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The Invitation-Only Zone
The True Story of North Korea's Abduction Project
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A bizarre, little-known tale about the most secretive culture on earth
For decades, North Korea denied any part in the disappearance of dozens of Japanese citizens from Japan’s coastal towns and cities in the late 1970s. But in 2002, with his country on the brink of collapse, Kim Jong-il...
by M. Sivaram
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1994
Although the peaceful struggles of Mahatma Gandhi are well known in the West, the armed resistance of many Indians during World War II is far less understood; this epic drama ads an important layer to the history of India and the British Empire.
The east Asian battlefronts serve as the backgrounds...
by Carmen Navarro Pedrosa
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
In 1966, Imelda Marcos was “rich, young, and beautiful, an Asian Jacqueline Kennedy.” Years later, Benigno Aquino would call her “another Evita Peron,” referring to her ruthless ambition and seemingly insatiable desire for wealth and power. By 1986, she was in exile in Hawaii, having been driven...
Arc of Empire
America's Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Although conventionally treated as separate, America's four wars in Asia were actually phases in a sustained U.S. bid for regional dominance, according to Michael H. Hunt and Steven I. Levine. This effort unfolded as an imperial project in which military power and the imposition of America's political...
Beyond the Shadow of Camptown
Korean Military Brides in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Since the beginning of the Korean War in 1950, nearly 100,000 Korean women have immigrated to the United States as the wives of American soldiers. Based on extensive oral interviews and archival research, Beyond the Shadow of the Camptowns tells the stories of these women, from their presumed association...
Vietnam Today
A Guide to a Nation at a Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
"Pulsating with energy and steeped in dreams."
Vietnam stands at a crossroads. Located in the geographical center of Southeast Asia, Vietnam is a complex mixture of the ancient and the modern. A Soviet-style legacy contrasts with an emerging Western-style market economy. Vietnam is...
Imperial Identity in the Mughal Empire
Memory and Dynastic Politics in Early Modern South and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2015
Having monopolized Central Asian politics and culture for over a century, the Timurid ruling elite was forced from its ancestral homeland in Transoxiana at the turn of the sixteenth century by an invading Uzbek tribal confederation. The Timurids travelled south: establishing themselves as the new...
The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China
A Political History of the Tibetan Institution of Reincarnation
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
A major new work in modern Tibetan history, this book follows the evolution of Tibetan Buddhism's trülku (reincarnation) tradition from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, along with the Emperor of China's efforts to control its development. By illuminating the political aspects of the trülku...
Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs Fourth Revised Edition
A Comprehensive Handbook on Symbolism in Chinese Art Through the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Written with reader accessibility in mind, this comprehensive handbook of symbolism in Chinese art and culture will be an invaluable resource for any student of Eastern art history, Chinese arts and crafts, and anyone interested in commonly held Chinese beliefs and their origins.
In Chinese...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The Platform Sutra comprises a wide range of important Chan/Zen Buddhist teachings. Purported to contain the autobiography and sermons of Huineng (638–713), the legendary Sixth Patriarch of Chan, the sutra has been popular among monastics and the educated elite for centuries. The first study of...
by Sujit Mukherjee
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
The wide-ranging essays presented in this book deal more with the practical than with the theoretical aspects of translation. The emphasis throughout is on the element of discovery inherent in the making as well as in the reading of translations. The author states that translation is necessary to any...
Troubled Testimonies
Terrorism and the English novel in India
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Since the 9/11 attacks terror has established its permeating hold on society’s psyche. Creative writing, a popular and visible cultural witness to the strain, has taken up this destabilization with remarkable regularity. Troubled Testimonies focuses on the Indian novel in English, deriving inspiration...
The Japanese Art of War
Understanding the Culture of Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2005
Military rule and the martial tradition of the samurai dominated Japanese culture for more than eight hundred years. According to Thomas Cleary—translator of more than thirty-five classics of Asian philosophy—the Japanese people have been so steeped in the way of the warrior that some of the manners...
The Epic of Gesar of Ling
Gesar's Magical Birth, Early Years, and Coronation as King
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
The epic of Gesar has been the national treasure of Tibet for almost a thousand years. An open canon of tales about a superhuman warrior-king, the epic is still a living oral tradition, included on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This book is a translation...