Asian History

Kyokutei Bakin's Nans Satomi Hakkenden is one of the monuments of Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of the most popu...

This book explores and comparatively assesses how Armenians as minorities have been represented in modern Turkey from the twentieth century through...

The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the sour...

Echoes of Harbin: Reflections on Space and Time of a Vanished Community in Manchuria deals with Harbin, a Chinese city that was established by Russ...

While anxiety abounds in the old Cold War West that progress whether political or economic has been reversed, for citizens of former-socialist co...

While anxiety abounds in the old Cold War West that progress whether political or economic has been reversed, for citizens of former-socialist co...

Compiled in China in the fourththird centuries BCE, The Book of Lord Shang argues for a new powerful government to rule over society and turn every...

The book is a fount of knowledge regarding the historiography-and thus the history itself-of Sindh in the late medieval and early modern eras. It t...

The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever.On the 14th of August 1941, a...

**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the ep...

A stunning introduction to the history of Japanese printmaking, with highlights from the de Young museum's vast collection In 1868, Japan underwent...

Why and how do women engage with Buddhism and philosophy? The present volume aims to answer these questions by examining the life and philosophy of...

At the tail end of the twentieth century, a monk transformed a small village temple on the outskirts of Hanoi into a monastery and meditation cente...

For over a century French officials in Indochina systematically uprooted métis childrenthose born of Southeast Asian mothers and white, African, or...

Fujiwara no Teika (11621241) was born into an illustrious lineage of poets just as Japans ancien régime was ceding authority to a new political ord...

In 1763, the Dutch ship Amstelveen set sail from the Dutch East Indies for Muscat, Oman. Through a tragic combination of human error and rough seas...

A monumental intellectual history of the pivotal figure of Hindu nationalismVinayak Damodar Savarkar (18831966) was an intellectual, ideologue, and...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminoso...

South Asian Media Cultures examines a wide range of media cultures and practices from across South Asia, using a common set of historical, politica...

This study seeks to solve the following puzzle: In 1947, the Pakistan military was poorly trained and poorly armed. It also inherited highly vulner...

The Minjian Avant-Garde studies how experimental artists in China mixed with, brought changes to, and let themselves be transformed by minjian, the...

Volume VII in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 34 through 37, devoted to woods. The Ben cao gang mu is a sixtee...

Volume I is divided into two parts. Part A of volume 1 in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a translation of chapters 1 and 2 and portions of chapt...