides an important new perspective on queer life in the South and Southwest, showing us the ways that LGBTQ communities not only survive, but thrive, even in the most unexpected places.

Susantono, Bambang / Guild, Robert (eds.), Creating Livable Asian Cities. 452 pp. 2021:4 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <671-1382>
ISBN 978-92-9262-782-9 paper ¥14,586.- (税込) US$ 65.00 *

Wu, Chieh-Hsiang (ed.), Cultures of Memory in Asia: Dynamics and Forms of Memorialization. (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) 216 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-1384>
ISBN 978-1-03-215040-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

A collection of works by Asian scholars looking at different ways in which relatively recent traumas have been memorialized in their various countries, often while the traumas themselves are ongoing, or the memories of them contested. Memory studies typically focuses on the study of memorialization after traumatic incidents are overcome, in Asia, however, the past and the present remain closely intertwined. Between the legacies of the Japanese Empire, the respective suppressions by the Kuomintang and the People's Republic of China, and the ongoing protests in much of Southeast Asia against oppressive governments and laws, memorialization is occurring while the histories are still being contested. The contributors to this book are Asian scholars examining the memorializing of events in the countries of Asia, including China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Thailand and the Philippines, using local language sources. They look at a broad range of media of memorialization, encompassing statues, cemeteries, testimonial literature, and film among others. An insightful resource for scholars of memory and cultural studies, as well as those of twentieth and twenty-first century Asian history.

Guo, Yanjun / Miao, Ji (eds.), Preventive Diplomacy, Peacebuilding and Security in the Asia-pacific: Evolving Norms, Agenda and Practices. (Series on Asian Regional Cooperation Studies 7) 380 pp. 2022:2 (World Scientific, SI) <671-1274>
ISBN 978-981-12-3552-8 hard ¥30,967.- (税込) US$ 138.00 *

Preventive diplomacy constitutes an important part of international conflict resolution mechanisms. This book presents the latest research trends in ideations, institutions and practices in preventive diplomacy and other peacebuilding measures of Asia-Pacific countries to ensure traditional and non-traditional security within and beyond the region. It studies peacebuilding issues range from North Korea nuclear issue in Northeast Asia, disputes in the South China Sea, Afghanistan peace process and China-India-Pakistan interaction in South Asia, UN peacebuilding in Central Asia, etc. It explores general security issues at the state, international, regional and global levels by experts from the Asia-Pacific. This book is a useful guide for those interested to know the security and preventive diplomacy status in the region's distinctive context.

Ohanyan, Anna, The Neighborhood Effect: The Imperial Roots of Regional Fracture in Eurasia. 320 pp. 2022:8 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <671-1283>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3205-9 hard ¥14,586.- (税込) US$ 65.00 *

Why are certain regions of the world mired in conflict? And how did some regions in Eurasia emerge from the Cold War as peaceful and resilient? Why do conflicts ignite in Bosnia, Donbas, and Damascus-once on the peripheries of mighty empires-yet other postimperial peripheries like the Baltics or Central Europe enjoy quiet stability? Anna Ohanyan argues for the salience of the neighborhood effect: the complex regional connectivity among ethnic-religious communities that can form resilient regions. In an account of Eurasian regional formation that stretches back long before the nation-state, Ohanyan refutes the notion that stable regions are the luxury of prosperous, stable, democratic states. She examines case studies from regions once on the fringes of the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Russian Empires to find the often-overlooked patterns of bonding and bridging, or clustering and isolation of political power and social resources, that are associated with regional resilience or fracture in those regions today. With comparative examples from Latin America and Africa, The Neighborhood Effect offers a new explanation for the conflicts we are likely to see emerge as the unipolar US-led order dissolves, making the fractures in regional neighborhoods painfully evident. And it points the way to the future of peacebuilding: making space for the smaller links and connections that comprise a stable neighborhood.

Disaster Resilience in Asia: A Special Supplement of Asia's Journey to Prosperity: Policy, Market, and Technology Over 50 Years. 70 pp. 2021:9 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <671-1186>
ISBN 978-92-9262-893-2 paper ¥6,283.- (税込) US$ 28.00 *

This supplement discusses disaster risk, resilience and risk management in Asia and the Pacific. It highlights policy lessons for disaster resilience and pandemic recovery.Asia and the Pacific has seen tremendous economic and social progress since the 1960s. Yet, the region remains vulnerable to natural hazards and to rising disaster risk that threatens its hard-won gains. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has illustrated how high the human and economic costs of disasters can be. This supplement focuses on disasters triggered by natural hazards, explores the effects of COVID-19 and policy responses, and highlights lessons from across the region.

Financing Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia and the Pacific: A Guide for Policy Makers. 68 pp. 2021:11 (Asian Development Bank, PH) <671-1188>
ISBN 978-92-9262-634-1 paper ¥6,507.- (税込) US$ 29.00 *

This publication aims to guide policy makers and other stakeholders on how to scale up disaster risk reduction financing in developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank.Disaster events impact Asia and the Pacific more than any other region in the world. In light of current and future climate and disaster risks, there is an urgent need to address the region's underinvestment in disaster risk and reduction. The publication provides an overview of financing opportunities for developing Asia-including instruments and mechanisms-as well as country case studies and practical tips for governments to implement enhanced disaster risk reduction.

Henry, Iain D., Reliability and Alliance Interdependence: The United States and Its Allies in Asia, 1949-1969. (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) 258 pp. 2022:5 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <671-1209>
ISBN 978-1-5017-6304-5 hard ¥11,881.- (税込) US$ 52.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5017-6554-4 paper ¥6,271.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

In Reliability and Alliance Interdependence, Iain D. Henry argues for a more sophisticated approach to alliance politics and ideas of interdependence. It is often assumed that if the United States failed to defend an ally, then this disloyalty would instantly and irrevocably damage US alliances across the globe. Henry proposes that such damage is by no means inevitable and that predictions of disaster are dangerously simplistic. If other allies fear the risks of military escalation more than the consequences of the United States abandoning an ally, then they will welcome, encourage, and even praise such an instance of disloyalty. It is also often assumed that alliance interdependence only constrains US policy options, but Henry shows how the United States can manipulate interdependence to set an example of what constitutes acceptable allied behavior. Using declassified documents, Henry explores five case studies involving US alliances with South Korea, Japan, the Republic of China, the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand. Reliability and Alliance Interdependence makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of how America's alliances in Asia function as an interdependent system.

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Moriguchi Tsuchiya, Yuka, Science, Technology and the Cultural Cold War in Asia: From Atoms for Peace to Space Flight. (The Cold War in Asia) 256 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <671-115>
ISBN 978-1-03-215328-5 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Tsuchiya presents a new insight into the political roles of science and technology during the Cold War era in Asia.The Cold War was not only a battle of conflicting ideologies and economic systems, but also a competition of cultures and lifestyles, and a battle to win the hearts and minds of people in developing countries. Tsuchiya argues that science and technology were an integral part of how culture was deployed strategically. She discusses the 1950s and early 1960s: the Eisenhower and Kennedy presidencies in the U.S., and the decolonization and nation-building efforts in Japan, South Vietnam, Burma, and Indonesia. She also sheds light on the way U.S. technological aid programs such as Foreign Atoms for Peace, and the overseas information program were received by Asian leaders, technocrats, and scientists.Provides valuable insight for scholars of Cold War History in Asia and US Foreign Policy.