Asian Studies

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

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

First published in 1930. This volume contains letters and narratives of some of the Elizabethans who went to India. Here the beginnings of the British Indian Empire can be seen, arising out of the trading operations of the East India Company...

This book examines the boat and shed living people of rural China. It takes an "historical anthropological" approach, combining research in official records with investigations among surviving boat and shed living people, their oral traditions and their personal records. Besides outlining the specia..

This book examines the boat and shed living people of rural China. It takes an "historical anthropological" approach, combining research in official records with investigations among surviving boat and shed living people, their oral traditions and their personal records. Besides outlining the specia..

The Foundation of Japanese Power: Continuities, Changes, Challenges..

This important study brings together some of the best current research on Kaempfer for the first time and includes a close analysis of 6 key topics from the writing of the History to an interpretation of the interpreter himself...

When it first appeared in 1882, this book was a pioneering work in every respect. This new edition includes an Introduction and numerous footnotes, explaining the background to historical events and religious and political figures...

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Drawing on case studies from Southeast, South and Central Asia, this book undertakes the first focused examination of China ‘abroad’, presenting in-depth and grounded analyses of competing nationalisms and state-making projects. The chapters in this article originally appeared in a special issue of ..

Covers the major historical problems of China in the twentieth century, namely imperialism, nationalism, state-building, religion and the role of history from the perspective of global and regional circulations and interactions...

By considering the practice of globalisation, these essays describe changes, variations and innovations to Chinese food in many parts of the world. Reviews and broadens theories about ethnic and social identity formation...