A quantum leap in scholarship on queer China, offering keen insights on the PRC's socialist legac...

Thailand remains important by virtue of its location at the centre of the Asia-Pacific region, an...

This volume examines the changing relations between China and Burma Myanmar since Burmese indepen...

The peace agreement, major reconstruction efforts and UN-supervised elections that followed Cambo...

Western scholars have long studied China, Japan and Korea (among other Asian countries). However,...

China is in flux but as argued by the contributors to this volume change is neither new to China ...

A fresh understanding of the ongoing Thai political conflict is offered in this exploration of th...

Since 1949, Tibetans and Uyghurs generally have been perceived as the two most problematic member...

This volume examines the careers and intellectual positions of three prominent Japanese 'dissiden...

An exploration of the Chinese Internet based on first-hand research and original data. This capti...

How can we conceive of kinship and sociality in the rapidly transforming uplands of mainland Sout...

Southeast Asia's 36 UNESCO World Heritage Sites make a significant contribution to their respecti...

The Bodo (or Boros) are one of the indigenous tribal peoples of Assam. During colonial times they...

Hailed on its first publication as 'an outstanding contribution to Southeast Asian ethnography - ...

In a world where there are few women politicians, Cambodia is still noticeable as a country where...

This is the first comprehensive picture of the nomadic and formerly nomadic hunting-gathering gro...

This study compares Melaka and Penang in the context of overall trends--policy, geographical posi...

Breast cancer is now the most common cancer among women in most Asian countries. Many lives are a...

Taiwan's gradual democratization has been celebrated as one of the most successful cases of polit...

In an age where vast global forces are bringing massive change, can social democratic development...

This book examines the role of community, market and state in the historic transformation of upla...

This latest book by award-winning researcher Duncan McCargo, one of the world's leading specialis...

As agents of the state, civil servants are central to public governance and socioeconomic develop...

With globalization helping those who assert incompatible differences between their respective fai...

Global processes with flows in money, commodities and people have made it increasingly varied and...

In contrast to many recent works on Muslim societies, which point to an increasing 'de-culturaliz...

Local autonomy is a complex and often contentious issue in many countries, not least because the ...

The branding of Singapore International Airlines with the image of a beautiful, petite and servil...

Covers a range of Asian countries, offers original data from various perspectives and engages the...

Anders Poulsen's term as a UNESCO expert terminated in 1962, but he has returned to the same area...

This book questions the centrality of globalization in explaining change in Asian cities and exam...

The overall objective of this volume is to revisit gender as a concept that can engage simultaneo...

Transition economies allow the study of fundamental questions about the nature of markets. How do...

Despite the proscription of public political debates under colonial rule in Burma, boundary-cross...

In 1962, Indonesia celebrated its renaissance by hosting the 4th Asian Games in Jakarta. It has h...

In central Thailand, a flamboyantly turbaned gay medium for the Hindu god of the underworld posts...

Since its inception over two millennia ago, the spice trade has connected and transformed the env...

More than four decades have passed since the end of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia in 1979. Even so...