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Reviews the book 'State and Law in Eastern Asia,' edited by Leslie Palmier.

Here, the author studies how China was integrated into Spain's expansionist strategy using the works of Bernardino Escalante and Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza. Historian Ricardo Padrón's I The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West i attempts to understand how, in discursive and visual terms, the Spanish crown sought to project its geopolitical and historical influence in the world from the sixteenth century forward. The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West: By Ricardo Padrón, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. [Extracted from the article]

However, these high rankings conceal severe demographic problems, with rapidly decreasing birthrates and aging societies threatening the societies of East Asia in the order in which they took off. This book studies information about multiple countries through the common database of the population census, gathering the material into one volume. This book focuses on urbanization, declining birthrates, and aging population. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents several reviews of books associated with East Asia including “East Asian Multilateralism: Prospects for Regional Stability," edited by Kent E. Calder and Francis Fukuyama, "Asia, America, and the Transformation of Geopolitics," by William H. Overholt, and "China's Changing Political Landscape: Prospects for Democracy," edited by Cheng Li.

The article reviews the book "Postindustrial East Asian Cities: Innovation for Growth," by Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima.