Asia category: 8064 books
Embracing 'Asia' in China and Japan
Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony, 1912-1933
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
This book examines how Asianism became a key concept in mainstream political discourse between China and Japan and how it was used both domestically and internationally in the contest for political hegemony. It argues that, from the early 1910s to the early 1930s, this contest changed Chinese and...
South Asia
The Spectre of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Since the partition of the subcontinent along communal lines, political violence has increased in South Asia. Terrorism is one such manifestation of this violence. This book witnesses serious assessment of various aspects of terrorism that are affecting South Asia as eight scholars of international...
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...
by Hagen Schulz-Forberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Contributors to this volume explore the changing concepts of the social and the economic during a period of fundamental change across Asia. They challenge accepted explanations of how Western knowledge spread through Asia and show how versatile Asian intellectuals were in introducing European concepts and in blending them with local traditions.
The European Union's Influence in Central Asia
Geopolitical Challenges and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Unknown yet highly strategic, Central Asia attracts the interest of major global powers due to its vast energy resources and crucial geographic position. Russia, China, and the European Union view this region as an indispensable springboard to enhance their political and economic influence on the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2008
This book analyzes the relationship between political power and the media in a range of nation states in East and Southeast Asia, focusing in particular on the place of the media in authoritarian and post-authoritarian regimes. It discusses the centrality of media in sustaining repressive regimes,...
by Zhongjing Liu
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
Extract: Today let's talk about the history of Diantnam. The three political entities of Diantnam, Bashulia, and Myanmar have a very close relationship in race and culture, which is related to the civilization structure of East Asia and Southeast Asia in prehistoric times.
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Environmental history has evolved into a well-established historical subfield which has broadened the horizons of historical research, beyond human affairs, to include the study of human interactions with natural and man-made environments. This broadened scope has attracted scholars from many different...
Sexual Cultures in East Asia
The Social Construction of Sexuality and Sexual Risk in a Time of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Using case-studies from East and Southeast Asia, this book examines sexuality and AIDS-related sexual risk in the context of Asian cultures. It offers a complementary perspective, documented with sociological and anthropological data, to historical studies and looks at commercial sex work, kinship...
India, Pakistan, and the Bomb
Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
In May 1998, India and Pakistan put to rest years of speculation as to whether they possessed nuclear technology and openly tested their weapons. Some believed nuclearization would stabilize South Asia; others prophesized disaster. Authors of two of the most comprehensive books on South Asia's new...
Mr. X and the Pacific
George F. Kennan and American Policy in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
George F. Kennan is well known for articulating the strategic concept of containment, which would be the centerpiece of what became the Truman Doctrine. During his influential Cold War career he was the preeminent American expert on the Soviet Union. In Mr. X and the Pacific, Paul J. Heer explores...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007
Experiences of captivity in Japanese-occupied Asia varied enormously. Some prisoners of war (POWs) were sent to work in Japan, others to toil on the ‘Death Railway’ between Burma and Thailand. Some camps had death rates below 1 per cent, others of over 20 per cent. While POWs were deployed far...
by Francis Xavier Chan
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
An Encyclopedia of Collected Stories. Two millennia worth of tales – from Ancient Rome to the Crusades, thru Colonialism to Nuclear War. From the Apostle Thomas in India, to Mother Teresa's Calcutta. From Saint Paul in Asia Minor to Saint Maximilan Kolbe in Japan. From Saint Helena and Saint Nicholas...