Asian history Books

Learn the journey of 5,000 years of Chinese history. Easy book in the Chinese History series provides you general details (学习中国历史的基础知识) of a dedicated topic, such as a ruling dynasty, from Chinese history. These books are designed for the beginner...

Learn the journey of 5,000 years of Chinese history. Easy book in the Chinese History series provides you general details (学习中国历史的基础知识) of a dedicated topic, such as a ruling dynasty, from Chinese history. These books are designed for the beginner...

With a history stretching over 5000 years, China has produced numerous famous personalities who left indelible remarks on the lives of Chinese people. Some of the famous names include Confucius (孔子), Laozi (老子), Sunzi (孙子), etc. The contributions of...

With a history stretching over 5000 years, China has produced numerous famous personalities who left indelible remarks on the lives of Chinese people. Some of the famous names include Confucius (孔子), Laozi (老子), Sunzi (孙子), etc. The contributions of...

With a history stretching over 5000 years, China has produced numerous famous personalities who left indelible remarks on the lives of Chinese people. Some of the famous names include Confucius (孔子), Laozi (老子), Sunzi (孙子), etc. The contributions of...

The current book volume is Part 12 (第十二册, dì shí'èr cè) of the Reading Chinese (如何区分汉语里的形近字, Rúhé qūfēn hànyǔ lǐ de xíng jìn zì) series.The books in the Reading Chinese series provide you hundreds of frequently used similar looking and easily confused...

Chinese civilization is about 5,000 years old. The roots of Chinese culture are as old as Chinese civilization. The ancient culture has tremendously evolved over the long period. Much of what we see in China today can be traced back to the ancient...

Welcome to the 15th volume in Chinese Reading Comprehension Series (汉语阅读理解). The new volume provides you China's 10 legendary love stories (爱情故事), related questions and answers for Mandarin Chinese reading comprehension.The book has 10 chapters (love...

Welcome to the 13th volume in Chinese Reading Comprehension Series (汉语阅读理解). The new volume provides you 5 essays about the Chinese Festivals (中国传统节日, Part 1), related questions and answers for Mandarin Chinese reading comprehension.The book has 5...

Welcome to the 12th volume in Chinese Reading Comprehension Series (汉语阅读理解). The new volume provides you 10 essays from the Chinese poetry (中国诗歌), related questions and answers for Mandarin Chinese reading comprehension. The book has 10 chapters...

Welcome to the 9th volume in Chinese Reading Comprehension Series (汉语阅读理解). The new volume provides you 10 famous traditional Chinese stories (中国神话故事), related questions and answers for Mandarin Chinese reading comprehension. The book has 10...

Are you ready to embark on a life-changing journey to the enchanting Land of Smiles? "A Guide to Moving to Thailand: Your Passport to a New Adventure" is your indispensable companion to making the dream of living in Thailand a reality.Thailand, with its...

The history of pandas from China as diplomatic gifts reflects the complex interplay between geopolitics and conservation efforts over time. Pandas have been utilized as symbols of goodwill and diplomatic gestures between nations. While pandas have...

The year is 1917. The self-acclaimed Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, died the previous year and Sun Yat-sen returns from exile to form a new Nationalist government. China declares war with Germany, in support of the Western efforts in Europe—but...

A new edition of a classic on Malay weaponry and war, originally published in 1936 in an extremely limited printing now virtually impossible to find. In addition to his work in description and classification of all sorts of Malay weaponry, Gardner spent...

Since the mid-sixteenth century, Christianity has been notably active in Japan, and yet Japan remains one of the least- evangelized nations in the world. The Japanese and Christianity is an attempt to work out an appropriate response to the question,...

<p>Rajaraja Chola, King of Kings,Incomparable Chola, Great Saviour, Jewel of the Solar Dynasty, Lion AmongKings, was one of the greatest rulers of medieval India. During his reign, theChola empire expanded through virtually all of the southern...

<p>British ascendancy in the world was preceded by over two centuries of colonial intervention in Asia during the course of which the strength and independence of sovereign nations and polities in the region were undermined-their economies...

This book is a bundle of various research articles and research papers which focuses precisely on Indian and European History.

Life in India has changed beyond recognition in the last seventy years, and I am making an effort at preserving the memory of a lost past for my grandchildren and their yet to come progeny, to relive some of the jungle stories and memories. JUNGLE SALT...

Dragon in the Air: Transformation of China's Aviation Industry and Air Force is a comprehensive and multidimensional study of the air force and the emerging aviation industry in PRC. The author has made a bold effort to trace the changing character of...

A potential competition exists between India and China, and there is also no doubt that China started the war. Highlighting the mistakes made by India rather than empirically analysing the available data can be regarded as the primary causes for the...

The Indian Air Force which was initially created as an independent military force proved to be an independent and versatile component of India's military power in 1971 War. This book provides insightful essays and material to critically review and...

Just think: the last combat aircraft designed by the 74-year old HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd) with its expansive infrastructure was in the 1950s - and it was an excellent aircraft. Thirty years later an ad-hoc, interim institution called ADA...

प्राचीन भारतातील समाज, धर्म हे सुसंस्कृत व सभ्य मानले जात होते, परंतु काळाच्या ओघात हे सर्व मागे पडून १९व्या शतकापर्यंत त्यात विघातक बदल घडून आले. परिणामी पारतंत्र्य आलेच, परंतु स्त्री व शूद्रांचे साधारण मानवी अधिकारही तत्कालीन धार्मिक व्यवस्थेने...

संयुक्त महाराष्ट्राच्या लढ्यात सहभागी झालेल्या अनेक नेत्यांनी, पत्रकारांनी त्यावर विपुल लेखन केले असले, तरी ते बरेचसे एकांगी, आत्मसमर्थन करणारे आहे. संशोधकांनी अस्सल कागदपत्रांचा मागोवा घेत ग्रंथ प्रकाशित केले आहेत. तरीही या लढ्याचा समग्र आणि तटस्थ...

रूढ अर्थाने हे नाना फडणिसांचे चरित्र नाही. पानिपतच्या धामधुमीतून केवळ दैवयोगाने देशी सुखरूप परत आलेल्या नाना फडणिसांनी आपल्या असामान्य बुद्धिमत्तेने आणि कार्यकुशलतेने मराठी राज्याची घडी कशी बसविली? विशेषत: थोरल्या माधवरावांच्या निधनानंतर अराजक सदृश्य...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Asien, Note: 1,3, Universität Hamburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Reiseberichte zählen sicherlich mit zu den interessantesten, jedoch auch mitunter problematischen, Quellen des Mittelalters...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Asien, Note: 2,0, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Insitut für Geschichte), Veranstaltung: PS Terrorismus - Eine historische Analyse, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Was bedeutet...

This proceedings book presents the first-ever cross-disciplinary analysis of 16th-20th century South, East, and Southeast Asian cartography. The central theme of the conference was the mutual influence of Western and Asian cartographic traditions, and...

Treasury of Tibetan Medical History is a facsimile of Dr. Pasang Yonten Arya's award-winning chronological account of the ancient origins, early development, flourishing, and spread of Sowa Rigpa from prehistoric times up until the twentieth century...

The stories collected here were written over the past seven years for a monthly Japan Times column called The Living Past. They range from earliest prehistory to modern times. The column still runs. The living past is inexhaustible. It never runs out of...

Wounded by a Japanese bullet as she led nearly a hundred refugee children to safety over the mountains of China, Gladys Aylward's story has been immortalised through the film 'The Inn of the Sixth Happiness' (1958). Born in 1902 in the East End of...

Why has Asmat art, from a remote and small south-coast West Papuan society, had such a significant and prolonged impact on the world stage? This book explores the way major collections were made and examines the motivations of the collectors, their...

The volume traces the story of UK-China relations from the height of the Cultural Revolution in 1967 to the exchange of Ambassadors in 1972, using British government documents. It follows attempts by Ministers and officials to formulate policy against...

"Bill Holstein nails it. This is exactly the right book at the right time. Holstein knows because he has spent decades observing events closely around the world and interpreting them especially in terms of what they mean for real people in America. His...

China and Russia are rising economic and political powers that share thousandsof miles of border. Despite their proximity, their interactions with each other - and with their third neighbour Mongolia - are rarely discussed. Although thethree countries...

The first documented encounter between an English scholar and a Chinese scholar took place in the Summer of 1687 in Oxford, England, when Thomas Hyde, Bodley's Librarian and the foremost oriental scholar of his day, met Shen Fuzong, a native of Nanjing...

The Federal Shariat Court [FSC], meant to mainly deal with cases under Hadood Laws, could not get even a single MALE finally convicted in Zina or allied cases since its inception in 1980 – fourteen poor ladies involved have, however, been...

High quality reprint of this recently declassified 1971 study. This report describes the effects of the Consolidated Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces Improvement and Modernization Program (CRIMP) on each of the Vietnamese Air Divisions (ADs). Each...

High quality reprint of this recently declassified 1972 study. "Kontum: Battle for the Central Highlands" is one of a series of Project CHECO reports on the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) 1972 Offensive. Predicted by most observers as the "logical" focal...

High quality reprint of this recently declassified 1972 study. Interdiction of the overland flow of supplies from North Vietnam to Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam and Cambodia was a primary mission for American airpower in...