Asia category: 8064 books
Despite Cultures
Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Despite Cultures examines the strategies and realities of the Soviet state-building project in Tajikistan during the 1920s and 1930s. Based on extensive archival research, Botakoz Kassymbekova analyzes the tactics of Soviet officials at the center and periphery that produced, imitated, and improvised...
by Tom Coote
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2011
Turkmenbashi's Land of Fairy Tales is a $50,000,000 amusement park in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. It was meant to be Central Asia's answer to Disney Land but fell somewhat short of expectations.
Medicine, Trade and Empire
Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) in Context
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Garcia de Orta’s Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was one of the first books to take advantage of the close relationship between medicine, trade and empire in the early modern period. The book was printed in Goa, the capital of the Portuguese empire in the East, and the city where...
by Seo Ryeung Ju, Himasari Hanan, Syed Iskandar Ariffin
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Southeast Asian architecture tends to be generalized under one umbrella due to the countries’ common geographical, climatic, and historical context. However, Southeast Asian countries are dissimilar due to their ethnic and religious differences, which led to each country’s own subtle characteristics...
by George H. Kerr, Mitsugu Sakihara
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
"The first full–length monograph on the history of the Ryukyu Islands in any Western language…a standard work."—Pacific Affairs
Okinawa: The History of an Island People is the definitive book available in English on the history of Okinawa and the Ryukyu Islands, and an influential...
A Far Corner
Life and Art with the Open Circle Tribe
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
In 2002, after living ten years in Asia, American poet and musician Scott Ezell used his advance from a local record company to move to Dulan, on Taiwan’s remote Pacific coast. He fell in with the Open Circle Tribe, a loose confederation of aboriginal woodcarvers, painters, and musicians who lived...
by Phillip Talbot
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
In 1938 the New York-based Institute of Current World Affairs awarded 23-year-old Phillips Talbot a fellowship with a mandate: visit South Asia and learn about the intricacies of life in India. Till 1950, Talbot graphically recounted the buildup to Indian and Pakistani independence, and the early...
Globalizing Afghanistan
Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation Building
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Globalizing Afghanistan offers a kaleidoscopic view of Afghanistan and the global networks of power, influence, and representation in which it is immersed. The military and nation-building interventions initiated by the United States in reaction to the events of September 11, 2001, are the background...
Cuc: Flower of the Delta
A Viet Kieu Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2004
CUC: Flower of the Delta is love story of two young Vietnamese refugees who survived the horrors of war in Southeast Asia, escaped by boat to the camps of Thailand and were resettled in the United States in 1981.
It's a little-told story of the tragic fallout from the Vietnam War, one that...
Language, Literacy, and Social Change in Mongolia
Traditionalist, Socialist, and Post-Socialist Identities
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language, Literacy, and Social Change in Mongolia is the first full-length treatment of literacy in Mongolian. Challenging readers’ assumptions about Central Asia and Mongolia, this book focuses on Mongolians’ experiences with reading and writing throughout the past 100 years. Literacy, as a powerful...
Space and Location in the Circulation of Knowledge (14001800)
Korea and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
In response to the recent surge of interest in studying epistemic transfers and changes, this volume assembles an interdisciplinary range of articles that look at the production, consumption and dissemination of knowledge in East Asia, centering on Korea, under the paradigm of knowledge circulation....
Fatima Jinnah
Mother of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
Although fifty years have passed since the death of Fatima Jinnah - author, activist and stateswoman known in Pakistan as the 'mother of the nation' - this is the first scholarly biography to tackle her life in full. Her background and contribution to Muslim nationalism under the British Raj, as well...
Thailand
Shifting Ground between the US and a Rising China
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Thailand was a key ally of the United States after WWII, serving as a bulwark against communism in Southeast Asia and as a base for US troops during the Vietnam War. In return, the US provided it with millions of dollars in military and economic aid, and staunchly supported the country’s various...
India-Thailand Cultural Interactions
Glimpses from the Past to Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This volume looks at facets of cultural interactions between India and Thailand---two historically significant countries of the South East Asian region. For the first time a comprehensive discussion on historical and contemporary cultural interactions between Indian and Thailand has been attempted...