Continuity and Change in Economic Relations and Security Interests

By Ahmad Rashid Malik

This is the first book-length study to explain the complex nature of Pakistan-Japan relations. It analyses the evolution and development of relations between the two...

Published July 21st 2008 by Routledge.

Learning to belong to a nation

By Gordon Mathews, Eric Ma, Tai-Lok Lui

The idea of ‘national identity’ is an ambiguous one for Hong Kong. Returned to the national embrace of China on 1 July 1997 after 150...

Published July 20th 2008 by Routledge.

Golkar in the post-Suharto era

By Dirk Tomsa

Party Politics and Democratization in Indonesia: Golkar in the Post-Suharto Era provides the first in-depth analysis of contemporary Indonesian party politics and the first systematic...

Published July 17th 2008 by Routledge.

Positive Neutrality and the consolidation of the Turkmen Regime

By Luca Anceschi

Turkmenistan, an independent nation since 1991, is a strategically important Central Asian state. This book covers the most significant period of the establishment of the...

Published July 17th 2008 by Routledge.

Transnational networks and changing identities

Edited by Rajesh Rai, Peter Reeves

The South Asian Diaspora numbers just under 30 million people worldwide, and it is recognized as the most widely dispersed diaspora. It is, moreover, one...

Published July 17th 2008 by Routledge.

Making Music in Japan’s Underground

The Tokyo Hardcore Scene

By Jennifer Milioto Matsue

Grounded in the fields of Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Popular Music Studies, and Japanese Studies, this book explores the underground Tokyo hardcore scene, ultimately asking what play...

Published July 17th 2008 by Routledge.

Edited by Guoguang Wu, Helen Lansdowne

What legacies have previous reformers like Zhao Ziyang left to today’s China? Does China have feasible political alternatives to today’s repressive ‘market Leninism’ and corrupt...

Published July 9th 2008 by Routledge.

Love in Modern Japan

Its Estrangement from Self, Sex and Society

By Sonia Ryang

This compelling and controversial book places the concept of love in both a social and historical context. Taking an approach in which state formation and...

Published July 9th 2008 by Routledge.

Processes and contests in local China

Edited by Linda Chelan Li

One of the more commonly and widely held beliefs outside the People’s Republic of China about the changes wrought by the reform era is that...

Published July 8th 2008 by Routledge.

The Rawshani Movement in Muslim Mysticism, Society and Politics

By Sergei Andreyev

The Rawshaniyya, who flourished in the traditional homeland of the Pashtuns in the Kabul/Indus basin in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, were a powerful religio-political...

Published July 1st 2008 by Routledge.