The Asian Modern

Cinema and nationalism are two fundamentally modern phenomena, but how have films shaped our understanding of the creation -the 'imagining' - of Ce...

In this groundbreaking study, SherAli Tareen presents the most comprehensive and theoretically engaged work to date on what is arguably the most lo...

Reducere. The years between 1850 and 1930 witnessed the first large-scale migration of peoples from East Asia and South Asia to North America and the emergen...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Anna (Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Georg-August-University Goettingen, Germany) SailerIllustrat...

Reducere. World Religions: Eastern Traditions, Fifth Edition, provides students with an accessible, engaging, and thought-provoking survey of Hinduism, Sikhi...

This book is a collection of papers originally presented at a conference of the same name in the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden ...

Taming Babel examines the role of language in the making of modern postcolonial Asian nations. Focusing on one of the most linguistically diverse t...

With South Asia's growing energy demand, governments in the region are facing the short-term pressures of facilitating energy access, while attempt...

Reducere. Between 1609 and 1879, the geographical, political, and ideological status of the Kingdom of Ryukyu (modern Okinawa) was characterized by its ambig...

The Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan won their independence from the Soviet Union in 199...

The first major work on political economy in early modern Japanese history, Kumazawa Banzan's (1619-1691) Responding to the Great Learning, transla...

Reducere. In Sources of East Asian Tradition, Wm. Theodore de Bary offers a selection of essential readings from his immensely popular anthologies Sources of...

A scholar of world religions investigates religiously motivated violence that occurred in medieval Tibet and Bhutan, as well as in modern India, Sr...

Labor Activism and Colonial Governance in Hong Kong chronicles a long neglected yet formative social and political movement in Hong Kong between th...

Reducere. In this captivating collection of ve houses built in five different Asian-Pacific countries, Argentinian- born designer Ernesto Bedmar explores his...

Reducere. This expansive catalogue illuminates the social and cultural roots--and global importance--of iconic Filipino American artist and educator Carlos V...

DescriptionBy bringing in different degrees of circulation in different regions and languages, this collection shows that while literary centers do...

Writers and intellectuals in modern Japan have long forged dialogues across the boundaries separating the spheres of literature and thought. This b...

Reducere. Wives, Slaves, and Concubines argues that Dutch colonial practices and law created a new set of social and economic divisions in Batavia-Jakarta, m...

Presents a detailed, non-partisan account of the demise of the Lamaist state. This book examines what happened and why. It balances the traditional...

This book by a leading authority on Anglo-Japanese relations reconsiders the circumstances which led to the unlikely alliance of 1902 to 1922 betwe...

This book looks at external economic strategies that North Korea will show much interest in and are related with East Asian economic integration pr...

This book explains the macro-drivers of growth behind the economic development of Bangladesh. It also looks at the strategic interventions on macro...

This book revises the conventional wisdom about the Anglo-Japanese relationship in the late nineteenth century that these two countries were bound ...

Investigates how foods came to be established as moral entities, how moral food regimes reveal emerging systems of knowledge and enforcement, and h...

This undergraduate textbook explains political change and the shaping of political order in modern East Asian states: China, Japan, North Korea, So...

Reducere. In the latest addition to his Fighting Weapons series, Dwight McLemore does for the staff what he did earlier for the Bowie, tomahawk, and sword. T...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of ...

Contemporary discussions of international relations in Asia tend to be tethered in the present, unmoored from the historical contexts that give the...

Japan was the first Asian nation to face the full impact of modernity. Like the rest of Japanese society, Buddhist institutions, individuals, and t...

Reducere. This book explores mind-body philosophy from an Asian perspective. It sheds new light on a problem central in modern Western thought. Yuasa shows t...

Reducere. Recognized as the most authoritative general account of Indonesia, this revised and expanded fourth edition has been updated in light of new schola...

In the early twenty-first century, China occupies a place on center stage in the international art world. But what does it mean to be a Chinese art...

This is a cultural history of mathematics and art, from antiquity to the present. Mathematicians and artists have long been on a quest to understan...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Victor SeowIllustration(s): 25 halftonesNumber of pages: 376Collection: Studies of the Weather...

Reducere. In her pathbreaking book, Ocean Passages, Erin Suzuki explores how movement through--and travel across--the ocean mediates the construction of Asia...

Reducere. Arthur Goodzeit Award For seven weeks in 1929, the Republic of China and the Soviet Union battled in Manchuria over control of the Chinese Eastern ...

Michael Kenna's black-and-white photographs of Buddha statues featured in this book are a restorative, inspiring antidote to a chaotic modern world...

Reducere. DescriptionThe modern perspective on sexuality is almost exclusively focused on procreational and recreational sex. Little attention has been given...

Phillips reveals how Mughal, Manchu and Western imperialists developed common strategies of 'define and conquer' and 'define and rule' to subjugate...

Libman and Obydenkova reveal how legacies of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) have survived in the politics, economic development, cu...

Reducere. This workbook is a companion volume to First Step, the elementary Chinese textbook. Featuring both traditional and simplified characters along with...

In Close Association is the first English-language study of the local networks of women and men who built modern Japan in the Meiji period (1868-19...

Reducere. Description"Great tidbits or obscure, entertaining facts can be found on any given page." --Library Journal For thousands of years, board games hav...

Reducere. Centering his analysis in the dynamic forces of modern East Asian history, Kuan-Hsing Chen recasts cultural studies as a politically urgent global ...

A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy is a milestone along the complex and difficult road to significant understanding by Westerners of the Asian peo...

Walawbum, Shaduzup, Inkangahtawng, Nhpum Ga, Ritpong, Myitkyina. Although the names of these battles are not as familiar to the public as Guadalcan...

Reducere. Jewish Food: The Ultimate Cookbook is a beautiful and thorough collection of recipes drawn from Jewish traditions and inspired by the contemporary ...

An accessible yet in-depth introduction to the structure and meaning of Korean and modern linguistic theory, which will be essential reading for bo...

Today, race seems to be both everywhere and nowhere. There still exists a general abhorrence about discriminating between people according to their...

In the field of philosophy, the common view of philosophy as an essentially Western discipline persists even today, while non-Western philosophy te...

In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ogimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai she had served as ...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminos...

Asia has been the greatest show on earth since Japan's rise from the ashes of World War II, accompanied in successive decades with the emergence of...

Reducere. The six-volume set of The Grave Robbers Chronicles is much more than a horror-filled adventure story with likable characters and cliff-hanger plot ...

Reducere. For bestselling cookbook author Hetty McKinnon, Asian cooking is personal. McKinnon grew up in a home filled with the aromas, sights, and sounds of...

Tales of horror have always been with us, from Biblical times to the Gothic novel to successful modern day authors and screenwriters. Though the ge...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Other: Robert O. CollinsThis fascinating collection spans two millennia, beginning with a first-century merchant's guide to the Red...

Reducere. Japan and the four little dragons--Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore--constitute less than 1 percent of the world's land mass and less ...

Reducere. Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the "oriental" and the "ornamental, " Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained th...

A collection of three hundred koans compiled by Eihei Dogen, the thirteenth-century founder of Soto Zen in Japan, this book presents readers with a...

The second edition of this highly successful anthology of feminist writings by Arab women-essays, poems, folktales, short stories, memoirs, and spe...

Reducere. DescriptionStories centuries in the making, and many centuries worth of stories, are an integral part of modern society. Whether modern or ancient,...

Reducere. The Blue Cliff Record is a classic text of Zen Buddhism, designed to assist in the activation of dormant human potential. The core of this extraord...

A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions.What do a seventeenth-century morta...

In the last decade several hundred thousand microneedling treatments have been performed in the western world. Yet prior to 2000 it was an unheard ...

Reducere. With more than 600, 000 copies sold, this treasure trove of nutritional wisdom is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to nurture their bod...

Reducere. In December 1953 French paratroopers, who had been searching for the elusive Vietnamese army, were quickly isolated by them and forced to retreat i...

JaHyun Kim Haboush offers a compelling counternarrative to Western historiography, which ties Korea's idea of nation to the imported ideologies of ...

From a journalist on the frontlines of the Students for Fair Admission (SFFA) v. Harvard case comes a probing examination of affirmative action, th...