Asian Studies

This volume was first published in 1957. Besides tracing the history and development of the Peking Theatre, it explains acting techniques, stage costume and symbolism, musical forms and the various types of plays...

This book outlines the main properties of Asian literatures in the period of 'reflective traditionalism', when the creation of a vast body of aesthetically significant works was coupled with the emergence of literary self-awareness...

An investigation of how the material culture of South Indian courts was perceived by those who lived there in the pre-colonial period. Howes peels away the standard categories used to study Indian palace space...

Buddhism in China during the late Qing and Republican period remained a powerful cultural and religious force. This innovative book comes from a rising star in this field, offering a new perspective on the influence of Buddhism on Chinese culture...

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

An intensely human document, enlivened with sketches of the people he met and places he visited, Teonge's Diary is one of the finest accounts of life on board ship in the seventeenth century...

This book examines the diffusion of economic ideas in East Asia, assessing the impact of external ideas on internal theory and practice. It considers economists from Adam Smith onwards, including Marx, Keynes, Hayek and contemporary economists, and covers the subject both historically and also inclu..

Four eye-witnesses of the discovery and conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards have left written records, but of these the present volume and the letters of Cortés are by far the most important...

Four eye-witnesses of the discovery and conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards have left written records, but of these the present volume and the letters of Cortés are by far the most important...

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Focuses on supernatural affliction - illness and misfortune ascribed to demonic spirits or ghosts and to other mystical agents, such as sorcerers and witches...

Focuses on supernatural affliction - illness and misfortune ascribed to demonic spirits or ghosts and to other mystical agents, such as sorcerers and witches...