Asian history

The Fall of the Southern Shaolin Temple and the Rise of the Ten Tigers of Canton tells the legendary story of the Southern Shaolin Temples in Fukien Provence, China, and of the renowned Shaolin Kung Fu masters who trained there.

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Der Weg des Samurai, der Bushido-Kodex, ist weit mehr als ein historisches Relikt – er ist eine Philosophie, die Jahrhunderte überdauerte und bis heute Menschen auf der ganzen Welt inspiriert.

This book analyses the development of the rice trade in Asia since 1945.

Who went into the Black Hole of Calcutta?

Das historische kollektive Bewusstsein hat das Bild des »Siegers von Wien« von 1683, Jan Sobieski, je nach Raum und Zeit unterschiedlich geformt, was Vergleiche der Perspektiven notwendig macht.

Die Sesshaftwerdung des Menschen markiert einen der bedeutendsten Wendepunkte der Menschheitsgeschichte.

"e;Will give readers a feeling for what it was like to fight in the Global War on Terror and the kind of young people who stepped forward to do it.

This volume focuses on changing marriage practices and kinship structures in a setting of interaction between the ruling elites and their Chinese subjects.

The Near Eastern myths and tales are more than simply stories: they are windows into former civilizations, revealing how our forefathers regarded the world around them.

This book brings together the most important articles of the late Joseph F.

This book analyses the human dimension during and after the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.

After decades, women began to take control of their lives.

This book makes an insightful investigation of historical agrotechnical geography in West China in the Qing Dynasty from the perspective of historical geography and the history of agricultural technology.

Most writing on modern China dwells on those aspects which are new to China since the Communist takeover, stressing above all politics, Marxism, economic and agricultural development.

Russia's vast Asian territories beyond the Urals, traditionally known as Siberia, have, despite their enormous size and the crucial role they played in the development of Russian state and society, attracted little attention from Western scholars.

Discover the profound teachings of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching in this convenient Pocket Classics edition.

The eleven countries of Southeast Asia are diverse in every way, from the ethnicities and religions of their residents to their political systems and levels of prosperity.

This book explores the political trajectories of various countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, tracing the shifts in party systems and regime transitions along a model-like trajectory that spans from revolutionism to authoritarianism and electoral Islamism.

In Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence, Tithi Bhattacharya maps the role that Bengali ghosts and ghost stories played in constituting the modern Indian nation, and the religious ideas seeded therein, as it emerged in dialogue with European science.

This book delves into decolonial saga of Malabar through the eyes of a native chronicler and uncover the hidden truth behind the 'Musaliar King,' the media moulded monarch by colonial misnomers.

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