Asia category: 8064 books
Textiles of Southeast Asia
Trade, Tradition and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Textiles provide a visual history of a country's culture and crafting traditions in a way few other things can accomplish. In Textiles of Southeast Asia, Dr. Robyn Maxwell provides the definitive work on Southeast Asian textiles.
Traditional textiles are one of the most widely collected and...
Nationalism and Identity Construction in Central Asia
Dimensions, Dynamics, and Directions
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
More than two decades after the break-up of the Soviet Union, Central Asian republics—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan—continue to reexamine and debate whom and what they represent.
Nationalism and Identity Construction in Central Asia explores the complex...
The Battle for Asia
From Decolonization to Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Asia has long been an ideological battleground between capitalism and communism, between nationalism and Westernisation and between the nation-state and globalization. This book is a history of the Asian region from 1945 to the present day which delineates the various ideological battles over Asia's...
by V.T.
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Have you been fascinated by the cultures of Asia? Do you want to learn more, and experience different cultures yourself? You have to get to Singapore then!
Singapore, located in South East Asia, is famous for her multi-cultures. A mixture of Chinese, Malays, Indians and lots of American, Australian...
by Rhoads Murphey
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
A History of Asia is the only text to cover the area known as "monsoon Asia" - India, China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia--from the earliest times to the present.
Written by leading scholar Rhoads Murphey, the book uses an engaging, lively tone to chronicle the complex political,...
Neutrality in Southeast Asia
Concepts and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book analyses the notion of neutrality to the politics of the state in Southeast Asia. Distinguishing among neutrality, neutralism and neutralisation, it asks what relation do the concepts bear to the independence of states, and how do they relate to other forms of inter-state relations and to...
Divided Lenses
Screen Memories of War in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia is the first attempt to explore how the tumultuous years between 1931 and 1953 have been recreated and renegotiated in cinema. This period saw traumatic conflicts such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, and the Korean War, and pivotal events...
Japan and China
The Meeting of Asia's Economic Giants
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Japan and China: The Meeting of Asia’s Two Economic Giants analyzes the new and changing relationship between the two nations and the rest of the world that may shape a new economic landscape for Asia in the 21st century. Managers and employees of multinational firms, as well as students interested...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
This excellent 2018 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
In the face of Western sanctions after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Putin has shifted the Kremlin's focus toward Asia to stimulate Russia's economic development. To...
Cold War Southeast Asia
Comprehensive book on cold war era, SEA
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
As World War II came to an end, a period of distrust settled over the world. Southeast Asia was no different. The spectre of Communism stalked the stage. The threat of a global nuclear war hung thick in the air. The struggle for domination between the Americans and the Russians came up against the burgeoning...
Voices of East Asia
Essential Readings from Antiquity to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Voices of East Asia provides significant yet accessible readings in translation chosen to stimulate interest in the long and rich cultural history of East Asia, the countries of China, Japan, and Korea. The readings range from ancient to modern, elite to popular, and include poetry, stories, essays,...
Public Health in Asia and the Pacific
Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2007
The Asia-Pacific region has not only the greatest concentration of population but is, arguably, the future economic centre of the world. Epidemiological transition in the region is occurring much faster than it did in the West and many countries face the emerging problem of chronic diseases at the...
by Nordin Hussin, Uqbah Iqbal, Ahmad Ali Seman
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject History - Asia, National University of Malaysia, course: History, language: English, abstract: The focus of this study is to dismantle the concept of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere during the Second World War. The methodology used is based...
Cultural History of Early South Asia
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Cultural History of Early South Asia: A Reader presents a wide-ranging survey of the diverse art forms of early South Asia. In doing so, it departs from the dominant tendency of treating the arts as static ‘heritage of the past’ with just exhibition value, and instead perceives them as dynamic processes...