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Edited by Anthony Fung, Alice Chik

Made in Hong Kong: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth and twenty-first century popular music in Hong Kong. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars in the field, and covers the major figures,…

Paperback – 2020-06-01 
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Edited by Anthony Fung, Alice Chik

Made in Hong Kong: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth and twenty-first century popular music in Hong Kong. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars in the field, and covers the major figures,…

Hardback – 2020-06-01 
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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 
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Routledge Advances in Central Asian Studies

Edited by Claudia Dolezal, Alexander Trupp, Huong T. Bui

This book analyses the role tourism plays for sustainable development in Southeast Asia. It seeks to assesses tourism’s impact on residents and localities across the region by critically debating and offering new understandings of its dynamics on the global and local levels. Offering a myriad of…

Hardback – 2020-04-13 
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Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

Edited by Yoon Sun Yang

The Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature provides a comprehensive overview of a Korean literary tradition, which is understood as a multifaceted nexus of practices, both homegrown and transnational. The handbook discusses the perspectives from which modern Korean literature has thus far…

Hardback – 2020-04-02 
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Edited by Kevin Latham

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Culture and Society is an interdisciplinary resource that offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary Chinese social and cultural issues in the twenty-first century. Bringing together experts in their respective fields, this cutting-edge survey of the…

Hardback – 2020-03-19 
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By Chögyam Trungpa

This is the story of the early life and escape from the Chinese of a young tulku of Tibet, an incarnate lama of high rank. The book, first published in 1966, shows the quality of human life as lived in Tibet at all levels. The account of his religious education is detailed and of equal value is his…

Paperback – 2020-03-15 
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Routledge Library Editions: Tibet

By Alastair Lamb

This book, first published in 1960 and revised in 1986, is an important analysis of the under-studied Northern frontier of the British Indian Empire. It considers British relations across the Himalayas, looking at encounters with Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal and Tibet.…

Paperback – 2020-03-15 
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Routledge Library Editions: Tibet

By Giotto Dainelli

This book, first published in 1933, reproduces the diary of the 1930 explorations by the great Italian traveller, Giotto Dainelli. In it he records his experiences as he travels the little-explored (by Westerners) region of Western Tibet, and the result is a detailed snapshot of Tibetan life,…

Paperback – 2020-03-15 
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Routledge Library Editions: Tibet

By Helmut Hoffmann

This book, first published in 1961, examines the old Tibetan Bon religion, the development of Buddhism in India and Tibet, and covers the religious struggles of the eighth and ninth centuries. It also describes the rise of the Lamaist sects and the priest state of the Dalai Lamas, and taken as a…

Paperback – 2020-03-15 
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Routledge Library Editions: Tibet

Edited by Bill Brugger

This book, first published in 1985, considers the state of Marxist thought in China at the time, a time when the country’s leadership appeared more concerned with attaining modernisation and economic development than Marxist theory. It considers the problems that Chinese Marxist intellectuals were…

Paperback – 2020-03-15 
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Routledge Library Editions: China Under Mao

Edited by Bill Brugger

This book, first published in 1980, addresses the questions raised by the death of Mao Zedong and the arrest of the ‘Gang of Four’. Was China reverting to a capitalist form of development, and abandoning Mao’s policies? Was China’s leadership remaining loyal to Mao’s strategy but correcting damage…

Paperback – 2020-03-15 
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Routledge Library Editions: China Under Mao