Asian Studies

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

A new simplified edition translated by Don Sanderson. The original three-volume work, first published in 1979, has been revised specially as a single volume paperback which concentrates on the development of Japanese literature...

Providing a different approach to the history of India than previously advocated, this textbook argues that there was constant interaction between peoples and cultures. This interactive, dialogic approach provides a clear understanding of how power and social relations operated in South Asia. Coveri..

A book about the past and present Pacific Islands, wide-ranging in time and space spanning the centuries from the first settlement of the islands until the present day...

This is the only book of its kind - written by an anthropologist who spent twelve months doing fieldwork in a major Tokyo agency and who has spent the past 30 years studying and living in Japan. By examining the production of advertising, this book turns other semiotics, media and cultural studies t..

This is the only book of its kind - written by an anthropologist who spent twelve months doing fieldwork in a major Tokyo agency and who has spent the past 30 years studying and living in Japan. By examining the production of advertising, this book turns other semiotics, media and cultural studies t..

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

The first study of state feminism in a non-western nation state, this volume focuses on the activities and roles of the Women's Bureau of the Ministry of Labor in post-World War II Japan. While state feminism theory possesses a strong capability to examine state-society relationships in terms of fem..