BASAS Annual Conference 2012

School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London

Featured Books at this Event

1. Government and Politics in Taiwan

   By Dafydd Fell

   Series: Routledge Research on Taiwan Series

   Written by an experienced teacher and scholar this new textbook introduces the reader to the big questions that concern change and continuity in how politics operates and how Taiwan is governed. Taking a critical approach, Dafydd Fell provides students with the essential background to the history...

   Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
2. China’s Strategic Competition with the United States

   By Russell Ong

   Series: Routledge Security in Asia Series

   This book examines the transformation and the multifaceted nature of the relationship between US and China in the post-Cold War era. It examines their nature and implications of their strategic competition in military, political and economic terms, as well as in relation to Taiwan, Japan, the...

   Published October 19th 2011 by Routledge
3. Religion, Narrative and Public Imagination in South Asia

   Past and Place in the Sanskrit Mahabharata

   By James Hegarty

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   The Sanskrit Mahabharata is one of the greatest works of world literature and pivotal for the understanding of both Hindu traditions and wider society in ancient, medieval and modern South Asia. This book presents a new synthesis of philological, anthropological and cognitive-linguistic method and...

   Published August 30th 2011 by Routledge
4. Time, History and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia

   Edited by Anne Murphy

   Series: Routledge South Asian Religion Series

   Religious imaginary is a way of conceiving and structuring the world within the conceptual and imaginative traditions of the religious. Using religious imaginary as a reference, this book analyses temporal ideologies and expressions of historicity in South Asia in the early modern, pre-colonial and...

   Published August 30th 2011 by Routledge
5. Popular Culture and the State in East and Southeast Asia

   Edited by Nissim Otmazgin, Eyal Ben-Ari

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   This volume examines the relations between popular culture production and export and the state in East and Southeast Asia including the urban centres and middle-classes of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Thailand, and the Philippines. It addresses the shift in...

   Published October 13th 2011 by Routledge
6. Sex Trafficking in South Asia

   Telling Maya's Story

   By Mary Crawford

   Series: Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series

   This book is a critical feminist analysis of sex trafficking. Arguing that trafficking in girls and women is a product of the social construction of gender and other dimensions of power and status within a particular culture and at a particular historical moment, this book offers the necessary...

   Published September 14th 2011 by Routledge