Asian Studies: Products

By Anjalee Cohen

Youth Culture and Identity in Northern Thailand examines how young people in urban Chiang Mai construct an identity at the intersection of global capitalism, state ideologies and local culture. Drawing on over 15 years of ethnographic research, the book explores the impact of rapid urbanisation…

Hardback – 2020-05-31 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Anthropology

By China Development Research Foundation

This book examines the financing of China’s health system, argues that present arrangements are not adequate and proposes an increased role for commercial health insurance as a way of overcoming the difficulties. Highlighting that China’s present social medical insurance system can only cover basic…

Hardback – 2020-05-31 
Routledge
Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

Edited by Howard Chiang, Alvin K. Wong

This volume showcases a vibrant wave of scholarship that explores the intersection of queer theory and Sinophone studies, consolidating an interdisciplinary framework for furthering transnational research into non-conforming genders, sexualities and bodies. Engaging with contemporary debates and…

Hardback – 2020-05-31 
Routledge
Routledge Contemporary China Series

By Darryl Sterk

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner and even Dances With Wolves are known for their use of dialogue in endangered indigenous languages, but the Taiwanese blockbuster Seediq Bale, which contains more more dialogue in an indigenous language than any other film before or since, has not received the…

Hardback – 2020-05-30 
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies

Edited by G. N. Devy

This book is part of the prestigious Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies series designed to focus on the concepts that recur in any serious discussion of nature, culture and society in the discourse of the indigenous. First in a five-volume series, this book deals with the two key concepts of…

Paperback – 2020-05-30 
Routledge India
Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies

By Pradeep P. Gokhale

This book offers a systematic and radical introduction to the Buddhist roots of Pātañjalayoga or the Yoga system of Patañjali. By examining each of 195 aphorisms (sūtras) of the Yogasūtra, along with discussions on the Yogabhāṣya, it shows that traditional and popular views…

Paperback – 2020-05-30 
Routledge India

By Iftekhar Ahmed

Edited by Kim Maund, Thayaparan Gajendran

This book considers the challenges of building disaster resilience in South Asia – a region that frequently experiences some of the most severe and devastating impacts of disasters. Despite significant work to assist affected communities, many smaller South Asian countries remain particularly…

Hardback – 2020-05-29 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change

By China Development Research Foundation

This book examines the financing of China’s health system, argues that present arrangements are not adequate and proposes an increased role for commercial health insurance as a way of overcoming the difficulties. Highlighting that China’s present social medical insurance system can only cover basic…

Hardback – 2020-05-21 
Routledge
Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

By J. Marshall Craig

The East Asian War of 1592 to 1598 was the only extended war before modern times to involve Japan, Korea, and China. It devastated huge swathes of Korea and led to large population movements across borders. This book draws on surviving letters and diaries to recount the personal experiences of five…

Hardback – 2020-05-11 
Routledge
Asian States and Empires

By Madina Junussova

This book presents the changing roles of urban governments and how local governments struggle to gain administrative, fiscal, and political power to combat current urban challenges in Kazakhstan. Focusing on the cities and regions selected by the national government of Kazakhstan to be the drivers…

Hardback – 2020-05-10 
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Central Asian Studies

By Tang Wenming

Mou Zongsan (1909-1995), one of the representatives of Modern Confucianism, belongs to the most important Chinese philosophers in the 20th century. From a more traditional Confucian perspective, this book makes a critical analysis on Mou’s "moral metaphysics", mainly his thoughts about Confucian…

Hardback – 2020-05-01 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Chinese Philosophy

Edited by Ooi Keat Gin

From the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, there was a great deal of turmoil, tension, and violence in what became Malaysia as a result of the 1963 Federation, upheavals included the Malayan Emergency of 1948-60, the independence of Malaya in 1957,…

Hardback – 2020-05-01 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia