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

Language Learning

  1. The Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Traditional Level 1 Bundle

    The Routledge Course in Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study. Designed to build a strong foundation in both the spoken and written language it develops all the basic skills such as pronunciation, character writing, word use...

    Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge

  2. The Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Simplified Level 1 Bundle

    By Claudia Ross, Baozhang He, Pei-Chia Chen, Meng Yeh

    The Routledge Course in Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study. Designed to build a strong foundation in both the spoken and written language it develops all the basic skills such as pronunciation, character writing, word use...

    Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge

  3. Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Level 2 Traditional Bundle

    The Routledge Course in Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study. Designed to build a strong foundation in both the spoken and written language it develops all the basic skills such as pronunciation, character writing, word...

    Published February 6th 2012 by Routledge

  4. The Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese Level 2 Simplified Bundle

    The Routledge Course in Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study. Designed to build a strong foundation in both the spoken and written language it develops all the basic skills such as pronunciation, character writing, word use and...

    Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge

  5. The Routledge Course in Business Chinese

    By Qinghai Chen, Le Tang, Qiuli Zhao

    The Routledge Course in Business Chinese has been specifically designed for students in the fourth year of language learning or above who wish to progress their language training and prepare to tackle real-life business situations confidently and effectively. Designed to prepare students for the...

    Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge

  6. The Routledge Intermediate Hindi Reader

    By Naresh Sharma, Tej K. Bhatia

    Series: Routledge Modern Language Readers

    The Routledge Intermediate Hindi Reader has been specially designed for intermediate and advanced learners of Hindi and comprises a broad selection of graded readings. The materials have been carefully selected to ensure that students receive exposure to a wide variety of authentic Hindi texts,...

    To Be Published November 25th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Colloquial Gujarati

    The Complete Course for Beginners, 2nd Edition

    By Jagdish Dave

    Series: Colloquial Series

    Colloquial Gujarati provides a step-by-step course in Gujarati as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Gujarati in a broad range...

    Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge

  8. Intermediate Japanese

    A Grammar and Workbook

    By Takae Tsujioka, Shoko Hamano

    Series: Grammar Workbooks

    Intermediate Japanese is designed for learners who have achieved a basic proficiency and wish to progress to more complex language. Each unit combines clear, concise grammar explanations with examples and exercises to help build confidence and fluency. The book is divided into two parts. Part...

    Published February 14th 2012 by Routledge

  9. Japanese: A Comprehensive Grammar

    2nd Edition

    By Stefan Kaiser, Yasuko Ichikawa, Noriko Kobayashi, Hilofumi Yamamoto

    Series: Routledge Comprehensive Grammars

    Japanese: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to modern Japanese grammar. Accessible and systematic, it explores the complexities of the language thoroughly, filling many gaps left by other textbooks. Clear grammar points are put in context using examples from a range of...

    Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge

  10. A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese

    By Yukio Tono, Makoto Yamazaki, Kikuo Maekawa

    Series: Routledge Frequency Dictionaries

    A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese is an invaluable tool for all learners of Japanese, providing a list of the 5,000 most commonly used words in the language. Based on a100 million word corpus, composed of spoken, fiction, non-fiction and news texts in current use, the dictionary provides the...

    Published January 21st 2013 by Routledge

  11. Colloquial Panjabi

    The Complete Course for Beginners, 2nd Edition

    By Mangat Rai Bhardwaj

    Series: Colloquial Series

    COLLOQUIAL PANJABI is easy to use and completely up to date! Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Panjabi. No prior knowledge of the language is required. What makes COLLOQUIAL PANJABI your best...

    Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge

  12. Colloquial Urdu

    The Complete Course for Beginners, 2nd Edition

    By Tej K Bhatia, Ashok Koul

    Series: Colloquial Series

    Colloquial Urdu provides a step-by-step course in Urdu as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Urdu in a broad range of...

    To Be Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge

  13. Reading in Asian Languages

    Making Sense of Written Texts in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

    Edited by Kenneth S. Goodman, Shaomei Wang, Mieko Iventosch, Yetta M. Goodman

    Reading in Asian Languages is rich with information about how literacy works in the non-alphabetic writing systems (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) used by hundreds of millions of people and refutes the common Western belief that such systems are hard to learn or to use. The contributors share a...

    Published November 21st 2011 by Routledge

  14. Language Planning in Primary Schools in Asia

    Edited by Richard Baldauf, Robert Kaplan, Knonko Kamwangamalu, Pauline Bryant

    In foreign language education, decisions must be taken on what languages to teach, who will teach them, in which schools (i.e. all, only urban, only rural), in which grades, the number of hours a week, and the cost involved. This book explores the answers to these questions across a number of Asian...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge

  15. Primary School English-Language Education in Asia

    From Policy to Practice

    Edited by Bernard Spolsky, Young-in Moon

    Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education

    In Asia, English is no longer a foreign language but a key resource for education, government, business and the general public. Whereas thirty years ago, British and American experts believed that the best way to improve the quality of English teaching was to cancel any programs below the secondary...

    Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge

  16. English Language Pedagogies for a Northeast Asian Context

    Developing and Contextually Framing the Transition Theory

    By Michael Hadzantonis

    Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

    This book investigates, from a sociocultural, linguistic, and pedagogical perspective, the conceptual and pragmatic frameworks that characterize secondary language learning in a Northeast Asian context. Hadzantonis contextualizes these salient domains through an engagement with social and cultural...

    Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge

  17. Urban Schools and English Language Education in Late Modern China

    A Critical Sociolinguistic Ethnography

    By Miguel Pérez-Milans

    Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

    This book explores the meaning of modernization in contemporary Chinese education. It examines the implications of the implementation of reforms in English language education for experimental-urban schools in the People’s Republic of China. Pérez-Milans sheds light on how national, linguistic, and...

    Published April 15th 2013 by Routledge