STATES & SOCIETIES IN MOTION

With contributions from leading scholars in their field, this collection offers wide-ranging but incisive perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Studies. Apart from informing and enlightening the reader, the essays offer a tribute to Professor Takashi Shiraishi, the renowned Japanese scholar, for his many contributions across continents and disciplines as well as his personal qualities as a long-time colleague, teacher and friend. Often with Japan at their nexus, the essays speak to three enduring themes in the research interests spanning Shiraishi's half-century career: political movements in Southeast Asia; national and regional politics in China and Japan; and the links between ideology, networks and policies at critical junctures of state formation.