Articles in the General Interest category
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Clouds above the Hill is one of the best-selling novels ever in Japan, and is now translated into English for the first time.
It's an exciting, human portrait of a modernizing Japan going to war and thereby staking its very existence on a desperate bid for glory in East Asia.
Raja Harishchandra, Indian cinema's first silent movie, was released on 3 May 1913. Since then, Indian films (including Bollywood productions) have become a global phenomenon. To coincide with this birthday Routledge have published the Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas.
Given that the EU and Japan have this week begun first-round negotiations towards a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), EU-Japan Relations (by Jörn Keck, Dimitri Vanoverbeke and Franz Waldenberger) is particularly relevant as it presents a comprehensive overview of EU-Japan relations from 1970 to the present, discussing the factors on both sides which motivate the relationship, including Japan’s concern to secure markets for its advanced industrial products, and the factors motivating current negotiations for a deeper and more comprehensive economic and cooperative partnership.
This Sunday sees the beginning of The Lunar New Year: the Year of the Snake. New Year is the most important annual vacation for many Asian countries. Global Times reporter Lu Yun asks people in the streets about their celebration plans.
Why not browse our Contemporary China series to find out more about Chinese traditions?
Policymakers and political leaders in Singapore speak oftentimes about “mindsets” and the need to change them before policies can follow. They speak oftentimes, too, of existing “values” and “traditions” that policies must respect and speak to. This is an incomplete view of the relationship between policy and culture that overlooks and under-examines the influence of policy on culture.
The author of Neoliberal Morality in Singapore discusses the unintended consequences of policymaking in an article for the Singapore TODAY.
Author of Explaining Pakistan’s Foreign Policy: Escaping India talks about the escalation of tensions over the latest incident on the Line of Control and the future of India-Pakistan relations.
Asian films are now widely distributed and popular with western audiences. In response to this increasingly global audience, Routledge has recently published several new books that address the history, censorship problems and cultural variations of Asian cinema.
China Real Time (Wall Street Journal) recently interviewed Tim Wright to discuss the challenges facing China’s coal industry — from safety to corruption to power shortages — and how long the country can count on its stores of coal to fuel its fast-burning economy.
Our South Asian Studies: New Titles and Key Backlist 2012 catalog is now available to browse online.
In recent years, we have significantly expanded our program on South Asian Studies, and we are pleased to be able to offer you high quality research monographs, key textbooks, supplementary readings, handbooks and reference works across all disciplines throughout the humanities and social sciences on South Asia.
Prof. Ruth Taplin most recently published Mental Health Care in Japan with Routledge in 2012 and published Intellectual Property, Innovation and Management in Emerging Economies in 2010. Forthcoming in 2013 is Intellectual Property Valuation - Towards Global Harmonization. One of Routledge's most active authors, with a whole showcase of titles.
