Table of Contents

Contributors Preface 1. Reconnecting the State to the Dynamics of its Making 2. Japanese State Making in Global Context 3. The Making of State-Bureaucracy Relations in Japan 4. Citizen, State and Nation in China 5. Sovereignty, Survival, and the Transformation of the Taiwan State 6. Constructing the State in the Tibetan Diaspora 7. Nation, Ethnicity, and Contending Discourse in the Malaysian State 8. Some States of Asia Compared from Afar References Index

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Leiden University, The Netherlands