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

Cassidy, Jim / Ponkratova, Irina / Fitzhugh, Ben (eds.), Maritime Prehistory of Northeast Asia. (The Archaeology of Asia-Pacific Navigation 6) 422 pp. 2022:5 (Springer, GW) * paper 2022 <677-863>
ISBN 978-981-19-1117-0 hard ¥24,306.- (税込) EUR 99.99 *
ISBN 978-981-19-1120-0 paper ¥24,306.- (税込) EUR 99.99 *

Mueller, Christian / Salonia, Matteo (eds.), Travel Writings on Asia: Curiosity, Identities, and Knowledge Across the East, c. 1200 to the Present. (Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies) 370 pp. 2022:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <677-864>
ISBN 978-981-19-0123-2 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This open access book provides an analysis of human actors and their capacity to explore and conceptualise their own agency by being curious, gathering knowledge, and shaping identities in their travel reflections on Asia. Thus, the actors open windows across time to present a profound overview of diverse descriptions and constructions of Asia. It is demonstrated that international and transnational history contributes to and benefits from analyses of national and local contexts that in turn enrich our understanding of transcultural encounters and experiences across time. The book proposes an actor-centred contextual approach to travel writing to recount meaningful constructions of Asia's physical, political and spiritual landscapes. It offers comparative reflections on the patterns of encounter across Eurasia, where from the late medieval period an idea of civilisation was transculturally shared yet also constantly questioned and reframed. Tailored for academic and public discussions alike, this volume will be invaluable for both scholars of Global History and interested audiences to stimulate further discussions on the nature of global encounters in Asia.

東アジアの政治文化
Pakhomov, Oleg, The Political Culture of East Asia: A Civilization of Total Power. 129 pp. 2022:3 (Springer, GW) <677-865>
ISBN 978-981-19-0777-7 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book explores the phenomenon of total power in East Asia, with particular attention to China, Korea, and Japan. It shows how total power enables an examination of regional experience as a part of global context in order to demarcate the connections with other countries and regions that have similar political cultures, such as those in Central Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa. Moreover, it elucidates that the phenomenon of total power unpacks the interrelations not only between different countries, but also between political, economic, religious, or cultural aspects of the region as a whole, and of each country in particular. This book takes East Asia as a classic example of where total power has achieved the highest forms of development during traditional periods in the form of absolute economic dependence of society on the state, ideologically enshrined by a system of moral obligations toward supreme power that allowed for the establishment of a monopoly on forced labour, and the appropriation and distribution of social products. The author emphasizes the importance of exploring the tradition of total power with reference to the ongoing global crisis of European democracy. In doing so, the book shows that democratization has not brought qualitative changes to the political culture of East Asia. An essential interdisciplinary read for scholars studying political science, particularly East-West relations, this book situates East Asian political culture within a global context.

Rong, Xinjiang, The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges between East and West. Tr. by S. K. Church et al. Ed. by S. K. Church et al. (East and West 14) 2022:6 (Brill, NE) <677-866>
ISBN 978-90-04-51258-0 hard ¥57,614.- (税込) EUR 237.00

The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges Between East and West, originally written in Chinese by Rong Xinjiang and now translated into English, provides insights into previously unresolved issues concerning the interactions among the societies, economies, religions and cultures of the "Western Regions", and beyond, during the first millennium.

Tudoroiu, Theodor / Kuteleva, Anna (eds.), China in the Global South: Impact and Perceptions. 452 pp. 2022:6 (Springer, GW) <677-869>
ISBN 978-981-19-1343-3 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book scrutinizes the frequently ignored agency of Global South sub-national actors in their interactions with China, using a multidisciplinary approach and eleven case studies. Contributors examine China's presence in the Global South on a country-by-country basis, analyzing how various non-state and sub-state actors are responding to the rise of China and whether they are attracted by the cooperation models that China proposes or deterred by its new assertiveness. Contributions cover diverse and heterogeneous geographies of the Global South, ranging from Papua-New Guinea to Argentina and from Madagascar to the Russian Far East. Examining such diverse cases, contributors focus on two interrelated questions: What is the actual economic, political, and social impact of China's growing presence in the Global South? And, critically, how do the citizens of the Global South understand and interpret China's rise? Taken together, the case studies develop a comprehensive picture of a complex and sometimes problematic process of China's inclusion into the economic, social, and political realities of the Global South.This book identifies and fills the gaps in the existing literature on China's rise by offering a nuanced perspective on China's relations with the countries of the Global South that captures such variables as social context, intersubjective meanings, and identities. By focusing China's relations with the Global South, it also provides an important addition to the literature on international politics of development and China's role in the transformation of the South-South cooperation.

杉田米行他著　インド太平洋の安全保障におけるサンフランシスコ体制再考
Sugita, Yoneyuki / Teo, Victor (eds.), Rethinking the San Francisco System in Indo-Pacific Security: Enduring Legacies, Structural Contradictions and Geopolitical Rivalry. 302 pp. 2022:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <677-859>
ISBN 978-981-19-1230-6 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This remarkable collection commemorates the 70th anniversary of the 1951 San Francisco Peace Conference by revisiting the important legacies of both the Peace Treaty and the US-Japan Security Treaty have had on the peace and stability of the Asia-Pacific. Drawing on multiple perspectives, the volume conveys the hopes and fears that the authors have for the domestic and international politics of the region. In a post Trumpian world marked by the US-China tensions amidst a raging pandemic, the region's continued prosperity looks exceedingly grim. Would the arrangements made in 1951 continue to have relevance for an Indo-Pacific region beset by great power rivalry and potential conflict fuelled by contending nationalisms, clashing interests and territorial disputes? Through a rigorous debate based on the latest empirical developments, the volume explores various ways where by the spirit and legacies of San Francisco arrangements can be meaningfully preserved and enhanced. In order for the region stronger and more prosperous in the post-pandemic world, the countries have to come together to enhance the existing security architecture to contain great power rivalry and ensure that a regional order capable of addressing problems of the 21st century eventually evolves.

Santoro, Mauricio, Brazil-China Relations in the 21st Century: The Making of a Strategic Partnership. 118 pp. 2022:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <677-231>
ISBN 978-981-19-0352-6 hard ¥21,875.- (税込) EUR 89.99

This book explores the bilateral relationship between Brazil and China in modern history, environment, economics, and contemporary Brazilian politics. As China has become Brazil's largest trading partner, importing commodities and exporting manufactures, and a major investor in the country, Brazil's social structure has been upended, with traditional hierarchies jolted and new ones created- in the agribusiness, industry, in the diplomacy of climate change in the Amazon and not least, Brazil's traditional relationship with the United States. In this incisive text, one of Brazil's leading political scientists explores how China, the X factor of international relations, can transform a nation's politics; it will be of interest to economists, scholars of geopolitics, of China's Belt and Road Initiative and of Latin America politics.