Asian Studies

Recounts the lifelong struggle of the 19th-century pioneer environmental conservationist...

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Demonstrates how the four noble truths are used thorughout the Pali canon as a symbol of Buddha's enlightenment and as a doctrine within a larger network of Buddha's teachings...

First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Pali is one of the Middle Indian idioms and the classical language of Theravada Buddhism - and thus important both to linguists and scholars of Buddhism. The original texts collected here are selected for their important and beautiful formulation of Buddhist ideas...

Pali is one of the Middle Indian idioms and the classical language of Theravada Buddhism - and thus important both to linguists and scholars of Buddhism. The original texts collected here are selected for their important and beautiful formulation of Buddhist ideas...

This book uses historical analytical tools in order to shed light on how policymaking takes place in contemporary China. A valuable resource for students of contemporary Chinese society and for an understanding of Chinese labour reform...

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

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

The studies in this book examine traditional performance genres in the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali. They cover puppet and human theatre, dance, sung narrative, narrative temple reliefs, and vocal and instrumental music, span a period of more than a thousand years, and range over four cultura..

A user-friendly guide to Persian grammar, especially useful for those in the early stages of studying the Persian language, it serves as a revision and reference book that can be used to support any Persian course book...