Asian history

As a young man Stuart Young endured the horrors of the Japanese prisoner-of-war camps and survived.

This book explores the life courses of children born of war in different twentieth-century conflicts, including the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Bosnian War, the Rwandan Genocide and the LRA conflict.

In 1965, soon after the first US combat troops had arrived in Vietnam, it was realized that in some areas the Viet Cong had developed vast tunnel complexes in which to hide from the enemy.

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This book explores Takamure Itsue's (1894-1964) intellectual odyssey as Japan's most notable pioneer in the study of women's history.

Blending classic travel writing with passionate observations on the deeper political and social issues of the time, Robert Byron writes with uncanny prescience of the eventual horrors of the Soviet Union and the downfall of the Raj.

The Imperial Japanese Navy went to war with 17 light cruisers and another three cruiser-sized training ships.

Since the nation's founding, Israel has existed in a state of near perpetual warfare.

This is a book that will change the American perception of the Pacific War.

Incorporating research findings over the last twenty years, First Islanders examines the human prehistory of Island Southeast Asia.

From the opening credits that feature a silhouette falling among skyscrapers, Mad Men transcended its role as a series about the Madison Avenue advertising industry to become a modern classic.

From the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, there was a great deal of turmoil, tension and violence in what became Malaysia as a result of the 1963 Federation; upheavals included the Malayan Emergency of 1948 1960, the independence of Malaya in 1957, Konfrontasi with Indonesia of 1963 1966, the Philippines' claim to Sabah, the Sarawak Communist Insurgency (1962 1990) and the Second Malayan Emergency of 1968 1989.

This book traces the development of Taiwan's relations with its diplomatic partners and its policy towards the political opponents of its political opponent - mainland China.

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.

Nearly 16% of India's population - or over 100 million people - are untouchables.

A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of "e;models and bottles"e; to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of menMillion-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera, and $40,000 bottles of champagne.

Surveys violence in Cambodia from the nineteenth century to the present, testing the theories of Norbert Elias in a non-Western context.

Johnson provides an historically rich examination of the intersection of early twentieth-century imperial culture, imperial politics, and imperial economics as reflected in the colonial built environment at New Delhi, a remarkably ambitious imperial capital built by the British between 1911 and 1931.

This book highlights emerging trends and new themes in South Asian history.

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.

Whilst much scholarly work has been focused on Spain's American colonies, much less is known about Spanish colonization of the Pacific.

Focusing on the two essential factors of the construction of risk, this book presents research revolving around the staging of and the coping with Internet addiction in China.

This book brings together conversations about the Partition and its haunting residues in the present as represented in literary, visual, oral, and material cultures of the subcontinent and beyond.

A vividly detailed account of life aboard U.

In July 1941, the Soviet Union was in mortal danger.

This book identifies and describes the first stage in the advent and growth of English education in India.

Chinese Theatre: An Illustrated History Through Nuoxi and Mulianxi is the first book in any language entirely devoted to a historical inquiry into Chinese theatre through Nuoxi and Mulianxi, the two most representative and predominant forms of Chinese temple theatre.

This book is the first anthology of research devoted to the booming world of Chinese film festivals, covering both mainstream and independent films.

The 20th century was a dynamic period for the theatrical arts in China.

This book explores an event described by the Times as 'one of the greatest and most sensational political conspiracies of modern times'.

One of Japan's most important intellectuals, Nambara Shigeru defended Tokyo Imperial University against its rightist critics and opposed Japan's war.

From an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post and one of the leading China correspondents of his generation comes an eloquent and vivid chronicle of the world's most successful authoritarian state -- a nation undergoing a remarkable transformation.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die nationalen Einheitsfrontorganisationen in Vietnam" verfügbar.

The success of regionalism in Southeast Asia depends on the attitudes of the states within the region but also on the attitude of those outside it.

This Pivot explores the uses of the Mughal past in the historical fiction of colonial India.

Bringing to bear the latest developments across various areas of research and disciplines, this collection provides a broad perspective on how Western Europe made sense of a complex, multi-faceted, and by and large Sino-centered East and Southeast Asia.

Red at Heart conjures a tale of cross-cultural romance from a topic that is normally seen in geopolitical or ideological terms--and thereby offers a new interpretation of twentieth century communism's most crucial alliance.

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.

Asia, the cradle of civilization and culture have had a unique yet important position in the human history on the earth.

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present.

This volume brings together for the first time a significant body of Professor Barnes' scholarly writing on Japanese early state formation, brought together so that successive topics form a coherent overview of the problems and solutions of ancient Japan.

An incredible source of information about the Chinese language and China's minority languagesIn this accessible and informative book, S.

This book constitutes a timely intervention into debates over the status of Taiwan, at a moment when discussions of democracy and autocracy, imperialism and agency, unipolarity and multipolarity, dominate the intellectual agenda of the day.

A sweeping cultural history of India's largest cityA place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis.

This handbook presents a comprehensive survey of the formation and transformation of nationalism in 15 East and Southeast Asian countries.

This book presents the first panoramic study of minkan (citizen publications) in China before the Internet.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

The Celestial Dancers: Manipuri Dance on Australian Stage charts the momentous journey of the popularization of Manipur's Hindu dances in Australia.

Striking Back: Combat in Korea, March-April 1951 is the second book in a three-volume series about the Korean War, examining the fighting that occurred during the late winter and early spring of the war's first year.

First published in 1938, the author describes the ways in which the British lived in India from the early adventurous period of the East India Company until the 1930s when modern means of travel and communication enabled the sahibs to keep in close touch with home and eschew oriental influences.