LINUS January 1998


Collection Highlights


Focus on East Asia


Lee-Wang Cheng Yeng, Central Library RIS Dept Head

There has been a proliferation of publications in recent years on East Asia covering almost every conceivable aspect besides economic growth Ñ from energy to urbanization, from information technology to intellectual property laws. For those whose reading and research interests focus on East Asia, we compile here a select list of works published in the last two years. Some titles cover the entire region while the others detail a few specific countries.

General

Berger, Mark and Douglas A. Borer, eds. The rise of East Asia : critical visions of the Pacific century. London : Routledge, 1997.
DS504.5 Ris CL & HL Main Shelves

Campos, Jose Edgardo L. and Hilton L. Root. The key to the Asian miracle : making shared growth credible. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1996.
HC460.5 Cam CL & HL Main Shelves

Naisbitt, John. Megatrends Asia : the eight Asian megatrends that are changing the world. London: Nicholas Brealey Pub, 1997.
HN553.5 Nai HL RBR

Robison, Richard and David S.G. Goodman, eds. The new rich in Asia : mobile phones, McDonalds and middle-class revolution. London : Routledge, 1996.
HT690 Asi.N CL RBR, HL RBR

Yu, George T. Asia's new world order. Washington Square, NY : New York University Press, 1997.
HC412 Asi CL Main Shelves

Aged

Added years of life in Asia : current situation and future challenges. New York : Economic & Social Commission for Asia & the Pacific, United Nations, 1996.
HB850.5 Asi.Aps 141 CL Main Shelves

Business & Economy

Aoki, Masahiko, Hyung-Ki Kim and Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara, eds. The role of government in East Asian economic development : comparative institutional analysis. Oxford, England : Clarendon Press, 1997.
HC460.5 Rol CL & HL Main Shelves

Hamilton, Gary G., ed. Asian business networks. New York : Walter de Gruyter, 1996.
HD69 Str.As CL RBR, HL Main Shelves

Ikeo, Aiko, ed. Economic development in twentieth century East Asia : the international context. London : Routledge, 1997.
HC460.5 Eco CL & HL Main Shelves

Lall, Sanjaya. Learning from the Asian tigers : studies in technology and industrial policy. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.
HD3616 Asi.La CL & HL Main Shelves

Oman, Charles P., Douglas H. Brooks and Colm Foy, eds. Investing in Asia. Paris : OECD, 1997.
HG5702 Inve CL & HL Main Shelves

Orru, Marco, Woolsey Biggart and Gary G. Hamilton. The economic organization of East Asian capitalism. Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage, 1997.
HD58.7 Orr CL Main Shelves

Anderson, Joseph A., et al. Project and infrastructure finance in Asia. 2nd ed. Hong Kong : Asia Law & Practice Ltd, 1996.
HC412 Pro HL Main Shelves
KE10 Eco.P LW Main Shelves

Sarel, Michael. Growth in East Asia : what we can and what we cannot infer. Washington, DC : IMF, 1996.
HG3881.5 Imf 1 HL Main Shelves

Slater, Jim and Roger Strange, eds. Business relationships with East Asia : the European experience. London : Routledge, 1997.
HF1600.5 *Eur.Bu CL & HL Main Shelves

Weidenbaum, Murray L. and Samuel Hughes. The bamboo network : how expatriate Chinese entrepreneurs are creating a new economic superpower in Asia. New York : Martin Kessler Books, 1996.
HG5782 Wei CL & HL Main Shelves

Culture

Tang, Xiaobing and Stephen Snyder, eds. In pursuit of contemporary East Asian culture. Boulder, CO : Westview, 1996.
DS509.3 In CL Main Shelves

Yang, Jeff, et al. Eastern standard time : a guide to Asian influence on American culture from Astro boy to Zen Buddhism. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
E169.1 Eas CL Main Shelves

Energy

Asia electricity study. Paris : OECD-OCDE, 1997.
HD9685 *Asi.As CL Main Shelves

Soderbaum, John. Asia gas study. Paris : OECD/IEA, 1996.
HD9581 *Asi.So CL Main Shelves

Health Care

Newbrander, William, ed. Private health sector growth in Asia. Chichester : Wiley, 1997.
RA410.55 Asi.P CL & HL Main Shelves

Information Technology

Syed Abdus Samad, ed. Applications of information technology. Kuala Lumpur : Asian & Pacific Devt Centre, 1996.
T58.5 App CL Main Shelves

Nagy Hanna, Sandor Boyson and Shakuntala Gunaratne. The East Asian miracle and information technology : strategic management of technological learning. Washington, DC : World Bank, 1996.
HD82 Wbdp 326 CL & HL Main Shelves

Labour

Migration and the labour market in Asia : prospects to the year 2000. Paris : OECD, 1996.
JV8490 Migr CL Main Shelves

Nish, Ian, Gordon Redding and Ng Sek-hong, eds. Work and society : labour and human resources in East Asia. Hong Kong : Hong Kong Univ Press, 1996.
HD4904.7 Wor CL & HL Main Shelves

Languages

Hannas, Wm. C. Asia's orthographic dilemma. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1996.
PL1171 Han CL Main Shelves
(Hannas, who holds a doctorate in East Asian language and linguistics, “may well be the only person to have ever achieved command over all form of the languages involved É”)

Law

Gutterman, Alan S. and Robert Brown, eds. Commercial laws of East Asia. Hong Kong : Sweet & Maxwell Asia, 1997.
KE2511 Com LW Main Shelves

Gutterman, Alan S. and Robert Brown, eds. Intellectual property laws of East Asia. Hong Kong : Sweet & Maxwell Asia, 1997.
KE7032 Int LW ASEAN Coll

Intellectual property protection in Asia : practical strategies. Hong Kong : Asia Law & Practice, 1996.
KE11 Int LW Reference

Philosophy & Religion

Bloom, Irene and Joshua A. Fogel, eds. Meeting of minds : intellectual and religious interaction in East Asian traditions of thought : essays in honor of Wing-tsit Chan and William Theodore de Bary. New York : Columbia University Press, 1996.
B127 Cha.Me CL Main Shelves

Politics & Government

Laothamatas, Anek, ed. Democratization in Southeast and East Asia. Singapore : ISEAS, 1997.
JQ28 Dem CL Main Shelves

Katzenstein, Peter J. and Takashi Shiraishi, eds. Network power : Japan and Asia. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1996.
DS33.4 Jap.N CL Main Shelves

Rodan, Garry, ed. Political oppositions in industrialising Asia. London : Routledge, 1996.
JQ36 Rod CL RBR, HL Main Shelves

Root, Hilton L. Small countries, big lessons : governance and the rise of Asia. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
JQ1499 Roo CL RBR, HL Main Shelves

Sheridan, Greg. Tigers : leaders of the new Asia-Pacific. NSW, Australia : Allen & Unwin, 1997.
DS32 She CL & HL Main Shelves

Sanders, Sol, ed. The U.S. role in the Asian century : a panel of experts looks at national interest in the new environment. Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 1997.
DS33.4 Uni.U CL Main Shelves

Zhao, Suisheng. Power competition in East Asia : from the old Chinese world order to the post-cold war regional multipolarity. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.
DS515 Zha CL Main Shelves

Sexually transmitted diseases

Lewis, Milton, Scott Bamber and Michael Waugh, eds. Sex, disease, and society : a comparative history of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 1997.
RA644 Aid.Sx CL Main Shelves

Urbanization

Kim, Won Bae, et al., eds. Culture and the city in East Asia. New York : Clarendon Press, 1997.
GF651 Cul CL Main Shelves

Lo, Fu-chen and Yeung Yue-man, eds. Emerging world cities in Pacific Asia. Tokyo : United Nations University Press, 1996.
HT147 Eme CL RBR, HL Main Shelves


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