Asian history

This book investigates how rapid socio-political-economic change in China since 1949 has affected intergenerational relationships and practices in rural areas, specifically the care provided to elderly parents by their adult children.

This book provides a conceptual overview of the evolution of Chinese philosophy from its earliest beginnings to the end of the imperial era, highlighting 38 of the most essential terms in the Chinese philosophical tradition.

This edited book demonstrates a new multidimensional comprehension of the relationship between war, the military and civil society by exploring the global rise of paramilitary culture.

Civil war and conflict within countries is the most prevalent threat to peace and security in the opening decades of the twenty-first century.

A fascinating look at the anxious pleasures of Japanese visual culture during World War II.

A unique narrative structure brings the history of race science in mid-twentieth-century India to vivid life.

The rise of China is no doubt one of the most important events in world economic history since the Industrial Revolution.

This book explores how history shapes city development, assesses the role of government at national and sub-national levels through case studies of three secondary cities, Quanzhou, Yiwu and Nannin, and provides a link between city development and internationalization.

This book gives a panoramic review of China's 70 years of modernization, reveals the historical process and logic of the formation of the modernization path with Chinese characteristics, especially focuses on the key decision-making process in the history of China's modernization, theoretically compares the Chinese model and the western mainstream model and summarizes the characteristics and experience of China's development model.

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This book offers the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the origins and development of China's genealogy, as well as its fundamental role in eugenics, ethics, politics and culture throughout China's history.

This book is a comprehensive academic introduction of the natural conditions and cultural characteristics of the ChangJiang River Basin.

This book seeks to explore the complex modes of interface between religion, atheism, and the Goddess in multicultural contexts.

Eve Tignol investigates the impact of collective grief on Muslim community formation in north India from 1857 to the 1940s.

This fascinating book is an insightful exploration of Western perceptions and representations of Japanese culture and society, drawing on social and cultural psychological ideas around stereotypes and intercultural relations.

This fascinating book is an insightful exploration of Western perceptions and representations of Japanese culture and society, drawing on social and cultural psychological ideas around stereotypes and intercultural relations.

This volume explores the dialogic relationship between myths and places in the historically, geographically, and culturally diverse context of India.

Metamorphic Imagery in Ancient Chinese Art and Religion demonstrates that the concept of metamorphism was central to ancient Chinese religious belief and practices from at least the late Neolithic period through the Warring States Period of the Zhou dynasty.

This volume explores the dialogic relationship between myths and places in the historically, geographically, and culturally diverse context of India.

Metamorphic Imagery in Ancient Chinese Art and Religion demonstrates that the concept of metamorphism was central to ancient Chinese religious belief and practices from at least the late Neolithic period through the Warring States Period of the Zhou dynasty.

China: An Interpretive History offers a compelling exploration of the origins of Chinese civilization, delving into the fascinating intersection of historical fact and cultural narrative.

Imagine being Japanese, living in Singapore in the nineteen twenties and thirties, suspected by everyone around you of being a spy.

This first-ever English translation of Nur Baba - a classic of modern Turkish literature written by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu - offers a unique window into Sufi lodges, social dilemmas, and intellectual life in early twentieth-century Istanbul.

This book covers a wide range of topics relating to the health and wellbeing of the construction workforce.

This volume examines the tangled relationship between globalization and governance through the lens of India's domestic politics, structures, institutions and policies.

This first-ever English translation of Nur Baba - a classic of modern Turkish literature written by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu - offers a unique window into Sufi lodges, social dilemmas, and intellectual life in early twentieth-century Istanbul.

First Published in 1997.

This comprehensive and absorbing book traces the cultural history of Southeast Asia from prehistoric (especially Neolithic, Bronze-Iron age) times through to the major Hindu and Buddhist civilizations, to around AD 1300.

There is a perception that the region of north-east India maintained its 'splendid isolation' and remained outside the reach of the Mughals and did not have a pre-colonial past.

This comprehensive and absorbing book traces the cultural history of Southeast Asia from prehistoric (especially Neolithic, Bronze-Iron age) times through to the major Hindu and Buddhist civilizations, to around AD 1300.

First Published in 1997.

This volume examines the tangled relationship between globalization and governance through the lens of India's domestic politics, structures, institutions and policies.

"e;This book will add to the long and distinguished collection of marine history and is well worth the read for anyone interested in personal accounts of modern combat.

A Brief History of Ancient China adapts a traditional Chinese historical format to present a multi-faceted account of the first two millennia of China's earliest history: from the time of the legendary rulers Yao and Shun (c.

A Brief History of Ancient China adapts a traditional Chinese historical format to present a multi-faceted account of the first two millennia of China's earliest history: from the time of the legendary rulers Yao and Shun (c.

Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten until British colonial scholars re-discovered it in the early 1800s.

The soldiers of the First World War left a little-known legacy in forgotten caves along the Western Front: thousands of inscriptions and wall carvings that tell stories of courage, pride, hope and fear.

The popularity of pornography is predicated on the idea that those participating have given their consent.

Adopting the perspective of anthropology of art and combining it with global academic insights, this book helps the readers to recognize that "e;history is, in great measure, the record of human activity which spreads from the local to the regional, from the regional to the global, and from the global to the universal.

China''s deepening health crisis reveals the fragility of the party-state and undercuts China''s ability to project influence internationally.

A revised and updated edition of Willem van Schendel''s state-of-the-art history, revealing the vibrant and colourful past of Bangladesh.

The book is a meticulous work in answering these questions which often occur to foreigners as well as modern Chinese themselves at the thought of the old China and its experience in modern times: What is Chinese civilization?

This is the story of Sea World, a theme park where the wonders of nature are performed, marketed, and sold.

China's explosive transformation from a planned economy to a more market-oriented one over the past three decades owes much to the charismatic reformer Zhu Rongji.

The days of rapid economic growth in China are over.

Auszug: "Unter den vielen europäischen Reisenden, die Indien seither besucht haben, hatten nur wenige Auserwählte Gelegenheit, in nähere Berührung mit den indischen Fürstenhöfen zu kommen.

This book delves into topics on pilgrimage travel and communities from a variety of perspectives through academic research based on the Middle East, Northeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and Europe, where sacred sites have become of great importance for both international and domestic tourism.

"e;This book will add to the long and distinguished collection of marine history and is well worth the read for anyone interested in personal accounts of modern combat.