Asian Studies

Addresses the manifestation of Islam in the particular context of Sudanese society; the politicisation / repoliticisation of Islam and the Islamicisation of politics; and the mechanisms that influence the rise of a specific Islamicist force or enhance calls for Islamicisation...

Based on extensive field work and in-depth interviews in Kazakhstan, this book provides a comprehensive study of the issues of politics of oil and state-business relationships in Kazakhstan. It examines the ways in which the post-Soviet Kazakh regime has managed to sustain itself in power, and the r..

Drawing upon released documents, memoirs and party-history works, the process and impact of the political campaigns in China between 1950 and 1965 is documented. Complete with extensive interviews with Chinese scholars and former officials, the book reviews the findings of the first edition...

This is the first book in English to examine the tangled web of relationships linking newspaper owners, editors and reporters, with leading politicians and power-holders...

An investigation of the rise and fall of Gao Gang, suggesting broader implications on the nature of elite politics in the Maoist era. Basic issues of Chinese politics, including the role of Mao Zedong, are discussed...

An investigation of the rise and fall of Gao Gang, suggesting broader implications on the nature of elite politics in the Maoist era. Basic issues of Chinese politics, including the role of Mao Zedong, are discussed...

This title was first published in 1992: Compares stability and change in the political culture of the relatively new Asian democracy Japan and the much older Western democracy Britain. By analyzing long-term trends and recent changes in political attitudes, the authors seek to provide a unique persp..

This volume provides an introduction to the politics of the five key southeast Asian states - Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines - and is intended as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students...

An analysis of the Chinese Communist Party from the time of Deng Xiaoping's return to power in 1978 to his resignation from his last major post in the wake of the Tiananmen crisis, tracing the evolution of Deng's programme to modernize China by the year 2000...

This study presents insightful research into a hotly debated topic- have human rights become relative? As such, it will be a thought-provoking resource for students of human rights, politics and international relations...

At the time of India's independence the Anglo-Indians outnumbered all British residents. Yet there has been little historical attention to the development of this mixed-race community, the problems which it faced and the questions which its rise posed to British authority...

This volume examines the relations between popular culture production and export and the state in East and Southeast Asia including the urban centres and middle-classes of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Thailand, and the Philippines...