State making in Asia

This volume examines state making projects from an Asian perspective, highlighting the particular combination of institutions and ideologies embedded in the Asian state-making projects and demonstrates their distinctiveness from the Western experience

Reconnecting the state to the dynamics of its making; Japanese state making in global context; The making of the state - bureaucracy relations in Japan; Citizen, state, and nation in China; Sovereignty, survival, and the transformation of the Taiwan state; Constructing the state in the Tibetan diaspora; Nation, ethnicity, and contending discourse in the Malaysian state; Some states of Asia compared from afar