Asian history

Chen Poh Seng's great grandfather lived in Pulau Tekong, his 50-over cousins were born and educated there.

Using a very wide range of detailed sources, the book surveys the many different experiences of women during the Second World War.

Travers explores how Mughal political and legal culture shaped and was reshaped by the British colonial state in Bengal.

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.

Encyclopaedia of Asia: Land, Culture and People is a unique attempt in the sense that for the first time the editors have attempted to provide readers with most contemporary information-base about these very important countries, forming the said region, called Asia.

Vu tells the story of Vietnamese farmers who have survived a 30-year war of independence and unification, its damaging legacies in their living environment, and the unfamiliar pressure of the market economy.

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.

This book provides theoretical background and pastoral strategies for pastors, lay leaders, and congregation members to foster a restoration of the human dignity imputed by God and the good community God desires.

This work, first published in 1994, provides a framework which covers the major aspects of contemporary standard Korean and allows cross-language comparisons.

This updated, expanded edition of Where the Domino Fell recounts the history of American involvement in Vietnam from the end of World War II, clarifying the political aims, military strategy, and social and economic factors that contributed to the participants' actions.

Terror warnings, fake news, spectacles and scandals in real time - the networked world has wound itself up into a nervous frenzy, where everything has become visible: the banal and the terrible, the uninhibited abuse and the anonymous attack.

The blood-laden birth-pangs of the Indian "e;nation-state"e; undoubtedly had a bearing on the contentious issue of group rights for cultural minorities.

Critical questions remain unanswered on the events of the cold-blooded and devastating terror attacks in Mumbai on 26 November 2008.

Using recently released archival materials from the United States and Europe, Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam explains how and why the United States came to assume control as the dominant western power in Vietnam during the 1950s.

Through a consideration of historical memory, commemoration and the 'imagined communities' of nationalism, Ireland and India examines three aspects of Ireland's imperial history: relationships between Irish and Indian nationalists, the construction of Irishmen as imperial heroes, and the commemoration of an Irish regiment's mutiny in India.

From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth centuryGeorge Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative of modern Sino-European relations.

The kingworms, Nepal and Bhutan are two of the poorest and least developed countries in the world.

Focusing on the attitudes and experiences of American female diplomats and spouses, this book examines the social, political, and cultural dimensions of American interactions with the Middle East and North Africa in the five decades after the Second World War.

Since the mid-1980s, Vietnam has experienced remarkable economic, political, and social change.

India, colourful and vibrant, is a land as diverse as its people.

Mid-20th century America envisioned a wondrous future of comfort, convenience and technological advancement.

A study of the politics of rice in Canton, this book sheds new light on the local history of the city and illuminates how China's struggles with food shortages in the early twentieth century unfolded and the ways in which they were affected by the rise of nationalism and the fluctuation of global commerce.

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 offers a multidisciplinary redefinition of China's model of crony comprador capitalism.

In light of the innumerable interventions that characterise the transformation of Ireland over the last two decades, Spacing Ireland: Place, society and culture in a post-boom era explores questions of 'space' and 'place' to understand the nature of major social, cultural and economic change in contemporary Ireland.

Contemporary East Asian societies are still struggling with complex legacies of colonialism, war and domination.

Occupying much of imperial Chinas Yangzi River heartland and costing more than twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion (1851-64) was no ordinary peasant revolt.

This edited volume moves beyond the traditional examination of the treaty ports of China and Japan as places of cultural interaction.

Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing.

Encyclopaedia of Asia: Land, Culture and People is a unique attempt in the sense that for the first time the editors have attempted to provide readers with most contemporary information-base about these very important countries, forming the said region, called Asia.

The History of India begins with the birth of the Indus Valley Civilization in such sites as Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa, and Lothal, and the coining of the Aryans.

By 1925 the process of Japan's transition to a modern industrialised, westernised state was pretty much complete.

On October 1, 1949, a rural-based insurgency demolished the Nationalist government of Chiang-kai Shek and brought the Chinese Communists to national power.

Growing up in a conservative, middle-class family in Texas, Claire Myers Owens sought adventure and freedom at an early age.

A major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official.

Using new material unearthed in French archives, Vietnamese-language publications and the testimony of veterans, Valley of the Shadow offers a new perspective on the climactic French defeat at Dien Bien Phu.

Bringing together seventeen original essays by scholars from around the world, Screwball Television offers a variety of international perspectives on Gilmore Girls.

This book reconstructs the philosophical issues informing the debate between the makers of modern India: Ambedkar and Gandhi.

Takeshi Hamashita, arguably Asia's premier historian of the longue duree, has been instrumental in opening a new field of inquiry in Chinese, East Asian and world historical research.

Drawing on scientific evidence from medicine, psychology, criminology, and sociology, this book explores the veracity of claims about marijuana use and misuse.

The landmark 2008 presidential and vice presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin brought the role of women in American leadership into sharper focus than ever before.

Written by author and speaker Shawn Seah, My Father's Kampung delves into the social history of Aukang and Punggol as it traces a son's journey to better understand and appreciate the kampung life his father lived.

Officially confined to red-light districts, brothels in British India were tolerated until the 1920s.

India and the Early Modern World provides an authoritative and wide-ranging survey of the Indian subcontinent over the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, set within a global context.

This book discusses the sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands from the perspectives of Ryukyu and Okinawa.

Despite its increasingly secure place in the world, the People's Republic of China remains dissatisfied with its global status.

Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today.