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'Yogini' in South Asia
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
In different stages in the history of South Asian religions, the term yoginī has been used in various contexts to designate various things: a female adept of yoga, a female tantric practitioner, a sorceress, a woman dedicated to a deity, or a certain category of female deities. This book brings together...
by Susheila Nasta
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2001
The figure of the disaporic or migrant writer has recently come to be seen as the 'Everyman' of the late modern period, a symbol of the global and the local, a cultural traveller who can traverse the national, political and ethnic boundaries of the new millennium. Home Truths: Fictions of the South...
China's Hegemony
Four Hundred Years of East Asian Domination
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Many have viewed the tribute system as China's tool for projecting its power and influence in East Asia, treating other actors as passive recipients of Chinese domination. China's Hegemony sheds new light on this system and shows that the international order of Asia's past was not as Sinocentric as...
by Rajah
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
With its clear photography and easy to read recipes, Tropical Asian Favorites contains everything you need to create some of the tastiest dishes from tropical Asia. This cookbook contains authentic recipes from Myanmar, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, India, Macau, Papua New Guinea,...
by Chris Baker (Translator), Pasuk Phongpaichit (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
This outstanding classic of the Thai language is an entertaining folk epic set in the social panorama of traditional Siam. The tale is a spectacular love story rich in romance, adventure, violence, farce, and magic, and ending in the tragic and enigmatic death of its heroine.
Written in lively...
Asian Juggernaut
The Rise of China, India, and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
In Asian Juggernaut, the revelatory and important International Bestseller by Brahma Chellaney, a renowned authority on Asia’s political and economic development offers an incisive and insightful analysis of the region’s pivotal role on the world stage. Examining the rise of China, India, and...
Adventures in Starry Kitchen
88 Asian-Inspired Recipes from America's Most Famous Underground Restaurant
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The behind-the-scenes story of America’s most famous underground restaurant, featuring more than eighty-eight deceptively simple and unbelievably delicious pan-Asian recipes and dozens of luscious full color photos.
In 2008, as the American economy cratered, newly unemployed Nguyen Tran and...
East Asia Beyond the History Wars
Confronting the Ghosts of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
East Asia is now the world’s economic powerhouse, but ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region, particularly between Japan, China and the two Koreas. Unhappy legacies of Japan’s military expansion in pre-war Asia prompt on-going calls for apologies,...
Blood Brothers
Crime, Business and Politics in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
All over Asia bankers, gangsters, government officials and intelligence agents interact while organised crime networks threaten the rest of the world.
Chinese gangs run Chinatowns all over the United States and Europe; Vietnamese mobsters have taken over the heroin trade to Australia; Russian...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
European retailers have successfully internationalised their activities in Europe but have been less successful in North America. American retailers have been successful in their home market but less so in Europe. The major European and American retailers are now entering Asia and competing directly...
by Dwight H. Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
In the early 1960s fewer than five percent of Japanese owned automobiles, China's per capita income was among the lowest in Asia, and living standards in rural South Korea put it among the world's poorest countries. Today, these are three of the most powerful economies on earth. Dwight Perkinsdraws...
Asia as Method
Toward Deimperialization
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Centering his analysis in the dynamic forces of modern East Asian history, Kuan-Hsing Chen recasts cultural studies as a politically urgent global endeavor. He argues that the intellectual and subjective work of decolonization begun across East Asia after the Second World War was stalled by the cold...
Subjectivity in Asian Children's Literature and Film
Global Theories and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Honor Book Award
This volume establishes a dialogue between East and West in children’s literature scholarship. In all cultures, children’s literature shows a concern to depict identity and individual development, so that character and theme...
Environmental History in East Asia
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
As environmental history has developed as growing sub-discipline within the study of history, great emphasis has been placed on the importance of adopting an interdisciplinary approach. Indeed, as Environmental History in East Asia shows, by drawing on research and methodologies from the fields of...