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Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Contact and Exchange between the Graeco-Roman World, Inner Asia and China
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
The great empires of the vast Eurasian continent have captured the imagination of many. Awe-inspiring names such as ancient Rome, Han and Tang China, Persia, Assyria, the Huns, the Kushans and the Franks have been the subject of countless scholarly books and works of literature. However, very rarely,...
Mapping China and Managing the World
Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the notion of ordering their world. Efforts to create and maintain order are expressed not only in China’s bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also in...
Indonesian & Javanese for Professionals
Business, Military, Government, NGOs, Health Workers, Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
This book is a must-have reference and learning tool for anyone wanting to improve their Indonesian or Javanese, and unlike any text currently on the market. Units are organized by topics, and include Village Life, Love, Medical, Transport, School Life, Nature, Military, Religion, and Terrorists and...
Dancing in Shadows
Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge, and the United Nations in Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
This fascinating book recounts the remarkable tale of a career UN official from Indonesia caught in the turmoil of international and domestic politics swirling around Cambodia during the tumultuous period after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Writing from his experience first as a member of the UN transitional...
by David L. McMahan
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
A great deal of Buddhist literature and scholarly writing about Buddhism of the past 150 years reflects and indeed constructs a historically unique modern Buddhism even while purporting to represent ancient tradition timeless teaching or the "essentials" of Buddhism. This literature Asian as well...
Unifying Hinduism
Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Some postcolonial theorists argue that the idea of a single system of belief known as "Hinduism" is a creation of nineteenth-century British imperialists. Andrew J. Nicholson introduces another perspective: although a unified Hindu identity is not as ancient as some Hindus claim, it has...
Reading the Mahāvamsa
The Literary Aims of a Theravada Buddhist History
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Vamsa is a dynamic genre of Buddhist history filled with otherworldly characters and the exploits of real-life heroes. These narratives collapse the temporal distance between Buddha and the reader, building an emotionally resonant connection with an outsized religious figure and a longed-for past....
Siva's Saints
The Origins of Devotion in Kannada according to Harihara's Ragalegalu
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Comprising more than twelve million people and renowned for their resistance to Brahminical values, the Virasaivas are a vibrant and unorthodox religious community with a provocative socio-political voice. The Virasaiva tradition has produced a vast and original body of literature, composed mostly...
Vietnam
The Necessary War
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
A quarter century after its end, the Vietnam War still divides Americans. Some, mostly on the left, claim that Indochina was of no strategic value to the United States and was not worth an American war. Others, mostly on the right, argue that timid civilian leaders and defeatists within the media...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
This important report from the U.S. Army's Strategic Studies Institute provides unique insights into the Russian nuclear arsenal, arms control, and American-Russian relationships. Russian Nuclear Weapons: Past, Present, and Future * 1. Russian Nuclear and Conventional Weapons: The Broken Relationship...
Japan! Regain Your Samurai Spirit
A Message from the Guardian Spirit of Lee Teng-hui, Former President of the Republic of China
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
This book is the record of interviews conducted on Former President of Taiwan Lee Teng-hui’s subconscious [guardian spirit] in February 2014. His true thoughts, as well as the truth on modern East-Asian history, were revealed in these interviews. The book is filled with hints on how to give another...
Colonialism, Violence and Muslims in Southeast Asia
The Maria Hertogh Controversy and its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
This book deals with the genesis, outbreak and far-reaching effects of a legal controversy and the resulting outbreak of mass violence, which determined the course of British colonial rule after post World War Two in Singapore and Malaya. Based on extensive archival sources, it examines the custody...
Politics and Pitfalls of Japan Ethnography
Reflexivity, Responsibility, and Anthropological Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Four anthropologists, Elise Edwards, Ann Elise Lewallen, Bridget Love and Tomomi Yamaguchi, draw on their fieldwork experiences in Japan to demonstrate collectively the inadequacy of both the Code of Ethics developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the dictates of Institutional...
Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism
Spectacle, Politics and History
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach. It looks at expositions, museums and the urban built environment at particular moments in both colonial and postcolonial eras and analyses their discursive...