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Islands of Discontent
Okinawan Responses to Japanese and American Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2003
Exploring contemporary Okinawan culture, politics, and historical memory, this book argues that the long Japanese tradition of defining Okinawa as a subordinate and peripheral part of Japan means that all claims of Okinawan distinctiveness necessarily become part of the larger debate over contemporary...
Culture of Encounters
Sanskrit at the Mughal Court
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Culture of Encounters documents the fascinating exchange between the Persian-speaking Islamic elite of the Mughal Empire and traditional Sanskrit scholars, which engendered a dynamic idea of Mughal rule essential to the empire's survival. This history begins with the invitation of Brahman and Jain...
by George Fetherling
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Most western critics of the junta that has ruled Burma since 1962—violently suppressing the democracy movement and crushing human rights while dominating the international opium trade—have hesitated to visit the country lest the cost of their trip help to prop up the regime. George Fetherling...
Into the Twilight of Sanskrit Court Poetry
The Sena Salon of Bengal and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
At the turn of the twelfth-century into the thirteenth, at the court of King Laksmanasena of Bengal, Sanskrit poetry showed profound and sudden changes: a new social scope made its definitive entrance into high literature. Courtly and pastoral, rural and urban, cosmopolitan and vernacular confronted...
The Chinese Army Today
Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The Chinese Army Today is a comprehensive study of the Chinese military, examining its ground forces in a level of detail not found in any other contemporary works. This new, revised edition has been fully updated to take account of recent changes in the institution.
In 1999, the military modernization...
Britain and Tibet 1765-1947
A Select Annotated Bibliography of British Relations with Tibet and the Himalayan States including Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan<BR>Revised and Updated to 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
This bibliography is a record of British relations with Tibet in the period from 1765 to 1947. It also provides background information to Tibet's claims to independence, an issue of current importance. The work is divided into a number of sections and subsections, based on chronology, geography and...
Ancient China and the Yue
Perceptions and Identities on the Southern Frontier, c.400 BCE–50 CE
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
In this innovative study, Erica Fox Brindley examines how, during the period 400 BCE–50 CE, Chinese states and an embryonic Chinese empire interacted with peoples referred to as the Yue/Viet along its southern frontier. Brindley provides an overview of current theories in archaeology and linguistics...
The Silk Road: Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran
A Travel Companion
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Stretching from the ancient Chinese capital of Xian across the expanses of Central Asia to Rome, the Silk Road was, for 2,000 years, a vibrant network of arteries that carried the lifeblood of nations across the world. Along a multitude of routes everything was exchanged: exotic goods, art, knowledge,...
Ancient China
A History
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Ancient China: A History surveys the East Asian Heartland Region – the geographical area that eventually became known as China – from the Neolithic period through the Bronze Age, to the early imperial era of Qin and Han, up to the threshold of the medieval period in the third century CE. For most...
The Invasion of Afghanistan and UK-Soviet Relations, 1979-1982
Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume VIII
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
This volume examines British policy towards the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979.
The documents in this volume, many released into the public realm for the first time, describe the development of British policy towards the Soviet Union during the...
Understanding Central Asia
Politics and Contested Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Since Soviet collapse, the independent republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have faced tremendous political, economic, and security challenges. Focusing on these five republics, this textbook analyzes the contending understandings of the politics of the past,...
Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India
Visions of Horror, Allegories of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
This book explores literary and scholarly representations of India from the 18th to the early 20th centuries in South Asia and the West with idolatry as a point of entry. It charts the intellectual horizon within which the colonial idea of India was framed, tracing sources and genealogies which inform...
by Li Anshan
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
A History of Overseas Chinese in Africa to 1911 explores early Chinese knowledge of and contacts with Africa through Chinese literature on Africa and current archeological evidence, suggesting Sino-African trade existed as early as the seventh century. Li provides readers with an uncomplicated history...
by Jack Chen
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
This eBook edition appears to coincide with the acquisition of the Exclusion/Inclusion Exhibition from the New York Historical Society by the Chinese Historical Society of America in San Francisco (CHSA).
“Before World War I, when Chinese contributed importantly to the building of America...