Asian History

This book brings together the findings from three studies across four sites: Assam, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Kerala. It aims to understand and ...

In the mid-nineteenth century, French colonial leaders in Algeria started southward into the Sahara, beginning a fifty-year period of violence. Lyi...

If you need to understand about engaging the services of an architect, this updated RIBA guide is for you. Straightforward and completely up-to-dat...

Building a Nation at War argues that the Chinese Nationalist governments retreat inland during the Sino-Japanese War (19371945), its consequent nee...

Writers and intellectuals in modern Japan have long forged dialogues across the boundaries separating the spheres of literature and thought. This b...

This is the incredible story of Bao Luong, Vietnam's first female political prisoner. In 1927, when she was just 18, Bao Luong left her village hom...

Xu Hong Where did the word China (Zhongguo, the Central State) come from, and why was this hinterland named Central State? This book retraces the o...

Friendly Connections: Philadelphia Quakers and Japan since the Late Nineteenth Century discloses the history of relations among members of the Reli...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

The 2012 smash Gangnam Style by the Seoul-based rapper Psy capped the triumph of Hallyu , the Korean Wave of music, film, and other cultural forms ...

Paisanos Chinos tracks Chinese Mexican transnational political activities in the wake of the anti-Chinese campaigns that crossed Mexico in 1931. Th...

Religion is often viewed as a universally ancient element of the human inheritance, but in the Western Himalayas the community of Himachal Pradesh ...

Home to a rapidly rising superpower and the two largest economies in the world after the US, a global East Asia is seen and felt everywhere. This d...

Finding Women in the State is a provocative hidden history of socialist state feminists maneuvering behind the scenes at the core of the Chinese Co...

David Rudner's richly detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of a South Indian merchant-banking caste provides the first comprehensive analy...

Few general books are currently available on Indonesia despite its enormous human and economic resources. Hence the importance of this book, which ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

What defines happiness, and how can we attain it? The ways in which people in China ask and answer this universal question tell a lot about the ten...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

The Women in Blue Helmets tells the story of the first all-female police unit deployed by India to the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia in Januar...

The Missionary's Curse tells the story of a Chinese village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century, drawing direct connections betwee...

This is the incredible story of Bao Luong, Vietnam's first female political prisoner. In 1927, when she was just 18, Bao Luong left her village hom...

The 1949 Communist Revolution marked a period of earthshaking change in China. Political, economic, ideological, and cultural movements galvanized ...

In the first decades of the 20th century, almost half of the Chinese Americans born in the United States moved to Chinaa relocation they assumed wo...

Lino Brocka (19391991) was one of Asia and the Global Souths most celebrated filmmakers. A versatile talent, he was at once a bankable director of ...

Confucianism has shaped a certain perception of Chinese security strategy, symbolized by the defensive, nonaggressive Great Wall. Many believe Chin...

Qiaopi is one of several names given to the silver letters Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum...

Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool provides a historical account of Japans elite and popular cultures from premodern to modern perio...

The guide and mentor to the Ottoman military was Imperial Germany as the military developed its version of the Prussian 'School of Empire' - a set ...

With commentary and annotations throughout, Ming Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader presents for the first time in English 10 key stories from China's ...

Similar in size and in duration, the Chinese and the Roman empires ruled half the worlds population at the time of their co-existence. But what did...

This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story b...

Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the firs...

When the Chinese Communist Party assumed power, Mao Zedong declared that not even one person shall die of hunger. A little over a decade later, Chi...

While popular trends, cuisine, and long-standing political tension have made Korea familiar in some ways to a vast English-speaking world, its reco...

Statesman or warlord? Yuan Shikai (18591916) has been both hailed as Chinas George Washington for his role in the countrys transition from empire t...

Although Japans beer industry dates back nearly 145 years, to date there has been no English-language source documenting its origins, growth, and e...

From the 1920s to the eve of the Pacific War in 1941, more than 50,000 young second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) embarked on transpacific ...