Critical Concepts in Asian Studies – serie
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Imperial Japan and the World, 1931-1945
Av Antony Best
2010
19186 kr
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The transformation of Japan in the years between 1931 and 1945 into an expansionist and potentially hegemonic power that threatened the stability of the international order in East Asia is a topic that is central to any understanding of the region’s history in the twentieth century.This new …
Women in Asia
2009
6440 kr
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The academic study of women in Asia developed in the 1970s as a result of the convergence of the then emerging disciplines of Asian Studies and Women’s Studies. Initially, work on women in Asia grew from traditional branches of learning such as history, anthropology, politics, and literary studies. …
Modern Indian Culture and Society
2009
5434 kr
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Research on Indian culture and society has been conducted from a dizzying range of perspectives. However, in recent decades it has been particularly characterized by a change in focus from the past to the present; from the worldview of the élites to that of the subalterns; from philosophy to …
Social Transformation in China
Av Jieyu Liu
2014
18630 kr
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Since the late 1970s, China has transformed from an inefficient centrally planned backwater to a fast-growing market-orientated economy. While economic reform has enabled average living standards to improve immensely, the benefits have been shared disproportionately depending on demographic factors …
Gender and Japanese Society
2013
25062 kr
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Compiled and introduced by D. P. Martinez, the editor of an acclaimed four-volume anthology on Modern Japanese Culture and Society (Routledge, 2007) (978-0-415-41609-2), this new title from Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Asian Studies series, is a collection of classic and the very best …
Sino-Japanese Relations
History, Politics, Economy, Security
2011
23297 kr
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Academic and popular interest in China and Japan, the two major powers in East Asia, has risen dramatically in the last decade. While on the one hand their relationship has benefited from high levels of two-way trade and investment underscoring their growing economic interdependence, political …
Gender and Chinese Society
Av Xiaowei Zang
2014
20259 kr
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Compiled and introduced by Xiaowei Zang, Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sheffield, this new title from Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Asian Studies series is a collection of classic and the very best cutting-edge scholarship on themes and issues around gender in historical and …
Japanese Popular Culture
Av Matthew Allen, Rumi Sakamoto
2014
23631 kr
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Japanese popular culture has developed in many unexpected and fascinating ways. From contemporary pop culture’s beginnings in the shadow of the Second World War and the earlier China campaign, Japan’s sense of identity has been contested, challenged, reconsidered, restructured, and revived through …
Asia Pacific Security
2014
23297 kr
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This new title from Routledge, edited by Professor Leszek Buszynski, includes the key literature on Asia Pacific Security. Arranged across four volumes, the collection covers China, the United States, Japan, and South Korea, as well as peripheral players such as Australia and India. It explores in …
Human Rights in Asia and the Pacific
Av Ben Saul, Catherine Renshaw
2014
21433 kr
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While the Asia Pacific region is one of the world’s largest by population size, it has long been known for having the least developed regional and national institutional mechanisms for protecting human rights, particularly compared to the well-developed systems in Europe, the Americas, and …
Religion in Contemporary China
Av Xinzhong Yao
2017
19694 kr
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This new 4 volume collection is an authoritative anthology containing the best scholarship on aspects of religion in contemporary China. The articles will focus on religious beliefs, practices and organisations as well as on the interactive relations between religion and other dimensions of …
Silk Roads
2016
24337 kr
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The areas covering the Silk Roads, the ancient and modern roads from China to the West, including the region of modern Xinjiang, have an enduring and most diverse history. The impact that the political, cultural, and economic exchange on the Silk Roads had on the world cannot be overestimated; this …
Chinese Entrepreneurship
Av Xiyi Huang
2015
23992 kr
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Entrepreneurship is recognised as an integral element of economic advancement and social force. With socio-political transformation within China in the past three decades, integration of China’s economy into the global market, and the wide spreading of Chinese businesses to other parts of the …
China's Security
Av Liselotte Odgaard, Mathieu Duchâtel
2018
19416 kr
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Chinese security has become a key focus after the Cold War. In just a few decades, China has gone from an obscure position as a closed communist developing country with little integration into international institutions over being designated a prospective strategic partner of the United States to …
Imperialism and China 1800-1945 CC 4V
2016
21907 kr
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The history of imperialism in China is a complex, contentious history. In modern times, China’s experience with imperialism has entailed two parallel stories during the 19th and 20th centuries—stories that are different in their geographic location, in their motivations, and in their outcomes. The …
Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution
2007
14479 kr
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Academic interest in Mao Zedong’s role in the Chinese Revolution remains intense, as scholars and commentators continue to analyze his thinking and the history of the movement for clues about the Chinese model and its supposedly unique features. The debate about Mao’s career and influence is now …
Contemporary Chinese Society and Politics
Av Andrew Kipnis, Luigi Tomba m. fl.
2009
21338 kr
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Chinese society and its political system are predicated on traditions of governing that are deeply alien to most readers from liberal, Western powers. Chinese governance reflects both a long, indigenous tradition of statecraft and the Leninist legacies of the People’s Republic’s ruling Communist …
Ethnic Minorities in Modern China
2011
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China is the world’s most populous country with fifty-five state-recognized ethnic minorities: approximately 123 million people, taking up over 60 per cent of China’s territory. And, while China’s dizzying growth has made it a major world force, both economically and strategically, one of the chief …
Tourism in East and Southeast Asia CC 4V
Av David Harrison, Victor T. King m. fl.
2018
15321 kr
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This new 4 volume collection brings together publications from journals and book chapters that the editors consider to be the key contributions in the scholarly literature on tourism in East and South-east Asia. The volumes will cover the historical development of tourism, and the economic, …
Tourism in East and Southeast Asia
Av David Harrison, Jerry Eades m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
4650 kr
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This new 4 volume collection brings together publications from journals and book chapters that the editors consider to be the key contributions in the scholarly literature on tourism in East and South-east Asia. The volumes will cover the historical development of tourism, and the economic, …
Tourism in East and Southeast Asia
Av David Harrison, Jerry Eades m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
4650 kr
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This new 4 volume collection brings together publications from journals and book chapters that the editors consider to be the key contributions in the scholarly literature on tourism in East and South-east Asia. The volumes will cover the historical development of tourism, and the economic, …
Tourism in East and Southeast Asia
Av David Harrison, Jerry Eades m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
4650 kr
Tillfälligt slut
This new 4 volume collection brings together publications from journals and book chapters that the editors consider to be the key contributions in the scholarly literature on tourism in East and South-east Asia. The volumes will cover the historical development of tourism, and the economic, …
Tourism in East and Southeast Asia
Av David Harrison, Jerry Eades m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
4650 kr
Tillfälligt slut
This new 4 volume collection brings together publications from journals and book chapters that the editors consider to be the key contributions in the scholarly literature on tourism in East and South-east Asia. The volumes will cover the historical development of tourism, and the economic, …
