Asian Studies Catalog 2012

New Titles and Key Backlist

Routledge is proud to publish the biggest and broadest range of Asian Studies titles in the academic market. Our comprehensive list consists of high quality research monographs, key textbooks, supplementary reading and reference works across all disciplines throughout the humanities and social sciences, and spanning the entire Asian region.

Contacts

Editorial Inquiries

  1. Stephanie Rogers
    Publisher, East Asia

  2. Dorothea Schaefter
    Senior Editor, Central, South and Southeast Asia

  3. Leanne Hinves
    Editor, Textbooks

  4. Peter Sowden
    Editor, Russia & East Europe

Other Inquiries

Southeast Asia: Religion & Philosophy

  1. Engendering the Buddhist State

    Reconstructions of Cambodian History

    By Ashley Thompson

    Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

    Drawing from more than a decade of field and archival research, this monograph concerns Cambodian history and historiography, with an ultimate aim to broadening and deepening bases for understanding the Cambodian Theravadin politico-cultural complex. The book takes the form of an interdisciplinary...

    To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge

  2. Revolutionaries and Reformers in Lao Buddhism

    By Patrice Ladwig

    Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

    Laos remains one of the few officially socialist countries in the world. Once a Buddhist kingdom, its involvement into the Vietnam War, the communist revolution of 1975 and the subsequent introduction of reformed socialism have deeply affected Buddhism, the religion of the ethnic majority. With a...

    To Be Published February 27th 2014 by Routledge