Asian category: 13860 books
When Mirrors Are Windows
A View of A.K. Ramanujan’s Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In an ocean where myriads of rivers converge, can one sole river lend the ocean its distinct flavour? For someone who is at home with several languages, literary traditions and disciplines, is it possible for one form to criss-cross the landscape of another? In a poet’s world of mirrors, where stream...
Border Work
Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In Central Asia's Ferghana Valley, where Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan meet, state territoriality has taken on new significance in these states' second decade of independence, reshaping landscapes and transforming livelihoods in a densely populated, irrigation-dependent region. Through an...
The Geopolitics of Spectacle
Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Why do autocrats build spectacular new capital cities? In The Geopolitics of Spectacle, Natalie Koch considers how autocratic rulers use "spectacular" projects to shape state-society relations, but rather than focus on the standard approach—on the project itself—she considers the unspectacular...
The Resurgence of East Asia
500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
The East Asian expansion since the 1960s stands out as a global power shift with few historical precedents. The Resurgence of East Asia examines the rise of the region as one of the world's economic power centres from three temporal perspectives: 500 years, 150 years and 50 years, each denoting an...
Cultural Control and Globalization in Asia
Copyright, Piracy and Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This is a succint and well-written book introducing a truly interdisciplinary approach to the study of copyright and related issues in contemporary popular culture in relation to the current development of Asian cinema, and questions how copyright is appropriated to regulate culture. It examines the...
The Disempowered Development of Tibet in China
A Study in the Economics of Marginalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Series:
Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture, Lexington Books
Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Since the central government of China started major campaigns for western development in the mid-1990s, the economies of the Tibetan areas in Western China have grown rapidly and...
Soviet and Muslim
The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Central Asia was the sole Muslim region of the former Russian Empire that lacked a centralized Islamic organization, or muftiate. When Soviet leader Joseph Stalin created such a body for the region as part of his religious reforms during World War II, he acknowledged that the Muslim faith could enjoy...
Collateral Damage
Sino-Soviet Rivalry and the Termination of the Sino-Vietnamese Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Although the Chinese and the Vietnamese were Cold War allies in wars against the French and the Americans, their alliance collapsed and they ultimately fought a war against each other in 1979. More than thirty years later the fundamental cause of the alliance's termination remains contested among...
Flesh and Fish Blood
Postcolonialism, Translation, and the Vernacular
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
In Flesh and Fish Blood Subramanian Shankar breaks new ground in postcolonial studies by exploring the rich potential of vernacular literary expressions. Shankar pushes beyond the postcolonial Anglophone canon and works with Indian literature and film in English, Tamil, and Hindi to present one of...
Reading Migration and Culture
The World of East African Indian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
This book uses the uniquely positioned culture of East African Asians to reflect upon the most vexing issues in postcolonial literary studies today. By examining the local histories and discourses that underpin East African Asian literature, it opens up and reflects upon issues of alienation, modernity, migration, diaspora, memory and nationalism.
Imperial Japan's World War Two
1931-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Gruhl's narrative makes clear why Japan's World War II aggression still touches deep emotions with East Asians and Western ex-prisoners of war, and why there is justifiable sensitivity to the way modern Japan has dealt with this legacy. Knowledge of the enormity of Japan's total war is also necessary...
Colonial Modernities
Midwifery in Bengal, c.1860–1947
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
The subject of medicalisation of childbirth in colonial India has so far been identified with three major themes: the attempt to reform or ‘sanitise’ the site of birthing practices, establishing lying-in hospitals and replacing traditional birth attendants with trained midwives and qualified female...
by Henri Focillon
Language: French
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: October 9, 2015
M
algré les écoles et les groupements, l’art contemporain est avant tout l’expression de l’individu. Le XIXe siècle nous a habitués à concevoir l’art comme une manifestation de pure liberté, se suffisant à elle-même, et, bien avant les théoriciens de l’art pour l’art, la Critique...
The Korean Kimchi Cookbook
78 Fiery Recipes for Korea's Legendary Pickled and Fermented Vegetables
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Kimchi is the newest star on the Asian culinary stage. These kimchi recipes are an appetizing way to add more vegetables with probiotics, vitamins, and enzymes to your health-conscious diet.
This delicious Korean superfood is tasty in a surprisingly tangy, spicy, and pungent way! The Korean...