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Modern Art in Pakistan
History, Tradition, Place
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Modern Art in Pakistan examines interaction of space, tradition, and history to analyse artistic production in Pakistan from the 1950s to recent times. It traces the evolution of modernism in Pakistan and frames it in a global context in the aftermath of Partition.
A masterful insight into...
The Kashmir Conflict
From Empire to the Cold War, 1945-66
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
This book presents a study of the international dimensions of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan from before its outbreak in October 1947 until the Tashkent Summit in January 1966. By focusing on Kashmir’s under-researched transnational dimensions, it represents a different approach...
by Sunil S. Amrith
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Migration is at the heart of Asian history. For centuries migrants have tracked the routes and seas of their ancestors - merchants, pilgrims, soldiers and sailors - along the Silk Road and across the Indian Ocean and the China Sea. Over the last 150 years, however, migration within Asia and beyond...
Another Asia
Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2006
The book weaves through an intricate tapestry of ideas relating to pan-Asianism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and friendship, and positions the early modernist tensions of the period within—and against—the spectre of a unified Asia that concealed considerable political differences. The book draws...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2010
In this critical volume, leading scholars in the field examine the performance of Shakespeare in Asia. Emerging out of the view that it is in "play" or performance, and particularly in intercultural / multicultural performance, that the cutting edge of Shakespeare studies is to be found,...
Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora
Secularism, Religion, Representations
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Literary, cinematic and media representations of the disputed category of the ‘South Asian Muslim’ have undergone substantial change in the last few decades and particularly since the events of September 11, 2001. Here we find the first book-length critical analysis of these representations of...
The East Asian War, 1592-1598
International Relations, Violence and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
As East Asia regains its historical position as a world centre, information on the history of regional relations becomes ever more critical. Astonishingly, Northeast Asia enjoyed five centuries of international peace from 1400 to 1894, broken only by one major international war – the invasion of...
by Stanley Henning, Marnix Wells
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
What we think are Asian martial arts is usually derived by Hollywood images, fanciful novels, and a superficial idea of what role combatives played in the long histories of Far Eastern countries. There are only a few people in the world who can truly be called scholars in this field. A leading figure...
The End of Concern
Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
In 1968 a cohort of politically engaged young academics established the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS). Critical of the field of Asian studies and its complicity with the United States' policies in Vietnam, the CCAS mounted a sweeping attack on the field's academic, political, and financial...
by Miriam Kinai
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Herb and Spice Blends: Asian teaches you how to prepare herb and spice blends from China, India and Japan. You will discover the recipes for:* 5 Spice Mix from China* Curry Powder and Garam Masala from India* Shichimi Togarashi from Japan
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...
Commerce with the Universe
Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Reading the life narratives and literary texts of South Asians writing in and about East Africa, Gaurav Desai builds a surprising, alternative history of Africa's experience with slavery, migration, colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. Consulting Afrasian texts that are literary and nonfictional,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
This book examines both history textbook controversies AND teaching historical controversy in Asian contexts. The different perspectives provided by the book’s authors offer numerous insights, examples, and approaches for understanding historical controversy to provide a practical gold mine for...
Japanese Animation
East Asian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives makes available for the first time to English readership a selection of viewpoints from media practitioners, designers, educators, and scholars working in the East Asian Pacific. This collection not only engages a multidisciplinary approach in understanding...