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Everything Under the Heavens
How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy.
For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained...
The Future of China
The Challenges of Its Asian Neighbors
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
This geopolitcal book provides a holistic overview of the selected modern Chinese political and cultural systems and the problems associated with a Chinese style "free market" system. The purpose and scope of the book is to accurately inform the reader and the trials and tribulations of the Communist...
China's Peaceful Rise
Perceptions, Policy and Misperceptions
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Can China peacefully attain great power status in the twenty-first century? Adopting a constructivist approach, the book argues that China's prospects for achieving great power status peacefully depend more on Chinese and international perceptions of China's rise/development than on concrete measures...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
The twenty-first century has been dubbed the Asian Century. Highlighting diverse thinker-politicians rather than billionaire businessmen, Makers of Modern Asia presents eleven leaders who theorized and organized anticolonial movements, strategized and directed military campaigns, and designed and implemented political systems.
Restless Empire
China and the World Since 1750
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
"A fascinating book and a pleasure to read.... Full of interesting details and insights." --Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world's second biggest economy,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This paper proposes a response to the dangerous proliferation of nuclear weapons in India and Pakistan. This paper highlights the threat in "The Nuclear Catastrophe," a gripping projection of the worst-case...
The Bangladesh Reader
History, Culture, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Bangladesh is the world's eighth most populous country. It has more inhabitants than either Russia or Japan, and its national language, Bengali, ranks sixth in the world in terms of native speakers. Founded in 1971, Bangladesh is a relatively young nation, but the Bengal Delta region has been a major...
Cultural Encounters and Homoeroticism in Sri Lanka
Sex and Serendipity
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, was long known to travellers for its luxuriant landscapes, colourful temples and friendly inhabitants – the island once named Serendip. This book explores the sojourns of gay visitors from the late 1800s to the modern day, providing a history of homosexuality, travel and cultural...
India's War
World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Between 1939 and 1945 India underwent extraordinary and irreversible change. Hundreds of thousands of Indians suddenly found themselves in uniform, fighting in the Middle East, North and East Africa, Europe and-something simply never imagined-against a Japanese army poised to invade eastern India....
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate
Covert Action and Internal Operations
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book is the first comprehensive study of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI).
The rise of Pakistan-backed religious extremist groups in Afghanistan, India, and Central Asia has focused international attention on Pakistan’s premier intelligence organization and...
A Force So Swift
Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
**New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Winner of the 2018 Truman Book Award
A gripping narrative of the Truman Administration's response to the fall of Nationalist China and the triumph of Mao Zedong's Communist forces in 1949--an extraordinary political revolution that continues...
Race War!
White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Japan’s lightning march across Asia during World War II was swift and brutal. Nation after nation fell to Japanese soldiers. How were the Japanese able to justify their occupation of so many Asian nations? And how did they find supporters in countries they subdued and exploited? Race War! delves...
by Barbara W. Tuchman
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
A journalistic tour de force, this wide-ranging collection by the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Stilwell and the American Experience in China is a classic in its own right.
During the summer of 1972—a few short months after Nixon’s legendary visit to China—master historian...
A Delicate Relationship
The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
In 2012, Barack Obama became the first U.S. president ever to visit Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. This official state visit marked a new period in the long and sinuous diplomatic relationship between the United States and Burma/Myanmar, which Kenton Clymer examines in A Delicate Relationship....