Asian history

Brokering Belonging traces several generations of Chinese "e;brokers,"e; ethnic leaders who acted as intermediaries between the Chinese and Anglo worlds of Canada.

This first volume in a three-part series examines the early period of Korean-American diplomatic relations, spanning from 1883, when the first U.

The relationship between God and Mammon forms a recurring theme in this volume, the third collection of Professor Boxer's articles to be published by Variorum.

An analysis of selective aspects of India's constitutional identity, this book provides an analytical account of the changing and changed texture of India's constitutional identity bearing in mind the historical context in which it is articulated.

Providing an overview of current cutting-edge research in the field of Japanese religions, this Handbook is the most up-to-date guide to contemporary scholarship in the field.

This book provides a broad, analytical study of Bangladesh's relationship with India and Pakistan between 1975 and 1990.

The first general history in English of the Ottoman Army in the First World War, Ordered to Die is based on newly available Turkish archival and official sources.

This text rethinks the contours of Japanese history, culture and nationality.

The Historical Dictionary of Modern China (1800-1949) offers a concise but comprehensive examination of the political, military, economic, social, and cultural development of modern China.

The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history of the island nation located just off the southern tip of India.

The 1949 Communist Revolution marked a period of earthshaking change in China.

This book examines the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–5, a seminal event in world history.

Using the princely state of Hyderabad as a case study, Sherman surveys the experience of Muslim communities in postcolonial India.

Focusing on concepts that have been central to investigation of the history and politics of marginalized and disenfranchised populations, this book asks how discourses of 'subalternity' and 'difference' simultaneously constitute and interrupt each other.

The architecture of India Proper is treated in an exhaustive manner in this work.

This book identifies and describes the first stage in the advent and growth of English education in India.

In no society on Earth was there such a ferocious attempt to eradicate all trace of religion as in modern China.

In Fungible Life Aihwa Ong explores the dynamic world of cutting-edge bioscience research, offering critical insights into the complex ways Asian bioscientific worlds and cosmopolitan sciences are entangled in a tropical environment brimming with the threat of emergent diseases.

Volume I is divided into two parts.

Focuses on Falun Gong and the teachings of Li Hongzhi and its effects on the practice of brutalization and martyrdom.

What does the term "e;reading"e; mean?

This book combines different decolonial approaches from around the world to offer a roadmap for updating names and naming practices, restoring and protecting precolonial ones, and reimagining or recontextualizing the relationship between place, identity, and names.

In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century.

As the first book in English on the origins of Japanese historiography, using both archaeological and textual data, this book examines the connection between ancient Japan and the Korean kingdom of Paekche and how tutors from the kingdom of Paekche helped to lay the foundation for a literate culture in Japan.

Globalization, climate change, and increased geopolitical competition are having a profound impact on the Arctic, affecting how we understand both sovereignty and security within the region.

This volume delivers a history of internationalism at the League of Nations and the United Nations (UN), with a focus on the period from the 1920s to the 1970s, when the nation-state ascended to global hegemony as a political formation.

This iconoclastic work on the prehistory of Japan and of South East Asia challenges entrenched views on the origins of Japanese society and identity.

The 1935 Government of India Act was arguably the most significant turning point in the history of the British administration in India.

In Best Practice Kimberly Chong provides an ethnography of a global management consultancy that has been hired by Chinese companies, including Chinese state-owned enterprises.

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

This study explores the nature and circumstances of India's social unrest in the 1980s.

From the years 2004 to 2008, Beijing and Shanghai witnessed the construction of an extraordinary number of new buildings, many of which were designed by architectural firms overseas.

The Sino-Japanese War (1937 - 1945) was fought in the Asia-Pacific theatre between Imperial Japan and China, with the United States as the latter's major military ally.

This book explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932.

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 new edition of Korea Briefing provides a timely analysis of the evolving relationship between South and North Korea.

Ariane Knüsel offers new perspectives on China''s presence in Europe through analysis of Switzerland''s central role during the Cold War.

This study presents an analysis of US-Iranian relations in the twentieth century, with particular attention to the crisis over nationalization of British oil interests at midcentury.

This collection of essays by European and American scholars addresses the changing nature and appeal of crusading during the period which extended from the battle of Nicopolis in 1396 to the battle of Mohacs in 1526.

The relationship between the United States and Japan is torn by contrary impulses.

Historians of religion have examined at length the Protestant Reformation and the liberal idea of the self-governing individual that arose from it.

This book analyzes Han dynasty Chinese archaeology based on a comparison of the forms of vessels found in positively dated tombs.

During World War II, agents of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) infiltrated Japanese-occupied Malaya.

Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, placing themselves and their extraordinary bodies on exhibit as "e;freaks of nature"e; and "e;Oriental curiosities.

This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting on the current state of 'Taiwan Studies', and for thinking about how Taiwan might be re-configured in the future.

Slaves, convicts, and unfree immigrants have traveled the oceans throughout human history, but the conventional Atlantic World historical paradigm has narrowed our understanding of modernity.

This engaging new biography dispels many myths surrounding Nehru, and distinguishes between the icon he has become and the politician he actually was.

A radical new appraisal of the role of the peasant in post-socialist China, putting recent debates into historical perspective.

Twentieth-century China has been caught between a desire to increase its wealth and power in line with other advanced nations, which, by implication, means copying their institutions, practices and values, whilst simultaneously seeking to preserve China's independence and historically formed identity.