The topics in this comprehensive volume, which offer Canadian perspectives on contemporary Asian law, include securities, prostitution, environmental, and constitutional law.

This social and political history of the struggle for literacy in rural China shows how China's revolutionary leaders conceived and promoted literacy in the countryside and how villagers made use of the literacy education they were offered.

This is the first comprehensive study of modern Japanese historians and their relationship to nationalism and how they interpreted ancient myths of their origins.

This book throws light on Japanese-Canadian relations in the first few decades of this century.

This book introduces the reader to this unique theatrical form through an exciting series of photographs of operatic performances from many regions of the country.

A comprehensive introduction to the syntactical analysis of classical Chinese.

This book examines some of the most important policy issues confronting Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) governments.

The first comprehensive work on the subject of ASEAN mega-urban regions.

Asia-Pacific Diplomacy traces the evolution of the Pacific economic cooperation movement by examining the diplomatic contributions of three international nongovernmental organizations

The pioneering authority on Chinese historical phonetics Edwin Pulleyblank has compiled this Lexicon to present the result of his researches on the phonology of Middle Chinese and its evolution to Mandarin.

A perceptive case study of racial politics in a non-western political system, this book provides a timely and comprehensive analysis of recent events in this important island state.

Journeys to the Japanese is an affecting account of how lasting international sympathy and understanding can be nourished by encouraging cultural exchange and personal friendship.

A Papua New Guinea Highland people, the Kewa have within their vital oral tradition a rich body of folk tales, eighty of which are brought together in this volume.

This work lays the foundation for a systematization of aspectual categories on the basis of realized versus unrealized rather than completive and incompletive categories.