Asian history Books

A richly detailed and gripping firsthand account of the infancy of modern China as experienced by American journalist Noël-Marie Fletcher, a young professional woman tasked with reporting news on developing trade and industry from teeming Chinese cities...

"One Hundred Questions and Answers About East Asian Cultures" is part of the Michigan State University School of Journalism series in cultural competence. This guide has sections on East Asian cultures, languages, religions, social norms,...

For the past century, Japan has been a center of attention due to its rapid industrialization and modernization. Still, certain aspects of the nation's culture remain an enigma to outsiders; particularly, Japan's religious foundations. To most of the...

A Quirin Pinyin Updated Editions (QPUE) Alfred Forke's unsurpassed translation and annotation of the Lunheng 論衡 has been revised and updated to reflect the original order of The Complete Essays of Wang Chong 王充, 27-ca. 97. as handed down from the...

A Quirin Pinyin Updated Editions (QPUE)Alfred Forke's unsurpassed translation and annotation of the Lunheng 論衡 has been revised and updated to reflect the original order of The Complete Essays of Wang Chong 王充, 27-ca. 97. as handed down from the end of...

In the late Edo period, when society was maturing and Japan was moving to open its doors to the outside world, landscapes were undergoing major changes. Many world-famous ukiyo-e painters were active during this period, among them Utagawa Hiroshige...

This anthology was prepared as a contribution to Department of Defense-led interagency efforts to commemorate the passing of 50 years since the large-scale engagement of the military forces of the United States and other countries in defending the...

Everyday life in the Crown colony of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was characterized by a direct encounter of people with modernity through the consumption and use of foreign machines - in particular, the Singer sewing machine, but also the gramophone, tramway,...

Throughout its history the concept of "Uzbekness," or more generally of a Turkic-speaking sedentary population, has continuously attracted members of other groups to join, as being Uzbek promises opportunities to enlarge ones social network. Accession is...

Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its capital, Jakarta. While, on the one hand, it facilitates...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Opium Wars, then keep reading...Victorian Great Britain was the most technologically and economically developed country in the world at the time. As such, it had the power to protect its interests...

If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Asia, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book:Ancient China: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient History of China and the Chinese Civilization Starting from the Shang Dynasty...

Si quiere descubrir la fascinante historia de la guerra entre Filipinas y Estados Unidos entre 1899-1902, siga leyendo...La guerra filipino-americana de 1899-1902 fue un conflicto dramático que cambió el mundo y dio forma al siglo venidero y reveló los...

Si usted quiere descubrir la fascinante historia de Taiwán, por favor siga leyendo...La historia de Taiwán es asombrosa. Políticamente, Taiwán tenía una cultura de señores de la guerra. Los portugueses, al pasar...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Second Sino-Japanese War, then keep reading...Many people in the West look upon the Second Sino-Japanese War, which took place in the 1930s and 1940s, as a sort of sideshow to the larger Second World...

"...the object of the Editor of this work is to interest American readers, and especially American Christians, in what the French priests call "the land of martyrs."-William Griffis, Corea Without and WithinCorea Without and Within (1884) was written at...

This is a collection of essays on culture and history of India including Jagannath culture, Nabakalebara. This book has chapters on how to live a better life and how to raise a good family too.

Ever since they were written in the fourteenth century, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and The Water Margin have been considered masterpieces of traditional Chinese fiction. People from different social strata have read them and remembered their...

This book illuminates various aspects of the spread of Buddhism from its Indian homeland to China and beyond during the first through tenth centuries. The coverage is amazingly broad, ranging from maritime aspects of the propagation of Buddhism to...

Danna Agmon's gripping microhistory is a vivid guide to the Nayiniyappa Affair in the French colony of Pondicherry, India. The surprising and shifting fates of Nayiniyappa and his family form the basis of this story of global mobilization, which is...

Singapore and Asia- Celebrating Globalisation and an Emerging Post-modern Asian Civilisation TK Ti and Edward SE TiThis book examines the history of the global economy and how cultural values have empowered the rapid emergence of Singapore and East Asia...

A comprehensive record of the police uniforms worn in Asia from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century. Each country has an overview history of the police force, badges, current ranks and insignia. 55 full colour paintings, within Volume Eight,...

What did prostitutes look like in Edo Japan?Keisai Eisen (1790 -1848) is especially known for his bijin-ga, pretty women, and landscapes. He is known for his participation in the series 69 stations of the Nakasendō together with Hiroshige.The series A...

Explores how China's oldest poetry collection was interpreted in a Confucian exegetical text-the Mao Commentary-in the mid-second century BCE.The Shijing ("Canon of Odes") is China's oldest poetry collection, traditionally considered to have been edited...

Addresses the question of China's rise and what it portends for the future.

An introduction to ancient Chinese ideas on how to live a good life.

Posits the origin of a specifically Chinese concept of "word-meaning," and sheds new light on the linguistic ideas in early Chinese philosophical texts.

Groundbreaking analysis of how colonialism created new conceptual categories and spatial forms that reshaped rural societies.

Examines the political dynamics behind anticorruption efforts in Asia.

Explores the cultural dimensions of protest and dissent in China, focusing on dramatic forms of bodily, spatial, strategic, and artistic performativity.

A rare look at the history of Himalayan peasant society and the relationship between culture and environment in the Himalayas.

Presents a new vision of the Buddhist history and philosophy of emptiness in Tibet.

Through an examination of archaeologically recovered texts from China's northwestern border regions, argues for widespread interaction with texts in the Han period.

Examines the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, and its impact on literati lives in Han China.

Offers biographical accounts of several of North Korea's leaders to illuminate the inner workings of its government.

Pioneering study of the localization of Chinese culture in early modern Japan, using legends, classics, and historical terms as case studies.

Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires.

This exploration of key terms related to social and political order, found in early Indian texts, challenges the idea of a unified ancient India and a unified national identity at that time.

Sheds new light on pre-modern Chinese gender relationships in the context of marriage, male Confucian literati self-presentation, and social networks.

The first detailed analysis in English of monarchy and governance in Korea during King Chŏngjo's reign.

Challenges the idea held by many prominent twentieth-century Sinologists that early China experienced a "language crisis."

Challenges the monolithic view of Hinduism in the nineteenth century, and instead offers a vision of India that contains a rich multiplicity of Hinduisms, women's stories, and cultural histories.

""A Journey From Orenburg To Bokhara, In The Year 1820"" is a travelogue written by Georges De Meyendorf, originally published in 1870. The book chronicles his journey from Orenburg, a city in Russia, to Bokhara, a city in present-day Uzbekistan, in the...