Regional Studies

The remarkably creative life of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) has long been an area of scholarly enquiry. Yet, surprisingly, his role as the foun...

The Works of Lin Yutang is the first book to provide a comprehensive study of Lin Yutangs translation theory and translated (and written) works in ...

This book examines the processes of transition from authoritarian rule in Tunisia and Egypt between 2011 and 2014, arguing that differences between...

With the methodology of eye-tracking experiments, in-depth interviews, and large-scale questionnaires across cities, this book provides a panoramic...

Using the analogy of an orchestra, the book looks at the ways in which the Party-state conducts communications in China.Rather than treating Chinas...

This book explores the growth and operations of the Japanese restaurant in Australia since the early 2000s from perspectives of both restaurant wor...

This book studies the intersection of language and social privilege in education in India. Drawing on rich ethnographic detail and primary data, it...

For more than 40 years, researchers have explored the utility of Bourdieus sociology for settings beyond the French and Algerian contexts of its or...

This book traces developments in design education in India and shows the continuing impact of the Bauhaus School of design education, which formed ...

This book examines the complexities of womens lives in Africa and the transnational spaces of Europe and North America through the literary works o...

This book is about the soul of the city, embodied in its spaces and people. It traces dynamics in inner city neighbourhoods of South Africas post-a...

Adopting a critical political economy perspective this book sheds new light on the social and political struggles that shaped the political dynamic...

This book examines the phenomenal growth over recent years of StarTimes, a Chinese pay-TV company with around 30 million subscribers providing sate...

This volume is a theoretically informed comparative analysis of the telecommunications and information policy-making process in two major developin...

This book explores how histories of migration, cultural encounter and transculturation have shaped formations of urban space, domestic architecture...

This book explores the intersection of gender, digitalization, and resilience in international development. Building resilience is increasingly see...

This book presents the economic history of the English East India Companys trade as it functioned from Madras (Chennai) during the second half of t...

This book is an unconventional articulation of the political thinking in India in a refreshingly creative manner in more than one way. Empirically,...

This book argues that a major part of the Chinese governments road map, formulated in 2017, to modernise China comprehensively by 2049 is the proce...

This book provides a ground-breaking assessment of the Israeli national security experience from the establishment of the country through to the pr...

This is the first scholarly attempt to write a history of cyber literary criticism in China. The author uses the Internet as the departure point, l...

As the second volume of a two-volume set on the Chinese economic history, this book investigates Chinese economic development since 1949, uncoverin...

This book analyses credit crisis issues in China from the aspect of individuals, enterprises, and government through investigations of six Chinese ...

The theory of interventionism of the Austrian School of Economics explains the successes and failures of the transformation processes in Central an...