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Travel eGuide: Thailand Central & North
Discover the northern and central parts of Thailand, the pearl of Asia, with 200 photos, tips and useful links!
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Wanna meet History and Plenitude?
So… Welcome to Thailand Central & North, an amazing territory!
Do you think Buddhist temples, golden stuppas, welcoming people are too far away?
Well, just come to Bankgog and hit the road!
Our Travel eGuide will definitely change your mind.
Discover...
Southern Thailand
Discover a pearl of Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Would you like a completely amazing travel experience and some amazing food?
So… Welcome to Southern Thailand, an incredible territory!
Do you think that exotic tourism, beaches, spirituality and amazing gastronomy are not for you?
Make no mistake: this is possible!
Our Travel eGuide...
by NETLANCERS INC
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Collection Of Asian Traditional People Volume 3
Asia is also the origin of many of the most important and ancient world religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism.
Tales of Yukaghir, Lamut, and Russianized Natives of Eastern Siberia :- A collection of folklore...
by V.T.
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Dreaming about traveling to Thailand? Want to learn about the Thai's culture and how they live? You have to go and see yourself!
Thailand is developing into a beautiful and modern country, yet preserving their historical buildings and culture. The Thais are friendly, living standard are low...
by Santha Rama Rau
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
East of Home by Santha Rama Rau (108,000 words)
In 1947, Santha Rama Rau went to Japan with her father, India’s ambassador to Tokyo. A year later, she went to China with friends, hitchhiked to remote provinces of the northwest, and traveled through Indo-China and Siam to Indonesia to...
A Geek in Indonesia
Discover the Land of Balinese Healers, Komodo Dragons and Dangdut
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
For anyone wanting to move beyond tired travel guide cliches, A Geek in Indonesia is a hip, irreverent and streetwise introduction to Southeast Asia's biggest country.
Jump from the beaches of Bali to a tour bus circuit of the fascinating island of Java and come face to face with the reality...
by K. W. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
The history of Vietnam prior to the nineteenth century is rarely examined in any detail. In this groundbreaking work, K. W. Taylor takes up this challenge, addressing a wide array of topics from the earliest times to the present day - including language, literature, religion, and warfare - and themes...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia. Instead of assuming a universal standard or trajectory for the development of anthropology in Asia, the contributors to this volume...
Designing History in East Asian Textbooks
Identity Politics and Transnational Aspirations
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
This book analyses the efforts throughout East Asia to deploy education for purposes of political socialization, and in particular in order to shape notions of identity. The chapters also examine the trend of ‘common textbook initiatives’, which have recently emerged in East Asia with the aim...
by Ravi Palat
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
This book situates the evolution of capitalist economies along Asia's Pacific Rim after the Second World War within broader global, political and economic changes. Specifically, it charts their growth at the interface of periodic crises and successive waves of restructuring, and links changes in the...
Justice by Gunboat
Warlords and Lawlords: The Making of Modern China and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
War, riots, rebellion, sedition, corruption, assassinations, murder, infidelity, and even a failed hanging. These were just some of the many challenges faced by the British and American courts that operated in China, Japan and Korea for close to a 100 years. Established in the mid 19th Century under...
Forbidden Nation
A History of Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
For over 400 years, Taiwan has suffered at the hands of multiple colonial powers, but it has now entered the decade when its independence will be won or lost. At the heart of Taiwan's story is the curse of geography that placed the island on the strategic cusp between the Far East and Southeast Asia...
Sino-Japanese Transculturation
Late Nineteenth Century to the End of the Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This is a multi-author work which examines the cultural dimensions of the relations between East Asia’s two great powers, China and Japan, in a period of change and turmoil, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War. This period saw Japanese invasion of China, the occupation...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
This report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
The competition for power and influence between China and the United States in Southeast Asia has presented strategic uncertainties in the region. Vietnam, like the rest of Southeast Asia, has...