Asian category: 13860 books
Flying from the Black Hole
The B-52 Navigator-Bombardiers of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Air Force navigators and bombardiers have long labored under the shadow of pilots--their contributions undervalued, misunderstood, or simply unknown to the general public. This was especially the case with the non-pilot officer aircrew in the Vietnam and Cold War-era B-52 Stratofortress. Of the six people...
Korea: The Impossible Country
South Korea's Amazing Rise from the Ashes: The Inside Story of an Economic, Political and Cultural Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
"Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full story of Korea today." —Martin Uden, Former British Ambassador to South Korea
In just fifty years, South Korea has transformed itself from...
by Alice Pung
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Winner, 2011 Western Australian Book Awards
At twenty-something, Alice is eager for the milestones of adulthood: leaving home, choosing a career, finding friendship and love on her own terms. But with each step she takes she feels the sharp tug of invisible threads: the love and worry of her...
Island of Guanyin
Mount Putuo and Its Gazetteers
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Among Chinese religious sites, Mount Putuo, the "Island of Guanyin," stands out as a fascinating embodiment of China's vibrant Buddhist tradition. A small island in the East China Sea, it has been the single most important pilgrimage site for the worship of Guanyin, the beloved Bodhisattva...
by Tzu Sun
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 1994
The definitive translation of Sun-tzu's timeless classic of military strategy, Art of War
Art of War is almost certainly the most famous study of strategy ever written and has had an extraordinary influence on the history of warfare. The principles Sun-tzu expounded were utilized brilliantly...
The Golden Peaches of Samarkand
A Study of T’ang Exotics
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
In the seventh century the kingdom of Samarkand sent formal gifts of fancy yellow peaches, large as goose eggs and with a color like gold, to the Chinese court at Ch’ang-an. What kind of fruit these golden peaches really were cannot now be guessed, but they have the glamour of mystery, and they...
by Ina Asim, Anthony Deblasi, Peter Ditmanson
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
The Human Tradition in Premodern China is a collection of biographical essays revealing the variety and complexity of human experience in China from the earliest historical times to the dawn of the modern age. China is a vast country with a long history, and one which is by itself as complex as the...
Southeast Asia
An introductory history
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
The first edition of Southeast Asia: An introductory history was published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in a tantalisingly different part of the world. Subsequent editions (translated into Japanese, Khmer, Korean and Thai) have continued to document...
A History of Early Southeast Asia
Maritime Trade and Societal Development, 100–1500
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
This comprehensive history provides a fresh interpretation of Southeast Asia from 100 to 1500, when major social and economic developments foundational to modern societies took place on the mainland (Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam) and the island world (Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines)....
by Dougald J.W. O'Reilly
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2006
Early Civilizations of Southeast Asia presents a fascinating synthesis of research on the prehistoric societies of mainland Southeast Asia. Drawing on archaeological and historical research, both old and new, Dougald O'Reilly provides a general picture of the events that shaped the region in ancient...
Thailand
The Worldly Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
Tourist brochures and travel guides depict Thailand as an exotic country with a rich cultural heritage, strong religious traditions, and a popular monarchy. Historians also contribute to Thailand’s international allure with chronicles of its unique historical and cultural continuity in comparison...
Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War
The Yakeato Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
When we look in detail at the various peripheral groups of disenfranchised people emerging from the aftermath of the Asia–Pacific War the list is startling: Koreans in Japan (migrants or forced labourers), Burakumin, Hibakusha, Okinawans, Asian minorities, comfort women and many others. Many of...
Kurosawa
Film Studies and Japanese Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2000
The films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically informed study of the influential director’s cinema, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto definitively analyzes Kurosawa’s...
Neonationalist Mythology in Postwar Japan
Pal's Dissenting Judgment at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Radhabinod Pal was an Indian jurist who achieved international fame as the judge representing India at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and dissented from the majority opinion, holding that all Japanese “Class A” war criminals were not guilty of any of the charges brought against them. In postwar...