An updated edition of an INSIGHT GUIDE to East Asia, focusing on five destinations: Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and China. Includes maps, practical travel information and cultural and historical b...
The preparation of this book began in 2011 and was connected with the 5th centenary of establishing contacts between Europe and South-East Asia. After Goa was conquered by the Portuguese in 1509, A...
For centuries, the art and culture of China and Japan have exerted aparticular fascination on the West. Items from Imperial China once filledthe porcelain cabinets of European courts, and Japanese pai...
Guan Zhaoye is Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning, Tsinghua University, Beijing and Chairman of the Committee on Architectural Theory and Creation, Institute of Chinese Architects, a...
Never before have so many stunning new talents from the East had such impact and influence on world design as in the past decade. Point to the East showcases some of the most exciting artists and desi...
As the economies of East Asia shape a development strategy, trade and investment integration will be key elements. Increasingly the development agenda in the region, with its focus on growth, jobs and...
Can East Asia restore its near magical economic performance, or is its competitive strength beginning to erode? This volume argues that East Asian countries have far from exhausted their growth potent...
Although attention has focused on public sector initiatives to fight corruption on the demand side, private companies have developed programmes of ethics and compliance to fight it on the "supply side...
Covers travel in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea and Taiwan
Essential words and phrases in Burmese, Khmer, Lao, Malay & Indonesian, Pilipino, Thai and Vietnamese.the only phrasebook to thoroughly cover the languages of Sout-East Asiawritten by leading experts ...
This database yeilds an invaluable economic background on an important new region emerging in the heart of the Eurasian continent.Features include:* detailed articles covering regional issues such as ...
For over 25 years it's been toted in backpacks down the Mekong and up Kinabalu, through Indonesia, around Thailand, from the Philippines to Singapore and everywhere in between. Take the "Yellow Bible"...
This third book in the series focuses on how small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) contribute to achieving and sustaining growth and performance in their economies, as well as the ways in which go...
Pinyin spellings for Chinese words are recognizable and valuable to even beginning students.Expanded coverage of Korea and Vietnam deepens students' knowledge of the histories of these two influential...
Studies of business in China often focus on the People's Republic of China as it continues its slow progress towards becoming an economic superpower. But the 60 million Chinese who live outside of Chi...
Several years before the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, most East Asian economies with the exception of China had engaged in the liberal reform prescriptions of the Washington Consensus. The Asian fi...
The importance of East Asia in the global economy is now unquestionable, and its market expansion, driven by a population of nearly 1.9 billion, will strongly influence the tempo of international trad...
Profiles the major political events in the histories of the countries of Central, South and East Asia * An individual chronology for each country of the region * Provides a concise profile of events f...
Charts the major events and memorable dates in the political histories of the countries of South-East Asia and Oceania. * Alphabetically listed individual country chronologies * Each chronology lists ...
'This is a welcome addition to the body of work on IJV performance. The emphasis on marketing and on S.E. Asia is particularly timely.'- Paul Beamish, University of Western Ontario, CanadaCraig Julian...
South East Asia has undergone important economic, social and political developments in the last decade. The emergence of China as Asia's largest pool of cheap labour has resulted in remarkable changes...
Paradorn Rangsimaporn examines the range and nature of Russian foreign policy elite perceptions of East Asia and of Russia's role and relations with this region from Yeltsin to Putin. He argues that R...
In this irreverent travellers tale, two twenty-something trouble magnets wreak havoc across South-east Asia as they struggle to escape the backpacker trail. From an encounter with a Xena-obsessed hote...