Asian history

This book focuses on the rise of Kurdish nationalism in northwestern Iran in the context of the emergence of the Kurdish leader, Ismail Agha Simko, who organized a movement to establish a Kurdish state between 1918 and 1922 The rise of Simko is analyzed in the historical framework of the collapse of the Russian and Ottoman empires, as well as the disappearance of Iranian governmental authority in various provinces of the country during and after the end of the First World War.

This book focuses on the rise of Kurdish nationalism in northwestern Iran in the context of the emergence of the Kurdish leader, Ismail Agha Simko, who organized a movement to establish a Kurdish state between 1918 and 1922 The rise of Simko is analyzed in the historical framework of the collapse of the Russian and Ottoman empires, as well as the disappearance of Iranian governmental authority in various provinces of the country during and after the end of the First World War.

This book addresses one of the most pressing geopolitical inquiries of our era: how will China's ambition manifest on the global stage?

This book presents twelve of the author's selected essays on subjects related to contemporary Chinese thought and examines other significant works on the history of Chinese philosophy.

This book presents twelve of the author's selected essays on subjects related to contemporary Chinese thought and examines other significant works on the history of Chinese philosophy.

This book takes its motive force from our contemporary climate crisis.

This book is the first ethnography on Vietnam's contemporary dissident movement.

This book is the first ethnography on Vietnam's contemporary dissident movement.

This book describes the evolution of the Israeli-Palestinian peace-seeking process from 1967 to the present.

Engaging Pakistan examines the role of British and American public diplomacy in Pakistan.

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

This book explores how digital authoritarianism operates in India, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Malaysia, and how religion can be used to legitimize digital authoritarianism within democracies.

This book considers how music, musicality, and ideologies of musicality are working within the specific construction of waka on the theme of male love in Kitamura Kigin's Iwatsutsuji (1676) and Ihara Saikaku's Nanshoku okagami (1687) by using a modified generative theory of music.

This book explores the evaluations made by religious groups and individuals about the potential of public spheres for religious practice, focussing upon public religion in societies of the Asia-Pacific.

This book focuses on Socotra Island, geographically based in Yemen, and aims to explore the island from the social sciences point of view.

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

This book considers how music, musicality, and ideologies of musicality are working within the specific construction of waka on the theme of male love in Kitamura Kigin's Iwatsutsuji (1676) and Ihara Saikaku's Nanshoku okagami (1687) by using a modified generative theory of music.

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.

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 explores how digital authoritarianism operates in India, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Malaysia, and how religion can be used to legitimize digital authoritarianism within democracies.

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 explores the evaluations made by religious groups and individuals about the potential of public spheres for religious practice, focussing upon public religion in societies of the Asia-Pacific.

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

This book takes its motive force from our contemporary climate crisis.

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.

Engaging Pakistan examines the role of British and American public diplomacy in Pakistan.

'Everyone can derive joy and hope from the communications of another, for what we are told about the higher worlds is not mere theory, unrelated to life.

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 handbook is an innovative recasting and reinterpretation of modern Turkish history centered on war and society.

Using semi-structured interviews with 122 young Muslims in Australia, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA) from diverse ethnic backgrounds, this book investigates the lived reality of young Muslims from their own perspectives.

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 examines how Turkey's ruling party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan produces and employs necropolitical narratives in order to perpetuate its authoritarian rule.

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.