Major Works: Asian Studies (General)

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. Economic Reform in Modern China

   Edited by Wei Zhang

   Series: Critical Concepts in Economics

   It is more than three decades since China initiated its economic reform and open-door policies. During that period, China has successfully transformed itself from an inefficient centrally-planned economy to a fast-growing market-orientated economy. To the rest of the world, China has emerged from...

   Published May 26th 2011 by Routledge
4. Ethnic Minorities in Modern China

   Edited by Colin Mackerras

   Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

   China is the world’s most populous country with fifty-five state-recognized ethnic minorities: approximately 123 million people, taking up over 60 per cent of China’s territory. And, while China’s dizzying growth has made it a major world force, both economically and strategically, one of the chief...

   Published March 10th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Tale of Genji

   Edited by Richard H. Okada

   The monumental Japanese fictional narrative known as The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari) appeared during the first decade or so of the eleventh century, CE. This vast narrative—which spans three-quarters of a century, and is made up of fifty-four chapters and 795 poems—has been attributed to a...

   Published December 2nd 2010 by Routledge
6. Women in Asia

   Edited by Louise Edwards, Mina Roces

   Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

   The academic study of women in Asia developed in the 1970s as a result of the convergence of the then emerging disciplines of Asian Studies and Women’s Studies. Initially, work on women in Asia grew from traditional branches of learning such as history, anthropology, politics, and literary studies....

   Published March 9th 2009 by Routledge
7. George Nathaniel Curzon: Collected Writings

   Collection 1: Asian Travels

   Edited by Martin Ewans

   George Nathaniel Curzon was a man of considerable intellect and ambition, combined with a degree of energy and application which were all the more remarkable given that he suffered throughout his life from a spinal deformity which gave him continuous pain and often incapacitated him. His...

   Published May 14th 2008 by Routledge
8. An Account of Tibet

   The Travels of Ippolito Desideri of Pistoia, S.J. 1712- 1727

   Edited by Filippo De Filippi

   First published in 1932.As well as an extensive introduction, this edition contains notes to all four books, a bibliographical index, a general index and an index of Tibetan words. The introduction is particularly valuable in that it sets the importance of Desideri's mission in the general context...

   Published October 20th 2004 by Routledge
9. Akbar and the Jesuits

   An Account of the Jesuit Missions to the Court of Akbar

   By Father Pierre du Jarric Jarric

   First published in 1926.'These documents are full of intimate interest' Times Literary Supplement'A serious and intensely interesting piece of work' The GuardianThe Jesuit missionaries were some of the earliest Europeans to find their way into the Mogul empire in the sixteenth century. Spending...

   Published October 20th 2004 by Routledge
10. Commentaries of Ruy Freyre de Andrada

    Edited by C. R. Boxer

    First published in 1930. 'The Broadway Travellers consolidates its already high reputation by issuing this volume...' SpectatorThis is the first translation of the Commentarios since original publication in 1647. Copies of the original are very rare yet the work covers an historically significant...

    Published October 20th 2004 by Routledge