Asian history

'A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history .

The Book of Tea describes all aspects of the Japanese tea ceremony and explains how its rituals blend seamlessly with traditional Japanese life.

'The Book Collectors of Daraya celebrates the political and therapeutic power of the written word .

As read on BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year AwardLonglisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize'A completely extraordinary book .

The seventeen contributors to this interdisciplinary volume bring to the study of early China the analytical concerns of archeology, art history, botany, climatology, cultural and physical anthropology, ethnography, epigraphy, linguistics, metallurgy, and political and social history.

'I had no qualms fighting the Australians, just as I have killed without remorse any of the Emperor's enemies: the British, the Americans and the Dutch', so admits Takahiro Sato in this ground-breaking oral history of Japan's Pacific War.

'I had no qualms fighting the Australians, just as I have killed without remorse any of the Emperor's enemies: the British, the Americans and the Dutch', so admits Takahiro Sato in this ground-breaking oral history of Japan's Pacific War.

What does China's rise mean for transnational civil society?

What does China's rise mean for transnational civil society?

In diesem packenden historischen Werk entführt Diego de Colon die Leser in die faszinierende Welt der Freimaurerei und des Papsttums.

Napoleon Bonaparte, der berühmte Kaiser von Frankreich, träumte von einer Dynastie, die Europa über Jahrhunderte prägen sollte.

Rituals reflecting Shinto culture and beliefs, many of them drawing on the mythology of Shinto as reflected in the earlier Kojiki.

IT WAS through Saint Germain''s assistance that I was privileged to have the experiences recorded in this series of books, and that permission has been granted for them to be put in a form which can be given to the public.

Four or five years ago, at the insistence of some of my nearest co-workers, I agreed to write my autobiography.

Isis Unveiled is a master key to the mysteries of ancient and modern science and theology.

''The Book of Tea'' by Okakura Kakuzo shows how tea has affected nearly every aspect of Japanese culture, thought, and life.

Christianity Today Book Award Finalist-Missions/Global ChurchReader's Choice Award WinnerThroughout China's rapidly growing cities, a new wave of unregistered house churches is growing.

Découvrez le monde fascinant du folklore japonais, où mythes et légendes prennent vie !

'A superbly revealing account of a dreadful and profoundly sad war' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL'This extraordinary book gives us a unique insight into why and how Japan fought such an appalling war' NICK HEWERA new perspective on Japan during the Asia-Pacific War, using remarkable first-hand Japanese source material.

* ';Spectacular!

On 14 March 2012, two Italian nationals, Paolo Bosusco and Claudio Colangelo, were taken hostage from thetribal-dominated Kandhamal area of Odisha, in eastern India.

Ramachandra Guha's India after Gandhi is a magisterial account of the pains, struggles, humiliations and glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy.

Autumn 1944.

A collection of three classic books by V.

Bombay, 1896.

China is poised to become the world's largest economy in the next decade.

Japan, anchored by its traditions, transformed by American post-war Occupation, and globally recognized for its technological innovations, manufacturing prowess, and pop culture, faces powerful challenges from within and without.

A recipient of two Purple Hearts gives readers an inside view of US Army special forces through his own trial by fire during the Vietnam War.

The essential text of Taoism: a philosophical and religious guidebook dating back to China in the fourth century BC.

New York Times Bestseller: A "e;virtually faultless"e; account of the last weeks of WWII in the Pacific from both Japanese and American perspectives (The New York Times Book Review).

A fascinating journey through 100 years of Chinese history, beginning with the historic Treaty of Nanking and ending with Mao Tse-tung's creation of the Chinese People's Republic, by the the acclaimed New Yorker correspondent who lived in China from 1935 to 1941 For centuries, China's code of behavior was incomprehensible to Westerners whom the Chinese viewed as irredeemable barbarians.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author David J.

Tenacious patterns of ethnic and economic inequality persist in the rural, largely minority regions of China's north- and southwest.

For centuries, Persian was the language of power and learning across Central, South, and West Asia, and Persians received a particular basic education through which they understood and engaged with the world.

"e;An intelligent and insightful study"e; of the cultural and economic factors surrounding female sex workers in Japan (Nicole Constable, author of Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers).

A study of the history and politics of colonial and post-colonial northeast India.

At the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Central Asians made the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.

In the mid-nineteenth century, Jerusalem was rich with urban texts inscribed in marble, gold, and cloth, investing holy sites with divine meaning.

During the first four decades of the twentieth century, the British Indian Army possessed an illusion of racial and religious inclusivity.

In the 1930s, a cohort of professional human scientists coalesced around a common and particular understanding of objectivity as the foundation of legitimate knowledge, and of fieldwork as the pathway to objectivity.

"e;A richly documented analysis of the post-Soviet nexus between religion, nationalism, and nuclear weapons .

Iraq was the first postcolonial state recognized as legally sovereign by the League of Nations amid the twentieth-century wave of decolonization movements.

In early modern Korea, the Choson state conducted an extermination campaign against the Kaesong Wang, descendants of the preceding Koryo dynasty.

India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, left behind a legacy of both great achievements and surprising defeats.

Muslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women's bodies are veiled and their voices silenced.

In Mandarin Brazil, Ana Paulina Lee explores the centrality of Chinese exclusion to the Brazilian nation-building project, tracing the role of cultural representation in producing racialized national categories.

In 1939, residents of a rural village near Chengdu watched as Lei Mingyuan, a member of a violent secret society known as the Gowned Brothers, executed his teenage daughter.

Is religion a source of political stability and social continuity, or an agent of radical change?

A biography of the notorious Mughal emperor: "e;An important effort for discussions around Muslim-Hindu encounters and .