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Southeast Asia, an economically dynamic and strategically vital region, seemed until recently to be transiting to more democratic politics. This progress has suddenly stalled or even gone into reverse, requiring that analysts seriously rethink their expectations and theorizing. The Routledge…
Hardback – 2015-04-20
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Voices of East Asia provides significant yet accessible readings in translation chosen to stimulate interest in the long and rich cultural history of East Asia, the countries of China, Japan, and Korea. The readings range from ancient to modern, elite to popular, and include poetry, stories, essays…
Paperback – 2015-03-18
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Under Stalin’s totalitarian leadership of the USSR, Soviet national identities with historical narratives were constructed. These constructions envisaged how nationalities should see their imaginary common past, and millions of people defined themselves according to them. This book explains how and…
Hardback – 2015-02-23
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Central Asia Research Forum
The Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Economics offers new insights into the rapidly-developing economies of Southeast Asia. Despite widespread initial deprivation, Southeast Asia has achieved and sustained a remarkable rate of growth, in the course of which tens of millions have successfully…
Hardback – 2014-12-18
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East Asian societies are changing rapidly, and one of the most important facets of this transformation is population the ageing. of society. "Active ageing" is one of the few concepts available today to effectively address the problems arising from a highly-aged and, particularly in East Asia,…
Hardback – 2014-12-17
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Routledge Studies in Social Welfare in Asia
This book examines the differences and similarities between warfare in China and India before 1870, both conceptually and on the battlefield. By focusing on Chinese and Indian warfare, the book breaks the intellectual paradigm requiring non-Western histories and cultures to be compared to the West,…
Hardback – 2014-12-17
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Asian States and Empires
First published in 1938, this book aims to be a ‘true and objective’ account of China’s recent history and its present circumstances at the time, drawing on the author’s thirty years of experience as a member of the British consular service in China. The recurrent themes of the period are examined:…
Hardback – 2016-04-05
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International Investment Management: Theory, Practice, and Ethics synthesizes investment principles, Asian financial practice, and ethics reflecting the realities of modern international finance. These topics are studied within the Asian context, first through the medium of case studies and then…
Paperback – 2016-04-04
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Now available in paperback, the Routledge Handbook of South Asian Economics addresses the recent economic transformation in South Asia. Leading experts in the field look at the major economic achievements and challenges for the region and examine why economic development across the South Asia…
Paperback – 2016-04-04
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30th March - 1st April 2016 - Annual Conference of European Association of Taiwan Studies
31st March - 3rd April 2016 - The Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference
6th - 8th April 2016 - British Association of South Asian Studies
14th - 16th April 2016 - Southeast Asian Studies Symposium
24th - 27th June 2016 - AAS-in-ASIA Conference
24th - 27th June 2016 - ISA Asia-Pacific Regional Conference
27th - 30th July 2016 - EASAS European Association for South Asian Studies
1st - 3rd September 2016 - Chinese Economics Association
7th - 9th September 2016 - Joint East Asian Studies Conference
16th - 18th September 2016 - Association of South East Asian Studies in the UK
20th – 23rd October 2016 - The Annual Conference on South Asia
17th - 20th November 2016 - Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Stephanie Rogers commissions books in the area of East Asian studies across all aspects of the humanities and social sciences. With over 18 years of experience in academic publishing at Routledge, Stephanie has worked across many different formats, including dictionaries, handbooks, student textbooks, and supplementary reading. Her commissioning now focuses on research monographs and she strives to continue to provide the most comprehensive, cutting-edge, and above all high-quality Asian Studies list in the market place.
Dorothea Schaefter publishes research monographs, edited volumes, textbooks, supplementary textbooks, and handbooks for the Asian Studies list. With over ten years of experience in academic publishing, she has been building an interdisciplinary programme and welcomes new proposals on South, Southeast, and Central Asian Studies, and Asian Religion.
Peter Sowden commissions books (mainly research monographs) on all areas of Asia, including Central Asia, Russia and Eastern Europe, as well as some books on the Middle East. He has started, and continues to handle, over twenty important monograph series, some of which cover all of Asia (e.g., Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia, Religion in Contemporary Asia, and Law in Asia series), and others which focus on particular parts of Asia (e.g., Studies on the Chinese Economy and the Malaysian Studies series). Peter has over thirty years' experience commissioning academic books.
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