TY - BOOK AU - Boyd,Richard AU - Ngo,Tak-Wing TI - State making in Asia SN - 0415346118 (hardback : alk. paper) PY - 2006/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - State, The KW - Asia KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -