Asian Studies

Contributors involved in teaching Asia at the undergraduate level place the development of Asian studies programmes in historical context, making a case for their inclusion in the liberal arts curriculum. They consider the challenges faced in developing and sustaining Asian studies programmes...

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Featuring contributions from distinguished groups of international academic experts, this book is essential reading for all those interested in political and economic developments in the Asia Pacific...

Featuring contributions from distinguished groups of international academic experts, this book is essential reading for all those interested in political and economic developments in the Asia Pacific...

Adopting a comparative perspective, this book traces the social, political, economic and cultural conditions under which environmental movements have emerged, and assesses the transformative capacities of these movements...

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

In this pioneering study of the development of the Asian department store, economists, anthropologists and historians examine various aspects of retailing, business organization, networking and consumerism in the expanding economies of Asia...

By documenting, analysing and interpreting the transformations in the local diets of Asian peoples within the last hundred years, this volume tries to pinpoint the consequences of the tension between homogenisation and cultural heterogenisation...

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This is a thoroughly researched volume, edited by key specialists in the field, along with an impressive team of contributors, that surveys the nature and extent of informal home work in Asia; examining and arguing for protection of the workers who are exploited...