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

アジアのディアスポラのクイア化
Bao, Hongwei, Queering the Asian Diaspora: East and Southeast Asian Sexuality, Identity and Cultural Politics. (Social Science for Social Justice) 168 pp. 2025:1 (Sage, UK) <738-854>
ISBN 978-1-5296-1969-0 hard ¥11,352.- (税込) GB￡ 40.00
ISBN 978-1-5296-1968-3 paper ¥3,402.- (税込) GB￡ 11.99 *

"Queering the Asian Diaspora by Hongwei Bao is an intellectually engaging book that makes timely interventions to the fields of diaspora studies, queer theory, and transnational studies. It invites the reader into an electrifying archive of queer cultural productions ranging from fashion photography, experimental drag performance, queer weddings, queer curation, digital film and media, and artistic conjuring of a queer Bandung internationalism. These radical and minor transnational artistic practices by East and Southeast Asian queer diasporic cultural producers emerge in new light through Bao's brilliant theoretical insights." Alvin K. Wong, author of Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified global geopolitical tensions, bringing Sinophobia and anti-Asian racism into sharp focus. At the same time, a growing Asian diasporic consciousness is emerging worldwide, celebrating Asian identity and cultural heritage. Yet, in the space between anti-Asian racism and the rise of Asian advocacy, the voices of queer people have often been largely missing. This book addresses that gap. Exploring a range of contemporary case studies from art, fashion, performance, film, and political activism, Bao offers a powerful intersectional cultural politics-anti-nationalist, anti-racist, decolonial, feminist, and queer-that challenges dominant narratives and amplifies marginalized voices. The Social Science for Social Justice series challenges the Ivory Tower of academia, providing a platform for academics, journalists, and activists of color to respond to pressing social issues.

Chambers, Paul / Nuangjamnong, Nithi (eds.), Hooch and Hard Liquor in East Asia: A Political Economy. (Routledge Contemporary Asia Series) 200 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <738-855>
ISBN 978-1-032-78124-2 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Liquor has become a "party" in East Asia. A beverage phenomenon popular among countries throughout the region. But, in fact, each country of East Asia has experienced a different evolution of spirits. Indeed, there is a liquor idiosyncrasy to each country of East Asia. Moreover, hooch is the popular alcoholic beverage for the lower classes while more sophisticated spirits are exclusive to the higher classes.The book examines liquor: moonshine and retail liquor in East Asia. It analyses the following questions as to why is liquor becoming so popular in East Asia? Why is production of liquor in East Asia becoming so financially lucrative? Why has the production of hooch (moonshine) become so lucrative? In fact, the production and consumption of liquor in East Asian has become crucial as East Asia enters a period of craft liquor. A valuable resource for academics, students and professionals interested in public policy, history, political economy, consumer goods in East Asia and the evolution of Hooch and Hard Liquor in East Asia.

イギリス及びスペイン植民地世界における教義と病気
Miller, Kathleen (ed.), Doctrine and Disease in the British and Spanish Colonial World. 214 pp. 2025:6 (Pennsylvania State U. Pr., US) <738-858>
ISBN 978-0-271-09982-8 hard ¥24,308.- (税込) US$ 109.95

In the sixteenth century, unprecedented migration caused diseases to take hold in new locales, turning illness and the human body into battlegrounds for competing religious beliefs as well as the colonial agendas they were often ensnared in. This interdisciplinary volume follows the contours of illness, epidemics, and cures in the early modern British and Spanish Empires as these were understood in religious terms.Each chapter of this volume centers on a key moment during this period of remarkable upheaval, including Jesuit co-optation of Indigenous knowledge in Peru, the Catholic Church's dissemination of the smallpox vaccine across the Spanish Empire, Puritan collective fasting during smallpox outbreaks, and the practice of eating dirt as Obeah resistance among enslaved people in Jamaica. Throughout, the contributors explore how the porous geographical borders of the transatlantic world meant medicine and religion were translated through and against each other, over and over again. Residing at the nexus between two largely discrete areas of inquiry, this collection provides significant insight into the numerous points of juncture between medicine and religion in the Atlantic world.In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume include Matthew James Crawford, Rana A. Hogarth, Crawford Gribben, Philippa Koch, Allyson M. Poska, Catherine Reedy, and Rebecca Totaro.

アジア諸国でのフェイクニュース
Tandoc, Edson C., Jr. (ed.), Fake News Across Asian Countries. (Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies) 328 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <738-859>
ISBN 978-1-032-51623-3 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book integrates insights from studies conducted across Asia to provide a comprehensive account of the fake news problem in the region.Emerging from a study on how Singapore stakeholders define, determine, and deal with online falsehoods, the volume expands to cover numerous Asian contexts, all of which have experienced the problem in similar but also unique ways, coupled with diverse cultures and media regulatory contexts. Drawing from specific examples and case studies to demonstrate the real-world manifestation of the concepts and theories on fake news, the book grounds academic research in lived experiences.This volume will interest journalism scholars and undergraduate and postgraduate students in the areas of media studies, mass communication, digital media, media literacy, Asian studies and political communication.

Zhou, Yufei, The Science of Oriental Society: Karl August Wittfogel and the East Asian Intellectuals. (Asia, Europe, and Global Connections) 212 pp. 2025:1 (Routledge, UK) <738-860>
ISBN 978-1-032-31797-7 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book provides a compelling exploration into the distinctive approaches East Asian scholars employ to articulate the peculiarities of Asia's modernity. These narratives are deftly shaped through their interactions with German-American social scientist Karl August Wittfogel, offering rich insights into the intellectual exchanges that have influenced regional understandings of society.The Science of Oriental Society: Karl Augst Wittfogel and East Asian Intellectuals explores how Wittfogel's controversial concept of "Oriental society" has influenced the assessments and interpretations of Asia's economy and society by generations of East Asian social scientists throughout the twentieth century. The book examines the social thought of a broad spectrum of individuals engaged in the debate over Oriental society, including professional economists and sociologists in Japan and China, non-university radical activists of various convictions, and multinational research personnel who served under Japan's colonial rule in Asia. It also details Wittfogel's personal and intellectual interactions with his contemporary scholars from East Asia and discusses how these local intellectuals appropriated and recontextualized his theoretical framework to suit their differing political agendas.This book will be of great value to students and researchers interested in the history of social sciences, the history of sinology, heterodox economic thought, Europe-Asian knowledge transfer, and broadly defined area studies.

佐藤洋一郎他編　欧州及びアジア太平洋における安全保障秩序と戦略的提携
Atanassova-Cornelis, E. / Sato, Yoichiro / Sauer, T. (eds.), Security Order and Strategic Alignment in Europe and the Asia-Pacific: Times of Global Power Shifts. (Routledge Studies on the Asia-Pacific Region) 200 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <738-825>
ISBN 978-1-032-82182-5 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Atanassova-Cornelis, Sato, Sauer and their contributors examine the implications of the shifts in power for the regional security order as the long-term relative decline of the US standing in the global hierarchy of power is more pronounced than ever due to the challenges it faces from the rising China in Asia and the reviving Russia in Europe.The world is in disarray and the balance of power is shifting, which results in enhanced tensions and wars, including on the territory of Europe. The complexity of the international order that prevails today possibly misleads us towards viewing everything in terms of a bipolar competition as predicted by systemic-level realism. While membership of the multilateral NATO Alliance expands in Europe in light of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, China's assertive behavior in Asia has produced numerous strategic alignments that are short of a formal alliance involving Asian states, the US, and European countries. "Hedging" strategies are commonly found in Asian states' approaches to security, working against bifurcation of powers. On the other hand, European entries into alignments in the "Indo-Pacific" have demonstrated inseparability of security in Asia from security in Europe through the shared thread of "engaging the US". Whether China defines its challenge against the US in regional or global terms also has differing implications for the evolution of the international system. This book with contributions by Asian, European, and North American experts provides an overview of the two region's differing alignment paths in comparative and inter-regional perspectives.A valuable resource for academics, researchers, practitioners, and policy analysts interested in European and Asia-Pacific security, as well as international and regional security issues.

5カ国防衛取極－起源から50年間及びその後
Cheng Guan, Ang, The Five Power Defence Arrangements: From Origin to Fifty and Beyond. (The Cold War in Asia) 184 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <738-830>
ISBN 978-1-032-91652-1 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Ang describes the development of the Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA), an important security regional arrangement, from its inception to the present from the perspectives of the five FPDA allies.The book recounts the establishment of the FPDA in 1971 from the Anglo-Malaysian Defence Agreement and its development in the first twenty years to the end of the Cold War in 1990. Based on declassified archival documents and secondary literature, it explores how the FDPA has evolved and adapted to provide different benefits to each of its partners after the Cold War. Ang contextualises the FPDA within existing scholarship and offers a glimpse into possible future trajectories.A valuable resource for scholars, students, researchers, and professionals interested in international history, defence and security.

藤田泰昌、山本英弘他著　東アジアにおける国家、社会、Covid-19
Fujita, Taisuke / Yamamoto, Hidehiro / Cho, Youngho et al., State, Society, and Covid-19 in East Asia. (Routledge Contemporary Asian Societies) 200 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <738-284>
ISBN 978-1-032-79208-8 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book elucidates state-society relations in East Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic from a comparative perspective.Based on the findings of cross-national surveys in Japan, South Korea, and China, the book scrutinizes the dynamics of the state-society relationships in each country, examining trends of change in this relationship during the COVID-19 pandemic. Citizens' attitudes toward individual freedom, the state's anti-pandemic policies, vaccine hesitancy, and income redistribution policies across the three countries are compared revealing how public opinion in Japan, South Korea, and China during the COVID-19 pandemic provides a basis for understanding the complex relationship between state and society in East Asia.Transcending national boundaries and uncovering citizens' evaluations of their domestic and neighboring countries' pandemic responses in East Asia, this book will be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in East Asian society and politics.