Asian History

Best First Book Award from the History Honor Society, Phi Alpha ThetaScars of War examines the decisions of U.S. policymakers who denied American c...

Over the past decades, archaeological exploration of southern China has shattered this image of primitive indigenous people and their pristine envi...

Over the past decades, archaeological exploration of southern China has shattered this image of primitive indigenous people and their pristine envi...

'A bracing new history of the global opium trade . . . Ghosh's tentacular history embraces opium's entanglement with furniture, architecture, garde...

From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part of outrageous tales of strange beasts and...

Teaches crafters how to make and use a gorgeous material for extra enjoyment in knitting, crocheting, and weaving: paper yarn. Explore Japanes...

How did the temple-scape of Suzhou transform into garden-scape during the 13th to 16th centuries? This book investigates the landscape evolution of...

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...

From one of the worlds leading historians comes the first substantial study of environmentalism set in any country outside the Euro-American world ...

Discover the blacksmithing techniques used to make 10 traditional Japanese objects with insights from the artisans and rare glimpses inside their w...

Nationalism is a political phenomenon with deep roots in Southeast Asia. Yet, state attempts to create homogenous nations met with resistance. This...

Nationalism is a political phenomenon with deep roots in Southeast Asia. Yet, state attempts to create homogenous nations met with resistance. This...

Contested Childhoods traces a complex history of caste, race, education, and Christian missions in colonial south India. It draws upon the vast Pro...

Contested Childhoods traces a complex history of caste, race, education, and Christian missions in colonial south India. It draws upon the vast Pro...

In Indian languages from Sanskrit to Marathi, yoga has an enormous range of meanings, though most often it refers to philosophy or methods to contr...

Drawing insights from intensive empirical investigation of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects in various Southeast Asian countries, this b...

One of the fastest growing and most internationally renowned cinemas in Southeast Asia is that of Thailand. In the first ever book devoted solely t...

Drawing on historiography of the Japanese occupation in the Chinese, Japanese, and English languages, this book examines the politics of the Manchu...

Precariously positioned between China and India, Burmas population has suffered dictatorship, natural disaster, and the dark legacies of colonial r...

This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization. Both the United States and the Sovie...

Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists, sculptors, and priests. The ritual off...

Contributors to this book provide an Asian womens history from the perspective of gender analysis, assessing Japanese imperial policy and propagand...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Japan, China, and both Tsarist Russia and later the USSR, vied for imperial dominance in Nort...

The Afterlife Is Letting Go is a meditative consideration of Japanese American incarceration during WWII by Brandon Shimoda, author of the PEN Open...

The advent of colonialism and its associated developments has been characterized as one of the most defining moments in the history of South Asia. ...

Bu and her contributors illustrate the complexity of tensions and negotiations in the development of different types of public health systems in As...

There is a perception that the region of north-east India maintained its splendid isolation and remained outside the reach of the Mughals and did n...

This book explores the theme of continuous wreaking of brutal persecution of a Hindu family on the one hand and the uncompromising efforts of Musli...

This book explores SovietNorth Korean relations during the Cold War (19451991). Based on many primary documents and sources (including Russian and ...