Asian category: 13860 books
Disturbing Conventions
Decentering Thai Literary Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Disturbing Conventions draws the study of Thai literature out of the relative isolation that has to date impeded its participation in the wider field of comparative and world literature. Predominantly penned by Thai academics, the collection decentres Thai literary studies in order to move beyond...
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
Life and Politics during the Soviet Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
This volume offers perspectives from the general public in post-Soviet Central Asia and reconsiders the meaning and the legacy of Soviet administration in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. This study emphasizes that the way in which people in Central Asia reconcile their Soviet past to a great...
by Sachidananda Mohanty
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
This book presents an alternative view of cosmopolitanism, citizenship and modernity in early 20th-century India through the multiple lenses of mysticism, travel, friendship, art, and politics. It makes a key intervention in the understanding of cosmopolitan modernity based on the lives and experiences...
Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions
Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Seventeenth-century Korea was a country in crisis�successive invasions by Hideyoshi and the Manchus had rocked the Choson dynasty (1392-1910), which already was weakened by maladministration, internecine bureaucratic factionalism, unfair taxation, concentration of wealth, military problems, and...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Despite four decades of astonishing economic growth, China's authoritarian government remains firmly entrenched in power. This fact challenges modernization theory, which anticipates...
Escape from the Japanese
The Amazing Tale of a PoWs Journey from Hong Kong to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Trapped in the depths of Japanese-held territory, it was rare for Allied prisoners of war to attempt escape. There was little chance of making contact with anti-guerrilla or underground organisations and no possibility of Europeans blending in with the local Asian populations. Failure, and recapture,...
The Invention of Private Life
Literature and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
The essays in this volume, which lie at the intersection of the study of literature, social theory, and intellectual history, locate serious reflections on modernity's complexities in the vibrant currents of modern Indian literature, particularly in the realms of fiction, poetry, and autobiography....
Bhakti and Power
Debating India's Religion of the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Bhakti, a term ubiquitous in the religious life of South Asia, has meanings that shift dramatically according to context and sentiment. Sometimes translated as “personal devotion,” bhakti nonetheless implies and fosters public interaction. It is often associated with the marginalized voices of...
Camp Life Is Paradise for Freddy
A Childhood in the Dutch East Indies, 1933–1946
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
“Children see and hear what is there; adults see and hear what they are expected to and mainly remember what they think they ought to remember,” David Lowenthal wrote in The Past Is a Foreign Country. It is on this fraught foundation that Fred Lanzing builds this memoir of his childhood in a Japanese...
by Roger McNamara
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Secularism and the Crisis of Minority Identity in Postcolonial Literature examines how writers from religious and ethnic minority communities (Anglo-Indians, Burghers, Dalits, Muslims, and Parsis) in India and Sri Lanka engage secularism through novels, short stories, and autobiographies. Given the...
Telemodernities
Television and Transforming Lives in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Yoga gurus on lifestyle cable channels targeting time-pressured Indian urbanites; Chinese dating shows promoting competitive individualism; Taiwanese domestic makeover formats combining feng shui with life planning advice: Asian TV screens are increasingly home to a wild proliferation of popular factual...
The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century
The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
The Arabian Seas is a magisterial work on the world political economy (trade, war, power) that explores the intersect of the worlds of Islam (including South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East and East Africa) and the European world-economy (particularly the seafaring Portuguese, Dutch, and British)...
Secret Trades, Porous Borders
Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Over the course of the half century from 1865 to 1915, the British and Dutch delineated colonial spheres, in the process creating new frontiers. This book analyzes the development of these frontiers in Insular Southeast Asia as well as the accompanying smuggling activities of the opium traders, currency...
The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks
Fragile Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Critical questions remain unanswered on the events of the cold-blooded and devastating terror attacks in Mumbai on 26 November 2008. Investigative and introspective, this book offers a lucid and graphic account of the ill-fated day and traces the changing dynamics of terror in South Asia. Using new...