State making in Asia / 
edited by Richard Boyd and Tak-Wing Ngo 
 - London :  Routledge,  2006 
 - xiii, 203 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Politics in Asia series .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415346118 (hardback : alk. paper)  RM411.65 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>State, The
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Asia--Politics and government