Asian category: 13860 books
New Indian Cinema in Post-Independence India
The Cultural Work of Shyam Benegal’s Films
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Shyam Benegal is an Indian director and screenwriter whose work is considered central to New Indian cinema. By closely analysing several of Benegal’s films, this book provides an understanding of India’s post-independence history.
The book examines the filmmaker’s focus on women by highlighting...
Tellings and Texts
Music, Literature and Performance in North India
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Examining materials from early modern and contemporary North India and Pakistan, Tellings and Texts brings together seventeen first-rate papers on the relations between written and oral texts, their performance, and the musical traditions these performances have entailed. The contributions from some...
Seeking Order in a Tumultuous Age
The Writings of Chŏng Tojŏn, a Korean Neo-Confucian
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Chŏng Tojŏn, one of the most influential thinkers in Korean history, played a leading role in the establishment of the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910). Long recognized for his contributions to the development of Neo-Confucianism in Korea, Chŏng was both a prodigious writer and an influential statesman...
East Asia Before the West
Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal neighbors, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. These four territorial and centralized states have otherwise fostered peaceful and long-lasting relationships...
Japan's Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia
Navigating the Turning Points in Postwar Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
More than any other region in the world, Asia has witnessed tremendous change in the post-war era. A continent once engulfed by independence and revolution, and later by the Cold War and civil war, has now been transformed into the world’s most economically dynamic region. What caused this change...
Violent Belongings
Partition, Gender, and National Culture in Postcolonial India
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2008
Focusing on the historical and contemporary narration of the Partition of India, Violent Belongings examines transnational South Asian culture from 1947 onwards. Spanning the Indian subcontinent and its diasporas in the United Kingdom and the United States, it asks how postcolonial/diasporic literature...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
Rule of law is one of the pillars of the modern world, and widely considered necessary for sustained economic development, the implementation of democracy and the protection of human rights. It has however emerged in Western liberal democracies, and some people question how far it is likely to take...
A Region in Turmoil
South Asian Conflicts since 1947
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
South Asia has been the setting for some of the century's most violent invasions, the Western world's bloodiest defeats, and a volatile geopolitical brew of religions, ethnicities, and nationalism that sends unsettling ripples through the global balance of power even today. Rob Johnson writes here...
Warriors of the Cloisters
The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
Warriors of the Cloisters tells how key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West. Medieval scholars rarely performed scientific experiments, but instead contested issues in natural science, philosophy, and theology using...
The Peopling of East Asia
Putting Together Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2005
One of the most dynamic research areas in the prehistory of East Asian regions is the synthesis of the findings of archaeology, linguistics and genetics. Several countries have only recently opened to field research and highly active local groups have made possible a raft of collaborative studies that...
Cultural History of Early South Asia
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Cultural History of Early South Asia: A Reader presents a wide-ranging survey of the diverse art forms of early South Asia. In doing so, it departs from the dominant tendency of treating the arts as static ‘heritage of the past’ with just exhibition value, and instead perceives them as dynamic processes...
by Xiaobing Li
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This textbook provides a survey of East Asia during the Cold War from 1945 to 1991. Focusing on the persistence and flexibility of its culture and tradition when confronted by the West and the US, this book investigates how they intermesh to establish the nations that have entered the modern world.
Through...
Becoming Arab
Creole Histories and Modern Identity in the Malay World
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Sumit K. Mandal uncovers the hybridity and transregional connections underlying modern Asian identities. By considering Arabs in the Malay world under European rule, Becoming Arab explores how a long history of inter-Asian interaction was altered by nineteenth-century racial categorisation and control....
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. China's rising maritime power is encountering American maritime power along the sea lines of communication (SLOCs) that connect China to vital energy resources in the Middle East and...