The Asian Modern

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Pippa Virdee considers the history of Pakistan, created as a new nation state in 1947, placing it in the context of the region's four-thousand-year...

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

Philip Thai chronicles the vicissitudes of smuggling in modern China to demonstrate how defiance helped the state redefine its power. China's War o...

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

Publisher: Association for Asian StudiesAuthor(s): Ronald P. LoftusNumber of pages: 340Collection: Asia Past & PresentPublication date: 2021Dimensi...

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

The story of how the Japanese Imperial Navy defeated the Russian Imperial Navy in 1905, marking the first modern victory of an Asian power over a m...

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

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

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Fei-Hsien WangIllustration(s): 14 b/w illus. 8 tables.Number of pages: 368Collection: Studies of th...

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

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...

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

From Black Monday to the Asian financial crisis, from the internet bubble to mortgage meltdown, our lives are ruled by crazy cycles of euphoria and...

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

In recent years, both scholars and the general public have become increasingly fascinated by the role of religion in modern Chinese life. However, ...

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

A must-read for modern sanghas--Asian American Buddhists in their own words, on their own terms. Despite the fact that two thirds of U.S. Buddhists...

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

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

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

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This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story b...

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Part of The World in a Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into the life of slave soldier Malik Ambar. Malik Ambar: Power an...

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

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

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

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Reducere. Folk tales of the Shaolin Temple depict warrior monks with superhuman abilities. Today, dozens of East Asian fighting styles trace their roots back...

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

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

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

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...

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Reducere. Considered one of the three most important voices in contemporary Chinese science fiction (along with Liu Cixin and Wang Jinkang), Han Song is a mu...