Asian Studies

Made accessible to an English-speaking readership for the first time, this study of the sacred Sanskrit text explores how earlier tantric yogic techniques were developed and mutated into the practices of hathayoga...

Describes the changes in society over 600 years as Lan Xang was gradually dismembered and became a French colony...

Through analysis of the social environment as well as their actions, this study reveals the complexity of early 20th century Korea's drive towards modernization...

The Koreas is a crisp, engaging primer of Korea and the Korean people in the contemporary world. This book is ideal for many courses in a variety of disciplines, including politics, history, international business, and Asian studies...

In Kwangju, South Korea, in 1980 a student uprising ended in the brutal suppression and massacre of protestors, an event burned into the minds of all South Koreans. This text presents original South Korean accounts of the incident, along with the reports of Western journalists who witnessed events...

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

A revised edition with a new preface of this important work, previously available only in hardback. Screech goes to the core of later eighteenth century thought through popular objects, using sources wholly unstudied since their writing...

First published in 1949 this book gives the biographical background to the many poems of Po Chü-I (A.D 772-846) and traces the connection between his literary career and the disturbed political life of the time...

First published in 1949 this book gives the biographical background to the many poems of Po Chü-I (A.D 772-846) and traces the connection between his literary career and the disturbed political life of the time...

This unique biography of Alimqul Amir-i Lashkar, commander-in-chief of the Kokand army in 1863-1865 is devoted to the history of the Kokand khanate, a state that played a great role in Central Asian history in the 18th and 19th centuries...

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

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