Asian history

This fully revised 2nd edition of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan provides a comprehensive overview of both contemporary Taiwan and the Taiwan studies field.

Drachen – mächtige, ehrfurchtgebietende und geheimnisvolle Wesen – haben die chinesische Kultur seit Jahrtausenden durchdrungen.

This book employs cutting-edge digital and spatial methodologies to tackle the critical issue of religious site scarcity across China for five major religions: Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Islam, spanning the period from 1911 to 2004.

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This is a historical and anthropological study of the myth of the werewolf aimed at reflecting on the metamorphoses of evil and understanding the long evolution of a mythical structure.

This is a historical and anthropological study of the myth of the werewolf aimed at reflecting on the metamorphoses of evil and understanding the long evolution of a mythical structure.

This book is one of the first edited volumes on the current Israel/Palestine conflict-the Gaza Nakba 2023-24.

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Peu de personnes connaissent l’intervention des forces alliées et associées en Russie entre 1918 et 1920.

In the context of the simple, enjoyable and unconscious presentation, the writer presents the main landmarks of Sufism, and moves us from the nature of Sufism as a human sign, to the distinction between the many meanings of its meaning, to the difference between him and the forms of Sufism in other religions, and defined its methods, doctrines, literature and other outlets with an impact in this field.

This book explores the historical interactions between Beijing and the West before the Opium War.

This book transcends traditional historical analysis to explore the intricate tapestry of colonialism, modernity, and identity formation in Northeast India.

Dating all the way back to the 5th century B.

The present collection brings together a series of studies by Peter Marshall on British imperial expansion in the later 18th century.

This collection of essays, two of which appear in print for the first time, documents the late Holden Furber's discovery that private ventures, most manifestly deployed in the 'country trade' between Asian ports, played a major role in the European expansion in India before the age of empire.

Korea is a historical region of prominence in the global political economy.

The western steppelands of Central Eurasia, stretching from the Danube, through the modern Ukraine and southern Russia, to the Caspian, have historically been the meeting ground of Inner Asian pastoral nomads and the agrarian societies of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus.

In einer Welt voller Konflikte und Herausforderungen bietet der Jainismus mit seiner Philosophie der Gewaltlosigkeit (Ahimsa) einen faszinierenden Weg zu innerem und äußerem Frieden.

This book interprets the concepts, philosophies and cultural traditions of lunli (roughly construed as "e;relationships and rationality"e;) from the perspective and domain of 'dialogue civilization.

This is the second volume of a two-volume set on the names of China, focusing on the domestic and foreign names of the country in ancient and modern times.

This is the second volume of a two-volume set on the names of China, focusing on the domestic and foreign names of the country in ancient and modern times.

Social Change in the South Pacific (1957) summarises the results of applying historical and contemporary fieldwork methods to the analysis of the processes of social change in the two small Pacific islands of Rarotonga and Aitutaki.

This second collection of studies by Peter Golden continues his explorations of the TArk Empire (mid-sixth to mid-eighth centuries), the stateless polities that appeared after its collapse, and of the Khazar Qaghanate (mid-seventh century to ca.

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