Asian category: 13860 books
by James R. Rush
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
The eleven countries of Southeast Asia are diverse in every way, from the ethnicities and religions of their residents to their political systems and levels of prosperity. These nations--Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Brunei, and East Timor--are...
Mangoes & Curry Leaves
Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
For this companion volume to the award-winning Hot Sour Salty Sweet, Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid travel west from Southeast Asia to that vast landmass the colonial British called the Indian Subcontinent. It includes not just India, but extends north to Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal and as far...
Translating Time
Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Under modernity, time is regarded as linear and measurable by clocks and calendars. Despite the historicity of clock-time itself, the modern concept of time is considered universal and culturally neutral. What Walter Benjamin called “homogeneous, empty time” founds the modern notions of progress...
The Culture of Fengshui in Korea
An Exploration of East Asian Geomancy
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2006
The term Fengshui, which literally means 'wind and water,' is the ancient Chinese art of selecting an auspicious site to provide the most harmonious relationship between human and earth. The term is generally translated as 'geomancy,' and has had a deep and extensive impact on Korean, Chinese, and...
A Short History of the Short Story
Western and Asian Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Worldwide Appreciation of the Short Story Form Spans Cultures and Centuries!
In this concise volume, Gulnaz Fatma traces the short story from its origins in fables, ancient poetry, and tales such as The Arabian Nights, to its modern form in the early American stories of Irving, Poe, and Hawthorne,...
Balinese Art
Paintings and Drawings of Bali 1800 - 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
Balinese Art is the first comprehensive survey of Balinese painting from its origins in the traditional Balinese village to its present position at the forefront of the high-priced Asian art scene.
Balinese art has been popular and widely collected around the world for many decades. In fact,...
Living House
An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
The Living House is a pioneering work by respected anthropologist Roxana Waterson that has become a classic in its field. It is first book of its kind to present a detailed picture of houses within the complex social and symbolic fabric of indigenous South-East Asian peoples.
The main focus...
Out in the Midday Sun
The British in Malaya 1880-1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The story of British Malaya and Singapore, from the days of Victorian pioneers to the denouement of independence, is a momentous episode in Britain’s colonial past. Through memoirs, letters and interviews, Margaret Shennan chronicles its halcyon years, the two World Wars, economic depression and diaspora,...
Imperial Alchemy
Nationalism and Political Identity in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
The mid-twentieth century marked one of the greatest watersheds of Asian history, when a range of imperial constructs were declared to be nation-states, either by revolution or decolonisation. Nationalism was the great alchemist, turning the base metal of empire into the gold of nations. To achieve...
100 Questions and Answers About East Asian Cultures
An introductory cultural competence guide for Americans about the customs, history, politics and languages background of people from China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
This basic, introductory guide answers 100 of the questions people ask in everyday conversation. It informs Americans about workers, students and guests from East Asia including China, Taiwan, Macau, Hong Kong, South and North Korea, Japan and Mongolia. Find answers about culture, customs, holidays,...
by Sally Harrison-Pepper, Nyle Monday, Lewis Hershey
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
In contrast to the overabundance of writings about martial arts that are often promotional and misinformative, there are rare works by scholars that are praiseworthy for their sincere, unbiased approach to writing. This is the very definition of “scholarly.” This two-volume...
Asia
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
From one of the world's leading historians?a comprehensive narrative of the 3,000 years that have formed Asia's people, culture, and global destiny
Tracing its origins in Mesopotamia to its modern role on the global geopolitical stage, historian Arthur Cotterell offers a compelling, lively,...
A Short History of China and Southeast Asia
Tribute, Trade and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
China, the world's most populous nation, has always exerted great influence on the traditional kingdoms and modern states of Southeast Asia. Today, history and culture continue to shape the modern relationship.
In this concise volume, Martin Stuart-Fox charts the history of relations between...
Voices from the Vietnam War
Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The Vietnam War's influence on politics, foreign policy, and subsequent military campaigns is the center of much debate and analysis. But the impact on veterans across the globe, as well as the war's effects on individual lives and communities, is a largely neglected issue. As a consequence of cultural...