Asian category: 13860 books
China Rising
Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841. During this period China has rapidly emerged as a major regional power, averaging over nine percent economic growth per year since the introduction of its market reforms...
Capitalist Development and Economism in East Asia
The Rise of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Taking a conceptual approach, this book studies the economic development of the four East Asian economies since 1950. The author summarizes and reconsiders many of the arguments and findings that supported and explained the economic 'miracles' of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea, analysing...
Southeast Asia and the Rise of Chinese and Indian Naval Power
Between Rising Naval Powers
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This book examines the emerging maritime security scene in Southeast Asia. It considers highly topical implications for the region of possible strategic competition between China and India - the rising naval powers of Asia - with a possible naval "arms race" emerging between these countries...
by Yei Ozaki
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
The Essential Asian Folklore Collection of classic folk tales and short stories from Asia:Chinese Folklore TalesJapanese Fairy-TalesPhilippine Folk TalesPhilippine Folklore StoriesA Chinese Wonder BookStories by English Authors: OrientIndian Fairy TalesIndian Ghost StoriesTales of Old Japan
by NETLANCERS INC
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Collection Of Asian Traditional People Volume 1
Asia is also the origin of many of the most important and ancient world religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism.
A Journey In Southern Siberia :- The mythology and folklore of the Buriat Mongols of Siberia.
An...
Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
This anthology of literary and dramatic works introduces writers from across Asia and the Asian diaspora. The landscapes and time periods it describes are rich and varied: a fishing village on the Padma River in Bangladesh in the early twentieth century, the slums of prewar Tokyo, Indonesia during...
International Journal on Multicultural Literature (IJML)
Vol. 8, No. 1 (January 2018)
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
International Journal on Multicultural Literature (IJML) Volume 7 Number 1 (January 2017)
ISSN 2231-6248.
Highlights include
Transgressive Gender Discourse in Anita Nair's Ladies Coupe' by Seema Bansal Somani & Rohit Phutela
The Poetic Art and Vision of Wole Soyinka by C. Ramya
Displacement...
International Journal on Multicultural Literature (IJML)
Vol. 7, No. 1 (January 2017)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
International Journal on Multicultural Literature (IJML) Volume 7 Number 1 (January 2017)
ISSN 2231-6248.
Highlights include
Transgressive Gender Discourse in Anita Nair's Ladies Coupe' by Seema Bansal Somani & Rohit Phutela
The Poetic Art and Vision of Wole Soyinka by C. Ramya
Displacement...
International Journal on Multicultural Literature (IJML)
Vol. 7, No. 2 (July 2017)
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
International Journal on Multicultural Literature (IJML) Volume 7 Number 2 (July 2017)
ISSN 2231-6248.
Highlights include
Solutions to Religious Communalism as Projected in Mahesh Dattani's Final Solutions: An Analysis by S. Chelliah
K.V. Dominic's Winged Reason: A Portrait of Social Realism...
International Journal on Multicultural Literature (IJML)
Vol. 6, No. 2 (July 2016)
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
International Journal on Multicultural Literature (IJML) Volume 6 Number 2 (July 2016)
ISSN 2231-6248
Highlights include:
"Portrayal of Man-Woman Pairs in the Fictional World of D. H. Lawrence: An Analysis" --S. Chelliah
"Feminism and Feminist Literary Theory: A Brief...
The Origins of the Chinese Nation
Song China and the Forging of an East Asian World Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In this major new study, Nicolas Tackett proposes that the Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127) witnessed both the maturation of an East Asian inter-state system and the emergence of a new worldview and sense of Chinese identity among educated elites. These developments together had sweeping repercussions...
Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction
Gender, Narration and Globalisation
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
This book is the first comparative analysis of a new generation of diasporic Anglophone South Asian women novelists including Kiran Desai, Tahmima Anam, Monica Ali, Kamila Shamsie and Jhumpa Lahiri from a feminist perspective. It charts the significant changes these writers have produced in postcolonial...
The Return of the Galon King
History, Law, and Rebellion in Colonial Burma
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
In late 1930, on a secluded mountain overlooking the rural paddy fields of British Burma, a peasant leader named Saya San crowned himself King and inaugurated a series of uprisings that would later erupt into one of the largest anti-colonial rebellions in Southeast Asian history. Considered an imposter...
Elan Vital Orient Poetry
A Chapbook of Oriental Poetry and Sumi-e Painting
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
This book of classic Asian poetry and ink brush paintings is an important piece of cultural history and a wonderful addition to any collection of Asian art and poetry.
With the creation of the Asian poetry and sumi-e paintings within this volume, the artist and author have attempted to convey...