Asian category: 13860 books
Foucault and the Kamasutra
The Courtesan, the Dandy, and the Birth of Ars Erotica as Theater in India
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
The Kamasutra is best known in the West for its scandalous celebration of unbridled sensuality. Yet, there is much, much more to it; embedded in the text is a vision of the city founded on art and aesthetic pleasure. In Foucault and the "Kamasutra", Sanjay K. Gautam lays out the nature and...
The Sino-Japanese War and Youth Literature
Friends and Foes on the Battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
The Sino-Japanese War (1937 – 1945) was fought in the Asia-Pacific theatre between Imperial Japan and China, with the United States as the latter’s major military ally. An important line of investigation remains, questioning how the history of this war has been passed on to post-war generations’...
An Exciting Future
The Story Of Lek, A Bar Girl In Pattaya
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Lek was born the eldest daughter to a lower middle-class family of rice farmers in northern Thailand. When her father died young and unexpectedly, the family found out that the farm was in hock to the bank.
They had to do something radical to save it, but the only idea that they could come...
Containing Russia's Nuclear Firebirds
Harmony and Change at the International Science and Technology Center
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In Containing Russia’s Nuclear Firebirds, Glenn E. Schweitzer explores the life and legacy of the International Science and Technology Center in Moscow. He makes the case that the center’s unique programs can serve as models for promoting responsible science in many countries of the world.
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by Andrew Tharp, Anthony DiCristofano, Richard Babin
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
The famed samurai sword (nihonto) represents the pinnacle of bladed weaponry in the Japanese warrior’s arsenal. This book addresses the sword’s intrinsic historic, monetary, military, and artistic values.The seven chapters for this particular anthology were selected from materials published in...
Becoming Imperial Citizens
Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
In this remarkable account of imperial citizenship, Sukanya Banerjee investigates the ways that Indians formulated notions of citizenship in the British Empire from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth. Tracing the affective, thematic, and imaginative tropes that underwrote Indian...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
"This new and enlarged version of Readings in Russian Civilization is the result of fairly extensive revisions. There are now 72 instead of 64 items; 20 of the selections are new. The first volume has undergone the least change with 3 new items, of which 2 appear in English for the first time....
Between Europe and Asia
The Origins, Theories, and Legacies of Russian Eurasianism
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Between Europe and Asia analyzes the origins and development of Eurasianism, an intellectual movement that proclaimed the existence of Eurasia, a separate civilization coinciding with the former Russian Empire. The essays in the volume explore the historical roots, the heyday of the movement in...
Embracing the East
White Women and American Orientalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2002
As exemplified by Madame Butterfly, East-West relations have often been expressed as the relations between the masculine, dominant West and the feminine, submissive East. Yet, this binary model does not account for the important role of white women in the construction of Orientalism. Mari Yoshihara's...
Shaping Indian Diaspora
Literary Representations and Bollywood Consumption away from the Desi
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The Indian diaspora is the largest diasporic movement from Asia, with the Indian community numbering over twenty-five million around the world. Its large scale encompasses a kaleidoscopic community from disparate regions, languages, cultural heritages, religions, and traditions within the subcontinent....
by John Hutnyk
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
With importance for geopolitical cultural economy, anthropology, and media studies, John Hutnyk brings South Asian circuits of scholarship to attention where, alongside critical Marxist and poststructuralist authors, a new take on film and television is on offer.
The book presents Raj-era costume...
Korean Society
Civil Society, Democracy and the State
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
While most analyses of Korean politics have looked to elites to explain political change, this new and revised edition of Korean Society examines the role of ordinary people in this dramatic transformation. Taking the innovative theme of 'civil society' - voluntary organizations outside the role of...
From Temple to Museum
Colonial Collections and Umā Maheśvara Icons in the Middle Ganga Valley
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Religious icons have been a contested terrain across the world. Their implications and understanding travel further than the artistic or the aesthetic and inform contemporary preoccupations.This book traces the lives of religious sculptures beyond the moment of their creation. It lays bare their purpose...
Chinese Education and Society A Bibliographic Guide
A Bibliographic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This title was first published in 1972: This bibliography is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference work available on developments in Chinese education since 1966. In addition to primary materials from the people's Republic of China, the entries are drawn from other Asian sources, as well...