Regional Studies

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...

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 ...