Major Works: Forthcoming Asian Studies

Forthcoming Books

1. Chinese Media

   Edited by Michael Keane, Wanning Sun

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   From an area of specialist research a decade ago China’s media has become now an important element of research and teaching worldwide, not only in specific Chinese cultural studies courses at the university level but increasingly in post-graduate research and in the domain of business consultancy....

   To Be Published August 1st 2013 by Routledge
2. Finance in Asia

   Edited by Qiao Liu, Paul Lejot, Douglas Arner

   Series: Critical Concepts in Finance

   Edited by three leading scholars whose expertise spans finance, economics, and law, Finance in Asia is a new collection from Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Finance series. The foundational and cutting-edge scholarship assembled in this easy-to-use, one-stop resource enables users easily to ...

   To Be Published September 1st 2013 by Routledge
3. Gender and Japanese Society

   Edited by Dolores P Martinez

   Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

   Compiled and introduced by D. P. Martinez, the editor of an acclaimed four-volume anthology on Modern Japanese Culture and Society (Routledge, 2007) (978-0-415-41609-2), this new title from Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Asian Studies series, is a collection of classic and the very best...

   To Be Published October 22nd 2013 by Routledge
4. 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
5. Social Transformation in China

   Edited by Jieyu Liu

   Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

   Since the late 1970s, China has transformed itself from an inefficient centrally-planned backwater to a fast-growing market-orientated economy. Whilst economic reform has enabled average living standards to improve immensely, the benefits have been shared disproportionately depending on demographic...

   To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Japanese Cinema

   Edited by Nikki J. Y. Lee, Julian Stringer

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Japanese cinema is historically one of the world’s most important national film industries and one that continues to have a significant global influence. From the Golden Age of the 1930s and the 1950s art-house success of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu to the 1960s New Wave of Imamura and Oshima and...

   To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
7. Chinese Human Resource Management

   Edited by Jessica Li

   Series: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management

   The change China has experienced over the past thirty years is unprecedented. As China is taking the center stage of the world economy, the interaction between China and the rest of the world has increased dramatically. China presents a complex business environment with a diverse organization...

   To Be Published February 14th 2014 by Routledge
8. Asia Pacific Security CC 4V

   Edited by Leszek Buszynski

   Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

   To Be Published March 14th 2014 by Routledge
9. Religion in Contemporary China CC 4V

   Edited by Xinzhong Yao

   Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

   To Be Published April 14th 2014 by Routledge