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by Stephen A. Royle
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
In April 1885 the British navy seized the small archipelago of Port Hamilton (now Geomundo) off Korea, an incident dubbed the Port Hamilton Affair. This was part of a larger story of Empire and East Asian geopolitics involving China, Japan, Korea and Russia. At the time Britain and Russia seemed close...
The International Relations of Japan and South East Asia
Forging a New Regionalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The International Relations of Japan and South East Asia asks three main questions: how and when has a new South East Asian regionalism been set in motion? what is the nature of Japanese leadership and networking in maintaining and promoting that new regionalism?; and, given the current economic and...
Future Trends in East Asian International Relations
Security, Politics, and Economics in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The world has undergone significant change since the end of the Cold War. One such development is that the Asia-Pacific has become increasingly prominent in international affairs. This comprehensive study provides a detailed understanding of key issues, actors and future trends in the region.
by Rafi-us Samad
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Detailed archaeological excavations were started at sites in northern Pakistan and Afghanistan in the late-19th century. Through these excavations, eminent archaeologists such as Aurel Stein, Alexander Cunningham, John Marshall, J. Barthoux and Professor A.H. Dani recovered hundreds of thousands of beautiful...
Transitions to Modernity in Taiwan
The Spirit of 1895 and the Cession of Formosa to Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
On 19 April 1895, British Consul Lionel Charles Hopkins, at the northern port of Tamsui, was summoned by Tang Jingsong, the governor of Taiwan, to his yamen in the western district of Taipei. Shortly after his arrival, Hopkins was handed a petition. Signed by a number of Taiwanese ‘notables’,...
by Franklin Southworth
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book brings together linguistic and archaeological evidence of South Asian prehistory. The author depicts and analyses the region, in particular the Indus Valley civilization, its links with neighbouring regions and its implications for social history. Each type of linguistic data is put into...
Decolonising Heritage in South Asia
The Global, the National and the Transnational
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
This volume cross-examines the stability of heritage as a concept. It interrogates the past which materialises through multi-layered narratives on monuments and other objects that sustain cultural diversity. It seeks to understand how interpretations of “monuments” as “texts” are affected...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Taking as its premise the belief that communalism is not a resurgence of tradition but is instead an inherently modern phenomenon, as well as a product of the fundamental agencies and ideas of modernity, and that globalization is neither a unique nor unprecedented process, this book addresses the...
Grounds of Judgment
Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, the nineteenth century encounter between East Asia and the Western world has been narrated as a legal encounter. Commercial treaties--negotiated by diplomats and focused on trade--framed the relationships among Tokugawa-Meiji Japan, Qing China, Choson...
by Karen G. Ruffle
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
In this study of devotional hagiographical texts and contemporary ritual performances of the Shi'a of Hyderabad, India, Karen Ruffle demonstrates how traditions of sainthood and localized cultural values shape gender roles. Ruffle focuses on the annual mourning assemblies held on 7 Muharram to commemorate...
Engineering Asia
Technology, Colonial Development, and the Cold War Order
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Weaving together chapters on imperial Japan's wartime mobilization, Asia's first wave of postwar decolonization, and Cold War geopolitical conflict in the region, Engineering Asia seeks to demonstrate how Asia's present prosperity did not arise from a so-called 'economic miracle' but from the violent...
The Trajectories of the Indian State
Politics and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Sudipta Kaviraj has long been recognized as among Indias most thoughtful and wide-ranging political thinkers and analysts, one of the subtlest and most learned writers on Indian politics. Ironically, this has remained something of a state secret because Kavirajs writings are scattered and not easy to...
by Christian Bleuer, Michael Clarke, Reuel R. Hanks
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
The planned reductions in NATO troop numbers in Afghanistan through 2015 and a final withdrawal at the end of 2016 brings up numerous pressing questions about the security and national interests of not just Afghanistan, but of the broader region itself. The problem of a chaotic Afghanistan—or of...
Silk and Tea in the North
Scandinavian Trade and the Market for Asian Goods in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
This book links the trade of the Danish and Swedish East India companies to the British taste for tea, a Scandinavian craving for colourful Chinese silk textiles, import substitutions schemes and natural history in the eighteenth century. It is a global history exploring the exchange of silver for...