Asian Studies Catalog 2012

Routledge Handbook of Heritage in Asia

Edited by Patrick Daly, Tim Winter

This Handbook is the first major volume to examine the conservation of Asia’s culture and nature in relation to the wider social, political and economic forces shaping the region today. Throughout Asia rapid economic and social change means the region’s heritage is at once under threat and...

Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge

Transnational Migration, Media and Identity of Asian Women

Diasporic Daughters

By Youna Kim

Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

This book explores the unstudied nature of diaspora among young Korean, Japanese and Chinese women living and studying in the West. Why do women move? What are the actual conditions of their transnational lives? How do they make sense of their transnational lives through the experience of the media...

Published September 19th 2011 by Routledge

Hindi Cinema

Repeating the Subject

By Nandini Bhattacharya

Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes, narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and formal code that is problematic when representing the national and cinematic subject. It reflects on the...

Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge

The Asian Cinema Experience

Styles, Spaces, Theory

By Stephen Teo

Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

This book explores the range and dynamism of contemporary Asian cinemas, covering East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia), South Asia (Bollywood), and West Asia (Iran), in order to discover what is common about them and to engender a...

Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge

The Emergent Knowledge Society and the Future of Higher Education

Asian Perspectives

Edited by Deane E. Neubauer

Series: Comparative Development and Policy in Asia

The nature of higher education is by no means fixed: it has evolved over time; different models of higher education co-exist alongside each other at present; and, worldwide, there are demands for higher education to change to better help support economic growth and to better fit chagning social and...

Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge

Active Aging in Asia

Edited by Alan Walker, Christian Aspalter

Series: Routledge Studies in Social Welfare in Asia

East Asian societies are changing fast and one of the most important aspects of societal change is the aging of society. 'Active aging' is one of the few concepts available today to effectively address the problems arising from a highly-aged and, particularly in East Asia, fast-aging society,...

To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge

Asian Popular Culture in Transition

Edited by John A Lent, Lorna Fitzsimmons

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

Asian Popular Culture in Transition examines contemporary consumption practices in South Korea, China, India, and Japan, and both updates and extends popular culture studies of the region. Through an interdisciplinary lens, this collection of essays explores how recent advances and shifts in...

Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge

The Dynamics of Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Asia

Edited by Amrita Daniere, Hy Van Luong

Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

The purpose of this volume is to highlight the impacts on civic engagement of social capital, and its various component parts (trust, norms, networks and associations), in diverse parts of Asia. Addressing the pressing need for improved governance within the spatial, political and cultural...

Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge

Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific

Histories of Responses to Non-Communicable and Communicable Diseases

Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Kerrie L. MacPherson

Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

Chronic diseases—cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes—are not only the principal cause of world-wide mortality but also are now responsible for a striking increase in the percentage of sickness in developing countries still grappling with the acute problems of...

Published September 3rd 2012 by Routledge

Online@AsiaPacific

Mobile, Social and Locative Media in the Asia–Pacific

By Larissa Hjorth, Michael Arnold

Series: Asia's Transformations/Asia.com

Media across the Asia-Pacific region are at once social, locative and mobile. Social in that these media facilitate public and interpersonal interaction, locative in that this social communication is geographically placed, and mobile in so much as the media is ever-present. The Asia–Pacific region...

Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge

Asian American Feminisms

Edited by Leslie Bow

Co-published by Routledge and Edition SynapseEspecially since the postwar women’s and civil rights movements, there has been an explosion of interest in race and gender in the United States. Writing by and about Asian American women has kept pace with the emergence of serious scholarship concerned...

Published August 16th 2012 by Routledge

Asian American Literature

Edited by David Leiwei Li

Co-published by Routledge and Edition SynapseAmerican writers whose provenance lies in Asia have been producing and publishing work of interest and distinction for well over a century. However, in recent decades there has been an exponential growth in their output, and much Asian-American...

Published May 27th 2012 by Routledge

Shakespearean Adaptations in East Asia

A Critical Anthology of Shakespearean Plays in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan

Edited by Ryuta Minami

Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse. The last decade has witnessed a rapid increase in serious research on ‘Shakespeare in Asia’, yet most readers of the many new monographs and journal articles on the subject have hitherto not enjoyed access to the plays discussed because they have not...

To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge

Sport Across Asia

Politics, Cultures, and Identities

Edited by Katrin Bromber, Birgit Krawietz, Joseph Maguire

Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

This book is designed to reflect both our current knowledge regarding sport, globalisation and ‘"encounters" with several important "post-colonial" or non-western societies and to draw together scholars from a range of different disciplines. Case studies of cultural encounters in Central,...

Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge

Globalization from Below

The World's Other Economy

Edited by Gordon Mathews, Gustavo Lins Ribeiro, Carlos Alba Vega

This book explores globalization as actually experienced by most of the world’s people, buying goods from street vendors brought by traders moving past borders and across continents under the radar of the law. The dimensions and practices of ‘globalization from below’ are depicted and analyzed in...

Published July 29th 2012 by Routledge

Migration and New Media

Transnational Families and Polymedia

By Mirca Madianou, Daniel Miller

How do parents and children care for each other when they are separated because of migration? The way in which transnational families maintain long-distance relationships has been revolutionised by the emergence of new media such as email, instant messaging, social networking sites, webcam and...

Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge

Exceptionality in East Asia

Explorations in the Actiotope Model of Giftedness

Edited by Shane N. Phillipson, Heidrun Stoeger, Albert Ziegler

The continual successes of students from East-Asia are confirmed in a variety of international tests of academic achievement and yet, despite this attainment, many scholars have realised that a substantial proportion of these students are also underachieving. Using the actiotope model of...

Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge

Subjectivity in Asian Children’s Literature and Film

Global Theories and Implications

Edited by John Stephens

Series: Children's Literature and Culture

This volume establishes a dialogue between East and West in children’s literature scholarship. In all cultures, children’s literature shows a concern to depict identity and individual development, so that character and theme pivot on questions of agency and the circumstances that frame an...

Published September 16th 2012 by Routledge

Black and Asian Theatre In Britain

A History

By Colin Chambers

Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an unprecedented study tracing the history of ‘the Other’ through the ages in British theatre. The diverse and often contradictory aspects of this history are expertly drawn together to provide a detailed background to the work of African, Asian, and Caribbean...

Published April 26th 2011 by Routledge

The Cultural Politics of Talent Migration in East Asia

Edited by Brenda Yeoh, Shirlena Huang

As the world globalises, more people than ever are on the move, including the many professional, managerial and entrepreneurial elites—often referred to as ‘international talent’—who circulate between cities in response to career and business opportunities. While much has been written about...

Published August 15th 2012 by Routledge

Islam, Culture and Women in Asia

Complex Terrains

Edited by Firdous Azim

An examination of the place of religion, especially Islam, in political and cultural life took on a special urgency after the events of 9/11. The essays in this volume concentrate on the way that Islam impacts on the everyday lives of people who reside in societies where Islam plays a large part....

Published March 5th 2013 by Routledge