Asian history

A fascinating history of China's relations with the West-told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East's lack of interest in the West.

A cultural history of the concept of pharmacy, both the material nature of drugs and the trade in medicine, in early modern China Know Your Remedies presents a panoramic inquiry into China's early modern cultural transformation through the lens of pharmacy.

How China is using the US-led war on terror to erase the cultural identity of its Muslim minority in the Xinjiang regionWithin weeks of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, the Chinese government warned that it faced a serious terrorist threat from its Uyghur ethnic minority, who are largely Muslim.

A pioneering history that transforms our understanding of the colonial era and China's place in itChina has conventionally been considered a land empire whose lack of maritime and colonial reach contributed to its economic decline after the mid-eighteenth century.

In 1921 a traveling religious man appeared in eastern British Bengal.

Join authors Dick Cantwell and Peter Bouckaert as they tell the story of the marriage between wood and beer from Roman times through medieval Europe to modern craft brewing.

The unknown history of economic conservatism in India after independenceNeoliberalism is routinely characterized as an antidemocratic, expert-driven project aimed at insulating markets from politics, devised in the North Atlantic and projected on the rest of the world.

How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerismTea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world.

The last three decades have seen a massive expansion of China's visual culture industries, from architecture and graphic design to fine art and fashion.

The most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in EnglishWith more than 5,000 entries totaling over a million words, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English.

With little domestic fanfare and even less attention internationally, Japan has been reinventing itself since the 1990s, dramatically changing its political economy, from one managed by regulations to one with a neoliberal orientation.

A multifaceted history of Ho Chi Minh's climactic victory over French colonial might that foreshadowed America's experience in VietnamOn May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air stilled in Dien Bien Phu, there was no doubt that Vietnam could fight a mighty colonial power and win.

Do "e;black pride"e; and "e;black prejudice"e; come hand in hand?

How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian intellectualsphilologists, administrators, doctors, ethnologists, sociologists, and social criticsdeployed ideas about sexuality to understand modern Indian society.

A fascinating history of China's relations with the West-told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East's lack of interest in the West.

Tangseng and his disciples have been traveling for two or three years.

The Buddhist monk Tangseng and his ragtag band of disciples come upon a strange pagoda in a mountain forest.

"e;Gripping history, offering both drama and suspense.

Warum unterwirft sich der Mensch immer wieder Autoritäten?

The Mystery of Spiritualism gathers Arthur Conan Doyle's esoteric writings into a revealing portrait of an author arguing, with characteristic clarity and narrative force, for the reality of life beyond death.

On May 11, 1857, Hindu and Muslim sepoys massacred British residents and native Christians in Delhi, setting off both the whirlwind of similar violence that engulfed Bengal in the following months and an answering wave of rhetorical violence in Britain, where the uprising against British rule in India was often portrayed as a clash of civilization and barbarity demanding merciless retribution.

'On the Shadow Tracks harnesses the railway lines of Myanmar s complicated past to its turbulent present, and the result is part travelogue, part history and completely absorbing.

'A rich history Harding writes with energy and insight, wearing a tremendous amount of learning lightly' - Rana Mitter, Financial Times This rich and enjoyable book by the acclaimed author of Japan Story explores the many ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America over centuries of tangled, dynamic encountersFrom the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part of outrageous tales of strange beasts and monsters, of silk and spices shipped over vast distances and an uneasy sense of unknowable empires fantastically far away.

In The Way Out (Unabridged), Joseph Benner offers a concise yet searching work of spiritual instruction, addressed to readers seeking release from fear, confusion, illness, and material limitation.

Seit Jahrhunderten beflügeln Einhörner die Fantasie der Menschheit.

»Hinter Gittern wurde ich zum Schriftsteller.

Seven generations.

China and the USA will determine the course of the next century.

In 1986, eight-year-old Eddie Lau's father pulled him from a bed that smelled of mothballs and Tiger Balm to see Halley's Comet over Malaysia.

'I realised that time is precious, and what we do with it matters, especially if we want to create change.

How British intellectuals of the twentieth century reckoned with the emergence of an Asian powerMost historians of nineteenth and twentieth century Europe point to the persistence of racialised and hierarchical views of non-Europeans as ';uncivilised.

How British intellectuals of the twentieth century reckoned with the emergence of an Asian powerMost historians of nineteenth and twentieth century Europe point to the persistence of racialised and hierarchical views of non-Europeans as ';uncivilised.

A lucid and landmark translation that offers an intriguing glimpse into Tibetan history and the spiritual development and remarkable lives of the early luminaries of the Sakya lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.