Asian History

Reveals how imperial power and local resistance have shaped landscapesThe perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have th...

Signed on September 2, 1945 aboard the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay by Japanese and Allied leaders, the instrument of surrender fo...

Focusing on previously neglected cultural expressions of colonial-period Korean socialism such as Marxist philosophy, Marxist historiography, and t...

The ethnic Chinese have had a long and problematic history in Indonesia, commonly stereotyped as a market-dominant minority with dubious political ...

Remaking the Chinese Empire examines China's development from an empire into a modern state through the lens of Sino-Korean political relations dur...

The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere offers a lucid, dynamic, and highly readable history of Japan's attempt to usher in a new order in Asia ...

This book is concerned with three major issues in the relationship between the frontier peoples and the modern Union of Myanmar: the awakening of a...

A detailed historical look at how copyright was negotiated and protected by authors, publishers, and the state in late imperial and modern ChinaIn ...

The Nixon or Guam Doctrine of 1969 stressed the importance of progress towards regional cooperation and Asian collective security, indicating that ...

Dr. Thayer, who was American press attache in Tokyo from 1962 to 1965, presents a detailed account of conservative politics in Japan. Although he m...

In 1941, philosopher and poet Gendun Chopel (1903-51) sent a large manuscript by ship, train, and yak across mountains and deserts to his homeland ...

Many studies of China's relations with and influence on Southeast Asia tend to focus on how Beijing has used its power asymmetry to achieve regiona...

This book presents the first oral history of Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) (2004-2014). As the first directly elected presid...

This book presents the first oral history of Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) (2004-2014). As the first directly elected presid...

The Making of Chinas Post Office traces the origins and early development of the countrys modern postal system. Sweeping in perspective, it goes be...

Months before the end of World War II, a committee of economists and other professionals commissioned by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs b...

In recent years, China 's leaders have taken decisive action to transform information, communications, and technology (ICT) into the nation's next ...

The U.S.-led intervention in Afghanistan mobilized troops, funds, and people on an international level not seen since World War II. Hundreds of tho...

Chinese Christian women before 1919 have been largely invisible in the records of China missions and Chinese Christianity. With few exceptions we h...

Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint, is renowned for her unwavering love of God, her disregard for social hierarchies and gender...

Geopolitics in Late Antiquity explores the geopolitical revolution which shook the foundations of the ancient world, the dawning of the millennium ...