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India 1885-1947
The Unmaking of an Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The establishment of the Indian National Congress in 1885 marked a turning point in modern South Asian history. At the time, few grasped the significance of the event, nor understood the power that its leader would come to wield. From humble beginnings, the Congress led by Gandhi would go on to spearhead...
by Adrian Buzo
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This fully updated third edition of The Making of Modern Korea provides a thorough, balanced and engaging history of Korea from 1876 to the present day. The text is unique in analysing domestic developments in the two Koreas in the wider context of regional and international affairs.
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The Japanese Empire
Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and became the one non-European great power, its leaders concluded that an empire on the Asian mainland required...
by Donald M. Seekins
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Burma (Myanmar) is a Southeast Asian country that is emerging from crisis after more than a half century of hard-line military rule and cultural, diplomatic and economic isolation. With the dissolution of its military regime, the State Peace and Development Council, in 2011, a formally civilian but...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2006
Offering extensive coverage, this Encyclopedia is a new reference that reflects the vibrant, diverse and evolving culture of modern Japan, spanning from the end of the Japanese Imperialist period in 1945 to the present day. Entries cover areas such as literature, film, architecture, food, health,...
Great Game East
India, China, and the Struggle for Asia's Most Volatile Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Since the 1950s, China and India have been locked in a monumental battle for geopolitical supremacy. Chinese interest in the ethnic insurgencies in northeastern India, the still unresolved issue of the McMahon Line, the border established by the British imperial government, and competition for strategic...
by Samir Kumar Das
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
This book explores contesting identities, international politics, migration and democratic practices in the context of globalizing India. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, it looks at one of the oldest migratory routes across a volatile region in eastern India which is fraught with violent...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
This volume investigates various processes by which world religions become localized, as well as how local traditions in Southeast Asia and Melanesia become universalized. In the name of modernity and progress, the contemporary Southeast Asian states tend to press their populations to have a ‘religion,'...
The Life and Times of Charles R. Crane, 1858–1939
American Businessman, Philanthropist, and a Founder of Russian Studies in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
In The Life and Times of Charles R. Crane, Norman E. Saul analyzes the contributions of Charles R. Crane, world traveler, businessman, diplomat, and philanthropist in the setting of his times. Crane acquired his appreciation for Russian culture and life through travel in the country, making a total...
Divided Lenses
Screen Memories of War in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia is the first attempt to explore how the tumultuous years between 1931 and 1953 have been recreated and renegotiated in cinema. This period saw traumatic conflicts such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, and the Korean War, and pivotal events...
The Secret War for China
Espionage, Revolution and the Rise of Mao
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek - the head of China's military academy and leader of the Kuomintang (KMT) - began the 'northern expeditions' to bring China's northern territories back under the control of the state. It was during this period that the KMT purged communist activities, fractured the army and...
Owning the Olympics
Narratives of the New China
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
"A major contribution to the study of global events in times of global media. Owning the Olympics tests the possibilities and limits of the concept of 'media events' by analyzing the mega-event of the information age: the Beijing Olympics. . . . A good read from cover to cover."
—Guobin...
East-West Exchange and Late Modernism
Williams, Moore, Pound
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
In East-West Exchange and Late Modernism, Zhaoming Qian examines the nature and extent of Asian influence on some of the literary masterpieces of Western late modernism. Focusing on the poets William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Ezra Pound, Qian relates captivating stories about their interactions...
Trade and Contemporary Society along the Silk Road
An ethno-history of Ladakh
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
This book provides an ethno-historical study of the trade system in Ladakh (India), a busy entrepôt for Silk Route trade between Central and South Asia. Previously a part of global networks, Ladakh became an isolated border area as national boundaries were defined and enforced in the mid-20th century....