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The Affect of Difference
Representations of Race in East Asian Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
The Affect of Difference is a collection of essays offering a new perspective on the history of race and racial ideologies in modern East Asia. Contributors approach this subject through the exploration of everyday culture from a range of academic disciplines, each working to show how race was made...
by Laurie Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Based on the recipes by artisinal spices maker Laurie Stewart, a collection of 5 recipes for spice mixtures and 24 recipes for dishes using those spices. includes Szechuan, Vietnamese, Korean and Thai recipes. All from fresh ingredients, and totally home-made, no processed foods.Tastes like...
Asia, Europe, and the Emergence of Modern Science
Knowledge Crossing Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This volume brings together essays from leading thinkers to examine what role Asian traditions of knowledge played in the rise of modern science in Europe, the implications this has for the epistemology of science, and whether pre-modern Asian traditions can provide resources for advancing scientific knowledge in future.
The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India
Exploring Transgressions, Contests and Diversities
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India was much more than a ‘sepoy mutiny’. It was a major event in South Asian and British colonial history that significantly challenged imperialism in India.
This fascinating collection explores hitherto ignored diversities of the Great Rebellion such as...
by Debra Scoggins Ballentine
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
There are many ancient West Asian stories that narrate the victory of a warrior deity over an enemy, typically a sea-god or sea dragon, and his rise to divine kingship. In The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition, Debra Scoggins Ballentine analyzes this motif, arguing that it was used within ancient...
Heritage Conservation and Japan's Cultural Diplomacy
Heritage, National Identity and National Interest
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Japan’s heritage conservation policy and practice, as deployed through its foreign aid programs, has become one of the main means through which post-World War II Japan has sought to mark its presence in the international arena, both globally and regionally. Heritage conservation has been intimately...
ASEAN's Half Century
A Political History of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
This authoritative book provides a comprehensive political history of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the ten members of which are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Leading scholar Donald E. Weatherbee follows...
Empire in Asia: A New Global History
The Long Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Asia was the principle focus of empire-builders from Alexander and Akbar to Chinggis Khan and Qianlong and yet, until now, there has been no attempt to provide a comprehensive history of empire in the region. Empire in Asia addresses the need for a thorough survey of the topic.
This volume...
by Gwen Robbins Schug, Subhash R. Walimbe
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
A Companion to South Asia in the Past provides the definitive overview of research and knowledge about South Asia’s past, from the Pleistocene to the historic era in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, provided by a truly global team of experts.
The most comprehensive and detailed...
Simply Hot Pots
A Complete Course in Japanese Nabemono and Other Asian One-Pot Meals
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
In Japan, hot pot cooking is called nabemono, or nabe, and cooked in donabe, traditional clay pots. Comforting, healthy, affordable, easy, and quick—especially when you make your broth bases in advance—these satisfying one-pot meals can be customized for anyone (including kids!).
Simply...
Narratology and Ideology
Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2018
Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives, edited by Divya Dwivedi, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Richard Walsh, brings together many of the most prominent figures in the interface between narratology and postcolonial criticism. While narrative theory has...
What China and India Once Were
The Pasts That May Shape the Global Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
In the early years of the twenty-first century, China and India have emerged as world powers. In many respects, this is a return to the historical norm for both countries. For much of the early modern period, China and India were global leaders in a variety of ways. In this book, prominent scholars...
Identity, Rights, and Awareness
Anticaste Activism in India and the Awakening of Justice through Discursive Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
For over a decade, Jeremy Rinker, Ph.D. has interacted, observed, and studied Dalit anti-caste social movements in India. In this critical comparative approach to India’s modern anti-caste resistance, Dr. Rinker emphasizes the complex interdependence between narrative practices and social transformation...
by Penglin Wang
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
In Linguistic Mysteries of Ethnonyms in Inner Asia, Penglin Wang focuses on semantics as a central theme in onomastics and strives to unravel the origin and meaning of a series of influential ethnonyms such as Xianbei, Rouran, Tabγač, Tatar, Shiwei, Mongol, Merkid, Nüzhen, Jušen, and Nikan. Since...