Asian history

In Philosophical Enactment and Bodily Cultivation in Early Daoism, Thomas Michael illuminates the formative early history of the Daodejing and the social, political, religious, and philosophical trends that indelibly marked it.

In this important and hugely ambitious book, one of the world's leading political scientists working on China demonstrates how Western views of China are flawed because the long tradition of Western scholarship studying China views China from the Western philosophical and intellectual perspective rather than viewing China on its own terms through the lens of China's own long-established and reputable philosophical and intellectual tradition.

Focusing on Japan, France, and the United States, Christopher L.

Popular Culture in Late Imperial China delves into the vibrant and multifaceted world of non-elite Chinese culture during the late imperial period, spanning roughly from 1550 to 1920.

This handbook presents a multilayered and multidimensional history of state formation in premodern India.

This book analyzes the diverse facets of the social history of health and medicine in colonial India.

'A devastating new account.

This volume narrates the history of Telugu Christians, a faith community located in the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Pondicherry in southern India.

Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors.

Islamic civilization flourished in the Middle Ages across a vast geographical area that spans today's Middle and Near East.

Breaks new scholarly boundaries in the exploration of cultural and scientific exchanges across Mongol Eurasia.

In World War II, over 36,000 American men, mostly military but some civilian, were thrown into Japanese POW camps and forced to labor for companies working for Japan s war effort.

This is the fascinating biography, first published in 1985, of the remarkable Bengali religious leader Swami Pranavananda who lived in the turbulent years of the early twentieth century.

Iraq and Iran are the two most important states in the Gulf region, given their population size, military strength, and the potential threat they pose to other states in the region.

A highly illustrated study of the battle of the Imjin River in Korea, a heroic defense by the US and UK forces against overwhelming Chinese numbers.

This book presents an alternative view of cosmopolitanism, citizenship and modernity in early 20th-century India through the multiple lenses of mysticism, travel, friendship, art, and politics.

This book explores the nexus between railways and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) - the first modern war, and one in which the railways played a key part.

This book is the first study of political and legal thinking about the partitions of India and Palestine in 1947.

This book is one of the first edited volumes on the current Israel/Palestine conflict-the Gaza Nakba 2023-24.

Negin Nabavi brings together essays written by experts and scholars that shed light on the many transformations that Iran has experienced in the thirty years under the Islamic Republic and speculate on the import of the developments of 2009 and beyond.

Nationalisms in Japan brings together leading specialists in the field to discuss how notions of 'nationalism' in modern Japan impinges on all aspects of social, political and cultural understanding of the Japanese nation or the Japanese state.

In this highly acclaimed study, Billie Melman recovers the unwritten history of the European experience of the Middle-East during the colonial era.

The complex and hard-fought movement for political freedom in India coincided with the rise of a wealthy capitalist class of Indian industrialists who had profited under British rule.

A much-needed history of nineteenth-century Burma which lays down the foundations of the modern state.

This book traces the evolution of Chinese public institutions from the Shang and Zhou dynasties to modern China, including a diverse range of topics such as the bureaucratic system, the fiscal and economic system, talent selection, appointment and assessment, imperial examination, governance and censorship and justice in ancient China.

This is the first book of its kind to employ hundreds of Chinese sources to explain the history and current state of Chinese Communist intelligence operations.

This remarkable book examines the complex history of Japanese colonial and postcolonial interactions with Korea, particularly in matters of cultural policy.

Published in 1851, this is the first book written by the famed Victorian explorer Richard F.

One of the most prolific and respected directors of Japanese cinema, Naruse Mikio (1905-69) made eighty-nine films between 1930 and 1967.

Across eighteenth-century China a wide range of common people forged government documents or pretended to be officials or other agents of the state.

The Korean peninsula underwent a continuous number of earth-shaking events in the twentieth century - although it is generally out of the earthquake zone.

A new and enlarged edition, with an Introduction and Notes.

Looking East examines how English encounters with the Ottoman Empire helped shape national identities and imperial ambitions.

China's emergence as a twenty-first-century global economic, cultural, and political power is often presented as a story of what Chinese leader Xi Jinping calls the nation's "e;great rejuvenation,"e; a story narrated as the return of China to its "e;rightful"e; place at the center of the world.

The Parsis are India's smallest minority community, yet they have exercised a huge influence on the country.

In “gorgeously wrought” essays, the New York Times-bestselling author of The God of Small Things takes a critical look at India’s political climate (Time Magazine).

This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization.

In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism.

Bruce Riedel provides new perspective and insights into Kennedy's forgotten crisis in the most dangerous days of the cold war.

Drawing from hundreds of interviews with WWII veterans who survived Japan's terrifying kamikaze strikes, acclaimed author and former U.

Encyclopaedia lndica is a monumental work by reputed authors which highlights all aspects of lndian History and Culture in the light of modern knowledge in its pristine vigour.

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This book explores rising labor unrest in China as it integrates into the global political economy.

By making Korea a central part of comparative history of East Asian religion and society, this book traces the evolution of Korean religion from the oldest representation to that of the current day by utilizing wide-ranging interdisciplinary and comparative resources.

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