State making in Asia / edited by Richard Boyd and Tak-Wing Ngo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boyd, Richard.

Ngo, Tak-Wing, 1962-

Series:

Politics in Asia series.

Politics in Asia series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

State, The.

Asia--Politics and government.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Including contributions from an international team of leading experts, this volume examines state making from a uniquely Asian perspective and reveals some of the misunderstandings that arise when states and state making are judged solely on the basis of Western history. The contributors argue that if we are to understand states in Asia then we must first recognize the particular combination of institution and ideologies embedded in Asian state making and their distinctiveness from the Western experience.Presenting new empirical and conceptual material based on original resear

Contents:

Reconnecting the state to the dynamics of its making / Richard Boyd and Tak-Wing Ngo

Japanese state making in global context / Mark Ravina

The making of state-bureaucracy relations in Japan / Richard Boyd

Citizen, state and nation in China / R. Bin Wong

Sovereignty, survival, and the transformation of the Taiwan state / Jenn-Hwan Wang

Constructing the state in the Tibetan diaspora / Ann Frechette

Nation, ethnicity, and contending discourse in the Malaysian state / Shamsul A. B. and Sity Daud

Some states of Asia compared from afar / Laurence Whitehead.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-197) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-37712-7

9786610377121

1-134-28123-4

0-203-33898-7

0-203-56762-5

9780203338988

OCLC:

437079663