Asian Studies

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Based on field-work in Taiwan, this book examines the cult of Tudi Gong both as a religio-social phenomenon and as an appropriate medium for exploring and analysing the social changes that have been occurring in contemporary Taiwan...

Based on field-work in Taiwan, this book examines the cult of Tudi Gong both as a religio-social phenomenon and as an appropriate medium for exploring and analysing the social changes that have been occurring in contemporary Taiwan...

This publication opens with the inevitable introduction, moves on to the present traditional approach to breeding for yield stability, and then enumerates a detailed discussion of the physiological approach to breeding for resistance to specific stresses...

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This book is the first comprehensive introduction to government-business relations in the East Asian region, featuring a range of distinguished scholars, with detailed case-studies focussing on Japan, China, South Korea, Malaysia and Thailand...

The authors examine the role played by political communications in a variety of media in defining and shaping identity in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and amongst overseas Chinese...

The authors examine the role played by political communications in a variety of media, in defining and shaping identity in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and amongst overseas Chinese...

The question of boundaries - physical or political - has become fertile ground in the analysis of Chinese history and society. These essays cover the early decades of the Zhou dynasty to the early centuries after the Manchu conquest...

The question of boundaries - physical or political - has become fertile ground in the analysis of Chinese history and society. These essays cover the early decades of the Zhou dynasty to the early centuries after the Manchu conquest...

This text illustrates the limits to the 1990s UNTAC peacekeeping intervention in Cambodia and demonstrates why such an approach to conflict resolution is flawed. It shows that liberal pluralism is not necessarily a reliable vehicle for change in developing societies and challenges assumptions about ..

Focusing on the prolonged period of political violence in Egypt during 1910-1925 this text analyses the circumstances that led to the violence, and examines the moods and motives that provoked it...