Asian Studies

Investigates how women, religion and culture have interacted in the context of 19th and 20th century Iran...

Investigates how women, religion and culture have interacted in the context of 19th and 20th century Iran...

This text studies the impact of one of the most significant technological breakthroughs in Japan this century: the invention and adoption of word-processing technology capable of handling Japanese script...

Adopting a new approach to the subject, this book readdresses the study of language by considering the perspective on linguistic matters taken by lay speakers...

When Communist revolutionaries seized control of Mainland China in 1949, they faced enormous challenges of state and nation building. China occupied a vast territory, had a huge and poorly integrated population and suffered from a woefully backward economy. Building a Socialist Chinese state require..

Sheds new light on the importance of the diaries of Xu Xiake (1587-1641), a compulsive traveller who spent a lifetime visiting and writing about China's 'beauty spots'...

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

The first comprehensive analysis of the colonial writings of Yanaihara Tadao whose extensive commentary on Japanese and European colonial policy is remarkable not only for its scholarly integrity but also for its sheer breadth...

This book is the first detailed history of the Yeniseian peoples to appear in English, and contains a complete, up-to-date description of all existing sources of information - both published and unpublished - on the Kets and their extinct relatives...

In the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen incident, Yin Jiagi has emerged as a leading Chinese dissident and theorist of the Democracy Movement. This collection of essays documents his views on a range of subjects, crucial to China's future...

This book is the first study to engage directly with the transformations and adaptations of yoga in the modern world. It addresses the dialectic and ideological exchange between yoga's ancient precursors and modern praxis, and the development and consolidation of yoga in global settings...

First published in 1956. Arthur Waley presents here an engrossing account of the works and life of Yuan Mei (1716-1797), the best-known poet of his time...