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by Cynthia Thuma
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
If you've never tried mangoes, you're in for a treat. Not only are mangoes light, delicious, and juicy, they go with anything from grilled pork chops to ice cream. Discover mouth-watering recipes that feature mangoes in salads, meat and seafood dishes, desserts, drinks, and even salsas and chutneys....
China's Policy towards the South China Sea
When Geopolitics Meets the Law of the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This book provides an explanation of Chinese policy towards the South China Sea, and argues that this has been sculpted by the changing dynamics of the law of the sea in conjunction with regional geopolitical flux.
The past few decades have witnessed a bifurcated trend in China’s management...
Japan Between Asia and the West: Economic Power and Strategic Balance
Economic Power and Strategic Balance
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Japan seeks economic competitiveness vis-a-vis the West and economic dominance in Asia, but it mainly competes through cooperative use of economic resources, which facilitates realization of the goals of partner nations. This book studies Japan's balance between the United States and East Asia by...
Nationalism and Internationalism in Imperial Japan
Autonomy, Asian Brotherhood, or World Citizenship?
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2005
Throughout the history of modern Japan there has been a continuous struggle to create an integrated conception of how a politically and/or culturally autonomous Japan might relate to a pluralistic and interactive world. The aim of this study is to scrutinise nationalist and internationalist rhetoric...
Japan's Outcaste Abolition
The Struggle for National Inclusion and the Making of the Modern State
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The Tokugawa Shogunate, which governed Japan for two and a half centuries until the mid-1860s, classed people into hierarchically ranked status groups (mibun). The early Tokugawa rulers legally established these status groups through the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries, adapting and...
The Bengal Diaspora
Rethinking Muslim migration
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
India’s partition in 1947 and the creation of Bangladesh in 1971 saw the displacement and resettling of millions of Muslims and Hindus, resulting in profound transformations across the region. A third of the region’s population sought shelter across new borders, almost all of them resettling in...
Japan
The Precarious Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake off Japan’s northeast coast triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people, displaced 600,000, and caused billions of dollars in damage as well as a nuclear meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japan, the world’s third...
The International Politics of the Asia-Pacific
Fourth and Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
This fully revised fourth edition of Michael Yahuda's successful textbook brings the subject up-to-date, introducing students to the international politics of the Asia-Pacific region since 1945. As well as assessing the post-cold War uncertainties that challenged balance and power with the region,...
Chinese Foreign Relations with Weak Peripheral States
Asymmetrical Economic Power and Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This book examines China’s relations with its weak peripheral states through the theoretical lens of structural power and structural violence.
China’s foreign policy concepts toward its weak neighbouring states, such as the ‘One Belt, One Road’ strategy, are premised on the assumption...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Over the past four decades, East and Southeast Asia have seen a proliferation of heritage sites and remembrance practices which commemorate the region’s bloody conflicts of the period 1931–45. Remembering Asia’s World War Two examines the origins, dynamics, and repercussions of this regional...
by Tiantian Zheng, Kevin Carrico, Professor Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
In globalizing Asia, sexual mores and gender roles are in constant flux. How have economic shifts and social changes altered and reconfigured the cultural meanings of gender and sexuality in the region? How have the changing political economy and social milieu influenced and shaped the inner workings...
The Peranakan Chinese Home
Art and Culture in Daily Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Discover the rarified Peranakan (native-born Chinese of Southeast Asia) aesthetics that are today highly sought-after for their beauty: distinctive furniture and ceramics, textiles and jewelry, and many other art objects. Peranakan Chinese Home displays these extraordinary objects, visible markers...
Fuss-free Filipino Food
Quick & Easy Dishes for Everyday Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
With Spanish, Chinese and Malay influences, Filipino cuisine is distinct from that of its South East Asian neighbours with its sweet, salty, sour and spicy flavours. From staples such as humba (braised pork belly) and tinolang manok (chicken in ginger soup), to snacks such as maja blanca (coconut...
The Origins of JapaneseChinese Territorial Dispute
Using Historical Records to Study the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Most books on the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dispute between China and Japan are authored by either Chinese who argue that the islands belong to China or by Japanese who contend that the islands are rightfully Japan's. This book is the first of its kind — by a Japanese who supports China's claim or...