Matthew Powers & Adrienne Russell 
Rethinking Media Research for Changing Societies [EPUB ebook] 

Considering the tangible implications the present focus on research output poses for early career researchers, it is strange that perspectives from this group are rarely, if ever, included in the ong …

Literature on China”s finance in the West has focused on ‘financial repression’ in its highly regulated financial markets. However, fundamental changes in China”s financial system are underway and …

The Ni”matnama is a late fifteenth-century book of the recipes of the eccentric Sultan of Mandu (Madhya Pradesh), Ghiyath Shahi, collected and added to by his son and successor, Nasir Shah. It conta …

One prevalent socio-cultural structure that is peculiar to South Asia is caste, which is broadly understood in socio-anthropological terms as an institution of ranked, hereditary and occupational gro …

Guang Xing gives an analysis of one of the fundamental Mahayana Buddhist teachings, namely the three bodies of the Buddha (the trikaya Theory), which is considered the foundation of Mahayana philosop …

This book discusses abortion in a non-Western, non-Christian context – in Thailand, where over 300, 000 illegal abortions are performed each year by a variety of methods. The book, based on extensive …

During the second half of the twentieth century, development in the Asia-Pacific region has been dominated by industrialization. However, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, services, in pa …

This is an in-depth account of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service, a uniquely cosmopolitan institution established in the wake of China”s defeat in the Opium Wars (1842 to 43), and a cent …

Asia has long been an ideological battleground between capitalism and communism, between nationalism and Westernisation and between the nation-state and globalization. This book is a history of the A …

Recent concern about mainland China”s intentions towards Taiwan, and more general concern about the risk of instability in the region, has led to growing interest in Taiwan”s military strategy. Thi …