The controversy over official state-approved history textbooks in Japan, which omit or play down many episodes of Japan’s occupation of neighbouring countries during the Asia-Pacific…

This book explores issues of cultural tension that affect Muslim and Christian interaction within the Central Asian context. It looks at the ways that Christians…

Takeshi Hamashita, arguably Asia's premier historian of the longue durée, has been instrumental in opening a new field of inquiry in Chinese, East Asian and…

This book examines the development of television in India since the early 1990s, and its implications for Indian society more widely. Until 1991, India possessed…

Writing Okinawa is the first comprehensive study in English of Okinawan fiction, from it’s emergence in the early twentieth-century through its most recent permutations. It…

A central problem for the European Union is said to be that of the "politics of identity". Within this, the concept of the EU’s international…

This book provides a detailed account of the structure and political strategies of the Tibetan government-in exile, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), in northern India.…

This book empirically examines banking reform in the economies of Southeast Asia as they sought to adapt to major developments in the global economic system…

By arranging frequently used characters under the phonetic element they have in common, rather than only under their radical, the Dictionary encourages the student to…

This edited volume examines the sources, manifestations and management of conflict in East Asia, which contains many of the world’s conflict flashpoints, such as the…