Richard Boyd is Reader in the Law and Society of Japan at Leiden University, the Netherlands.Tak-Wing Ngo is Lecturer in Chinese Politics at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

• 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

Richard Boyd is Reader in the Law and Society of Japan at Leiden University, the Netherlands.Tak-Wing Ngo is Lecturer in Chinese Politics at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

• 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

Richard Boyd is Reader in the Law and Society of Japan at Leiden University, the Netherlands.Tak-Wing Ngo is Lecturer in Chinese Politics at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

• 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