Asian History

Through a regional focus on Bihar between the 1760s and 1880s, Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India reveals the shifting and contradictor...

South Korea known as the hermit kingdom was wrenched from its isolation in the mid-seventies with the forced industialisation of its economy by Par...

This volume critically examines the notion of a new India by acknowledging that India is changing remarkably and by indicating that in the overzeal...

In The Candidate's Dilemma, Elisabeth Kramer tells the story of how three political candidates in Indonesia made decisions to resist, engage in, or...

The Modern Chinese Folklore Movement coalesced at National Peking University between 1918 and 1926. A group of academics, inspired by Western thoug...

Since the seventeenth century, Chinese, Japanese, Manchu, Russian, and other imperial forces have defied Manchurias unrelenting summers and unforgi...

In the early 1900s, the Qing dynasty implemented a nationwide schoolsystem as part of a series of institutional reforms to shore up itspower. A Sch...

The indistinct status of the Zainichi has meant that, since the late 1940s, two ethnic Korean associations, the Chongryun (pro-North) and the Minda...

Hollywood Diplomacy contends that, rather than simply reflect the Wests cultural fantasies of an imagined Orient, images of Chinese, Japanese, and ...

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region of Liangshan in southwest China was plagued by violence. Indigenous Nuosu communities c...

China is undergoing the biggest and fastest societal and economic change in human history. Driving this dizzying transformation is the idea of the ...

In 1950, just five years after the end of World War II, Britain and America again went to war--this time to try and combat the spread of communism ...

The complex and hard-fought movement for political freedom in India coincided with the rise of a wealthy capitalist class of Indian industrialists ...

In the early modern world, the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal empires sprawled across a vast swath of the earth, stretching from the Himalayas to the...

Civilians play crucial roles in building empires. Constructing Empire shows how Japanese urban planners, architects, and other civilians contribute...

The phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in ...

In this key textbook, Michael J. Seth offers an excellent synthesis of existing scholarship, including a thorough examination of contemporary sourc...

The name of Thomas Stamford Raffles continues to be a mark of prestige in Singapore, more than 200 years after he first established a British facto...

Before dawn on August 12, 2000, four of America's best young rock climbers--Tommy Caldwell, Beth Rodden, Jason Singer Smith, and John Dickey--were ...

Ritualized Writing takes readers into the fascinating world of Japanese Buddhist manuscript cultures. Using archival sources that have received sca...