Forthcoming Asian Studies Paperbacks

Forthcoming Books

1. An Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism

   With especial Reference to Chinese and Japanese Phases

   By William McGovern

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   William Montgomery McGovern’s Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism was one of the first books on Mahayana Buddhism written for a Western audience. It predates influential English language overviews of Buddhism by D. T. Suzuki, A. Watts, and W. Rahula. The author was born in New York City in 1897 and...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. An Elementary Grammar of the Japanese Language

   With Easy Progressive Exercises

   By Tatui Baba

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   When originally published in 1873 one of the aims was to protest against an idea that the Japanese language was very imperfect, and therefore it should be exterminated! The second was to give a general idea of the Japanese language as it is spoken. ...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. The Life of the Buddha and the Early History of His Order

   By W. Woodhill Rockhill

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Health Care and Traditional Medicine in China 1800-1982

   By S. M. Hillier, Tony Jewell

   First published in 1983.Beginning with the period of the early expansion of Western missionary medicine, this account covers the chaotic years of Nationalist rule to the foundations of the People's Republic in 1949. It trances the major influences on health care since then and describes the...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Banking Policy in Japan

   American Efforts at Reform During the Occupation

   By William Tsutsui

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   The unique Japanese banking system has contributed greatly to Japan’s post-war economic advance by investing aggressively in industry and by supporting close government-business relations. The banking sector might not have come to assume such a significant role, however, had American efforts to...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. British Factory Japanese Factory

   The Origins of National Diversity in Industrial Relations

   By Ronald Dore

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   The Japanese way of work is notoriously ‘different’. But is it Japan or Britain which is the odd man out? When originally published this was the first book to explore the real differences, through a point-by-point comparison of two Japanese factories with two British ones making similar products....

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. Broadcasting in Japan

   Case-studies on Broadcasting Systems

   Edited by Masami Ito

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   Japan has developed what is arguably the most sophisticated and the most democratic broadcasting system in the world. The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1st September 1923, with its devastation and confusion drove home in its appalling way the importance of being able to broadcast immediate information...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
8. Black Star Over Japan

   Rising Forces of Militarism

   By Albert Axelbank

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

   The Japanese are the only people in the world who have experienced the horror of nuclear weapons with their own flesh. Atomic holocaust was followed by American occupation and the American-inspired, postwar Japanese ‘Peace Constitution’ which explicitly outlawed Japanese military forces and the use...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
9. Arabic Thought and its Place in History

   By De Lacy O'Leary

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
10. Asian Perspectives on Teacher Education

    Edited by Shin'ichi Suzuki, Edward R. Howe

    Research into teacher education is dominated by Anglophone literature, with the inevitable result that teacher education in non-English speaking regions of the world largely remains unexamined. This book fills the gap in the existing literature and comprises twelve invited contributions from an...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge