Asian Studies

Explores the nature and function of bhakti or devotional involvement in religious practice in India in areas where it is seldom sought or where its existence has been doubted or even denied...

First published in 1973, this book describes the career of Sir George Macartney, who spent twenty-eight years at the turn of the nineteenth century as British representative in Sinkiang, China's most westerly province...

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Now in paperback, this perceptive psychological portrait of Clinton and his presidency investigates whether Clinton has demonstrated the necessary qualities of judgment, vision, character and skill, as well as his ambition and extreme self-confidence. Renshon traces the development of Clinton's char..

First Published in 1974. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Looks at the wide range of contrasting images of the gay male body in Japanese popular culture, both mainstream and gay, and relates these images to the experience of an interview sample of Japanese gay men...

Several studies already exist of the nature and extent of Malaysia's Islamic judicial system but these have largely ignored the actual operation of the syariah courts and related institutions. This need is addressed with an in-depth analysis of the key area of intra-family conflict...

This book revisits the broad theoretical literature on "policy transfer" and provides empirical examples to explore the spread of ideas, social policies and programmes across Asia from varying analytical and methodological perspectives. The chapters originally published as a special issue in the Jou..

During the Japanese 'bubble' economy of the 1980's, the youth of Japan began to exert influence on Japanese culture through their spirited patronage of certain art forms previously deemed subcultural or avant-garde. Among these were manga (Japanese comics or animation) and shogekijo (Japanese little..

This book, the result of extensive research on declassified documents at the Chinese Foreign Ministry, and on numerous other new Chinese materials, sheds new light on the events surrounding the Sino-Soviet split and makes significant contributions to the debate...

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...