Asian History

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Dan Morrison has unearthed a fabulous true-crime story and embedded it within a fascinating work of micro history. David Grann has competition. ROB...

Winner of the Science Fiction Research Association Book AwardA groundbreaking, alternate history of information technology and information discours...

The Khorat Plateau is a landscape of some 155,000 square kilometres of what is now northeast Thailand and central Laos. Despite the rich evidence f...

This book provides a timely analysis of the politics, philosophy, and history of Chinese power, focusing on social, strategic, and diplomatic trend...

Creating Japans Ground Self-Defense Force, 19452015 is a timely contribution to postwar Japan security studies. It is the first comprehensive accou...

The planned reductions in NATO troop numbers in Afghanistan through 2015 and a final withdrawal at the end of 2016 brings up numerous pressing ques...

The first book-length English-language study focusing on the early modern export of Chinese silk to New Spain from the sixteenth to the seventeenth...

Based on over two years of participant-observation in labor brokerage firms, factories, schools, churches, and peoples homes in Japan and Brazil, S...

In Southeast Asia reversals of earlier agrarian reforms have rolled back land-to-the-tiller policies created in the wake of Cold Warera revolutions...

In Southeast Asia reversals of earlier agrarian reforms have rolled back land-to-the-tiller policies created in the wake of Cold Warera revolutions...

Step into Chinese history through the accounts of those who lived itPersonal accounts help us understand notions of self, interpersonal relations, ...

Japan today defends its controversial whaling expeditions by invoking traditionbut what was the historical reality? In examining the techniques and...

Lovely West Lake, near scenic Hangzhou on Chinas east coast, has been celebrated as a major tourist site since the twelfth century. Now as then, vi...

In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kant...

The social and economic rise of the chungin class (middle people who ranked between the yangban aristocracy and commoners) during the late Chosn pe...