Asian Studies

Chuang Tzu was to Lao Tzu, the author of Tao Tê Ching, as Hui-neng, the sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism, was to Bodhidharma, and in some respects St.Paul to Jesus; he expanded the original teaching into a system and was thus the founder of Tao-ism...

Since the 18th century Kanadehon Chushingura has been one of the most popular bunraku and kabuki plays. This fascinating study explores the full spectrum of ukiyo-e (floating world) representations of the Chushingura story...

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

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

The concept of "civil society" was borrowed from 18th-century Europe to provide a framework for understanding the transition to post-authoritarian regimes in Latin America and post-communist regimes elsewhere. This book asks whether this concept is useful for analyzing China...

The concept of "civil society" was borrowed from 18th-century Europe to provide a framework for understanding the transition to post-authoritarian regimes in Latin America and post-communist regimes elsewhere. This book asks whether this concept is useful for analyzing China...

The text examines the changing historical discourses of social differentiation and distinction in one of the most ethnically and politically complex regions of the world, issues covered include cultural pluralism, nationalism and ethnic dispersal..

This single volume provides an account of the first rebirth of a national literature in the national language, tracing the course of classical Persian literature's development and full maturity from the beginning of the 9th century to the end of the 15th century...

Carmen Blacker's writings on Japan focus on religion, myth and folklore...

This text explores the functioning of commercial networks in Asia, from the mid-19th century when transport and communications revolutions began to change those networks to the 1930s...

This book examines instances in Southeast and East Asian countries where communitarianism is both articulated as national ideology and embedded as the ethos of social life...

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