Xiangming Chen is dean and director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies, Trinity College.

• Part I: Bending Borders and Emerging Transnational SpacesChapter 1: Transborder Dynamics in a Global Era: Situating the Asia-Pacific Transborder SubregionsChapter 2: The Asia-Pacific Transborder Subregions: The Phenomenon, Historical Backdrop, and ConceptualizationChapter 3: From Different Perspectives to an Integrated Framework: A Synthetic ExplanationPart II: Diversity among Three East Asian CasesChapter 4: Binding Porous Borders: The Greater Southeast China SubregionChapter 5: Bridging Ocean Boundaries: The Bohai/Yellow Sea SubregionChapter 6: Spanning Socialist and Post-Socialist Borders: The Greater Tumen Subregion and BeyondPart III: Comparisons, Generalizations, and ImplicationsChapter 7: Four Cases across Southeast AsiaChapter 8: Variations between the Pacific and the AtlanticChapter 9: Re-bordering Transnational Spaces: Theoretical Contributions and Practical Challenges

As Borders Bend is an important book about regionalism in Asia. . . . The breadth and systematic nature of this book will make it attractive for many social scientists who, in teaching or research, want to cover globalization, social capital, spatial reorganization, and regionalism in Asia. It offers useful material on social factors behind economic development.

Xiangming Chen is dean and director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies, Trinity College.

• Part I: Bending Borders and Emerging Transnational SpacesChapter 1: Transborder Dynamics in a Global Era: Situating the Asia-Pacific Transborder SubregionsChapter 2: The Asia-Pacific Transborder Subregions: The Phenomenon, Historical Backdrop, and ConceptualizationChapter 3: From Different Perspectives to an Integrated Framework: A Synthetic ExplanationPart II: Diversity among Three East Asian CasesChapter 4: Binding Porous Borders: The Greater Southeast China SubregionChapter 5: Bridging Ocean Boundaries: The Bohai/Yellow Sea SubregionChapter 6: Spanning Socialist and Post-Socialist Borders: The Greater Tumen Subregion and BeyondPart III: Comparisons, Generalizations, and ImplicationsChapter 7: Four Cases across Southeast AsiaChapter 8: Variations between the Pacific and the AtlanticChapter 9: Re-bordering Transnational Spaces: Theoretical Contributions and Practical Challenges

As Borders Bend is an important book about regionalism in Asia. . . . The breadth and systematic nature of this book will make it attractive for many social scientists who, in teaching or research, want to cover globalization, social capital, spatial reorganization, and regionalism in Asia. It offers useful material on social factors behind economic development.

Xiangming Chen is dean and director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies, Trinity College.

• Part I: Bending Borders and Emerging Transnational SpacesChapter 1: Transborder Dynamics in a Global Era: Situating the Asia-Pacific Transborder SubregionsChapter 2: The Asia-Pacific Transborder Subregions: The Phenomenon, Historical Backdrop, and ConceptualizationChapter 3: From Different Perspectives to an Integrated Framework: A Synthetic ExplanationPart II: Diversity among Three East Asian CasesChapter 4: Binding Porous Borders: The Greater Southeast China SubregionChapter 5: Bridging Ocean Boundaries: The Bohai/Yellow Sea SubregionChapter 6: Spanning Socialist and Post-Socialist Borders: The Greater Tumen Subregion and BeyondPart III: Comparisons, Generalizations, and ImplicationsChapter 7: Four Cases across Southeast AsiaChapter 8: Variations between the Pacific and the AtlanticChapter 9: Re-bordering Transnational Spaces: Theoretical Contributions and Practical Challenges

As Borders Bend is an important book about regionalism in Asia. . . . The breadth and systematic nature of this book will make it attractive for many social scientists who, in teaching or research, want to cover globalization, social capital, spatial reorganization, and regionalism in Asia. It offers useful material on social factors behind economic development.