Regional Studies

This book examines the agrarian labor genre paintings based on the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving that were commissioned by successive Chinese emp...

This title was first published in 2003.This book analyzes the policy initiatives used in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United...

Title first publishedin 2003. This comprehensive book focuses on the prevailing conditions in Asia and Africa under various macroeconomic and secto...

This title was first published in 2001: Despite considerable expansion, the scholarly literature on political corruption has remained fragmentary, ...

This title was first published in 2001: During the last twenty years government rhetoric in the UK has increasingly advocated that statutory health...

For centuries, democracy and development have steered the imagination of governments, citizens, intelligentsia and policymakers alike. Democracy wi...

Britain and France were surprised at having to convince the US of the need to intervene in Libya in 2011. The French intervention in Mali in 2013 c...

The phenomenal growth and liberalisation of the Indian economy has been the subject of extensive scholarly documentation and competing interpretati...

Britain and France were surprised at having to convince the US of the need to intervene in Libya in 2011. The French intervention in Mali in 2013 c...

This book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally.The edited volume builds on recen...

First published in 1995. The author presents this book as a tale of a small and distinct country and an account for its struggle for self-preservat...

This book provides a history of Nikkeiren (the Japanese Federation of Managers' Organisations) and an account of post-war capitalist development in...

The fields of entrepreneurship, innovation and regional development are inextricably linked, with people, organisations and the environment or thei...

In South Asia goddesses are conceptualized and worshipped in a fascinatingrange of forms from cosmic beings to bacterial manifestations, from huma...

This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the archit...

This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the archit...

This book considers a wide range of key developments and key areas of debate in Chinas education system. Marketization, quality assurance, and issu...

This book investigates the manner in which the Quran and sunna depict female personalities in their narrative literature.Providing a comprehensive ...

First published in 1975, this book is concerned with the facts and implications of the case of Lin Piao and his army, as well as with the broader q...

The year 1986 marked the tenth anniversary of the death of Mao Zedong and the fall of the Gang of Four. A decade after the end of the Cultural Revo...

This is the first comprehensive English-language study of East Asian art history in a transnational context, and challenges the existing geographic...

This book attempts to illuminate some of the trends and conditions in China just prior to, and at the time of, the Communist takeover. It deals wit...

This title was first published in 2000: A comparative analysis of market transformation in Poland, Belarus and the Baltic states with particular em...

This book is focused on the street-naming politics, policies and practices that have been shaping and reshaping the semantic, textual and visual en...