Asian History

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

The goal of this project is to locate the origins and development of modern thought in the United States and East Asia in the late nineteenth and e...

A study of the growth of semi-personal Chinese armies and the rise of militarists to a position that permitted them to seize power upon the breakdo...

A history of how Chinese officials used statistics to define a new society in the early years of the Peoples Republic of China In 1949, at the end ...

A history of how Chinese officials used statistics to define a new society in the early years of the Peoples Republic of China In 1949, at the end ...

A groundbreaking history of fengshuis roles in public life and law during Chinas last imperial dynastyToday the term fengshui, which literally mean...

What is it like to radically change your life? Writer Alec Ash meets the Chinese who are doing just this, reverse migrating from the cities to the ...

Learn how to create photorealistic colored pencil drawings that are convincing enough to fool the eye!This book shows you how to make incredibly re...

This collection of thirteen articles from the Journal of the Sind Historical Society concentrates on precolonial and colonial Sind. These articles ...

The Partition of India in 1947 resulted in the biggest forced migration in history-some 14 million people altogether of which 10 million were from ...

William Elliot Griffis (1843 1928) graduated from Rutgers College in 1869 and taught four years in Fukui and Tokyo. After his return to the United...

Explores state formation, social fabrics and cultural mores of medieval India from 1200-1800. The states of medieval India operated under a rulin...

The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging acr...

Born to a powerful family and educated at the prominent Mindröling Monastery, the Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Mingyur Peldrön (16991769) lever...

From late 2003 through mid-2005, a series of peaceful street protests toppled corrupt and undemocratic regimes in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan ...

In 1946, at age twenty-two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese constitution. This memoir chronicles the unlikely string o...

The first account of the historical intersection between South Korea's democratic transition and the global human rights boom in the 1970s Drawing ...

Mangkunagara I (1726-95) was one of the most flamboyant figures of 18th-century Java. A charismatic rebel from 1740 to 1757 and one of the foremost...

Cold War legacies in Southeast Asia enable new geographies of enclosureIn the twenty-first century, land deals in the Global South have become incr...

The first English-language collection of the titular artist, The Art of Sachiko Kaneoya chronicles the creator's work and themes for nearly a decad...