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by JaHyun Kim Haboush
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The Imjin War (1592–1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The involvement of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean forces, not to mention the regional scope of the war, was the largest the world had seen, and the memory dominated East Asian memory...
Confucius
And the World He Created
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Confucius is perhaps the most important philosopher in history. Today, his teachings shape the daily lives of more than 1.6 billion people. Throughout East Asia, Confucius's influence can be seen in everything from business practices and family relationships to educational standards and government...
by NETLANCERS INC
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Collection Of Asian Traditional People Volume 2
Asia is also the origin of many of the most important and ancient world religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism.
Georgian Folk Tales :- A collection of folk tales from the nation of Georgia.
Koryak Texts...
Culinary Fictions
Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
For South Asians, food regularly plays a role in how issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and national identity are imagined as well as how notions of belonging are affirmed or resisted. Culinary Fictions provides food for thought as it considers the metaphors literature, film, and TV shows...
A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail
Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary military expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and the most tragic for the Korean peninsula until the mid-twentieth century. Japanese overlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi envisioned conquering Korea, Ming China,...
The End of the Asian Century
War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
An urgently needed “risk map” of the many dangers that could derail Asia’s growth and stability
Since Marco Polo, the West has waited for the “Asian Century.” Today, the world believes that Century has arrived. Yet from China’s slumping economy to war clouds over the South China...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
This book examines the role of mercantile networks in linking Asian economies to the global economy. It contains fourteen contributions on East, Southeast and South Asia covering the period from 1750 to the present.
Asian Face Reading
Unlock the Secrets Hidden in the Human Face
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Imagine how much you could learn if you knew how to evaluate a person's character, health, fortune, social status, sexual charisma, and life expectancy from a careful reading of his or her face.
Face reading, a practice as old as man, is a universal art that we all use every day-with varying...
by Students' Academy
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Asia has a huge variety of mouth watering cuisine. Indian, Chinese, Sri Lankan, Pakistani, Nepali, Bangladeshi, and the dishes from several other countries have their special aroma and flavour.The most significant ingredients in the Asian dishes happen to be the spices and herbs used in them....
The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia
Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2007
In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in modern Asia is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western imperialism. Instead, by focusing on the agency and...
Sovereignty and Authenticity
Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
In this powerful and provocative book, Prasenjit Duara uses the case of Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in northeast China from 1932-1945, to explore how such antinomies as imperialism and nationalism, modernity and tradition, and governmentality and exploitation interacted in the post-World...
Southeast Asia and the Rise of China
The Search for Security
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Since the early 1990s and the end of the Cold War, the implications of China's rising power have come to dominate the security agenda of the Asia-Pacific region. This book is the first to comprehensively chart the development of Southeast Asia’s relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC)...
Chinese Student Migration and Selective Citizenship
Mobility, Community and Identity Between China and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Since China began its open-door and reform policies in 1978, more than three million Chinese students have migrated to study abroad, and the United States has been their top destination. The recent surge of students following this pattern, along with the rising tide of Chinese middle- and upper-classes'...
by Hafiz Akhand, Kanhaya Gupta
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2005
During the period 1965 to 1990 East Asia was the world’s fastest growing region. Economic Development in Pacific Asia provides illuminating, non-technical perspectives on key facets of the region’s economies. The text focuses on the eight countries which accounted for the majority of the economic...