Interdisciplinary studies

During the 1970s and '80s economic relations between the Arab Gulf States and Japan grew enormously.

Professionals are a growing group in China and increasingly make their presence felt in governance and civil society.

This volume makes available a wide variety of cultural perspectives on education and on economic and social progress.

This new book addresses three key issues: What has changed in Chinese civil-military relations?

Japan's rapid rise to economic super-power status has led to a worldwide interest in and attempts to emulate Japanese management practices.

Turkey's accession to the European Union is undoubtedly one of the Union's most contested potential enlargements.

The Tale of the Lady Ochikubo dates from the last quarter of the tenth century.

William Montgomery McGovern's Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism was one of the first books on Mahayana Buddhism written for a Western audience.

Japan's economic success since the 1950s created a range of serious domestic and international problems which threaten the stability of the country.

Covering the years spanning cinema's emergence as a popular form in Bengal in the first half of the twentieth century, this book examines the main genres and trends produced by this cinema, and leads up to Bengali cinema's last phase of transition in the 1980s.

This book gives a social anthropological account of whaling culture in Japan.

From being an important centre which attracted a large number of merchants during the feudal period, Shingu, on the northern shores of Kyushu is today a suburb of Fukuoka City.

Recent years have witnessed an explosive growth in the literature published about Japan.

This volume draws together material from The Japan Chronicle, The Japan Gazette and the China Treaty Port foreign papers, all of which are of great historical value.

Nakano has received very little attention in works in English on the relevant period, as his approaches to effective power were limited while his career also lacks the violent drama associated with movements resorting to terrorism.

When originally published in 1873 one of the aims was to protest against an idea that the Japanese language was very imperfect, and therefore it should be exterminated!

After more than six years of active fighting in the Far East and over two years of open war between Japan and the Anglo-Saxon powers, Japanese political warfare was still a factor largely unknown in the Western world.

A journalist on the Japan Chronicle for eleven years, the author collected in this volume the most significant current events for discussion.

This book contains eighteen studies on various important phases of Japan's invasion of China.

When this book was published in Japanese in 1982 it was awarded the prestigious Jiro Osaragi Prize.

Shunsuke Tsurumi, one of Japan's most distinguished contemporary philosophers, continues his study of the intellectual and social history of modern Japan with this penetrating analysis of popular culture in the post-war years.

Despite for many years receiving the highest per capita aid worldwide, the economies of the West Bank and Gaza Strip have failed to achieve any lasting developmental outcomes and suffer from major weaknesses which undermine their very survival.

The global financial and economic crisis starting in 2007 has provoked the exploration of alternatives to neo-liberalism.

Japan's economy is invariably seen as a prime example of a capitalist system, and a consideration of the elements upon which the Japanese economy is founded seems to lead inexorably to the conclusion that Japan is an established member of the group of highly developed capitalist nations.

From early photographs of disfigured slaves to contemporary representations of bullet-riddled rappers, images of wounded black men have long permeated American culture.

Gerard Goggin has produced an incisive and penetrating overview of the world according to mobiles.

The phenomenal growth of Chinese economic and military power in the first decade of the 21st century has drawn world-wide attention.

Television Personalities offers an exciting, engaging approach to studying and understanding the most prominent and popular performers in television and celebrity culture.

The fact that the Portuguese opened up the Far East to European maritime enterprise is well known, but the prosperity to which their trade attained in that region is less so, as historians have tended to dwell on the English or Dutch activities.

This edited volume is a timely and insightful contribution to the growing discourses on public law in Asia.

This book provides a detailed survey and analysis of US-Kurdish relations and their interaction with domestic, regional and global politics.

The 1989 pro-democracy movement in China constituted a huge challenge to the survival of the Chinese communist state, and the efforts of the Chinese Communist party to erase the memory of the massacre testify to its importance.

Globalisation has put national labour movements under severe pressure, due to the increasing transnationalisation of production, with the production of many goods being organised across borders, and the informalisation of the economy.

The Socialist Revolutionary party, which had been the largest and most popular party in Russia in 1917, did not after the October Revolution just disappear into the "e;dustbin of history"e;, as Trotsky hoped, but - led by its leadership in exile in the 1920s and 1930s - continued to observe and comment on developments in Russia.

Despite having been active in the region since the mid-1990s, the role of NATO in the Middle East has attracted particular attention since the events of 11th September 2001.

Socialism first gained a major foothold in Japan after the revolution and the subsequent Meiji restoration of 1868.

How do the spaces of the past stay with us through representations-whether literary or photographic?

The world is caught in the mesh of a series of environmental crises.

Based on extensive original research, this book examines the challenges confronting trade unions in the global South, by focusing on trade union struggles in Sri Lanka under neo-liberal globalisation.

Presenting a framework that incorporates macro-level forces into micro-level strategic calculations, this book explains key political choices by leaders and challengers in Pakistan through the political survival mechanism.

Examining spatial transformations in Bangalore, one of India's fastest growing cities, this book highlights the influence of information and communications technology (ICT) development on the city.

Before the modernist transformations of the twentieth century, China had one of the richest and most diverse religious cultures in the world.

To the outside observer, the character and dynamics of Japan's political parties and Diet (National Assembly) are often obscure.

Saionji Kinmochi was an aristocrat, a scholar and a progressive liberal politician who twice occupied the highest political office in the nation and who, during three decades, as adviser to three Emperors, coordinated and directed Japanese politics.

This book takes a clear look at the course of the economic and political developments in Japan since the Second World War and in particular trends in government and politics since the peace treaty of 1952.

In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies.

In the 1970s and 80s Japan experienced some deep-rooted social changes which affected attitudes to health care services among both professionals and consumers alike.

The Akhbar al-dawla al-saljuqiyya is one of the key primary documents on the history of Western Persia and Iraq in the 11th and 12th centuries.

This book examines the role of multiethnic armies in post-conflict reconstruction, and demonstrates how they can promote peacebuilding efforts.

This set of essays brings together studies that challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War.