Asian history

Although a minority of the Asian population, Protestants in Asia are a fast-growing group.

The Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive, and most widely watched event of the modern Olympic era.

Kay Ann Johnson provides much-needed information about women and gender equality under Communist leadership.

Dystopian States of America is a crucial resource that studies the impact of dystopian works on American society-including ways in which they reflect our deep and persistent fears about environmental calamities, authoritarian governments, invasive technologies, and human weakness.

These historically grounded essays by Adolph Reed, Jr.

Explores China''s rich visual culture from the founding of the People''s Republic of China in 1949 to the present day.

This book addresses head-on a core current critique of how the Sino-American relationship was managed across eight administrations.

Magnificent [and] wondrous.

Using Southeast Asia as an example, this book tests theory about the relation between modernity, nationalism, and ethnic identity.

Nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg suchen Indien und China ihren Platz in der Welt.

What does it mean to be Jewish?

This book is about the principal writings that shaped the perception of Turkey for informed readers in English, from Edward Gibbon's positing of imperial Decline and Fall to the proclamation of the Turkish Republic (1923), illustrating how Turkey has always been a part of the modern British and European experience.

Reveals how nationalism shapes global business strategy with a focus on the historical example of German firms in India.

David Rudners richly detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of a South Indian merchant-banking caste provides the first comprehensive analysis of the interdependence among Indian business practice, social organization, and religion.

This book explores the life and work of Omar Khayyam as a provocateur of peace.

In the 1950s, thousands of ordinary Tibetans rose up to defend their country and religion against Chinese troops.

Perspectives on Imperialism and Decolonization (1984) is a key collection of essays that analyse from many sides the growth and demise of Western imperialism.

Describes the creation and evolution of Chinese security and intelligence agencies as well as their role in influencing Chinese Communist Party politics throughout the party''s history.

Stephen Ingle is Professor at the Politics Department, University of Stirling.

A thought-provoking book on the archaeology of power, knowledge, social memory, and the emergence of classical tradition in early China.

In this remarkable account of imperial citizenship, Sukanya Banerjee investigates the ways that Indians formulated notions of citizenship in the British Empire from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth.

This award-winning foreign correspondent’s vivid account of Central Asia’s recent history “reads like a novel but is the stuff of hard-won journalism” (Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan).

Manel Baucells and Rakesh Sarin have been conducting ground-breaking research on happiness for more than a decade, and in this book they distill their provocative findings into a lively, accessible guide for a wide audience of readers.

In this wide-ranging study of Japanese cultural expression, Alan Tansman reveals how a particular, often seemingly innocent aesthetic sensibility-present in novels, essays, popular songs, film, and political writings-helped create an "e;aesthetic of fascism"e; in the years leading up to World War II.

During the years 1880 to 1940, the glory days of the American circus, a third to a half of the cast members were women--a large group of very visible American workers whose story needs telling.

Based on in-depth ethnographic work, this book presents a study of Filipinas trafficked to South Korea, focusing on women who entered South Korea as migrant entertainers and subsequently became deployed in exploitative work environments around US military bases there.

A novel analysis that looks at early Southeast Asian history in terms of integration and collapse.

At a time when organized heritage protection in Asia is developing at a rapid pace, Architectural Conservation in Asia provides the first comprehensive overview of architectural conservation practice from Afghanistan to the Philippines.

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 explores the author's ten-year ethnographic journey in different locations in Shanghai.

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 volume brings together a set of key articles from the last 30 years pertaining to the environmental history of the Pacific basin.

This book explores the social history of colonial Bombay in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, a pivotal time in its emergence as a modern metropolis.

'A remarkable and deeply moving book' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of Do No Harm'A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction' Times Literary SupplementOn 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of north-east Japan.

In this autobiography, Richard E.

Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Coolprovides a historical account of Japan's elite and popular cultures from premodern to modern periods.

During the second half of the 20th century, the Caribbean island of Barbados emerged as a key player in the creation and nurturing of Caribbean popular music.

An Active Service' traces a young Sid Dowland from civilian life into the tough environment of the Guards Depot in the 1930's and then on to a Guards service Battalion in London and prewar Egypt.

The story of the elite Japanese Army Air force (JAAF) aces that flew the Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien (Swallow), and the Ki-100 Goshikisen in the Pacific Theatre of World War 2.

This study draws on extensive archival research to explore the social history of industrial labor in colonial India through the lens of well-being.

This Palgrave Pivot explores the social and cultural impact of global trade at a micro-level from around 1600 to 1950.

This book explores the history of pre-communist Indochina, from the fourteenth century to the 1940s.

As the world's most popular beverage, tea has fascinated us, awakened us, motivated us, and calmed us for well over two thousand years.

Daughter of Good Fortune tells the story of Chen Huiqin and her family through the tumultuous 20th century in China.

Xi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, there is no mystery what he wants, first, that China should become a "e;great maritime power"e; and secondly, that the PLA "e;become a world-class armed force by 2050.

Spanning antiquity until the present, Zhao Lu analyses the eclectic and fictitious representations of Confucius that have been widely celebrated by communities of people throughout history.

This is a major re-evaluation of Soviet foreign policy in the Eurasian borderlands from the Revolution to the Cold War.