Asian category: 13860 books
Chinese in Colonial Burma
A Migrant Community in A Multiethnic State
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
Using previously unexplored archives from colonial institutions and individuals, and primary materials produced by the Burmese Chinese, this comprehensive study investigates over a century of history of the Burmese Chinese under British colonial rule. Due to the peculiar position of Burma in the British...
Post-Mandarin
Masculinity and Aesthetic Modernity in Colonial Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Post-Mandarin offers an engaging look at a cohort of Vietnamese intellectuals who adopted European fields of knowledge, a new Romanized alphabet, and print media—all of which were foreign and illegible to their fathers. This new generation of intellectuals established Vietnam’s modern anticolonial...
by Jame DiBiasio
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
The lost civilization of Angkor left no written records, and only its ancient stones can tell the tale. The Story of Angkor exposes the history of this oncemighty Southeast Asian empire through the secrets hidden inside the temples and buildings located around the city of Siem Reap. It guides the...
by Sanjay Upadhya
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
The importance of the Himalayan state of Nepal has been obscured by the international campaign to free Tibet and the vicissitudes of the Sino-Indian rivalry. This book presents the history of Nepal’s domestic politics and foreign relations from ancient to modern times.
Analysing newly declassified...
Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 2
People Power in the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand and Indonesia 19472009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The grassroots movements in nine places in East Asia in the 1980s and 1990s are empirically reconstructed in this volume. Asian history, especially radical history, is a subject often glossed over in the West. Seeking to remedy that, this book begins with an overview of late-20th-century history,...
Modern China's Ethnic Frontiers
A Journey to the West
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The purpose of this book is to examine the strategies and practices of the Han Chinese Nationalists vis-à-vis post-Qing China’s ethnic minorities, as well as to explore the role they played in the formation of contemporary China’s Central Asian frontier territoriality and border security.
The...
From the Ruins of Empire
The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
A surprising, gripping narrative depicting the thinkers whose ideas shaped contemporary China, India, and the Muslim world
A little more than a century ago, as the Japanese navy annihilated the giant Russian one at the Battle of Tsushima, original thinkers across Asia, working independently,...
Taiwan's Statesman
Lee Teng-hui and Democracy in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
A well-known observer of Taiwan and Asian history and culture provides an insightful biography of Lee Teng Hui, the pro-democracy statesman and former president of the Republic of China. As head of the Taiwanese government from 1988 to 2000, Lee managed, without violence or major civil unrest, to reform...
Reading East Asian Writing
The Limits of Literary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
This book presents contributions by thirteen scholars of Chinese and Japanese literature whose work is characterised by a strong interest in literary theory. They focus in particular on the various new theories that have emerged during the past two decades, uprooting traditional forms of understanding...
Science in China, 16001900
Essays by Benjamin A Elman
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Distinguished historian Benjamin A Elman's collective volume on the history of science in imperial China, brings together over 30 years of historical literature on the subject. With updates to the literature and new material including transcripts of podcasts and translated interview articles, Science...
Labrang Monastery
A Tibetan Buddhist Community on the Inner Asian Borderlands, 1709-1958
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Labrang Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Amdo and its extended support community are one of the largest and most famous in Tibetan history. This crucially important and little-studied community is on the northeast corner of the Tibetan Plateau in modern Gansu Province, in close proximity to Chinese,...
Defeat is an Orphan
How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
When India and Pakistan held nuclear tests in 1998, they restarted the clock on a competition that had begun half a century earlier. Nuclear weapons restored strategic parity, erasing the advantage of India's much larger size and conventional military superiority. Yet in the years that followed Pakistan...
by Zhuoliu Wu
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2006
Born in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, raised in the scholarly traditions of ancient China by his grandfather but forced into the Japanese educational system, Hu Taiming, the protagonist of Orphan of Asia, ultimately finds himself estranged from all three cultures. Wu's autobiographical novel, completed...
The Asiatic Fathers of America
Chinese Discovery & Colonization of Ancient America
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Much evidence from both sides of the Pacific indicates that people from Asia reached America at very early dates. It also appears that at least occasional trips were made back to Asia. This book explores some of the early Asian accounts about voyages to a beautiful land to their east called Fu Sang....