Asia category: 8064 books
Standard Deviations
Growing Up and Coming Down in the New Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
“I was twenty-three and I had set off for Asia to become a writer, intrigued by lurid tales of booms, busts, drugs, sex, violence, magic. There was a wicked sorcery in Asia, in the economic profligacy of the early nineties, in the way financiers and businessmen took a rapidly wiring and developing...
Empires at War
A Short History of Modern Asia Since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Asia - with four billion people, almost two-thirds of the world's population, a huge landmass and the fastest-growing economies - has in the past decade transformed the geopolitical global balance. Empires at War gives a dramatic narrative account of how this 'Modern Asia' came into being. Taking...
Chinese Circulations
Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Chinese merchants have traded with Southeast Asia for centuries, sojourning and sometimes settling, during their voyages. These ventures have taken place by land and by sea, over mountains and across deserts, linking China with vast stretches of Southeast Asia in a broad, mercantile embrace. Chinese...
by Ade Asefeso MCIPS MBA
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Are you a CEO, consultant or entrepreneur interested in entering or expanding your activity in Thailand, Vietnam and Philippines’s market?
Then this book is for you!
The main objective of this book is to provide you with basic knowledge about Thailand, Vietnam and Philippines; an...
Human Rights in Asia
A Comparative Legal Study of Twelve Asian Jurisdictions, France and the USA
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Human Rights in Asia considers how human rights are viewed and implemented in Asia. It covers not just civil and political rights, but also social, economic and cultural rights.
This study discusses the problems arising from the fact that ideas of human rights have evolved in Western liberal...
A History of East Asia
From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Charles Holcombe begins by asking the question 'what is East Asia?' In the modern age, many of the features that made the region - now defined as including China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam - distinct have been submerged by the effects of revolution, politics or globalization. Yet, as an ancient civilization,...
Nation Work
Asian Elites and National Identities
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
As increasing attention is drawn to globalization, questions arise about the fate of "the nation," a political and social unit that for centuries has seemed the common-sense way to organize the world. In Nation Work, Timothy Brook and André Schmid draw together eight essays that use historical...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Journalism and Democracy in Asia addresses key issues of freedom, democracy, citizenship, openness and journalism in contemporary Asia, looking especially at China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines and India. The authors take varying approaches to questions of democracy, whilst also considering...
Parallax Visions
Making Sense of American–East Asian Relations at the End of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 1999
In a work that synthesizes crucial developments in international relations at the close of the twentieth century, Bruce Cumings—a leading historian of contemporary East Asia—provides a nuanced understanding of how the United States has loomed over the modern history and culture of East Asia. By...
by R. S. Sugirtharajah
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Reconstructions of Jesus occurred in Asia long before the Western search for the historical Jesus began in earnest. This enterprise sprang up in seventh-century China and seventeenth-century India, encouraged by the patronage and openness of the Chinese and Indian imperial courts. While the Western...
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Language: English
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 South Asia Story
The First Sixty Years of US Relations with India and Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
This book deals with the complex and changing U.S. relations with India and Pakistan in the sixty years since World War II. It carries a series of brief sketches on how twelve U.S. presidents, starting with Franklin Roosevelt, perceived and dealt with South Asia. The author proposes that though there...
Diving in Southeast Asia
A Guide to the Best Sites in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Well–travelled divers all acknowledge that the best diving in the world is found in the warm waters of tropical Asia.
No other region on earth presents such a rich variety of marine life, and none can boast as many different types of dive sites: tiny, isolated atolls, World War II wrecks...
by Barbara Watson Andaya, Leonard Y. Andaya
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Written by two experienced teachers with a long history of research, this textbook provides students with a detailed overview of developments in early modern Southeast Asia, when the region became tightly integrated into the world economy because of international demand for its unique forest and sea...