** Announcement and Call for Book Proposals **
New Book Series on 'Comparative Development and Policy in Asia' Edited by Ka Ho Mok and Rachel Murphy
Co-Published by: Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Bristol & London Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)
Objectives and Central Features of the Series:
Interest in Asian experiences of development has never been higher. The appetite of scholars and practitioners for knowledge and understanding of China has increased alongside its re-emergence as a global player and its unparalleled growth rates - its economy will overtake that of the USA by 2038. The Indian economy is also showing renewed dynamism. Japan has genuinely recovered from economic downturn in the last two years. Meanwhile the Asian tiger economies have experienced rapid economic recovery and dramatic political shifts in the wake of the 1997 financial crisis. Asian co-operation to solve regional and global development problems is on the increase. Policy learning among Asian countries, for example Vietnamese learning from China's reforms and China's learning from Singapore's governance and India's IT sector, is dynamic. Targeted Asian and Western policy learning to promote development is also an important driver of change. Given that all predictions point to Asia as the future engine of economic growth, we should know more about regional patterns of co-operation and competition; opportunities for constructive engagement; the factors underpinning the immense economic achievements of different countries; the social, political, cultural and environmental implications of the economic restructuring; and the fate and political impact of people who have been excluded from the growth.
The proposed book series on Comparative Development and Policy in Asia will meet an important need for empirical material and comparative analysis. With particular reference to how Asian states have coped with growing challenges of the globalizing economies and the ways in which national governments in Asia have changed their public policy strategies and governance models in sustaining further economic growth, the proposed series attempts to bridge the gap between development studies and public policy and governance analysis in Asia.
Specifically, the proposed book series will offer comparative insights and publish interdisciplinary works with focuses on contemporary Asia. Contributions to the series would offer international and/or disciplinary comparisons when analysing developments and public policies in Asia. We welcome contributions from different academic disciplines, particularly multi-disciplinary works linking development and policy in contemporary Asia. The central features of the proposed book series are as follows:
- Critical analysis of development issues in contemporary Asia
- Comparative perspectives and insights in understanding development issues, and contributions of Asian cases to wider understanding of development and public policy theory
- Analysis of policy learning and policy agenda setting within Asia
- Analysis of international influence on policy learning and agenda setting within Asia
- Reflections on the policy implications of good governance in Asia
- Networking with wider research communities in Asia
- Collaborations with East-West scholar
- Engaging wisely in policy communities in debates on development and policy issue
- Publishing interdisciplinary and comparative works
About the Series Editors:
The Series Editors have well networked with academics, researchers and policy analysts in Asia. Professor Ka Ho Mok, Chair Professor in East Asian Studies and Founding Director of the Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Bristol, has strong links with research groups and associations in Asia. Before he joined the University of Bristol, he was Associate Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Convenor of Comparative Education Policy Research Centre at City University of Hong Kong. He was also President of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong. Currently, Professor Mok is involved with the research network of Asian Political and International Studies Association (based in Asia), Public Policy and Governance Research Network (based in China) and is a founding member of the East Asia Social Policy Network (based in the UK).
In the last ten years, Professor Mok has engaged in comparative public
policy research and he has been invited as keynote speakers by institutions
in Asia for various international conferences. His research links would
certainly promote comparative development and comparative public policy
and governance studies in Asia. Professor Mok has published extensively
in internationally refereed journals. Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, Peking University Press in China and Higher Education
Publisher in Taiwan have published his most recent works. One of his current
works was translated in Japanese and published in Japan.
Dr. Rachel Murphy is Senior
Lecturer in East Asian Studies, University of Bristol. Before she joined
the University of Bristol, Dr. Murphy was Research fellow at the Contemporary
China Centre, Oxford University and a British Academy Research Fellow in
the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Cambridge. Dr. Murphy has
very strong links with colleagues in China studies in the U.K, US, Australia
and China. She is also co-director of the China Migration Policy Network
based at the International Organisation for Migration, Geneva (with Dr Frank
Laczko, IOM, Geneva). Her recent publications are highly regarded by academic
peers and her article published in China Quarterly in 2004 was selected
as the best paper of the year. She has published widely in development studies
and public policy with a focus on Chinese society. Cambridge University
Press and Routledge have published her recent books.
Call for Book Proposals:
The New Book Series on Comparative Development and Policy in Asia now calls for potential contribution of book projects. For colleagues who are interested in publishing a book in the series, please discuss your ideas with the editors:
Professor Ka Ho Mok at KH.Mok@bristol.ac.uk or Dr. Rachel Murphy at Rachel.Murphy@bristol.ac.uk.
Or submit a book proposal to the editors either through email or post to:
Centre for East Asian Studies
University of Bristol
8 Woodland Road
Bristol
BS8 1TN
UK.
For those interested in submitting a book proposal, please prepare a document of 4-8 pages which covers the following:
1. Rationale: why the book is important, original, timely
2. Contents list, with chapter headings and a short summary of what will come in each chapter; for edited books, please give details of contributors and their affiliations
3. For books which will be based on a thesis: your suggestions for transforming the thesis (narrow purpose, select readership) into a book (broader purpose, wider readership)
4. Market: who is the book for
5. Competition: comparing and contrasting; and showing where your new work fits into, and takes further, the existing body of scholarship
6. Brief cv of yourself, and any co-authors or co-editors
7. Title: it is important to have a crisp title, which broadens the appeal as much as possible, and which is explicit about the book's subject - it is important that titles are explicit so that, for example, booksellers and librarians buying from a list of books, where books from different subject areas are listed together, and where subtitles are left off, can "place" the book from the main part of the title alone
8. Length of script; together with number of tables, figures, maps, etc (if any)
