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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Encountering Asian Canada -- 1. Asian Canadian Studies Now: Directions and Challenges -- 2. Nationals, Citizens, and Others -- 3. The Racial Subtext in Canada's Immigration Discourse -- 4. The Muslims Are Coming: The "Sharia Debate" in Canada -- 5. Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn -- 6. Cartographies of Violence: Creating Carceral Spaces and Expelling Japanese Canadians from the Nation -- 7. Redress Express: Chinese Restaurants and the Head Tax Issue in Canadian Art -- 8. Between Homes: Displacement and Belonging for Second-Generation Filipino-Canadian Youths -- Part Three: Intersectional Encounters -- 9. The Paradox of Diversity: The Construction of a Multicultural Canada and "Women of Color" -- 10. "A Woman Out of Control": Deconstructing Sexism and Racism in the University -- 11. Orientalizing "War Talk": Representations of the Gendered Muslim Body Post 9-11 in The Montreal Gazette -- Part Four: Comparative Encounters -- 12. Decolonizasian: Reading Asian and First Nations Relations in Literature -- 13. Marginalized and Dissident Non-Citizens: Foreign Domestic Workers -- 14. Residential Segregation of Visible Minority Groups in Toronto -- Part Five: Transnational Encounters -- 15. Sweet and Sour: Historical Presence and Diasporic Agency -- 16. Altered States: Global Currents, the Spectral Nation, and the Production of "Asian Canadian" -- 17. Whose Transnationalism? Canada, "Clash of Civilizations" Discourse and Arab and Muslim Canadians -- Part Six: After Encounters -- 18. Global Migrants and the New Pacific Canada -- 19. Asian Canada: Undone -- 20. "Too Asian?": On Racism, Paradox, and Ethno-nationalism -- Contributors

AbstractThe social sciences in Asia face a peculiar theoretical challenge. Heirs to ancient civilizations and traditions of thought and cradles to all of the great world religions, they nevertheless perceive themselves as suffering from a "theoretical deficit". High theory is almost entirely Western and in fact largely European in provenance. This essay is directed to the possibility of constructing an Asian variety of cultural studies as a response to the hegemony of European social theory, and as an attempt to redress the balance of theory-power in the world intellectual economy.

Ethnic boundary change and panethnicity -- The durability of ethnic boundaries in the pre-1968 era -- The emergence of organizational panethnicity -- The ethnic-panethnic dynamics of collective action -- Ethnic organizations and the flexibility of group boundaries -- Panethnicity and beyond

Introduction : an analytical framework of understanding the context of politics of municipal waste management in Greater China -- Political context of Greater China : a glance view -- From waste battle to world's miracle : municipal waste politics in Taipei City -- Guangzhou : roles of public participation in MSW governance -- Hong Kong : unresponsive collective action in MSW politics -- Policy transfer in municipal waste mangement : the "Taipei model" and its impacts on the Greater China Region -- Conclusion : same thought but different results.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Opening Up the Margins in the Mainstream -- 2 Uncovering Asian Americas: Examining Korean Americans and Indian Americans in Texas -- 3 Growing Up Takes (Identity) Work: Developing Ethnic Identities -- 4 Model Americans and Minorities: Racial Identities and Responses to Racism -- 5 Multiculturalism on the Job: The Work Domain -- 6 Aspiring to Authenticity: The Home Domain -- 7 Becoming Cultural Citizens: The Leisure and Civil Society Domains -- 8 Conclusion: Reconciling Identities, Recognizing Constraints -- Appendix: Questions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Humanities Open Book Program, a joint initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ; The relationship of overseas Chinese to the Chinese revolution of 1911 has always been viewed in light of their involvement with Sun Yat-sen. Of equal significance, however, was the growth and development in overseas communities of the radical reform party of K'ang Yu-wei and Liang Ch'ich'ao, pro-Sun revolutionaries, and other political groups greatly influenced the involvement of Chinese immigrants in the 1911 revolution and produced substantial changes in the overseas communities themselves. Chinese in the Americas, especially North America and Hawaii, provide a good illustration of these points but until now have received little attention. Revolutionaries, Monarchists, and Chinatowns provides a comprehensive and original treatment of this dimension of Asian American politics. L. Eve Armentrout Ma has judiciously analyzed the abundant documentation on the development and functioning of the reform and revolutionary parties, showing the interactions between the two parties and with pre-existing social organizations such as hui-kuan, surname associations, and Triad lodges. Particularly important is her use of the contemporary Chinese-language newspapers, a rich source of information on the period.

Introduction: Point of Entry (Ian Shaw )Chapter One: Social Work Within Governmental, Social and Cultural Regimes (Ian Shaw and Patricia O'Neill)Chapter Two: Social Work Metamorphoses: Practice, Education and Research (Rosaleen Ow)Chapter Three: Professional Practices in National Contexts (Ian Shaw) Part 1: Soft Authoritarian GovernmentsChapter Four: Hong Kong: Ruling Principles of The Government and Responses of Social Work Education and Practice (Sam W K Yu and Ruby C M Chau)Chapter Five: A New Horizon for Institutionalizing the Social Work Profession: Is There a New Hope for Malaysia? (Azlinda Azman and Paramjit Singh Jamir Singh )Chapter Six: Social Work Education in Soft-Authoritarian Singapore (Yen Kiat Chong and Irene Y.H. Ng)Chapter Seven: Socioeconomic Development in the Context of Social Work and Social Welfare in Thailand (Decha Sungkawan and David Engstrom ) Part 2: Liberal democraciesChapter Eight: Professional Uncertainty among Japanese Social Workers (Takahiro Asano and Michihiko Tokoro)Chapter Nine: Social Work Education in the Making of a Welfare State: South Korea's Experience (Ok Kyung Yang, Bong Joo Lee, and Kyo-seong Kim )Chapter Ten: Social Work in Taiwan: State Programming and the Search for an Empowered Profession (Yeun-wen Ku) Part 3: Fragile democracyChapter Eleven: Programming of Social Work in Indonesia (Adi Fahrudin) Part 4: State socialismChapter Twelve: The Governmental Technology of Social Work in China (Leung Tse Fong Terry , Luk Tak Chuen and Xiang Rong)Chapter Thirteen: Social Work Education in Vietnam (Richard Hugman and Nguyen Thi Thai Lan) EndnotesReferencesIndex

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- One. Citizenship and Participation -- Two. Reconstructing Identity Narratives -- Three. Participation in Local Contexts -- Four. Views on Politics -- Five. Human Rights Advocacy Across Borders -- Six. Deepening Intergenerational Participation -- Appendix A. Interview Questions for High School Students -- Appendix B. Interview Responses of High School Students -- Appendix C. Interview Questions for Adults -- Appendix D. Interview Responses of Adult Grassroots Participants -- Appendix E. Interview Responses of Adult Business and Service Professional Individuals Recruited from Phone and Online Directories -- Notes -- Index

"From the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, there was a great deal of turmoil, tension, and violence in what became Malaysia as a result of the 1963 Federation, upheavals included the Malayan Emergency of 1948-60, the independence of Malaya in 1957, Konfrontasi with Indonesia of 1963-66, the Philippines claim to Sabah, the Sarawak Communist Insurgency (1962-90) and the Second Malayan Emergency of 1968-89. This book breaks new ground in arguing for a longer trajectory of the Cold War tracing this phenomenon back to 1920s colonial Malaya and Sarawak. Many new research findings showing how Malaysia coped with and overcame the many trials, challenges, and difficulties are presented hence further enriching the historiography"--

East Asia was a major focus of struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War of 1945 to 1991, with multiple "hot" and "cold" conflicts in China, Korea, and Vietnam. The struggle for predominance in East Asia, however, largely predated the Cold War, as this book shows, with many examples of the United States and Russia/the Soviet Union working to exercise and increase control in the region. The book focuses on secret treaties,26 of them, signed from the mid-1890s through 1950, when secret agreements between China and the USSR, including several concerning the Chinese Eastern Railway, gave Russia greater control over Manchuria and Outer Mongolia. One of the most important was negotiated in 1945, when Stalin signed the Sino-Soviet Friendship Treaty with Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Nationalists, that included a secret protocol granting the Soviet Navy sea control over the Manchurian littorals. This secret protocol excluded theUS Navy from landing Nationalist troops at the major Manchurian ports, thereby guaranteeing the Chinese Communist victory in Northeast China; from Manchuria, the Chinese Communists quickly spread south to take all of Mainland China. To a large degree, therefore, this formerly undiscussed secret diplomacy set the underlying conditions for the Cold War in East Asia.

"This book examines how the EU interacts with Myanmar amid the balancing power context and competition politics in the Pacific Southeast Asian region. Contributors explore Myanmar's dynamics of change and inertia to change as intertwined processes in the country and the EU's role therein as a Global Actor. The chapters investigate the windows of opportunity arising in Myanmar and the ways in which the EU can contribute. This book first introduces Myanmar, setting the country within its relations with ASEAN and the EU, and subsequently debates the importance of diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific region, the processes that both the EU and the EU via ASEAN have activated and their limits and success in seeking to induce Myanmar to reconsider its past position. It explores the EU's relation to Myanmar since its sanction policy-making up to the 2015 elections and beyond and traces the EU's efforts at the ARF in seeking to persuade Myanmar to become involved in security cooperation. A timely and important contribution to the growing literature on EU-ASEAN relations, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of International Relations, European politics and foreign policy, Comparative Regionalism, East Asian and Southeast Asian Studies"--