Asian Studies: Products

By Bo Mou

This book presents a systematic unifying-pluralist account—a "constructive-engagement" account—of how cross-tradition engagement in philosophy is possible. The goal of this "constructive-engagement" account is, by way of reflective criticism, argumentation, and methodological guiding principles, to…

Hardback – 2020-07-20 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

By Wang Haiming

From Descartes to Spinoza, Western philosophers have attempted to propose an axiomatic systemization of ethics. However, without consensus on the contents and objects of ethics, the system remains incomplete. This four-volume set presents a model that highlights a Chinese philosopher’s insights on…

Hardback – 2020-06-19 
Routledge
China Perspectives

Edited by Smriti Srinivas, Bettina Ng'Weno, Neelima Jeychandran

This book breaks new ground by bringing together multidisciplinary approaches to examine contemporary Indian Ocean worlds. It reconfigures the Indian Ocean as a space for conceptual and theoretical relationality based on social science and humanities scholarship, thus moving away from an area-based…

Hardback – 2020-06-19 
Routledge
Routledge Studies on the Indian Ocean

By Harihar Bhattacharyya

This comprehensive book analyzes the successes and failures of federalism in India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Nepal and Myanmar for the political accommodation of ethno-regional diversity, and assesses their comparative significance for other countries in Asia. This revised new edition incorporates…

Paperback – 2020-06-15 
Routledge

By Awadhesh C. Sinha

This book traces the history and politics of the Greater Nepal movement. It looks at major events in modern South Asia, in and around the eastern Himalaya region in particular — colonialism, Independence and Partition, the Chinese aggression in Tibet, formation of Bangladesh and the merger of…

Hardback – 2020-06-14 
Routledge India
Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Edited by Volker Kaul, Ingrid Salvatore

Is pluralism inherent to the human condition? Does it have its origins in the diversity of cultures? Are disagreements among individuals the same as disagreements among societies? Focusing on these critical questions essential to understanding of modern societies, this book traces the origins of…

Paperback – 2020-06-05 
Routledge India
Ethics, Human Rights and Global Political Thought

By Hongwei Bao

This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire. It examines queer literature and visual cultures in China’s post-Mao and postsocialist era to show how these diverse cultural forms and practices not only…

Paperback – 2020-06-05 
Routledge India
Literary Cultures of the Global South

By Dina Khdair

This book explores the cultural politics of Pakistani crossover stardom in the Hindi film industry as a process of both assimilation and ‘Otherness’. Analysing the career profiles of three crossover performers—Ali Zafar, Fawad Khan, and Mahira Khan—as a relevant case study, it unites critical…

Paperback – 2020-06-05 
Routledge India

By Willem van Eekelen

Rural Development in Practice focuses on the evolving nature of rural development in the Global South. It outlines how we got to where we are today, checks what we can learn from history, and explores the development drivers, facilitators and obstacles most likely to shape the years ahead. The…

Paperback – 2020-06-02 
Routledge
Rethinking Development

By Raj Balkaran

In analyzing the parallels between myths glorifying the Indian Great Goddess, Durgā, and those glorifying the Sun, Sūrya, found in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa, this book argues for an ideological ecosystem at work in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa privileging worldly values, of which Indian kings, the Goddess (…

Hardback – 2020-06-02 
Routledge
Routledge Hindu Studies Series

Edited by Tony Bennett, Deborah Stevenson, Fred Myers, Tamara Winikoff

This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to take stock of the frictions generated by a tumultuous time in the Australian art field and to probe what the crises might mean for the future of the arts in Australia. Specific topics include national and international art markets;…

Hardback – 2020-06-01 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Art History

By Susan Freeman, Ying Zhu, Malcolm Warner

This book explores the importance of entrepreneurs in driving economic growth as the world economy grows and becomes more integrated and more challenging. It examines the situation in both advanced and developing countries and shows how the entrepreneurial orientation of the founders of small and…

Hardback – 2020-05-31 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia