Asian Studies

Scholars and scholar-activists promote new mappings and methodologies for studying migrant labor as they explore the lives and politics of South and Southeast Asian migrant domestic workers who move within and between multiple intersecting regions of Asia, broadly defined._x005F_x000D_ This book was..

Scholars and scholar-activists promote new mappings and methodologies for studying migrant labor as they explore the lives and politics of South and Southeast Asian migrant domestic workers who move within and between multiple intersecting regions of Asia, broadly defined._x000D_ This book was publi..

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

In an edited collection of writings the contributors to this volume consider a range of employment issues that affect migrant workers operating in Japan, China, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea and Malaysia...

This book is first of all about migration, but also covers the important related issues of ethnic identity and the construction of ethnic communities. It addresses the issues from the dual perspective of Japan and Brazil...

This volume examines the role of the military, the most influential actor in Pakistan, and challenges conventional wisdom on the causes of political instability in this geographically important nuclear state...

The case studies in this book demonstrate that in periods of high regional threat, military-industrial programmes in each state focused on maximizing the utility of available infrastructure. The products of these policies cannot be assessed by conventional means...

A study of the impact of inter-war naval arms control policy-making on the domestic politics of Japan, especially the areas of civil-military, inter-military (Army/Navy) and especially intra-military (navy) relations...

A study of the impact of inter-war naval arms control policy-making on the domestic politics of Japan, especially the areas of civil-military, inter-military (Army/Navy) and especially intra-military (navy) relations...

Thailand’s recent politics has been contentious and violent. Military coups in 2006 and 2014 marked a transition from electoral democracy to military dictatorship and the embedding of authoritarianism. This book examines this contentious politics addressing inequality, the rise of military, the mona..

Through a combination of rich architectural and ethnographic description, this study of apprenticeship and human spatial cognition provides a fascinating insight into the daily lives and activities of a professional class of craftsmen...

This book examines ‘mindfulness’ in early Buddhism, and explores its central role in early Buddhist practice and philosophy. Using textual analysis and criticism, it takes new approaches to the subject through a comparative study of Buddhist texts in Pali, Chinese and Sanskrit...