Asian category: 13860 books
Between Colonialism and Diaspora
Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2006
Bringing South Asian and British imperial history together with recent scholarship on transnationalism and postcolonialism, Tony Ballantyne offers a bold reevaluation of constructions of Sikh identity from the late eighteenth century through the early twenty-first. Ballantyne considers Sikh communities...
by Peter Lorge
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2006
This comprehensive survey of Chinese military history is the only book in English to span the significant years from 900 – 1795. Peter Lorge questions current theories on China’s relationship to war, and argues that war was the most important tool used by the Chinese in building and maintaining...
by David Halloran Lumsdaine
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009
Although a minority of the Asian population, Protestants in Asia are a fast-growing group. What are the political implications of this evangelical Christianity? In some cases, religion has enabled poor and marginalized people to gain greater prosperity, self-confidence and civic skills, and more open-minded...
Grains of Gold
Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
In 1941, philosopher and poet Gendun Chopel (1903–51) sent a large manuscript by ship, train, and yak across mountains and deserts to his homeland in the northeastern corner of Tibet. He would follow it five years later, returning to his native land after twelve years in India and Sri Lanka. But...
The Kaifeng Stone Inscriptions
The Legacy of the Jewish Community in Ancient China
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2006
Points East, A Publication of the Sino-Judaic Institute, Vol. 23 No. 2, July 2008 The Covenant and the Mandate of Heaven: An In-depth Comparative Cultural Study of Judaism and China. By Tiberiu Weisz (iUniverse, 2007) Reviewed by Vera Schwarcz, Director/Chair, Freeman Center for East Asian Studies,...
by Alex Tickell
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study of terrorism, insurgency and the literature of colonial India, Alex Tickell re-envisages the political aesthetics of empire. Organized around key crisis moments in the history of British colonial rule such as the ‘Black Hole’ of Calcutta, the anti-thug...
Sources of Indian Traditions
Modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
For more than fifty years, students and teachers have made the two-volume resource Sources of Indian Traditions their top pick for an accessible yet thorough introduction to Indian and South Asian civilizations. Volume 2 contains an essential selection of primary readings on the social, intellectual,...
Conquest and Community
The Afterlife of Warrior Saint Ghazi Miyan
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Few topics in South Asian history are as contentious as that of the Turkic conquest of the Indian subcontinent that began in the twelfth century and led to a long period of Muslim rule. How is a historian supposed to write honestly about the bloody history of the conquest without falling into communitarian...
Tales of Old Singapore
The Glorious Past of Asia's Greatest Emporium
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Using a patchwork of words and images from Singapore’s residents and visitors of yesteryear, this book shares the often untold colonial past of this busy trading port while shedding light on Asian culture. Old Singapore was an eclectic trade emporium where an ethnically and culturally diverse populace...
Our India the Best
Saaray Jahan Se Achcha Hindostan Hamara
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
A strong yet balanced tone of emotional fervor rings in Asif Siddiqis plea for the political and economic re-union of India and Pakistan, which gives fresh relevance and urgency to this long -standing theme of postcolonial South Asian politics. Was Pakistan ever the pan-Muslim state it claimed to...
Being Human in a Buddhist World
An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Critically exploring medical thought in a cultural milieu with no discernible influence from the European Enlightenment, Being Human in a Buddhist World reveals an otherwise unnoticed intersection of early modern sensibilities and religious values in traditional Tibetan medicine. It further studies...
The Rise of the Ottoman Empire
Studies in the History of Turkey, thirteenth–fifteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Paul Wittek’s The Rise of the Ottoman Empire was first published by the Royal Asiatic Society in 1938 and has been out of print for more than a quarter of a century. The present reissue of the text also brings together translations of some of his other studies on Ottoman history; eight closely interconnected...
Assessing Maritime Disputes in East Asia
Political and Legal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Combining practical and theoretical approaches, this book addresses the political, legal and economic implications of maritime disputes in East Asia.
The maritime disputes in East Asia have multiplied over the past few years, in parallel with the economic growth of the countries in the region,...
Visiting the Neighbours
Australians in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
A million Australians went to Bali last year, following the millions of others who have made their way across Asia over the past century. Many travelers returned thinking they knew Asia and their personal experiences helped shape popular attitudes. This absorbing book unpacks their experiences, showing...