Chinese Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Emptiness Appraised

   A Critical Study of Nagarjuna's Philosophy

   By David F. Burton

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

   Emptiness means that all entities are empty of, or lack, inherent existence - entities have a merely conceptual, constructed existence. Though Nagarjuna advocates the Middle Way, his philosophy of emptiness nevertheless entails nihilism, and his critiques of the Nyaya theory of knowledge are shown...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. Remaking Buddhism for Medieval Nepal

   The Fifteenth-Century Reformation of Newar Buddhism

   By Will Tuladhar-Douglas

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism - Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies

   Will Tuladhar-Douglas sheds new light on an important branch of Mahayana Buddhism and establishes the existence, character and causes of a renaissance of Buddhism in the fifteenth century in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. He provides the basis for the historical study of Newar Buddhism as...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
3. Human Security in East Asia

   Challenges for Collaborative Action

   Edited by Sorpong Peou

   Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

   Since the end of the Cold War the number of interstate wars has remained relatively low, although whilst states may be more secure than ever this does not mean that individual human beings are too. This has led to a growing recognition of the importance of human security, in contrast to the...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
4. Political Change in Macao

   By Shiu-Hing Lo

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Since the handover to the People's Republic of China in 1999 Macao has undergone a multi-faceted transformation marked by persistent bureaucratic reforms, changing patterns and modes of political participation, internationalization and modernization, and competition and coordination with Macao’s...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
5. Education Reform and Education Policy in East Asia

   By Ka-ho Mok

   Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

   This book assesses the impact of globalization on the education systems of key East Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, Japan, and the "tiger economies" of South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, examining how the increasingly interdependent economic system has driven policy change...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
6. International Human Resource Management in Chinese Multinationals

   Edited by Jie Shen, Vincent Edwards

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   The authors explore the degree to which Chinese multinationals have a distinctive 'Chinese' approach to human resource management, in the same way as large Japanese companies are widely regarded as having a special Japanese approach. Based on extensive original research in the subsidiaries of...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
7. Refashioning Pop Music in Asia

   Cosmopolitan Flows, Political Tempos, and Aesthetic Industries

   Edited by Allen Chun, Ned Rossiter, Brian Shoesmith

   Series: ConsumAsian Series

   Examining the cultural, political, economic, technological and institutional aspects of popular music throughout Asia, this book is the first comprehensive analysis of Asian popular music and its cultural industries. Concentrating on the development of popular culture in its local socio-political...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
8. State and Laid-Off Workers in Reform China

   The Silence and Collective Action of the Retrenched

   By Yongshun Cai

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   In the 1990s, the Chinese government launched an unprecedented reform of state enterprises, putting tens of millions of people out of work. This empirically rich study calls on comprehensive surveys and interviews, combining quantitative data with qualitative in its examination of the variation in...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
9. Governments and Markets in East Asia

   The Politics of Economic Crises

   By Jungug Choi

   Series: Routledge Malaysian Studies Series

   Governments and Markets in East Asia examines the relationship between economic performance, elite co-operation, and political regime stability in the context of the Asian crisis, and argues that economic crisis is not the cause of greater political harmony or discord, but rather that it...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
10. The Origins of Himalayan Studies

    Brian Houghton Hodgson in Nepal and Darjeeling

    By David Waterhouse

    Series: Royal Asiatic Society Books

    Brian Hodgson lived in Nepal from 1820 to 1843 during which time he wrote and publisged extensively on Nepalese culture, religion, natural history, architecture, ethnography and linguistics. Contributors from leading historians of Nepal and South Asia and from specialists in Buddhist studies, art...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge