Asian history

Since the 1990s, suicide in recession-plagued Japan has soared, and rates of depression have both increased and received greater public attention.

East Africa (1971) examines the century from 1870 that saw the emergence of East Africa from an ancient isolation into the modern world.

This title, first published in 1928, is a collection of letters from the Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore to C.

This book, first published in 1985, considers the state of Marxist thought in China at the time, a time when the country's leadership appeared more concerned with attaining modernisation and economic development than Marxist theory.

As the Vietnam War divided the nation, a network of antiwar coffeehouses appeared in the towns and cities outside American military bases.

Contributors to this book provide an Asian women's history from the perspective of gender analysis, assessing Japanese imperial policy and propaganda in its colonies and occupied territories and particularly its impact on women.

This book studies the history of geoscience in ancient China.

This book explores violence in the public lives of modern Middle Eastern cities, approaching violence as an individual and collective experience, a historical event, and an urban process.

Why not take seriously the claim that Harry Potter's world intertwines with our own?

The Indian Ocean world has a rich history of socio-economic and cultural exchanges across time and space.

Windows into a Revolution edited by Alpa Shah and Judith Pettigrew, the first book in the series offers glimpses into the spread of Maoism in India and Nepal by tracing some of its effects on the lives of ordinary people living amidst the revolutions.

North and South Vietnamese youths had very different experiences growing up during the Vietnamese War.

Since September 1962, hardly a week passed without a major armed confrontation or an outright war in Yemen.

The Cartographic Revolution in the Renaissance made maps newly precise, newly affordable, and newly ubiquitous.

Even though the left has never held power in Iran, its impact on the political, intellectual and cultural development of modern Iran has been profound.

From 1760 to 1869, four generations of one family from the Scottish Highlands sought their fortunes in the service of the East India Company.

This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism.

This volume provides the first survey of the unexplored connections between Machiavelli's work and the Islamic world, running from the Arabic roots of The Prince to its first translations into Ottoman Turkish and Arabic.

Lawrence Kessler uses the Jiangyin mission station in the Shanghai region of China to explore Chinese-American cultural interaction in the first half of the twentieth century.

This book offers a new interpretation of a critical chapter in the history of the Zionist-Palestine conflict and the British Empire in the Middle East.

The dramatic arc of Saigo Takamori's life, from his humble origins as a lowly samurai, to national leadership, to his death as a rebel leader, has captivated generations of Japanese readers and now Americans as well - his life is the inspiration for a major Hollywood film, The Last Samurai, starring Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe.

As Singapore enters its 50th year of independence, it is a good time to reflect on its past as well as look to the future.

Years before the advent of music streaming, Sirius and XM established satellite radio services that attracted paying subscribers through their ever-expanding lineup of niche music channels and exclusivecelebrity-hosted programming.

This book explores the devastating consequences and psychological ruptures of refugeehood as it evocatively recounts the life histories of dislocated Tibetans expelled from their homes since 1959.

The states of Indochina had been French colonies or protectorates since the 19th century.

Born in Berlin in 1922, James Bachner was a German Jew during the darkest days of the Third Reich.

This book, first published in 1983, goes beyond the 'black and white' literature of many East-West observers to offer a more nuanced assessment of the achievements of the Eastern bloc countries of the early 1980s.

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

In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield broadens her exploration of the Silk Road and expands her rich and varied portrait of life along the great pre-modern trade routes of Eurasia.

This text considers the prevalence of Lao-Zhuang Daoism and Huang-Lao Daoism in late pre-imperial and early imperial Chinese traditional thought.

When the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) assumed power in India in 1998 as the largest party of the National Democratic Alliance, it soon became evident that it prioritized educational reforms.

David Van Praagh argues that Hindu nationalists, the country's new paramount political force, are creating a new kind of coalition politics that discourages religious clashes.

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Using ingenious research methods, the contributors to this book explore the search for meaning among ordinary people in China today.

Who was Tse Tsan Tai?

In this study of devotional hagiographical texts and contemporary ritual performances of the Shi'a of Hyderabad, India, Karen Ruffle demonstrates how traditions of sainthood and localized cultural values shape gender roles.

Through extended readings of the works of P.

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This book considers the history of modern astronomy and astrophysics in Japan by comparing with the development of astrophysics in western countries.

Arunachal Pradesh is a thinly populated hilly tract lying on the north-east extremity of India comprising roughly 83,573 square kilometres.

In India, the practice of jugaad-finding workarounds or hacks to solve problems-emerged out of subaltern strategies of negotiating poverty, discrimination, and violence but is now celebrated in management literature as a disruptive innovation.

Why the genius of Jewish humor runs risks as well as rewardsHumor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity.

Indias struggle for Independence was against British Colonialism.

The "e;hair-raising details of the second-by-second events"e; of a Special Forces medic's covert operations during the Vietnam War (On Point: The Journal of Army History Online).

During Operation Desert Storm, Captain Keith Rosenkranz piloted his F-16 "e;Viper"e; in 30 combat missions.

The actions of the radical left in Punjab in pre-Independence India during the 1920s and 30s have often been viewed as foreign and quintessentially un-Indian due to their widely vilified opposition to the Quit India campaign.

An original and compelling new analysis of Hiroshima''s place within the global development of Holocaust and World War II memory.

Vietnam annually sends a half million laborers to work at low-skill jobs abroad.