Asian category: 13860 books
China in the 21st Century
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world's newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China's meteoric...
Islam after Communism
Religion and Politics in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2014
How do Muslims relate to Islam in societies that experienced seventy years of Soviet rule? How did the utopian Bolshevik project of remaking the world by extirpating religion from it affect Central Asia? Adeeb Khalid combines insights from the study of both Islam and Soviet history to answer these...
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
This sourcebook contains more than 160 documents and writings that reflect the development of Taiwanese literature from the early modern period to the twenty-first century. Selections include seminal essays in literary debates, polemics, and other landmark events; interviews, diaries, and letters...
by Christopher G. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
An American war correspondent, Tony Collins, and a former Khmer Rouge child soldier, Sam Rith, reunite after nearly thirty years. Tony helped the world-weary 15-year-old Sam start a new life in the United States.
Sam Rith arrived in America, sponsored by Christian couple. But Sam took more...
Archaeology of East Asia
The Rise of Civilization in China, Korea and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Archaeology of East Asia constitutes an introduction to social and political development from the Palaeolithic to 8th-century early historic times. It takes a regional view across China, Korea, Japan and their peripheries that is unbounded by modern state lines. This viewpoint emphasizes how the region...
New Qing Imperial History
The Making of Inner Asian Empire at Qing Chengde
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
New Qing Imperial History uses the Manchu summer capital of Chengde and associated architecture, art and ritual activity as the focus for an exploration of the importance of Inner Asia and Tibet to the Qing Empire (1636-1911). Well-known contributors argue that the Qing was not simply another Chinese...
by Daisaku Ikeda
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Beginning with the introduction of the religion into China, this chronicle depicts the evolution of Buddhism. The career and achievements of the great Kumarajiva are investigated, exploring the famed philosophical treatises that form the core of East Asian Buddhist literature. Providing a useful and...
The Alchemical Body
Siddha Traditions in Medieval India
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Alchemical Body excavates and centers within its Indian context the lost tradition of the medieval Siddhas. Working from previously unexplored alchemical sources, David Gordon White demonstrates for the first time that the medieval disciplines of Hindu alchemy and hatha yoga were practiced by...
Maoism and the Chinese Revolution
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The Chinese Revolution changed the face of the twentieth century, and the politics that issued from it—often referred to as “Maoism”—resonated with colonized and oppressed people from the 1970s down to the anticapitalist movements of today. But how did these politics first emerge? And what...
by Vladimir Osherov
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Russia is a European nation by virtue of geography, race, and culture. Regardless, for over three centuries, first under the Czars, then under Communists, Russia and Russian people have been subjected to an unending campaign for "Europeanization". As a result, Russian culture produced some of the...
Discovering History in China
American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Since its first publication, Paul A. Cohen's Discovering History in China has occupied a singular place in American China scholarship. Translated into three East Asian languages, the volume has become essential to the study of China from the early nineteenth century to today.
Cohen critiques...
China Unbound
Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This volume contains a number of articles on modern Chinese history and historiography written by one of the leading academic experts on the subject. The author provides a critique of older approaches to nineteenth-century history and offers powerful reinterpretations of such key events in the recent...
Pathways to Power
The Domestic Politics of South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Pathways to Power introduces the domestic politics of South Asia in their broadest possible context, studying ongoing transformative social processes grounded in cultural forms. In doing so, it reveals the interplay between politics, cultural values, human security, and historical luck. While these...
by Confucius, Séraphin Couvreur
Language: French
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Mon maître Tch’eng tzeu dit : « On appelle milieu ce qui n’incline d’aucun côté, et constant ce qui ne change pas. Le milieu est la voie droite pour tous les êtres, et la constance est la loi invariable qui les régit. Ce traité contient les enseignements...