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South Asian Transnationalisms
Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
South Asian Transnationalisms explores encounters in twentieth century South Asia beyond the conventional categories of center and periphery, colonizer and colonized. Considering the cultural and political exchanges between artists and intellectuals of South Asia with counterparts in the United States,...
Strolling About on the Roof of the World
The First Hundred Years of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
This volume covers the first one hundred years of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, formerly the Royal Central Asian Society. It traces its fons et origo in the Central Asian Question, within the context of the 'Great Game', and continues its fascinating chronology through the two World Wars to...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2003
This extraordinary one-volume guide to the modern literatures of China, Japan, and Korea is the definitive reference work on the subject in the English language. With more than one hundred articles that show how a host of authors and literary movements have contributed to the general literary development...
The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific
Conflict and Cooperation in the Asian Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Now in its new and fully updated third edition, The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific continues to provide a compelling analysis of a region undergoing dramatic changes. Based on new research and offering fresh interpretation, this edition evaluates the prospects for continuing US dominance...
Explorations in Asian Christianity
History, Theology, and Mission
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2017
Explorations in Asian Christianity
Ecumenism in Asia
The cruciform nature of Christianity
A missiology of place
The Christian view of time
Global migration
Explorations in Asian Christianity
The End of Empires
African Americans and India
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
In the past fifty years, according to Christine So, the narratives of many popular Asian American books have been dominated by economic questions-what money can buy, how money is lost, how money is circulated, and what labor or objects are worth. Focusing on books that have achieved mainstream popularity, Economic...
Arranging Marriage
Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The first critical analysis of contemporary arranged marriage among South Asians in a global context
Arranged marriage is an institution of global fascination—an object of curiosity, revulsion, outrage, and even envy. Marian Aguiar provides the first sustained analysis of arranged marriage...
Learning Places
The Afterlives of Area Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Under globalization, the project of area studies and its relationship to the fields of cultural, ethnic, and gender studies has grown more complex and more in need of the rigorous reexamination that this volume and its distinguished contributors undertake. In the aftermath of World War II, area studies...
Spreading Buddha's Word in East Asia
The Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
A monumental work in the history of religion, the history of the book, the study of politics, and bibliographical research, this volume follows the making of the Chinese Buddhist canon from the fourth century to the digital era. Approaching the subject from a historical perspective, it ties the religious,...
Ecoambiguity
Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
East Asian literatures are famous for celebrating the beauties of nature and depicting people as intimately connected with the natural world. But in fact, because the region has a long history of transforming and exploiting nature, much of the fiction and poetry in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean...
by Yumna Siddiqi, , Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2007
Focusing on late nineteenth- and twentieth-century stories of detection, policing, and espionage by British and South Asian writers, Yumna Siddiqi presents an original and compelling exploration of the cultural anxieties created by imperialism. She suggests that while colonial writers use narratives...
Constitution-making in Asia
Decolonisation and State-Building in the Aftermath of the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Britain’s main imperial possessions in Asia were granted independence in the 1940s and 1950s and needed to craft constitutions for their new states. Invariably the indigenous elites drew upon British constitutional ideas and institutions regardless of the political conditions that prevailed in their...
The Asian Trade Revolution
The East India Companies and the Decline of the Caravan Trade
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
In this work Neils Steensgaard combines an analytical economic approach with detailed historic scholarship to provide an imaginitive and important analysis of a central incident in modern world history. The event is the breaking of the Portuguese monopoly on Asian trade in the seventeenth century...
by Philip Kitley
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
This highly topical book exposes the tensions between state policies of broadcasting regulation and practices of civil society in the Asian region which is struggling with its incorporation into a new globalised, electronic information and entertainment world. Kitley critically compares Western principles...