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...