Regional Studies

This book explores the historical interactions between Beijing and the West before the Opium War. It focuses on the experiences of Western travelle...

This book explores the historical interactions between Beijing and the West before the Opium War. It focuses on the experiences of Western travelle...

The vast and ancient topic of kingship in India has mostly been studied from the perspectives of rulers and other elites. But what constitutes sove...

The vast and ancient topic of kingship in India has mostly been studied from the perspectives of rulers and other elites. But what constitutes sove...

This book presents 120 real-life case-studies collected from indigenous as well as multinational organizations operating in India in 18 different i...

This book presents 120 real-life case-studies collected from indigenous as well as multinational organizations operating in India in 18 different i...

A translocal ethnography about Tajik migrants engagement in projects of reform Islamic life in Dubai, the book maps Gulf migration onto larger geog...

This book offers the first systematic theorisation of transnational public spheres from non-Western, spatial, and infrastructural perspectives.The ...

This book guides teachers, teacher educators and pre-service student teachers on how grammar can be used as a pedagogical tool for meaning-making. ...

This book guides teachers, teacher educators and pre-service student teachers on how grammar can be used as a pedagogical tool for meaning-making. ...

Auf der Grundlage neu entdeckter Dokumente wird die Biographie des aus einer Converso-Familie stammenden Kabbalisten Abraham Cohen de Herrera alias...

This book focuses on the impact of COVID-19 on Latino/a/e/x students, families, and communities across the educational continuum to better understa...

This book looks at the constitutional and regulatory frameworks of loan and debt recovery laws and legislations. It explores different aspects of t...

Is the Kuomintang - the nationalist party of China - the villain it is sometimes portrayed to be? Or is it the embodiment of the political and mora...

This book examines and explains changes in Chinese health care policy during the 1949-1977 period. It is concerned with analyzing the reasons for p...

An array of case studies exploring evolving tax policy and economic development in Pacific Asian countries.

There has been a tendency to neglect the political life of Asia, in favour of religious and aesthetic considerations. The myth of the changeless Ea...

Host country to the 1988 Olympic Games, the Republic of Korea (South Korea) became prominent in world affairs but surprisingly little was known abo...

In the early 1980s, biotechnology caused worldwide excitement as a high technology with almost unlimited potential in science, medicine, and indust...

First published in 1929, Before the Bluestockings is a study of the individual lives and the position of educated Englishwomen from the Restoration...

Most writing on modern China dwells on those aspects which are new to China since the Communist takeover, stressing above all politics, Marxism, ec...

Rival communities of the faithful are not in the habit of reading each others books, and when they do so, it is often to find fault and disparage. ...

While most attention is given to the booming mega-cities in China and the associated problems of over-population, the rural areas in China are bein...

In 1587, Ab al-Fazl ibn Mubrak a favourite at the Mughal court and author of the Akbarnmah completed his Preface to the Persian translation of th...