Asia category: 8064 books
Pan-Asianism
A Documentary History, 1920–Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
This second volume in a two-volume set provides the only comprehensive, Western-language history of Pan-Asianism through primary sources and commentaries. The book argues that Pan-Asianism, often—though unfairly—associated with the Yellow Peril, has been a powerful political and ideological force...
Early Modern China and Northeast Asia
Cross-Border Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
In this revisionist history of early modern China, Evelyn Rawski challenges the notion of Chinese history as a linear narrative of dynasties dominated by the Central Plains and Hans Chinese culture from a unique, peripheral perspective. Rawski argues that China has been shaped by its relations with...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Published in the year 1974, Nationalism in Asia and Africa is a valuable contribution to the field of Middle Eastern Studies.
Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia
Performing Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
With fresh and provocative insights into the everyday reality of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia, this volume moves beyond commonplaces about strong and weak states to ask critical questions about how democracy, authority, and justice are understood in this important region. In conversation with...
Pan-Asianism
A Documentary History, 1850–1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
This first volume in a two-volume set provides the only comprehensive, Western-language history of Pan-Asianism through primary sources and commentaries. The book argues that Pan-Asianism, often—though unfairly—associated with the Yellow Peril, has been a powerful political and ideological force...
by R. S. Sugirtharajah
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The Bible's influence on the West has received much more attention than its complex career in the East. R. S. Sugirtharajah's expansive study of Asia's idiosyncratic relationship with the Bible tells of missionaries, imperialists, and reformers who molded Biblical texts in order to influence religion, politics, and daily life from India to China.
by Volker Hinnenkamp, Anne Honer, Gudrun Hentges
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This groundbreaking volume offers a historical comparison between the events leading up to World War I and current global tensions related to the economical and political rise of Asia. What are the risks that the desire of the new super power China and great powers like India to be recognized by the...
by Thomas Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2015
This volume is made up of a series of sketches describing the most interesting part of a bicycle journey around the world,--our ride across Asia. We were actuated by no desire to make a "record" in bicycle travel, although we covered 15,044 miles on the wheel, the longest continuous land journey ever made around the world.
Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1770-1870
John Crawfurd and the Politics of Equality
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
The idea of "race" played an increasing role in nineteenth-century British colonial thought. For most of the nineteenth century, John Crawfurd towered over British colonial policy in South-East Asia, being not only a colonial administrator, journalist and professional lobbyist, but also...
Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia
The Zheng Family and the Shaping of the Modern World, c.1620–1720
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
The Zheng family of merchants and militarists emerged from the tumultuous seventeenth century amid a severe economic depression, a harrowing dynastic transition from the ethnic Chinese Ming to the Manchu Qing, and the first wave of European expansion into East Asia. Under four generations of leaders...
The San Francisco System and Its Legacies
Continuation, Transformation and Historical Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
In September 1951, Japan signed a peace treaty with forty-eight countries in San Francisco; in April 1952, the treaty came into effect. The San Francisco Peace Treaty is an international agreement that in significant ways shaped the post–World War II international order in the Asia-Pacific. With...
by Leszek Buszynski
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2004
The main theme of this book is that security is not just about defence from external attack, but embraces the protection of identity and values which cultures regard as important, and which they may regard as worth fighting for. It examines Asia Pacific security from the perspective of the values and identities of the major actors in the region - C
The Geopolitics of Spectacle
Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Why do autocrats build spectacular new capital cities? In The Geopolitics of Spectacle, Natalie Koch considers how autocratic rulers use "spectacular" projects to shape state-society relations, but rather than focus on the standard approach—on the project itself—she considers the unspectacular...
The Resurgence of East Asia
500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
The East Asian expansion since the 1960s stands out as a global power shift with few historical precedents. The Resurgence of East Asia examines the rise of the region as one of the world's economic power centres from three temporal perspectives: 500 years, 150 years and 50 years, each denoting an...