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CHINA

BEIJING WOMEN ORGANIZING FOR CHANGE: A New Wave of the Chinese Women’s Movement
by Cecilia Milwertz, 189 pp., illustrated, publ. 2002
Paperback ISBN 9788787062725: £13.99    
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BETTER TO RELY ON OURSELVES: Changing Social Rights in Urban China since 1979
by Hatla Thelle, 288 pp., publ. 2004
Hardback ISBN 9788791114267: £40.00    
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BEYOND CHINATOWN: New Chinese Migrants and the Global Expansion of China
edited by Mette Thuno, 281 pp., illustrated, publ. 2007
Paperback ISBN 9788776940003: £15.99    
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COMMONERS AND NOBLES: Hereditary Divisions in Tibet
by Heidi Fjeld, 170 pp., illustrated, publ. 2004
Hardback ISBN 9788791114175: £40.00     Details

DOING FIELDWORK IN CHINA
edited by Maria Heimer & Stig Th›gersen, 322 pp., illustrated, publ. 2006
Paperback ISBN 9788791114977: £14.99    
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FENGSHUI IN CHINA: Geomantic Divination Between State Orthodoxy and Popular Religion
by Ole Bruun, 320 pp., illustrated, publ. 2003
Hardback ISBN 9788791114793: £50.00     Details

LIFESTYLE AND ENTERTAINMENT IN YANGZHOU
edited by Lucie Olivova & Vibeke Bordahl, 400 pp., illustrated, July 2008
Hardback ISBN 9788776940355: £50.00    
Details

MIGRATION IN CHINA
edited by Børge Bakken, 160 pp., illustrated, publ. 1998
Paperback ISBN 9788787062572: £13.99     Details

STATE GROWTH AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION IN TIBET: Challenges of Recent Economic Growth
by Andrew Martin Fischer, 187 pp., illustrations, charts & tables, publ. 2005
Hardback ISBN 9788791114755: £42.00, Paperback ISBN 9788791114632: £14.99    
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TEACHING AND LEARNING IN TIBET: A Review of Research and Policy Publications
by Ellen Bangsbo, 160 pp., publ. 2004
Paperback ISBN 9788791114304: £12.99     Details

WHERE CHINA MEETS SOUTHEAST ASIA: Social and Cultural Change in the Border Region
edited by Grant Evans, Chris Hutton and Kuah Khun Eng, 348 pp., publ. 2000
Paperback ISBN 9788787062862: £17.99    
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JAPAN

‘BIG BANG’ IN JAPANESE HIGHER EDUCATION, THE: 2004 Reforms and the Dynamics of Change
edited by J. S. Eades, Roger Goodman & Yumiko Hada, 337 pp., publ. 2005
Paperback ISBN 1876843233: £19.99     Details

BLUESTOCKINGS OF JAPAN, THE: New Woman Essays and Fiction from Seitô, 1911-16
by Jan Bardsley, 320 pp., published 2007
Hardback ISBN 978 1 929280 44 5: £40.00; paperback ISBN 978 1 929280 45 2: £15.99     Details

CLASS STRUCTURE IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
by Kenji Hashimoto, 254 pp., publ. 2003
Hardback ISBN 1876843659: £48.00, Paperback ISBN 1876843713: £19.99     Details

COMING OUT IN JAPAN
by Satoru Ito & Ryuta Yanase, translated by F. Conlan, 337 pp., publ. 2001
Paperback ISBN 1876843020: £19.99     Details

CONSTRUCTING CIVIL SOCIETY IN JAPAN: Voices of Environmental Movements
by Koichi Hasegawa, 312 pp., publ. 2004
Hardback ISBN 1876843675: £48.00, Paperback ISBN 187684373X: £19.99     Details

FAREWELL TO NIPPON: Japanese Lifestyle Migrants in Australia
by Machiko Sato, 161 pp., publ. 2001
Paperback ISBN 1876843721: £19.99     Details

FOREIGN MIGRANTS IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
by Hiroshi Komai, 230 pp., publ. 2001
Paperback ISBN 1876843063: £19.99     Details

GENDER AND JAPANESE MANAGEMENT
by Kimiko Kimoto, 273 pp., publ. 2005
Hardback ISBN 1876843195: £45.00, Paperback ISBN 1876843209: £24.99     Details

GENDER AND MODERNITY
by Akio Tanabe, Yoko Hayami & Yumiko Tokita, 300 pp., publ. 2003
Hardback ISBN 4876984514: £40.00, Paperback ISBN 1876843608: £19.99     Details

GENEALOGY OF ‘JAPANESE’ SELF-IMAGES, A
by Eiji Oguma, translated by David Askew, 435 pp., publ. 2002
Hardback ISBN 1876843837: £48.00, Paperback ISBN 1876843047: £19.99     Details

GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
edited by J. S. Eades, Tom Gill & Harumi Befu, 295 pp., publ. 2000
Paperback ISBN 1876843012: £17.99     Details

HEGEMONY OF HOMOGENEITY: An Anthropological Analysis of Nihonjinron
by Harumi Befu, 181 pp., publ. 2001
Paperback ISBN 1876843055: £19.99     Details

INEQUALITY AMID AFFLUENCE: Social Stratification in Japan
by Junsuke Hara & Kazuo Seiyama, 202 pp., publ. 2005
Hardback ISBN 1876843144: £48.00, Paperback ISBN 1876843152: £19.99    Details

JAPAN AND ITS OTHERS
by John Clammer, 272 pp., publ. 2001
Paperback ISBN 1876843039: £19.99     Details

JAPANESE EDUCATION AND THE CRAM SCHOOL BUSINESS: Functions, Challenges and Perspectives of the Juku
by Marie Hojlund Roesgaard, 203 pp., publ. 2006
Hardback ISBN 8791114918: £35.00     Details

JAPANESE EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY
edited by Robert Leestma & Herbert J. Walberg, 436 pp., publ. 1992
Paperback ISBN 0939512556: £17.99     Details

JAPANESE VISA HANDBOOK, A: From Tourist to Permanent Resident
by Motoko Kuroda, 148 pp., publ. 2003
Paperback ISBN 4925080695: £9.99    Details

JAPAN'S UNDERCLASS: Day Labourers and the Homeless
by Hideo Aoki, 358 pp., publ 2006
Hardback ISBN 1876843241: £48.00; paperback ISBN 187684325X: 22.99     Details

LIVES OF YOUNG KOREANS IN JAPAN
by Yasunori Fukuoka, 330 pp., publ. 2000
Hardback ISBN 1876843004: £43.50, Paperback ISBN 0646391958: £17.99     Details

NATIONALISM AND GENDER
by Chizuku Ueno, 263 pp., publ. 2004
Hardback ISBN 1876843535: £48.00, Paperback ISBN 1876843594: £19.99     Details

NATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY: The Japanese Challenge to Western Academic Hegemony
by Takami Kuwayama, 184 pp., publ. 2004
Hardback ISBN 1876843829: £48.00, Paperback ISBN 1876843764: £19.99     Details

PERIPHERAL CENTRE, THE: Essays on Japanese History and Civilization
by Johann Arnason, 234 pp., publ. 2002
Hardback ISBN 1876843950: £48.00, Paperback ISBN 1876843071: £19.99     Details

SHADOWS ON THE SCREEN: Tanizaki Jun’ichir" on Cinema and "Oriental" Aesthetics
by Thomas LaMarre, 422 pp., publ. 2005
Hardback ISBN 1929280327: £45.00, Paperback ISBN 1929280335: £14.99     Details

SOCIAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN, VOL. 1
edited by Shigeru Nakayama, 632 pp., publ. 2001
Hardback ISBN 1876843101: £60.00     Details

SOCIAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN, VOL. 2
edited by Shigeru Nakayama, 750 pp., publ. 2005
Hardback ISBN 1876843705: £60.00     Details

SOCIAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN, VOL. 3
edited by Shigeru Nakayama, Kunio Goto & Hitoshi Yoshioka, 754 pp., publ. 2006
Hardback ISBN 1876843292: £60.00     Details

STUDENT GUIDE TO JAPANESE SOURCES IN THE HUMANITIES, A
by Yasuko Makino & Masaei Saito, 164 pp., publ. 1994
Paperback ISBN 0939512645: £13.99     Details

SURVEY OF JAPANESE COLLECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATED
by Naomi Fukuda, 192 pp., publ. 1981
Paperback ISBN 0939512092: £6.99

WOMEN AND CLASS IN JAPANESE HISTORY
edited by Hitomi Tonomura, Anne Walthall & Wakita Haruko, 339 pp., publ. 2006
Paperback 1 929280 35 1: £16.99     Details

YOUTH DEVIANCE IN JAPAN: Class Reproduction of Non-Conformity
by Robert Stuart Roder, 200 pp., publ. 2004
Hardback ISBN 1876843179: £48.00, Paperback ISBN 187684311X: £19.99     Details

 

SOUTHEAST ASIA

ATLAS OF LAOS: Spatial Structures of the Economic and Social Development of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
by Bounthavy Sisouphanthong & Christian Taillard, 160 pp., 299 colour maps, publ. 2000
Paperback ISBN 9788787062879: £17.99     Details

BETWEEN HILLS AND PLAINS: Power and Practice in Socio-Religious Dynamics among Karen
by Yoko Hayami, 385 pp., publ. 2004
Hardback ISBN 1920901035: £48.00     Details

BEYOND THE GREEN MYTH: Borneo’s Hunter-Gatherers in the 21st Century
edited by Peter G. Sercombe & Bernard Sellato, 384 pp., illus. & maps, publ. 2007
Hardback ISBN 9788791114847: £45.00, paperback ISBN 9788776940188: £19.99     Details

CHAM MUSLIMS OF THE MEKONG DELTA: Place and Mobility in the Cosmopolitan 
Periphery
by Philip Taylor, 313 pp., illustrated, publ. 2007
Paperback ISBN 9788776940096: £14.99     Details

CHILDBIRTH AND TRADITION IN NORTHEAST THAILAND: 40 Years of Development and Cultural Change
by Anders Poulsen, 267 pp., illustrated, publ. 2007
Paperback ISBN 9788776940034: £18.99     Details

CIVIL SOCIETY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
edited by Lee Hock Guan, 276 pp., publ. 2004
Paperback ISBN 9788791114540: £17.99     Details

CONSTRUCTING SINGAPORE: Elitism, Ethnicity and the Nation-Building Project
by Michael D. Barr & Zlatko Skrbi, 320 pp., illustrated, March 2008
Hardback ISBN 9788776940287: £50.00, paperback ISBN 9788776940294: £16.99     Details

CREATING LAOS: The Making of a Lao Space between Indochina and Siam, 1860-1945
by Søren Ivarsson, 238 pp., publ. 2008
Hardback ISBN 9788776940225: £35.00; paperback ISBN 9788776940232: £17.99     Details

ETHNIC RELATIONS AND NATION-BUILDING IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: The Case of the Ethnic Chinese
edited by Leo Suryadinata, 251 pp., illustrated, publ. 2005
Paperback ISBN 9788791114526: £15.99     Details

EXPLORING ETHNIC DIVERSITY IN BURMA
edited by Mikael Gravers, 283 pp., illustrated, publ. 2007
Paperback ISBN 9788791114960: £16.99     Details

GENDER PRACTICES IN CONTEMPORARY VIETNAM
edited by Lisa Drummond & Helle Rydstrom, 274 pp., illustrated, publ. 2004
Paperback ISBN 9788791114724: £16.99     Details

IN SEARCH OF CHIN IDENTITY: A Study in Religion, Politics and Ethnic Identity in Burma
by Lian H. Sakhong, 301 pp., maps, publ. 2003
Hardback ISBN 9788791114151: £45.00     Details

KINSHIP AND FOOD IN SOUTH EAST ASIA
edited by Monica Janowski & Fiona Kerlogue, 292 pp., illustrated, publ. 2007
Paperback ISBN 9788791114939: £17.99     Details

LAND AND LONGHOUSE: Agrarian Transformation in the Uplands of Sarawak
by R. A. Cramb, 422 pp., illustrated, publ. 2007
Paperback ISBN 9788776940102: £24.99     Details

LOOKING FOR MONEY: Capitalism and Modernity in an Orang Asli Village
by Albert Gomes, 236 pp., publ. 2004
Paperback ISBN 9834004257: £11.99     Details

MONEY AND POWER IN PROVINCIAL THAILAND
edited by Ruth McVey, 288 pp., maps, publ. 1999
Hardback ISBN 9788787062671: £40.00, Paperback ISBN 9788787062701: £14.99     Details

NATURE AND NATION: Forests and Development in Peninsular Malaysia
by Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells, 487 pp., maps & illustrations, publ. 2005
Hardback ISBN 9788791114229: £55.00, Paperback ISBN 9788791114496: £17.99     Details

ONE MALAY VILLAGE: Thirty Years of Change and Continuity
by Yoshihiro Tsubouchi, 297 pp., publ. 2001
Hardback ISBN 4876984506: £42.00, Paperback ISBN 1876843993: £19.99     Details

OTHER MALAYS: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Modern Malay World
by Joel S. Kahn, 228 pp., maps, publ. 2006
Paperback ISBN 9788776940072: £14.99     Details

PERFORMING THE NATION: Cultural Politics in New Order Indonesia
by Jörgen Hellman, 210 pp., illustrated, publ. 2004
Hardback ISBN 9788791114090: £40.00     Details

PEOPLE OF VIRTUE: Reconfiguring Religion, Power and Moral Order in Cambodia Today
edited by Alexandra Kent & David Chandler, 320 pp., 28 illustrations, March 2008
Hardback ISBN 9788776940362: £45.00, paperback ISBN 9788776940379: £18.99     Details

PIRATES IN PARADISE: A Modern History of Southeast Asia’s Maritime Marauders
by Stefan Eklöf, 184 pp., maps & illustrations, publ. 2006
Hardback ISBN 9788791114366: £33.00, Paperback ISBN 9788791114373: £13.99     Details

POST-WAR LAOS: The Politics of Culture, History and Identity
by Vatthana Pholsena, 256 pp., illustrated, publ. 2006
Paperback ISBN 9788776940058: 14.99     Details

PROPER ISLAMIC CONSUMPTION: Shopping among the Malays in Modern Malaysia
by Johan Fischer, 272 pp, 30 illustrations, March 2008
Hardback ISBN 9788776940317: £40.00, paperback ISBN 9788776940324: £17.99     Details

RED HILLS: Migration and the State in the Highlands of Vietnam
by Andrew Hardy, 384 pp., maps & illustrations in colour , hardback publ. 2003, paperback publ. 2005
Hardback ISBN 9788791114809: £50.00, Paperback ISBN 9788791114748: £18.99     Details

SEARCHING FOR VIETNAM: Selected Writings on Vietnamese Culture and Society
by A. Terry Rambo, 456 pp., publ. 2005
Hardback ISBN 1920901051: £48.00     Details

SOCIAL DYNAMICS OF DEFORESTATION IN THE PHILIPPINES, THE: Actions, Options and Motivations
by Gerhard van den Top, 410 pp., maps (3 in colour) & illus., publ. 2003
Hardback ISBN 9788791114144: £40.00     Details

SOCIAL ECOLOGY OF TROPICAL FORESTS
edited by Ken-ichi Abe, Wil de Jong & Tuk po Kye, 358 pp., publ 2006
Hardback ISBN 1920901108: £48.00     Details

SOCIOLOGY OF SOUTHEAST ASIA, THE: Transformations in a Developing Region
by Victor T. King, 334 pp., illustrated, publ. January 2008
Hardback ISBN 9788791114595: £50.00, Paperback ISBN 9788791114601: £16.99     Details

TOURISM IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: Challenges and New Directions
edited by Michael Hitchcock, Victor T. King & Michael Parnwell, 352 pp., illustrated, March 2008
Hardback ISBN 9788776940331: 50.00, paperback ISBN 9788776940348: £16.99     Details

UNIQUELY VIETNAMESE
by James Edward Goodman, 279 pp., illustrated in colour, publ. 2007
Paperback ISBN 9789078239048: £14.99     Details

VIETNAM ON THE MOVE
by May Ly Quang, 185 pp., full colour illustrations, publ. 2007
Paperback ISBN 9789078239000: £14.99     Details

WANDERING THROUGH VIETNAMESE CULTURE
by Huu Ngoc, 1124 pp., publ. 2006
Paperback ISBN 9789078239017: £24.99     Details

WOMEN AND POLITICS IN THAILAND
edited by Kazuki Iwanaga and Marjorie Suriyamongkol, 284 pp., publ. 2008
Hardback ISBN 9788791114342: £40.00, Paperback ISBN 9788791114359: £13.99     Details

 

SOUTH ASIA

FROM SUBJECTS TO CITIZENS: Balinese Villagers in the Indonesian Nation-State
by Lyn Parker, 288 pp., maps & illustrations, publ. 2003
Hardback ISBN 9788791114045: £40.00     Details

MODERNIZATION AND EFFEMINIZATION IN INDIA: Kerala Cashew Workers Since 1930
by Anna Lindberg, 200 pp., illustrated, publ. 2004
Hardback ISBN 9788791114212: £45.00     Details

 

OTHER PARTS OF ASIA, AND ASIA GENERAL

DISLOCATING NATION-STATES
edited by Patricio N. Abinales, Noburo Ishikawa & Akio Tanabe, 289 pp., publ. 2005
Hardback ISBN 1920901078: £48.00     Details

DISPLACEMENT RISKS IN AFRICA
edited by Itaru Ota & Gebre Yntiso, 394 pp., publ. 2005
Hardback ISBN 1920901086: £48.00     Details

GENDER POLITICS IN ASIA: Women Manoeuvring within Dominant Gender Orders
edited by Wil Burghoorn, Kazuki Iwanaga, Cecilia Milwertz & Qi Wang, 252 pp., publ. February 2008
Paperback ISBN 9788776940157: £14.99     Details

GETTING PUBLISHED: A Companion for the Humanities and Social Sciences
by Gerald Jackson & Marie Lenstrup, 128 pp., publ. March 2008
Hardback ISBN 9788791114762: £30.00, Paperback ISBN 9788791114779: £12.99     Details

GLOBALIZATION, CULTURE AND INEQUALITY IN ASIA
edited by Timothy J. Scrase, Todd Holden & Scott Baum, 250 pp., publ. 2003
Hardback ISBN 1876843888: £48.00, Paperback ISBN 1876843942: £19.99     Details

INTENTIONAL SOCIAL CHANGE: A Rational Choice Theory
by Yoshimichi Sato, 234 pp., publ. 2006
Hardback ISBN 1876843160: £48.00, Paperback ISBN 1876843187: £19.99     Details

POLITICS, CULTURE AND SELF: East Asian and North European Perspectives
edited by Geir Helgesen & S›ren Risbjerg Thomsen, 275 pp., illustrated, publ. 2006
Paperback ISBN 9788791114991: £19.99     Details

SOCIOLOGY OF HAPPINESS, A
edited by Kenji Kosaka, 260 pp., publ. 2006
Hardback ISBN 1876843276: £45.00, paperback ISBN 1876843284: £22.99     Details

WORKING AND MOTHERING IN ASIA: Images, Ideologies and Identities
edited by Theresa Devashayam & Brenda S. A. Yeoh, 256 pp., publ. 2007
Paperback ISBN 9788776940133: £16.99     Details