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Browse Asian Studies books by subject from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.

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1. Legal Reforms in China and Vietnam

   A Comparison of Asian Communist Regimes

   By John Gillespie, Albert Chen

   Series: Routledge Law in Asia

   Although the adoption of market reforms has been a key factor leading to China’s recent economic growth, China continues to be governed by a communist party and has a socialist-influenced legal system. Vietnam, starting later, also with a socialist-influenced legal system, has followed a similar...

   Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge
2. China and Africa Development Relations

   Edited by Christopher M. Dent

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   China is among a number of large developing country or new powers on the ascendance in the international system, all of which are deepening their economic relations with Africa However, China is the largest and most powerful of this group. it has sought closer economic relationships with other...

   Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge
3. India, Pakistan, and Democracy

   Solving the Puzzle of Divergent Paths

   By Philip Oldenburg

   The question of why some countries have democratic regimes and others do not is a significant issue in comparative politics. This book looks at India and Pakistan, two countries with clearly contrasting political regime histories, and presents an argument on why India is a democracy and Pakistan is...

   Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge
4. Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia

   The Social Production of Civic Spaces

   Edited by Mike Douglass, K.C. Ho, Giok Ling Ooi

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia presents a detailed examination of the underlying issues of urban life in the Far East. Leading authorities on globalization and politics in the region cover key themes of continuity and change: relationships between civil society and...

   Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge
5. Minorities and Education in Multicultural Japan

   An Interactive Perspective

   Edited by Ryoko Tsuneyoshi, Kaori H. Okano, Sarane Boocock

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   This volume examines how Japan’s increasingly multicultural population has impacted on the lives of minority children and their peers at school, and how schools are responding to this trend in terms of providing minority children with opportunities and preparing them for the adult society. The...

   Published July 28th 2010 by Routledge
6. Dandyism and Transcultural Modernity

   The Dandy, the Flaneur, and the Translator in 1930s Shanghai, Tokyo, and Paris

   By Hsiao-yen Peng

   Series: Academia Sinica on East Asia

   This book views the Neo-Sensation mode of writing as a traveling genre, or style, that originated in France, moved on to Japan, and then to China. The author contends that modernity is possible only on "the transcultural site"—transcultural in the sense of breaking the divide between past and...

   Published July 28th 2010 by Routledge
7. Language Life in Japan

   Transformations and Prospects

   Edited by Patrick Heinrich, Christian Galan

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   Despite its monolingual self-image, Japan is multilingual and growing more so due to indigenous minority language revitalization and as an effect of migration. Besides Japan's autochthonous languages such as the Ainu and Ryukyuan languages, there are more than 75,000 immigrant children in the...

   Published July 28th 2010 by Routledge
8. Historians, State and Politics in Twentieth Century Egypt

   Contesting the Nation

   By Anthony Gorman

   Series: Islamic Studies Series

   This book deals with the relationship between historical scholarship and politics in twentieth century Egypt. It examines the changing roles of the academic historian, the university system, the state and non-academic scholarship and the tension between them in contesting the modern history of...

   Published July 28th 2010 by Routledge
9. The Warp and the Weft

   Community and Gender Identity Among the Weavers of Banaras

   By Vasanthi Raman

   This book studies the impact of the communal violence of the early 1990s on the individual lives of the Muslim weavers of Banaras, with considerable focus on gender, identity and inter-community relations....

   Published July 27th 2010 by Routledge India
10. Japanese Women, Class and the Tea Ceremony

    The voices of tea practitioners in northern Japan

    By Kaeko Chiba

    Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

    This book examines the complex relationship between class and gender dynamics among tea ceremony (chado) practitioners in Japan. Focusing on practitioners in a provincial city, Akita, the book surveys the rigid, hierarchical chado system at grass roots level. Making critical use of Bourdieu’s idea...

    Published July 27th 2010 by Routledge