Asian History

Every war continues to dwell in the lives it touched, in the lives of those living through that time, and in those absorbed by its historical signi...

The Formosa Fraud, known for most his life as George Psalmanazar, prepared his memoirs for publication after his death in 1764, but even then he d...

Lion City Narratives: Singapore Through Western Eyes fulfils four aims. First, it is a study of subjective Western impressions of Singapore's 145 y...

The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorised account of Mao's...

India was the jewel in the crown of the British Empire, an Empire that needed a rail network to facilitate its exploitation and reflect its ambitio...

Like most empires, the Ming court sponsored grand displays of dynastic strength and military prowess. Covering the first two centuries of the Ming ...

Air-dropped supplies were a vital part of the Allied campaign in Burma during World War II. The transportation of munitions, food and medical suppl...

In April 1945, the end of World War II finally appeared to be nearing. For a group of young pilots trained in the twilight of the war, the greatest...

Newly revised histories of photography as recorded via the photobook have added enormously to our understanding of the mediums culture, particularl...