Publications

Sceptical History: Feminist and Postmodern Approaches in Practice, Routledge, Taylor & Francis, London and New York

Helene Bowen Raddeker (School of History and Philosophy)

Sceptical History focuses upon the question of how to practise postmodernist feminist (sceptical) history.  The book considers major themes including cultural, class and sexual identity and 'difference', weaving them into debates on the nature and methods of history.

China’s Economy in the 21st Century: Enterprise and Business Behaviour, edited with Barbara Krug, London: Routledge, 2007.

Hans Hendrischke (School of Languages and Linguistics)

China’s Economy in the 21st Century explores the establishment of new private firms and listed companies, the development of knowledge industries and the co-evolution of public governance and business institutions.  The book establishes local institutions and governance as crucial dimensions of China’s emerging business system.

Subtle Revolution: Poets of the “Old Schools” during Late Qing and Early Republican China, Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 2005.

Jon von Kowallis (School of Languages and Linguistics)

Subtle Revolution examines the resurgence of classical-style poetry at a time of radical transformation in late nineteenth century China and argues that it was a vehicle for understanding modernity as well as a reaction to it.

Learning from Chinese Philosophies: Ethics of Interdependent and Contextualised Self, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2006

Karyn Lai (School of History and Philosophy)

Learning from Chinese Philosophies engages Confucian and Daoist philosophies in creative interplay, developing a theory of interdependent selfhood in the two philosophical traditions.  Issues discussed include selfhood, attachment and moral development, and how insights from the two philosophies address contemporary issues and problems.

Wacana Poligami di Indonesia, Bandung: Mizan, 2005.

Rochayah Machali (School of Languages and Linguistics)

Pilgrimage and Power: The Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, 1765-1954, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Kama Maclean (School of History and Philosophy)

Pilgrimage and Power combines archival research and anthropological insights to analyse the cultural politics of Indian nationalism both during and after British rule and a history of modern Hinduism.

Negotiating the Divine: Temple Religion and Temple Politics in Contemporary Urban India, Delhi: Manohar, 2003.

Ursula Rao (School of Social Sciences and International Studies)

Negotiating the Divine investigates social life of urban Hindu temples and demonstrates how political Hinduism and everyday religious discourses and practices are interwoven and together create an environment more contradictory than most theorists of Hindu nationalism assume. 

Women’s Suffrage in Asia, edited with Louise Edwards, London: Routledge, 2004.

Mina Roces (School of History and Philosophy)

Women’s Suffrage in Asia explores the gendered histories of democracy, governance and citizenship in Asia within the context of the global women's suffrage movement.  It has chapters on Japan, India, Indonesia, China, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Korea, Australia, New Zealand and  Hawaii.

Security Perspectives of the Malay Archipelago: Security Linkages in the Second Front in the War on Terror, UK: Edward Elgar, 2004.

Andrew Tan (ed.) (School of Social Sciences and International Studies)

Security Perspectives shows howthe security of each of the states in the Malay archipelago remains tightly linked to the conditions and actions of the others.  It surveys the region to develop understanding of regional security.

The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia: A New History, joint author with Norman G. Owen (ed), et al., Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 2005.

Jean Gelman Taylor (School of History and Philosophy)

The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia focuses on the modern economic and social history, gender and ecology of Southeast Asia.  The book describes the long-term impact of global forces on the region, and traces the spread and interplay of capitalism, nationalism and socialism.

A Systemic Functional Grammar of Japanese (2 vols.), London: Continuum, 2007.

Kazuhiro Teruya (School of Languages and Linguistics)

The Armed Forces of China, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1999.

You Ji (School of Social Sciences and International Studies)

The Armed Forces of China discusses China’s rising military power and its impact on regional security.  It analyses the PLA’s new national defense strategy and war preparation of its four Services.