Asian History

Frederick Mote, one of the twentieth century's most prominent Sinologists, has written a historian's memoir that uses observation and personal expe...

Just a century ago, scholars believed that civilization in the Indus Valley began three thousand years ago during the Vedic Age. But in the autumn ...

On the eve of the war against the South Vietnamese regime in 1964, the communist party strove to carve out a new productivist and political elite f...

The interactions and mutual perceptions of China and Indonesia were a significant element in Asia''s postcolonial transformation, but as a result o...

A native of Bruges (now part of Belgium), Jacques de Coutre was a gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia in the early 17th century....

Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge, a Director in the Rotterdam chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) for three decades during the early ...

A Moment's Grace presents short stories that depict the core of Korea's modernization, from Liberation in 1945 to the Seoul Olympics in 1988. The s...

Farquhar, Crawford, Cavenagh, Thomson, Anderson, Napier, Fullerton, Henderson, MacRitchie, MacPherson, Outram, Purvis, Spottiswoode. These are some...

A stunning modern translation of a Buddhist classic that is also one of the oldest literary texts in the world written by women.The Thergth, compos...

Since the Shah went into exile and the Islamic Republic was established in 1979 in the wake of the Iranian Revolution, the very idea of monarchy in...

A Sense of Place examines the vast Kanto region as a locus of cultural identity and an object of familial attachment during the political and milit...

This illuminating study of the evolution of Chinese capitalism chronicles the fortunes of the Song family of North China under five successive auth...

The Indus Waters Treaty is considered a key example of India-Pakistan cooperation, but less has been said about its critical influence on state-mak...

This is a remarkable study of urban society in one of Indonesia's main port cities. It views the city from below based on the experiences of the pe...

The crowded, bustling, 'squatter' kampongs so familiar across Southeast Asia have long since disappeared from Singapore, leaving few visible traces...

As a giant of 20th century history, Mao Zedong played many roles: peasant revolutionary, patriotic leader against the Japanese occupation, Marxist ...

The Battle of An Loc was one of the bloodiest battles in the Vietnam War and a defining moment in the history of the Republic of South Vietnam. ...

In just four months in 2009, Sri Lanka's 26 year-old desperate civil war came to a brutal and bloody end on a desolate stretch of beach in the isla...

Britain's peacekeeping role in Southeast Asia after World War II was clear enough but the purpose of the Commonwealth in the region later became...

Togo Heihachiro (1848-1934) was born into a feudal society that had lived in seclusion for 250 years. As a teenage samurai, he witnessed the destru...

China is in the midst of the fastest and most intense process of urbanisation the world has ever known, and Shanghai - its biggest, richest and mos...

By 1969, following the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu, over 500,000 US troops were in country in Vietnam. Before Americas longest war had ended wit...

The British Hurt Locker. In the Iraq War, Cpt Kevin Ivison defused bombs and IEDs left by the Taliban. Each time he took the 'longest walk' to a bo...

Showa 1953-1989: A History of Japan concludes Shigeru Mizuki''s dazzling autobiographical and historical account of Showa period Japan, a portrait ...

The Shias of Pakistan are the world's second largest Shia community after that of Iran, but com- prise only 10-15 per cent of Pakistan's population...

The Second and Third Indochina Wars are the subject of important ongoing scholarship, but there has been little research on the lasting impact of w...

Memoirs of the B?dsh?h? Mosque is an unconventional attempt to bring together diverse aspects of the B?dsh?h? Mosque in a single narrative-aspects ...