Regional Studies

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

First published in 1901, this volume emerged in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Manchuria. Its author had been in charge of the British Co...

Written by a team of international scholars, Sport and Nationalism in Asia - Power, Politics, and Identity is a collection of original research whi...

Chinese President Xi Jinpings One Belt, One Road (OBOR) vision, heralded as an attempt to revive the pre-modern Silk Route, is intended to strength...

Turkmenistan is a country which is almost sealed off from the rest of the world but it has attracted foreign attention due to the eccentricities of...

This book, first published in 1969, builds on the authors first selection and contains a selection of Chinese lyrics (tzu) mainly from Sung Dynasty...

This book, first published in 1935, examines the world of Chinese painting: the background, styles, audience and reception, intentions and achievem...

Twentieth century continental thinkers such as Bergson, Levinas and Jonas have brought fresh and renewed attentions to Jewish ethics, yet it still ...

This title was first published in 2001. When Ghana became independent in 1957, becoming the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to banish coloniali...

This book is devoted to a comparison of the governmental and economic institutions of north and south zones of Viet-Nam; that each zone has its own...

This book explores one of the crucial themes in postwar Japanese fiction. Through an examination of the work of a number of prominent twentieth cen...

Despite its impressive economic growth, East Asia is facing daunting challenges in mitigating its social problems, including chronic poverty and wo...

This title was first published in 2001. The global legal landscape is littered with attempts to provide context and meaning for sexual harassment l...

Religious Scholars and the Umayyads analyzes legal and theological developments during the Marwnid period (64/684--132/750), focusing on religious ...

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...

Maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia was first recognised as a global concern in 2008 after the hijackings of World Food Programme vessels. It ...

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 volume studies the outcomes of the two-way flow of investments and people between China and India, and Southeast Asia. These cross-border flow...

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 challenges existing notions of what is American and/or Asian art, moving beyond the identity issues that have dominated art-world convers...

The idea for editing this book originated during an international conference titled Regional Development: The Challenge of the Frontier, held in De...

Most African economies range from moderately advanced capitalist systems with modern banks and stock markets to peasant and pastoral subsistent sys...

A North Caucasian ethnic group that has been largely obscured in world history as a result of their expulsion from their homeland by Tsarist Russia...

Church History reveals that Christianity has its roots in Palestine during the first century and was spread throughout the Mediterranean countries ...