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by Corinne Trang
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Noodle dishes are a beloved staple throughout Asia and are eaten at all hours of the day and night. Asian cuisine expert Corinne Trang presents more than 70 recipes that make it easy to discover such simple pleasures as the Vietnamese rice noodle soup known as Pho, mee krob (a sweet and crispy fried...
East Asia
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Histories of East Asia traditionally emphasize China and Japan, and neglect Korea and Vietnam. Essentially, 20th century East Asia is re-written into the past, as though China and Japan was always the core of East Asian development. This is not at all how East Asia developed. Chinese prehistoric cultures...
Worse Than a Monolith
Alliance Politics and Problems of Coercive Diplomacy in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
In brute-force struggles for survival, such as the two World Wars, disorganization and divisions within an enemy alliance are to one's own advantage. However, most international security politics involve coercive diplomacy and negotiations short of all-out war. Worse Than a Monolith demonstrates that...
China's Soft Power Diplomacy in South Asia
Myth or Reality?
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
China's Soft Power Diplomacy: Myth or Reality? examines the Chinese version of soft power both in conceptual and operational terms, and explores its myriad implications for India, in particular, and South Asia in general. The book investigates how the institutionalization of cultural soft power would...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
This volume examines the trajectory of Pakistan’s democratic transition and the implications of this change for its security.
In May 2013, for the first time in its 66-year history, Pakistan saw an elected government complete a full term in office and transfer power through the ballot box...
Nationalism and Identity Construction in Central Asia
Dimensions, Dynamics, and Directions
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
More than two decades after the break-up of the Soviet Union, Central Asian republics—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan—continue to reexamine and debate whom and what they represent.
Nationalism and Identity Construction in Central Asia explores the complex...
Parallax Visions
Making Sense of American–East Asian Relations at the End of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 1999
In a work that synthesizes crucial developments in international relations at the close of the twentieth century, Bruce Cumings—a leading historian of contemporary East Asia—provides a nuanced understanding of how the United States has loomed over the modern history and culture of East Asia. By...
The Company and the Shogun
The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to thrust itself aggressively into an Asian political order in which it possessed no obvious place and was transformed in the process.
This study focuses on the...
The Battle for Asia
From Decolonization to Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Asia has long been an ideological battleground between capitalism and communism, between nationalism and Westernisation and between the nation-state and globalization. This book is a history of the Asian region from 1945 to the present day which delineates the various ideological battles over Asia's...
Easy Indonesian
Learn to Speak Indonesian Quickly (Downloadable Audio Included)
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
This practical and concise self–study guide will help you learn Indonesian in a very short time
Indonesia is the hot new Asian destination, a country where lively conversation, good humor and warm human interaction are integral parts of daily life. In addition, the Indonesian language is...
Invisible Population
The Place of the Dead in East-Asian Megacities
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
The issue of population ageing in East-Asia has been extensively studied but we remain in the dark as to the fate of the region’s growing dead population, particularly in the largest metropolitan areas where there is bitter competition for space among the various human activities. From private cemetery...
Education in the New China
Shaping Ideas at Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The effects of the de-regulation of the Chinese university system have been nothing short of spectacular. For the first time since 1949, students possessing neither gifted intellect nor political connections have been able to share in the benefits of higher education, while a flood of international...
The Guru in South Asia
New Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book provides a set of fresh and compelling interdisciplinary approaches to the enduring phenomenon of the guru in South Asia. Moving across different gurus and kinds of gurus, and between past and present, the chapters call attention to the extraordinary scope and richness of the social lives...
Vientiane
Transformations of a Lao landscape
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2006
Providing insights into this neglected Southeast Asian city, this interesting book interprets Vientiane’s landscape - physical as well as imagined - as a reflection of key aspects of Lao geo-political history, the nature of Lao urbanism, and its critical relation to constructions of Lao identity...