Asian Studies

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

Placing Chinese Community Party history in the realm of social history and comparative politics, this text studies the roots of the policy failures of the late Maoist period and the tenacity of the CCP...

Placing Chinese Community Party history in the realm of social history and comparative politics, this text studies the roots of the policy failures of the late Maoist period and the tenacity of the CCP...

Well-known authors use the Manchu summer capital of Chengde and associated architecture, art and ritual activity as the focus for an exploration of the importance of Inner Asia and Tibet to the Qing Empire (1636-1911)...

This collection of essays in English, German and French marks the sixth centenary of the birth of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-64), one of the most important thinkers of 15th Century Europe...

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

This book provides a history of Nikkeiren (the Japanese Federation of Managers' Organisations) and an account of post-war capitalist development in Japan...

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

Draws on a wide range of Chinese and Japanese sources to analyse the uncertain loyalties and complex internal pressures that drove Sino-Japanese interaction in prewar north China...

While foreign policy and security concerns have trumped past efforts to reform the North Korean economy, Pyongyang is implementing important economic reforms despite renewed tensions with the United States. Whether Washington can influence the debate is unclear, but a US policy of engagement could e..

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

Nova Francia is an account of the foundation of the first French colony in Acadia in 1606. The author, Lescarbot, had an inquisitive mind and and an independent outlook, it is this authorial style which gives the work its unique value...