Asian Culture & Society

This bilingual dictionary is the very first of its kind and contains about 6,000 words of essential vocabulary for Ingush...

This book considers ways in which Uyghur urban youth identities have evolved in response to the imposition of ‘bilingual education’, and where individuals locate themselves on the various spectra of modernisation, sinicisation, re-traditionalisation and globalisation...

This book explores the concept of mixed race for people of mixed Chinese and European backgrounds, looking at how being Chinese can mean many different things in different contexts.  It looks particularly at the Chinese communities in Singapore and New Zealand, and how individuals of mixed heritage ..

This book explores the concept of mixed race for people of mixed Chinese and European backgrounds, looking at how being Chinese can mean different things in different contexts. It looks particularly at the Chinese communities in Singapore and New Zealand and how individuals of mixed heritage fit int..

This book analyses the development of international medical travel in Malaysia. It challenges embedded assumptions about the sources, directions and political value of care. The author situates the Malaysian case study material at the fruitful cross-section of a range of literatures such as internat..

The six case studies which inform this book: Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Manila, Singapore and Melbourne, offer a range of economic, socio-cultural, linguistic and religious differences, enabling the authors to provide new insights into specific issues pertaining to mobile media in each city. These incl..

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

The Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre is an advanced level reference guide which surveys the rich and diverse traditions of classical and contemporary performing arts in Asia. An international team of contributors provide authoritative overviews of dance, musicals, gender, puppetry, make up and co..

Since the 1990s there has been a increase in cultural flows and connections between the countries in the East Asian region. Uneven but multilateral exchanges of Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, and Chinese products have led to the construction of an ‘East Asian Popular Culture’. This is both influenced ..

Research on the family has expanded considerably across Asia but studies tend to be fragmented, focusing on narrow issues within limited areas (cities, towns, small communities) and may not accessible to international readers. These limitations make it difficult for researchers, university teachers,..

This Handbook is an interdisciplinary resource that focuses on contemporary Japan and the social and cultural trends that are important at the beginning of the twenty-first century...

This collection brings together cutting-edge work by established and emerging scholars focusing on key societies in the East Asian region. This wide scope enables the book to reflect on the nature of the transformations in constructions of sexuality in highly developed, developing and emerging socie..