Cultural Asian Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Language in Public Spaces in Japan

   Edited by Nanette Gottlieb

   This book throws light on ideologies, practices and sociocultural developments currently shaping language use in Japan by departing from the more common investigation of language in private contexts and examining aspects of the language found in a range of significant public spaces, from the...

   Published June 15th 2011 by Routledge
2. Tourism and Tibetan Culture in Transition

   A Place called Shangrila

   By Ashild Kolas

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   This book explores the relationship between tourism, culture and ethnic identity in Tibet in , focusing in particular on Shangrila, a Tibetan region in Southwest China, to show how local ‘Tibetan culture’ is reconstructed as a marketable commodity for tourists. It analyses the socio-economic...

   Published June 12th 2011 by Routledge
3. Marriage in Contemporary Japan

   By Yoko Tokuhiro

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   The phenomenon of bankonka – ‘postponement of marriage’ – is increasingly reported in contemporary Japanese media, clearly illustrating the changing patterns of modern lifestyles and attitudes towards marriage, personal obligation and ambition. This is the first book in recent years to explore the...

   Published May 16th 2011 by Routledge
4. The Meaning of the Local

   Politics of Place in Urban India

   Edited by Geert de Neve, Henrike Donner

   By zooming in on urban localities in India and by unpacking the 'meaning of the local' for those who live in them, the ten papers in this volume redress a recurrent asymmetry in contemporary debates about globalisation. In much literature, the global is associated with transnationalism,...

   Published February 9th 2011 by UCL Press
5. The Philippines

   Mobilities, Identities, Globalization

   By James A. Tyner

   Series: Global Realities

   Nearly five million migrant workers from the Philippines are employed in over 190 countries and territories. They work as doctors and domestic helpers, engineers and entertainers, seamstresses and surveyors. It is through their collective labor that the Philippines has assumed a global presence....

   Published September 18th 2008 by Routledge
6. Calligraphy and Power in Contemporary Chinese Society

   By Yuehping Yen

   Series: Anthropology of Asia

   This unusual and interesting book is a fascinating account of the world of Chinese writing. It examines Chinese space and the political and social use of writing as propaganda, a publicity booster and as a ladder for social climbing....

   Published January 11th 2005 by Routledge
7. The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese 1941-1945

   A patchwork of internment

   By Bernice Archer

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   Bernice Archer's comparative study of the experiences of the Western civilians interned by the Japanese in mixed family camps and sexually segregated camps in the Far East, combines a wide variety of conventional and unconventional source material. This includes contemporary War, Foreign and...

   Published May 12th 2004 by Routledge
8. Sexual Cultures in East Asia

   The Social Construction of Sexuality and Sexual Risk in a Time of AIDS

   Edited by Evelyne Micollier

   Using case-studies from East and Southeast Asia, this book examines sexuality and AIDS-related sexual risk in the context of Asian cultures. It offers a complementary perspective, documented with sociological and anthropological data, to historical studies and looks at commercial sex work, kinship...

   Published November 12th 2003 by Routledge
9. Nage Birds

   Classification and symbolism among an eastern Indonesian people

   By Gregory Forth

   Series: Studies in Environmental Anthropology

   This unusual and richly-illustrated book is the story of the relationship between the Nage people of eastern Indonesia and the birds alongside which they co-exist. Based on fieldwork carried out over a period of some fifteen years, it aims for a total view of how a human community interacts...

   Published September 10th 2003 by Routledge
10. Living with Separation in China

    Anthropological Accounts

    By Charles Stafford

    Published June 25th 2003 by Routledge