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Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China
Power and Politics in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China demonstrates how structural and domestic variables influence how East Asian states adjust their strategy in light of the rise of China, including how China manages its own emerging role as a regional great power. The contributors note that the shifting regional...
Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai
Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long seventeenth...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. As the rebalancing of U.S. power towards the Asia-Pacific occurs, the potential for conflict has increased in the South China Sea (SCS) due to China's assertiveness. In response, the...
Security Community in South Asia
India - Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
The security relationship between India and Pakistan is generally viewed through a neo-realist approach of International Relations.. Treading on a different path, this book explains the rivalry of these countries by looking at the socio-cultural norms found at two levels, elites versus popular. Furthermore,...
Mobilizing Krishna's World
The Writings of Prince Sāvant Singh of Kishangarh
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Savant Singh (1694�1764), the Rajput prince of Kishangarh-Rupnagar, is famous for commissioning beautiful works of miniature painting and composing devotional (bhakti) poetry to Krishna under the nom de plume Nagaridas. After his throne was usurped by his younger brother, while Savant Singh was...
Burnt by the Sun
The Koreans of the Russian Far East
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Burnt by the Sun examines the history of the first Korean diaspora in a Western society during the highly tense geopolitical atmosphere of the Soviet Union in the late 1930s. Author Jon K. Chang demonstrates that the Koreans of the Russian Far East were continually viewed as a problematic and maligned...
Calling in the Soul
Gender and the Cycle of Life in a Hmong Village
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
“Calling in the Soul” (Hu Plig) is the chant the Hmong use to guide the soul of a newborn baby into its body on the third day after birth. Based on extensive original research conducted in the late 1980s in a village in northern Thailand, this ethnographic study examines Hmong cosmological beliefs...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Non-reproductive sex practices in Asia have historically been a source of fascination, prurient or otherwise, for Westerners, who being either Catholic or Protestant, were often struck by what they perceived as the widespread promiscuity and licentiousness of native inhabitants. Graphic descriptions,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The United States is in the midst of rebalancing towards the Asia-Pacific region. This shift in national focus and strategy requires a careful examination of current US military concepts and...
Reshaping the Chinese Military
The PLA's Roles and Missions in the Xi Jinping Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
This edited volume examines the recalibration of the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) roles and missions in China’s domestic and foreign policymaking since Xi Jinping’s ascension to power in late 2012.
This book explores how China’s growing military prowess, along with Beijing’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
In this book, seven internationally renowned experts on Japanese and Asian history have come together to investigate, with innovative methodological approaches, various aspects of the Japanese experience during and after the First World War.
The Muslim Merchants of Premodern China
The History of a Maritime Asian Trade Diaspora, 750–1400
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
In this major new history of Muslim merchants and their trade links with China, John W. Chaffee uncovers 700 years of history, from the eighth century, when Muslim communities first established themselves in southeastern China, through the fourteenth century, when trade all but ceased. These were...
Food of Vietnam
Easy-to-Follow Recipes from the Country's Major Regions [Vietnamese Cookbook with Over 80 Recipes]
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Learn all about Vietnamese cuisine and enjoy over 80 authentic recipes with this beautifully illustrated Vietnamese cookbook.
Vietnamese food is fast emerging as one of the most popular of all Asian cuisines. Its emphasis on fresh herbs, raw vegetables and light seasonings makes it ideal for...
by Ching-He Huang
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
A REVOLUTIONARY EAST-WEST APPROACH TO EATING WELL Eat Clean and feel great with over 100 nutritious and easy Asian soups, salads and stir-fries for everyday health. Ching-He Huang’s promise is simple: with just a wok, a knife and a chopping board, you can revolutionise your diet and feel fantastic....