Author: Smil Vaclav
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Keywords: china, scholarship, asian, future, past, critical
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-12-18
List price: $53.95
ISBN-10: 0415314992
ISBN-13: 9780415314992

China has a population of 1.3 billion people which puts enormous strain on her natural resources, this volume, by one of the leading scholars on the earth’s biosphere provides the fullest account yet of the environmental challenges that China faces.

Author: Jennifer Amyx
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Keywords: asia, series, politics, inc, governance, japan, japanese
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2003-02-28
List price: $195.00
ISBN-10: 0415304695
ISBN-13: 9780415304696

Japan Inc was once used to describe the powerful political and economic system that delivers Japan’s transformation to an industrial power. This book is about the breakdown and failure of policy coherence in Japan in the 1990s and how the political economy of Japan has changed in response. The essays in the volume seek to identify where change has occurred, as well as where things have not changed and why. The issue of policymaking transparency is accorded particular attention. The book covers a wide range of Japanese institutions and policy areas, including the political party system,

Author: Gordon Mathews
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Keywords: japan, society, anthropology, workshop, series, new, creating, changing, generations, japanese, people
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-12-16
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 0415322278
ISBN-13: 9780415322270

This book argues that "the generation gap" in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entertaining and comforming to that order. Rather, it signifies something more fundamental: the emergence of a new Japan, which may be quite different from the Japan of postwar decades. It argues that while young people in Japan in their teens, twenties and early thirties, are not engaged in overt social or political resistance, they are turning against the existing Japanese social order, whose legitimacy has been undermined by the past decade of economic downturn. Th

Author: C. Hughes
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Keywords: politics, asia, series, forward, digital, internet, china, leap
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-04-11
List price: $195.00
ISBN-10: 0415277728
ISBN-13: 9780415277723

Avoiding technical jargon, the book is accessible to anyone interested in the social impact of the Internet and information and communication technologies, from those in academia to business and public policy makers.

Author: Werner Pascha
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Keywords: differentiation, dual, challenge, convergence, economies, change, japanese, german, systemic
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-09-27
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 0700716343
ISBN-13: 9780700716340

This discussion of the challenges of economic globalisation makes use of theoretical, empirical and policy perspectives, with contributions from leading Japanese and western scholars.

Author: EWANS
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Keywords: russ, amp, brit, game
Published:
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0415316448
ISBN-13: 9780415316446

Author: F. Max Muller
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Keywords: east, books, sacred, avesta, zend
Number of Pages: 1184
Published: 2001-09-21
List price: $540.00
ISBN-10: 0700715436
ISBN-13: 9780700715435

This is a subset of the Sacred Books of the East Series which includes translations of all the most important works of the seven non-Christian religions which have exercised a profound influence on the civilizations of the continent of Asia. The works have been translated by leading authorities in their field.