Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific
How Can Countries Adapt?
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Climate change is one of the most significant challenges to global economic development. Left unchecked, continued global warming could cause worldwide social and environmental disruption. The Asia and Pacific region is more vulnerable to climate change risks than other regions due to its dependence...
Fierce Enigmas
A History of the United States in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
The two-hundred-year history of the United States' involvement in South Asia--the key to understanding contemporary American policy in the region
South Asia looms large in American foreign policy. Over the past two decades, we have spent billions of dollars and thousands of human lives in the...
Chinese in Colonial Burma
A Migrant Community in A Multiethnic State
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
Using previously unexplored archives from colonial institutions and individuals, and primary materials produced by the Burmese Chinese, this comprehensive study investigates over a century of history of the Burmese Chinese under British colonial rule. Due to the peculiar position of Burma in the British...
Vientiane
Transformations of a Lao landscape
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2006
Providing insights into this neglected Southeast Asian city, this interesting book interprets Vientiane’s landscape - physical as well as imagined - as a reflection of key aspects of Lao geo-political history, the nature of Lao urbanism, and its critical relation to constructions of Lao identity...
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: February 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
The success of the first four editions shows that this book fills a vacuum for readers who wish to learn about the countries of South-East Asia. Recent years have seen a number of important developments all of which are covered here. With the global climate becoming more uncertain and the threat of...
Ancient Silk Trade Routes
Selected Works from Symposium on Cross Cultural Exchanges and Their Legacies in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
As key nodes that connected ancient silk routes traversing China, Japan and India, trading hubs, towns and cities in Java and Sumatra and other places in Asia were key destination points for merchants, monks and other itinerants plying these routes.
Recent archaeological excavations in countries...
Tales of Old Batavia
Treasures From the Big Durian
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
The city of Jakarta, today the capital of Indonesia, has had other incarnations and other names, most notably as the regional headquarters of the Dutch East Indies when it was known around the world as Batavia. As the capital of the Netherlands’ highly unlikely empire in the far east of Asia, Batavia...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
With particular emphasis on history, religion, literature and arts, this collection provides a multifaceted and representative picture of the classical civilizations of South-East Asia which will be of interest for comparative and cross-disciplinary studies in this field, as well as providing a number of historical and literary documents and translations of great scholarly value.
Taiwan Straits
Crisis in Asia and the Role of the U.S. Navy
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
In Taiwan Straits: Crisis in Asia and the Role of the U.S. Navy, historian Bruce Elleman surveys the situation that has led to the current tensions between China and Taiwan. Starting in 1949, the final phase of the civil war in China, which ended with Communist rule of the mainland and nationalist...
Youth and Empire
Trans-Colonial Childhoods in British and French Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
This is the first study of its kind to provide such a broadly comparative and in-depth analysis of children and empire. Youth and Empire brings to light new research and new interpretations on two relatively neglected fields of study: the history of imperialism in East and South East Asia and, more...
Contours of Relationship: India and the Middle East
India and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
India’s relationship with the Middle East is a very good example of ties between people that are genuinely of historical. The peoples of the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East have down the ages been interacting with each other – travelling to each other’s lands, engaging in trade and commerce,...
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...
Medical Education in East Asia
Past and Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Pivotal to Asia’s future will be the robustness of its medical universities. Lessons learned in the past and the challenges facing these schools in the future are outlined in this collection, which offers valuable insights for other medical education systems as well. The populations in these rapidly...