This revised and extended edition of the best-selling Colloquial Chinese is the ideal introduction to modern Mandarin Chinese.
Dialogues and vocabulary sections have been updated…

Colloquial Chinese 2 is designed for people who already have some knowledge of the language but want to progress a stage further. It is the…

This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers — Doris Lessing,…

This volume will mark a new trend in dealing with women’s varied experiences of life: individual introductions situate the narrator in a context – and…

The book examines the social and social psychological processes that led up to the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. It works from a…

Education policymaking is traditionally seen as a domestic political process. The job of deciding where students will be educated, what they will be taught, who…

This is the first examination of how China is currently dealing with environmental problems and challenges, and of its successes, failures and dilemmas.

This new…

The volume takes four key themes related to ageing – the experience of old age; intergenerational relations; economics of and social policy for ageing; longevity…

This book presents a rethinking of the world legacy of Mahatma Gandhi in this era of unspeakable global violence. Through interdisciplinary research, key Gandhian concepts…

Globalisation – the global movement, and control, of products, capital, technologies, persons and images – increasingly takes place through the work of organisations, perhaps the…