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Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Drawing on methods and approaches from anthropology, media studies, film theory, and cultural studies, the contributors to Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia examine how mediated eroticism and sexuality circulating across Asia and Asian diasporas both reflect and shape the social practices of...
The Unpredictability of the Past
Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in U.S.–East Asian Relations
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
In The Unpredictability of the Past, an international group of historians examines how collective memories of the Asia-Pacific War continue to affect relations among China, Japan, and the United States. The contributors are primarily concerned with the history of international relations broadly conceived...
From Village to City
Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Between 1988 and 2013, the Chinese city of Zouping transformed from an impoverished town of 30,000 people to a bustling city of over 300,000, complete with factories, high rises, parks, shopping malls, and all the infrastructure of a wealthy East Asian city. FromVillage to**City paints a vivid portrait...
The Splendid Vision
Reading a Buddhist Sutra
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Featuring the first-ever English translation of the "Splendid Vision Sutra," a sixth-century Indian Mahayana Buddhist scripture known for its rich ritual magic and worship of bodhisattva-goddesses, this volume explicates the text's cultural significance as a source of extraordinary value,...
Sport and the American Occupation of the Philippines
Bats, Balls, and Bayonets
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This interdisciplinary case study invokes historical, sociological, and anthropological means to examine the ascendance of the United States to a world power in its first imperial venture. In the aftermath of the Spanish-American War of 1898 the U.S. acquired and occupied the Philippine Islands for...
The Tatars of Crimea
Return to the Homeland
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 1998
This new edition of Edward A. Allworth’s The Tatars of Crimea has been extensively updated. Five new chapters examine the situation of Crimean Tatars since the breakup of the USSR in 1991 and detail the continuing struggle of the Tatars to find peace and acceptance in a homeland.
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Leisure and Power in Urban China
Everyday life in a Chinese city
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Leisure and Power in Urban China is the first comprehensive study of leisure activities in a medium size Chinese city. Hitherto, studies of Chinese leisure have focused on holidays, festivals and tourism. This, however, is a study of the kinds of leisure that take place on regular workdays in a local...
Nationalism in Southeast Asia
If the People Are with Us
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Nationalism in Southeast Asia seeks a definition of nationalism through examining its role in the history of southeast Asia, a region rarely included in general books on the topic. By developing such a definition and testing it out, Tarling hopes at the same time to make a contribution to southeast...
Asia's Legendary Hotels
The Romance of Travel
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Featuring over 370 artful photographs and insightful commentary, this book is an exploration of the most magnificent and opulent hotels across the Asia-Pacific region.
Asia, and its many splendid countries such as Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Sri Lanka, prides itself on being a destination....
Arts of Japan
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Arts of Japan is a classic and informative text that explores the rich cultural heritage and history of Japanese Art.
This art history text examines the various influences that have shaped the course of Japanese art history in the fields of painting, sculpture, architecture, and handicrafts....
Burma's Pop Music Industry
Creators, Distributors, Censors
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Burma's Pop Music Industry is the first book to explore the contemporary pop music industry in a country that is little known or understood in the West. Based on years of fieldwork in Burma/Myanmar, Heather MacLachlan's work explores the ways in which aspiring musical artists are forging a place within...
Ningyo
The Art of the Japanese Doll
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Ningyo: The Art of the Japanese Doll features over 250 unique photographs as well as extensive commentary and background history.
Japanese dolls (ningyo) have played an important role in Japanese art and culture since its earliest stages of development, as talismanic figures, centerpieces,...
Malaysian Batik
Reinventing a Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Malaysian Batik: Reinventing a Tradition, traces the history of batik, the materials, methods and motifs of the block-stamped and hand drawn methods, and the ways in which Malaysian batik has been transformed into a craft with international appeal.
Batik is more than wax and dye applied to...
Writing Resistance
The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Writing Resistance is the first close study of the growing body of contemporary Hindi-language Dalit (low caste) literature in India. The Dalit literary movement has had an immense sociopolitical and literary impact on various Indian linguistic regions, yet few scholars have attempted to situate the...