Asian Studies: Products

By Masanobu Suzuki

In recent years, there has been a noticeable and enthusiastic increase of interest in Buddhist temples and Shintō shrines in Japan. The legends of these temples and shrines are recorded in many historical manuscripts and these genealogies have such great significance that some of them have been…

Hardback – 2017-02-23 
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Routledge-WIAS Interdisciplinary Studies

By Hayden J. Bellenoit

In the period between the 1770s and 1840s, through the process of colonial state formation, the early colonial state in India was able to harness and extract vast amounts of agrarian wealth in north India. However, little is known of the histories of the Indian scribes and the role they played in…

Hardback – 2017-02-21 
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Routledge Studies in South Asian History

By Iwao Akita

A Japanese Jungian Perspective on Mental Health and Culture: Wandering Madness explores differences between Western and Japanese models of mental health. It argues that while the advent of modern mental health has brought about seminal changes in our understanding of and relationship to those…

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Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies

Edited by Joyce C.H. Liu, Viren Murthy

This volume draws together some of the leading scholars to examine how Marxism was interpreted in East Asia, how it impacted on complex historical processes in East Asian countries, and how to use Marxism to understand East Asia in a global capitalist world, particularly in our contemporary…

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Interventions

By Keren Arbel

The relationship between insight practice (vipassana) and the attainment of the four jhànas (i.e. right samàdhi) is a key problem in the study of Buddhist meditation. The four jhànas have been misunderstood by inaccurate interpretations of key terms in Buddhist psychology and philosophy and there…

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Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

Edited by John Dixon, Hyung Shik Kim

First published in 1985, this book analyses social welfare in the major countries of Asia, at that time. For each country it considers the ideological framework underlying the social welfare system and describes the historical development of both the system and the political and socio-economic…

Paperback – 2017-02-21 
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Routledge Revivals: Comparative Social Welfare

Edited by Ingrid Oborn, Bernard Vanlauwe, Michael Phillips, Richard Thomas, Kwesi Atta-Krah

Sustainable intensification has recently been developed and adopted as a key concept and driver for research and policy in sustainable agriculture. It includes ecological, economic and social dimensions, where food and nutrition security, gender and equity are crucial components. This book…

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Edited by Aletta Biersack, Martha Macintyre

Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific focuses on the plasticity and contingent nature of Pacific Island masculinities over the course of colonial and postcolonial histories. The several case histories concern the use of sport to recuperate but also refashion past masculinities in the name of…

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Edited by Michael Dillon

The classification of ethnic identities (minzu) remains controversial in China. Categories established in the 1950s are still used by the state to administer minority areas, despite the existence of a complicated web of subjective identities which potentially undermines efforts to use these…

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Ethnic and Racial Studies

Edited by Tiang Boon Hoo

There has been a discernable calibration of Chinese foreign policy since the ascension of Xi Jinping to the top leadership positions in China. The operative term here is adjustment rather than renovation because there has not been a fundamental transformation of Chinese foreign policy or "setting…

Hardback – 2017-02-17 
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Politics in Asia

Edited by Dafydd Fell

In the spring of 2014, the Sunflower Movement’s three-week occupation of the Legislative Yuan brought Taiwan back to international media attention. It was the culmination of a series of social movements that had been growing in strength since 2008 and have become even more salient since the spring…

Hardback – 2017-02-17 
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Routledge Research on Taiwan Series

Edited by Deepak K. Mishra, Vandana Upadhyay

Economic development of frontier and remote regions has long been a central theme of development studies. This book examines the development experience in the northeastern region in India in relation to the processes of globalisation and liberalisation of the economy. Bringing together researchers…

Hardback – 2017-02-17 
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Transition in Northeastern India