Asian Studies Paperbacks

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41. Unwrapping Japan

    Society and Culture in Anthropological Perspective

    Edited by Eyal Ben-Ari, Brian Moeran, Jim Valentine

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

    Recent years have witnessed an explosive growth in the literature published about Japan. Yet it seems that the more that is written about Japan and Japanism – its culture, society, people – the more mysterious it becomes. As well as exploring issues relating to advertising, tourism, women,...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
42. 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 May 31st 2013 by Routledge
43. Theories, Policy, and Practice of Lifelong Learning in East Asia

    Edited by Weiyuan Zhang

    As the centre of the world economy is moving to Asia, lifelong learning in Asia is attracting a great deal of attention in the educational field worldwide. Asia not only provides the largest education market, but also plays an increasingly important role in educational globalization. However, until...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
44. The Routledge Handbook of Asian Security Studies

    Edited by Sumit Ganguly, Andrew Scobell, Joseph Liow

    The Handbook of Asian Security Studies provides a detailed exploration of security dynamics in the three distinct subregions that comprise Asia, and also bridges the study of these regions by exploring the geopolitical links between each of them. This Handbook is divided geographically into four...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
45. Yusuf and Zulaikha

    A Poem by Jami

    By Ralph T.H. Griffith

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
46. The Rise of Modern Japan

    By William Beasley

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

    It is now generally recognized that Japan has been much the most successful of the countries outside Europe and North America in achieving modernization. The transformation from a feudal society with a Confucian ethic to a ‘modern, Western style economy’ is charted in this book which follows the...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
47. The Rise of the Japanese Corporate System

    By Koji Matsumoto

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

    Japan’s economy is invariably seen as a prime example of a capitalist system, and a consideration of the elements upon which the Japanese economy is founded seems to lead inexorably to the conclusion that Japan is an established member of the group of highly developed capitalist nations. Yet a...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
48. Difference and Modernity

    Social Theory and Contemporary Japanese Society

    By John Clammer

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

    The question of ‘postmodernity’ that has swept Western academic and intellectual circles raises critical comparative questions. Do societies that have not experienced the same historical development as the West pass inevitably through modernity into postmodernity, or can they skip such stages...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
49. 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...

    Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
50. Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Assa Doron, Alex Broom

    Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series

    Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia brings together top international scholars from a range of social science disciplines to critically explore the interplay of local cultural and religious practices in the delivery and experiences of health in South Asia. This groundbreaking text provides...

    Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge