Asian Studies Textbooks Catalog 2012

New Titles and Key Backlist

General Asia: Culture & Society

  1. Asia on Tour

    Exploring the rise of Asian tourism

    Edited by Tim Winter, Peggy Teo, T.C. Chang

    With the vast majority of academic theory on tourism based on ‘Western’ tourists, Asia on Tour illustrates why the rapid growth of travel for leisure and recreation in Asia demands a reappraisal of how tourism is analyzed and understood. Examining domestic and intra-regional tourism, the book...

    Published September 23rd 2008 by Routledge

  2. Families in Asia

    Home and Kin, 2nd Edition

    By Stella Quah

    Families in Asia provides a unique sociological analysis of family trends in Asia. Stella R. Quah uses demographic and survey data, personal interviews and case studies from China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam to provide a...

    Published September 14th 2008 by Routledge

  3. Ethnicity in Asia

    By Colin Mackerras

    Series: Asia's Transformations

    This book is designed as a comprehensive comparative introduction to ethnicity in East and Southeast Asia since 1945. Each chapter covers a particular country looking at such core issues as:· the ethnic minorities or groups in the country of concern, how many ethnic groups, population, language and...

    Published August 20th 2003 by Routledge