Asian category: 13860 books
Sinophone Studies
A Critical Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
This definitive anthology casts Sinophone studies as the study of Sinitic-language cultures born of colonial and postcolonial influences. Essays by such authors as Rey Chow, Ha Jin, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Ien Ang, Wei-ming Tu, and David Wang address debates concerning the nature of Chineseness while introducing...
Philosophical Musings for Meaningful Life
An Analysis of K.V. Dominic's Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Inside one of Contemporary India's most Influential Poets
The twenty-four papers in Philosophical Musings for a Meaningful Life study the poetry collections Winged Reason (2010), Write Son, Write (2011), and Multicultural Symphony (2014), of Dr. K.V. Dominic and reveal his humanistic values...
Southeast Asia
A Testament
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Southeast Asia: A Testament covers the tragic history of post war Indonesia from its successful struggle against the Dutch to Suharto's bloody overthrow of Sukarno in 1965. It also gives a personal account of the US involvement in Indochina, where George Kahin was an early critic of the Vietnam war...
Statebuilding in Afghanistan
Multinational Contributions to Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
This edited volume empirically maps and theorises NATO-ISAF’s contribution to peacebuilding and reconstruction in Afghanistan. The book provides a contextual framework of the NATO participation in Afghanistan; it offers an outline of the security situation in Afghanistan and discusses geopolitical,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
This narrative chronicles the activities of the U.S. Marine Corps in Southeast Asia from January 1961 to March 1965. The period witnesses increasing Marine Corps involvement in the region as our nation's leaders responded to Communist aggression and sought to protect the United States' national interests....
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
This 2013 publication by the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) of the U.S. Army War College, the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), and the United States Pacific Command, focuses on A Retrospective of the People's Liberation Army in the Hu Jintao Era (2002-12). The papers in this book provide...
The Evolution of Military Power in the West and Asia
Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
This book investigates how states in both the West and Asia have responded to multi-dimensional security challenges since the end of the Cold War, focusing on military transformation.
Looking at a cross-section of different countries, this volume assesses how their armed forces have responded...
Refugees and the Politics of the Everyday State in Pakistan
Resettlement in Punjab, 1947-1962
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
The Partition of India in 1947 involved the division of two provinces, Bengal and the Punjab, based on district-wise Hindu or Muslim majorities. The Partition displaced between 10 and 12 million people along religious lines.
This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the resettlement...
Managing Korean Business
Organization, Culture, Human Resources and Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
During the 1990s the Korean economy was regarded as a possible "role model" to be followed by other newly industrializing economies, but the "Asian Crisis" of 1997 destroyed this image. Past practices, challenges and responses are explored in this collection by an international group of authors.
by Charles K. Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Presenting a succinct, historically informed introduction to North and South Korea, the second edition of The Koreas considers the radically different ways these countries have dealt with the growing challenges of globalization. Since the first edition’s publication, the economic, political, and...
Mixed-Race and Modernity in Colonial India
Changing Concepts of Hybridity Across Empires
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Focusing on Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces, this book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India. Starting in the sixteenth century, it discusses how the emergence of race was always shaped by affiliations based on religion, class, national identity, gender...
Asia's New Multilateralism
Cooperation, Competition, and the Search for Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
Traditionally, stability in Asia has relied on America's bilateral alliances with Japan, Australia, and the Republic of Korea. Yet in recent years, emergent and more active multilateral forums-such as the Six-Party Talks on North Korea and the East Asia Summit-have taken precedence, engendering both...
Pakistan's War on Terrorism
Strategies for Combating Jihadist Armed Groups since 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
This book examines Pakistan's strategies in the war against Islamist armed groups that began late 2001, following the 9/11 attacks.
The significance of the war inside Pakistan can hardly be understated. Starting in the tribal territories adjacent to Afghanistan, Pakistan’s war has come to...
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Buddhism's Ritual Imagination in Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Cambodia, Erik W. Davis radically reorients approaches toward the nature of Southeast Asian Buddhism's interactions with local religious practice and, by extension, reorients our understanding of Buddhism itself. Through a vivid study of contemporary...