Asian category: 13860 books
Sacred Mandates
Asian International Relations since Chinggis Khan
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
Contemporary discussions of international relations in Asia tend to be tethered in the present, unmoored from the historical contexts that give them meaning. Sacred Mandates, edited by Timothy Brook, Michael van Walt van Praag, and Miek Boltjes, redresses this oversight by examining the complex history...
The Age of Trade
The Manila Galleons and the Dawn of the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
This groundbreaking book presents the first full history of the Manila galleons, which marked the true beginning of a global economy. Arturo Giraldez, the world’s leading scholar of the galleons, traces the rise of the maritime route, which began with the founding of the city of Manila in 1571 and...
by Wang Ning, Anthony D. King, Abidin Kusno
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2000
Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free...
Uyghur Nation
Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Along the Russian-Qing frontier in the nineteenth century, a new political space emerged, shaped by competing imperial and spiritual loyalties, cross-border economic and social ties, and revolution. David Brophy explores how a community of Central Asian Muslims responded to these historic changes by reinventing themselves as the Uyghur nation.
The Pacific War
Aftermaths, Remembrance and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The Pacific War is an umbrella term that refers collectively to a disparate set of wars, however, this book presents a strong case for considering this assemblage of conflicts as a collective, singular war. It highlights the genuine thematic commonalities in the legacies of war that cohere across...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
The history of medicine and disease in colonial India remains a dynamic and innovative field of research, covering many facets of health, from government policy to local therapeutics. This volume presents a selection of essays examining varied aspects of health and medicine as they relate to the political...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Air Force publication is a comprehensive history of the origin of America's Air National Guard, covering the years 1943-1969.From the beginning of military aviation, the National Guard was interested and...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this U.S. Air Force (USAF) book is an exceptionally readable and interesting overview of the role of air power in the Vietnam War and the conflict in Southeast Asia. The Air Force instinctively disliked the slow, gradual...
Confrontation over Taiwan
Nineteenth-Century China and the Powers
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Confrontation over Taiwan: Nineteenth Century China and the Powers is a full and detailed account of international relations of Taiwan during the nineteenth century and specifically, the period between 1840 and 1895. During this time the western powers and Japan were engaged in imperialist designs...
Chopsticks
A Cultural and Culinary History
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Chopsticks have become a quintessential part of the Japanese, Chinese and Korean culinary experience across the globe, with more than one fifth of the world's population using them daily to eat. In this vibrant, highly original account of the history of chopsticks, Q. Edward Wang charts their evolution...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Journalism and Democracy in Asia addresses key issues of freedom, democracy, citizenship, openness and journalism in contemporary Asia, looking especially at China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines and India. The authors take varying approaches to questions of democracy, whilst also considering...
Schooling Diaspora
Women, Education, and the Overseas Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s-1960s
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Education has long been a cornerstone of Chinese culture. Traditional Chinese norms have also held that the less education and exposure to influence from outside the home a girl had, the more likely she would be to remain true to conventional domestic values and to remain morally upright. In the mid-nineteenth...
Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English
Idea, Nation, State
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Looking at a wide selection of Pakistani novels in English, this book explores how literary texts imaginatively probe the past, convey the present, and project a future in terms that facilitate a sense of collective belonging. The novels discussed cover a range of historical movements and developments,...
Postsocialism and Cultural Politics
China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2008
In Postsocialism and Cultural Politics, Xudong Zhang offers a critical analysis of China’s “long 1990s,” the tumultuous years between the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The 1990s were marked by Deng Xiaoping’s market-oriented...