Asian history

This book clarifies the climatic variations in Japan from the historical period to the present based on documentary sources and meteorological data.

This book invites senior experts and scholars from the fields of Chinese archaeology and history to describe ten influential "e;national treasure-level"e; cultural antiquities.

This book provides readers with rich context and detailed description leading to new perspectives on major historical events in China.

This book invites senior experts and scholars from the fields of Chinese archaeology and history to describe ten influential "e;national treasure-level"e; cultural antiquities.

This book provides readers with rich context and detailed description leading to new perspectives on major historical events in China.

This book highlights how horror in film and television creates platforms to address distinct areas of modern-day concern.

This book systematically and comprehensively studies on alternative media in Taiwan, using a historical approach and primary data and first hand collected materials to examine how political openness and social movement in the 1980s through the 1990s in Taiwan enabled the rapid growth and wide development of Taiwan's alternative media, what impact the alternative media in Taiwan had on its socio-political transformation, and what implications Taiwan's case of alternative media has for other societies, especially for other Asian societies.

With joy and grace to accompany the readers to have the translocal tour to visit about thirty-seven works, this monograph applies the academic critical theories of Performance Studies, Film Studies, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and Visual Culture, to interpreting the special selection works.

With joy and grace to accompany the readers to have the translocal tour to visit about thirty-seven works, this monograph applies the academic critical theories of Performance Studies, Film Studies, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and Visual Culture, to interpreting the special selection works.

This book provides a supportive lending hand to researchers of constitutional law worldwide about the constitutional law of Bangladesh.

The book is an interdisciplinary study on the relationship between Muslims and their mosques in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Acclaimed as the Middle Easts "e;All Quiet on the Western Front"e;The first eye-witness account ever published of the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, this riveting memoir of a young Israeli soldier became an instant bestseller on publication in 1949, and is still recognized as the outstanding book of that war, in the tradition of Erich Maria Remarques All Quiet on the Western Front.

This book comprehensively examines the extensive history of India by focusing on the unifying themes of history.

Between 500,000 to 2 million people died in the Cultural Revolution.

This book explores the dynamic interplay between memory and history during the crucial period from the 8th to the 14th century in medieval India.

This is a detailed yet accessible guide to the way in which religion and politics interacted during the earliest years of Islam.

This book unravels the intricate tapestry of Chinese state-society and government-citizen interactions in both legal historical and contemporary contexts.

This book illuminates the aesthetically underrated meaningfulness of particular elements in works of art and aesthetic experiences generally.

This book explores the subcultures, cultural trends and regulations of leisure and subcultures among young people in Beijing from 1949 to the 1980s.

The collection contains materials of archival documents and memoirs concerning the famine of 1931-1933 in Central Kazakhstan.

Tracing the evolution of Chinese Sociology from the late 1970s to the present day, the book aims to record the path of reconstruction, localization, change, and reform of Chinese Sociology through interviews with 40 Chinese top sociologists such as Su Guoxun, Zhou Xiaohong, Bian Yanjie, Zhao Dingxin, Zhou Xueguang et al.

This book introduces fifteen representative philosophers in ancient China, including Confucius, Laozi, Mencius, Zhuangzi, influential Neo-Taoist scholars, and prominent Neo-Confucian thinkers.

This book links Calvinist belief in the Perpetual Assurance of Salvation with self-efficacy for economic success.

This book explores the great transition of China from a subsistence agrarian economy to a technologically driven economic powerhouse which reflects the achievements of the hardworking Chinese people.

This book links Calvinist belief in the Perpetual Assurance of Salvation with self-efficacy for economic success.

In 1841, Nigel Halleck left Britain as a clerk in the East India Company.

This book documents Japan's psychological deterioration caused by its defeat in August 1945.

This book illuminates the aesthetically underrated meaningfulness of particular elements in works of art and aesthetic experiences generally.

Tracing the evolution of Chinese Sociology from the late 1970s to the present day, the book aims to record the path of reconstruction, localization, change, and reform of Chinese Sociology through interviews with 40 Chinese top sociologists such as Su Guoxun, Zhou Xiaohong, Bian Yanjie, Zhao Dingxin, Zhou Xueguang et al.

Dieses Buch untersucht die besonderen Beiträge chinesischer Romanautoren zur China-Debatte im Hinblick auf die Schlüsselthemen chinesische Sprache, Machtdynamik und konfuzianische Tradition.

Dieses Buch untersucht die besonderen Beiträge chinesischer Romanautoren zur China-Debatte im Hinblick auf die Schlüsselthemen chinesische Sprache, Machtdynamik und konfuzianische Tradition.

What is mysticism?

In this novel perspective on a much-maligned figure, Michal Biran explains the monumental impact Chinggis Khan has had upon the Islamic World, both positive and negative.

The book examines, linking two key variables - 'political leadership' and 'foreign policy' - the role of Deng Xiaoping in China's foreign policy shift after Mao in politico-strategic and economic domains.

This book brings together an impressive group of scholars to critically engage with a wide-ranging and broad perspective on the historical and contemporary phenomenon of Zen.

This book describes and clarifies how certain problems can be resolved in Japan and Asia.

The collection contains materials of archival documents and memoirs concerning the famine of 1931-1933 in Central Kazakhstan.

This book explores the subcultures, cultural trends and regulations of leisure and subcultures among young people in Beijing from 1949 to the 1980s.

This book examines the Japanese diaspora from the historical archaeology perspective-drawing from archaeological data, archival research, and often oral history-and explores current trends in archaeological scholarship while also looking at new methodological and theoretical directions.

This book examines how the Embassy members approached, selected, and represented information, and how, in doing so, they helped to shape European perceptions of China.

Most scholarship on the nineteenth and early twentieth century Constitutional Revolution in Iran has focused on the role of two groups, intellectuals and the clergy.

Most scholarship on the nineteenth and early twentieth century Constitutional Revolution in Iran has focused on the role of two groups, intellectuals and the clergy.

This book introduces fifteen representative philosophers in ancient China, including Confucius, Laozi, Mencius, Zhuangzi, influential Neo-Taoist scholars, and prominent Neo-Confucian thinkers.

This book summarizes and classifies 100 wonderful Chinese industrial heritage cases, starting from the path of cultural tourism industry's involvement in the transformation and renewal of industrial heritage.

This book summarizes and classifies 100 wonderful Chinese industrial heritage cases, starting from the path of cultural tourism industry's involvement in the transformation and renewal of industrial heritage.

This book provides a new perspective on the study of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its monarchy - its political leadership and decisions.

This book provides a new perspective on the study of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its monarchy - its political leadership and decisions.