Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects books

This book provides a systematic overview of the global city debate and competing theoretical notions, as well as...  Read More >>

A 25-chapter book on Japan’s system of colleges and universities, from both historical and contemporary viewpoints...  Read More >>

This volume takes readers on a journey into a central aspect of life in China, “self-development. Whether prompted...  Read More >>

This book aims to offer ideas and examples of pedagogy in the undergraduate classroom; case studies of syllabi that...  Read More >>

Louis Cullen’s research on archival sources and of the problems they pose for the interpretation of Japanese history...  Read More >>

Filling an important gap in extraterritoriality studies and in the history of Anglo-Korean relations, this benchmark...  Read More >>

Carmen Blacker was an outstanding scholar of Japanese culture, known for her writings on religion, myth and folklore...  Read More >>

This Handbook focuses on Japan's public administration and bureaucracy at its national level, and the effects of...  Read More >>

This book provides a systematic investigation into the ways in which Chinese decisionmakers approached sanctions...  Read More >>

This book brings together high-quality research articles in order to examine one aspect of the political mechanism...  Read More >>

This pioneering book examines Indian film sound through artistic research, addressing a scholarly gap in Global...  Read More >>

Rutherford Alcock became a battlefield surgeon, working in Portugal and Spain during the civil wars in the 1830s....  Read More >>

This collection of essays joins a small group of other studies bringing modern Japanese Confucianism to international...  Read More >>

This book is a cultural introduction to Korea, part memoir and part miscellany, which introduces traditional and...  Read More >>

Making the Palace Machine Work: Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire brings the studies of...  Read More >>

Although a century and a half of Christian proselytizing has only led to the conversion of about one percent of...  Read More >>

This book challenges the museum enterprise in China as a state monopoly and considers it as a new cultural agency...  Read More >>

Shanghai after Pearl Harbor. Eiko Kishimoto, 20, London-educated Japanese housewife, settles into a privileged existence...  Read More >>

The sixteen chapters of the Handbook of Environmental History in Japan  Read More >>

A mini memoir, plus thirty journal papers and scholarly essays, thematically structured under: Media, Society, Culture...  Read More >>

This book offers the most important contributions from the past fifteen years of international research into Etty...  Read More >>

A headman of a remote Kelabit longhouse in Borneo is wrestling with recent changes caused by logging and roadbuilding....  Read More >>

The book describes the main semiotic concepts that can be used to analyse space, illustrating them with carefully...  Read More >>

Here is a cri de coeur from almost the last survivor of post-war European sociologists and scholars of Japanese...  Read More >>

After war defeat in 1945, Japan underwent historic political, economic and social transformations resulting in the...  Read More >>