Regional Studies

The global financial crisis of 2007-09, and the Great Recession that it engendered, were both a challenge and an opportunity for Asia. The region n...

Few territories are as hotly contested as the western Pacific Ocean. Across the 1.5 million square mile expanse of the East and South China Sea, si...

Around 100 of the most beautiful prints from the heyday of Japanese woodblock printing are shown in this first publication featuring a previously l...

This book is concerned with the history of tourism at the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station at Healesville, northeast of Melbourne, which functioned as...

The movement of goods and passengers between port cities not only stimulates growth in coastal trading networks and centers but also inevitably cha...

During the early communist period of the 1950s, temple fairs in China were both suppressed and secularized. Temples were closed down by the secular...

Joint Winner of the Carole Pateman Gender and Politics Book Prize 2023https://auspsa.org.au/prizes-and-awards/carole-pateman-gender-and-politics-bo...

The essays and artworks gathered in this volume examine the visual manifestations of postcolonial struggles in art in East and Southeast Asia, as t...

By 2100, more than 80 per cent of the worlds population is expected to live in Afrasia (Africa and Asia). This book draws lessons from history, pro...

The essays and artworks gathered in this volume examine the visual manifestations of postcolonial struggles in art in East and Southeast Asia, as t...

The rise of Spatial Humanities has spurred a digital revolution in the field of Chinese studies, especially in the study of religion. Based on year...

The interface of public health and federalism are increasingly gaining scholarly attention in the fields of comparative federalism and welfare stat...

This book explores the implementation of the EU climate goals at the local and regional level. It sheds new light on local energy transition from a...

This book addresses the multiple repercussions of South Africas democratic transition beginning in 1994 by examining a number of themes with local,...

This book portrays India as a representative of post-colonial democratic republic states with a parliamentary form of federal-structured government...

The Middle East in Modern World History examines how global trends over the last 200 years have shaped the Middle East and how these trends were af...

Made in Taiwan: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Taiwanese...

This pioneering study examines the opening up of the People's Republic of China to foreign trade and investment, starting from its bold inception i...

This book presents a collection of papers having a common theme in the question of modernity and mass culture. Two papers discuss aspects of this t...

There is much speculation about whether democracy is still advancing around the world and the influence that leading authoritarian or semi-authorit...

This monograph offers a comprehensive overview of diverse quantization phenomena in layered materials, covering current mainstream experimental and...

This book is regarded as a personal manifesto, a statement through the history of partition and its aftermath, of the values which India's Muslims ...