Asian category: 13860 books
Documentary, World History, and National Power in the PRC
Global Rise in Chinese Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Documentaries have recently become a favourite format for Chinese state-directed media to present an officially sanctioned view of history. Indeed, this is not confined to Chinese national history. In stark contrast to the earlier self-centred preoccupation with Chinese history, there has been an...
Cities in Motion
Urban Life and Cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920–1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
In the 1920s and 1930s, the port-cities of Southeast Asia were staging grounds for diverse groups of ordinary citizens to experiment with modernity, as a rising Japan and American capitalism challenged the predominance of European empires after the First World War. Both migrants and locals played...
Navies of South-East Asia
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This book provides a comprehensive survey of the development and operations of the navies of South-East Asia since the end of World War II.
The navies of South-East Asia have rarely been the subject of systematic attention but, as the maritime strategic balance within Asia becomes more complex...
by Axel Aberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
axel aberg has been enthusiastically cooking Asian and all sorts of other foods for 40 years. He travels widely and writes thriller novels set in far-flung places. his 5-star thai recipes is a complete guide to thai cuisine in a compact format. learn the basics of thai ingredients and how to combine...
Cambodian Cooking
A humanitarian project in collaboration with Act for Cambodia [Cambodian Cookbook, 60 Recipes]
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Prepare all your favorite Cambodian foods with this easy-to-follow and informative Cambodian cookbook.
New cookbooks on Asian cuisines are much easier to find now than in years past. However, it's still very difficult to find a useful cookbook that focuses on the foods of Cambodia. Now, for...
Foreign Exchange
Counterculture behind the Walls of St. Hilda's School for Girls, 1929–1937
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Foreign Exchange: Counterculture behind the Walls of St. Hilda's School for Girls, 1929-1937 is the story of Yeh Yuanshuang and Dorothea Kingsley Wakeman and their experiences at the American missionary school. Founded in 1875, the school that would become St. Hilda's School for Girls was intended...
by David J. Garms
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
David Garms’s With the Dragon’s Children is the first-hand account of interactions with Vietcong who responded to the South Vietnamese government’s amnesty program. The narrative, packed with information about Vietnamese attitudes, aspirations, and reactions to the war, explores their rich history...
The Chinese Journalist
Mediating Information in the World's Most Populous Country
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
The Chinese Journalist provides an intriguing introduction to Chinese journalists and their roles within society for both students of Media and Asian Studies. The book initially offers a background history of journalists and the media in Communist China before examining the origins and development of Chinese journalism in the nineteenth century.
A Critical Study of R.K. Narayan's
Swami and Friends and The Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Swami: Post-Colonial Bildungsroman 9 2. Swami: An Indian Schoolboy Fiction 13 3. Characters in Swami and Friends 17 4. Realism in R.K. Narayan's Novels 21 5. Tradition and Modernity in The Guide 25 6. The Guide: A Hindu Novel 31 7. The Ending of The Guide 35 8. Velan's Character in The Guide 39 9. Works Cited 41
by Prakash M. Joshi
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
R.K. Narayan is the first modern Indian writer to make a full-time career out of literature. He is ranked among the greatest fiction writers of the world, Narayan presents a profound moral vision in his novels without being didactic. He is generally realistic and at the same time artistic. The present...
Away
The Indian Writer as an Expatriate
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
For more than a generation, Indian writers in English have won praise in the West. The roll call of Indian-born writers is startling: Rushdie, Mukerjee, Mehta, Ghosh, Naipaul, Kureishi, Narayan, Mistry, among many others.
Amitava Kumar, himself an Indian writer now 'away' in America, is editing a...
Annotating Salman Rushdie
Reading the Postcolonial
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
How does one read a foundational postcolonial writer in English with declared Indian subcontinent roots?
This book looks at ways of reading, and uncovering and recovering meanings, in postcolonial writing in English through the works of Salman Rushdie. It uses textual criticism and applied...
Empire, Industry and Class
The Imperial Nexus of Jute, 1840-1940
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Presenting a new approach towards the social history of working classes in the imperial context, this book looks at the formation of working classes in Scotland and Bengal. It analyses the trajectory of labour market formation, labour supervision, cultures of labour and class formation between two...
Samuel Jonson
Re-evaluation as a Critic
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
This book offers an analyses of criticism by Jonson on five poets, obscure poets, contemporary critics, Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies both. This study is a re-evaluation of the criticism by Jonson made during the period English literature flowered and gave new direction to its readers. Contents...