Asian Studies

First Published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

_x005F_x000D_ Using systematic survey data analysis and case studies to examine and compare the emerging middle classes in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and Urban China, this book explores whether the middle classes in these countries possess any uniquely ‘Chinese’ features, or if these are shared attrib..

Provides conceptual insights that put the reader in a position to come to grips intellectually with the complex weave of Chinese nationalist sentiment today and in the future...

This text argues that prejudice against the 'Jews' is not only a western phenomenon, but also exists in Eastern countries such as China, where representations of 'Jews' and Judaism are very complex...

First published in 1946. Here in one volume is a collection of Arthur Waley's translations of Chinese poetry...

First published in 1946. Here in one volume is a collection of Arthur Waley's translations of Chinese poetry...

Case studies feature organisational, community, religious, and other arenas of Chinese activity and identity definition, and the book analyses the interplay of local, regional, global and transnational networks and identities...

This book examines China's relationship to Japan from a number of viewpoints to reveal the history and future of this complex and crucial relationship...

Addresses the nature of the influence of the European Enlightenment on the beliefs and practice of the Protestant missionaries who went to Asia and Africa from the mid-eighteenth century onwards...

Considering Christianity’s growing prominence, and the various ways Asian nation states respond to this growth, this book examines how Christians in Asia express their religion under the spectre of the nation state and processes of globalization, bringing into sharper analytical focus the ways in wh..

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Covering the period up to 1500 CE and the geographical areas of Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia, India, Central and SE Asia, China and Japan, this book takes examines the outward development of the Church in these areas as well as the inner, theological issues...