Asian Culture & Society Books

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1. Bollywood Travels: Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema

   By Rajinder Dudrah

   This book offers a cultural and social analysis of contemporary Bollywood films over the past decade. Using the author’s analysis of a sociological imagination, it is developed here as one that is concerned with the private and public issues of the day through the silver screen and popular...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-44740-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia: An Introduction, 2nd Edition

   By Victor King

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-58057-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora

   Edited by Joya Chatterji, David Washbrook

   South Asia’s diaspora is among the world’s largest and most widespread, and it is growing exponentially. In 2001, the government of India estimated that 20 million persons of Indian descent live abroad; and many more millions have roots to other countries of the subcontinent, in Pakistan,...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-48010-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Asceticism and Power in South and Southeast Asia

   Edited by Peter Flügel, Gustaaf Houtman

   Including analyses by top academics in the field, this book takes a unique look at questions of power and asceticism in the Hindu, Jain and Buddhist traditions of South and Southeast Asia. Ideas about power and purity in these three traditions are crucially related to ascetic practices....

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-42384-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. The Modern Anthropology of India: A Reader

   Edited by Peter Berger, Frank Heidemann

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-58724-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Urban Transformation in East Asia

   By Hyun Bang Shin

   This book explores urban transformation in East Asia, focusing in particular on the rapid transformation of old and dilapidated neighbourhoods in East Asian cities. Drawing on detailed empirical fieldwork conducted in Seoul and Beijing, including case studies of redevelopment neighbourhoods and...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-46945-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. The Emergent Knowledge Society and the Future of Higher Education: Asian Perspectives

   Edited by Deane Neubauer

   The nature of higher education is by no means fixed: it has evolved over time; different models of higher education co-exist alongside each other at present; and, worldwide, there are demands for higher education to change to better help support economic growth and to better fit chagning social and...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-60869-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Bangladesh Cinema and National Identity: In Search of the Modern?

   By Zakir Hossain Raju

   This book analyses the relationship between cinema and modernity in Bangladesh. It investigates the roles of a non-western ‘national’ film industry in Asia in constructing nationhood and identity within colonial and postcolonial predicaments. The political and economic forces and the cultural...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-46544-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Singapore's Ageing Population: Managing Healthcare and End of Life Decisions

   Edited by Wing-Cheong Chan

   A rapidly ageing population is the most significant demographic issue confronting Singapore in our lifetime. This has created new and increasing demands on Singapore’s healthcare system and on the families of the older adults. The challenge is in providing a system of care that is humane, effective...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-60975-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora: Revisiting the Boatpeople in Hong Kong

    Edited by Yuk-Wah Chan

    Over three decades have passed since the first wave of Indochinese refugees left their homelands. These refugees, mainly the Vietnamese, fled from war and strife in search of a better life elsewhere By investigating the Vietnamese diaspora in Asia this book sheds new light on refugee settlement and...

    June 2011 | 978-0-415-61310-1 | Hardback (Routledge)