History / History by country / Asia

Battle Story Tet Offensive 1968

by Andrew Rawson

By 31 January 1968 the US had been fighting the Vietnam War for more than ten years, but the American people never thought they wouldn't win. The Tet Offensive changed all that. Over seven bloody months the...

Through the Arc of the Rain Forest

by Karen Tei Yamashita

Through the Arc of the Rain Forest is a burlesque of comic-strip adventures and apocalyptic portents that stretches familiar truths to their logical extreme in a future world that is just recognizable enough...

Historical Dictionary of Modern China (1800-1949)

by James Z. Gao

The Historical Dictionary of Modern China (1800-1949) offers a concise but comprehensive examination of political, military, economic, social, and cultural development of modern China. Instead of focusing merely...

Treasures of the Great Silk Road

by Edgar Knobloch

Turkestan - the great landmass of Central Asia and Western China - is an intriguing meeting point of civilizations. Four major invasions - Greek, Arab, Mongol and Russian - together with Persian, Turkic and...

Becoming a Borderland: The Politics of Space and Identity in Colonial Northeastern India

by Sanghamitra Misra

This book discusses the politics of space and identity in the borderlands of northeastern India between the early 1800s and the 1930s. Critiquing contemporary post-colonial histories where this region emerges...

China's Accession to the World Trade Organization: National and International Perspectives

by Robert Ash & Heike Holbig

With China's accession to the World Trade Organization imminent, this book brings together the expert views of scholars, policy-makers and business representatives on the consequences of this historic event....

Global Media: The Television Revolution in Asia

by James D. White

This book is about the processes of globalization, demonstrated through a comparative study of three television case histories in Asia. Also illustrated are different approaches to providing television services...

Human Rights in Asia: A Comparative Legal Study of Twelve Asian Jurisdictions, France and the USA

by Randall Peerenboom, Carole J. Petersen & Albert H.Y. Chen

Human Rights in Asia considers how human rights are viewed and implemented in Asia. It covers not just civil and political rights, but also social, economic and cultural rights.

This study discusses the problems...

Chinese History in Geographical Perspective

by Jeff Kyong-McClain & Yongtao Du

This volume treats “China” first and foremost as an evolving and imagined geographical entity. The contributors explore China’s last five hundred years of history using geography as a lens through which...

Empire, Industry and Class: The Imperial Nexus of Jute, 1840-1940

by Anthony Cox

Presenting a new approach towards the social history of working classes in the imperial context, this book looks at the formation of working classes in Scotland and Bengal. It analyses the trajectory of labour...

Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif

by Jean Michaud

Dwelling in the highland areas of Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar) and southwest China are hundreds of ethnic groups known as 'tribes' in popular literature. Some groups number barely more...

Historical Dictionary of the Tamils

by Vijaya Ramaswamy

The cultural heritage of the Tamils dates back two thousand years. As a language, Tamil has existed since the pre-Christian era, around the same time as the early classical languages Hebrew and Sankrit. The...

Crime, Punishment, and Policing in China

by Børge Bakken

Crime has long been a silent partner in China's march to modernization, just as law and order has become increasingly important in legitimizing the Chinese regime. This groundbreaking volume offers the first...

Comfort Woman: A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery Under the Japanese Military

by Maria Rosa Henson

In April 1943, fifteen-year-old Maria Rosa Henson was taken by Japanese soldiers occupying the Philippines and forced into prostitution as a comfort woman. In this simply told yet powerfully moving autobiography,...

Historical Dictionary of Malaysia

by Ooi Keat Gin

Over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries are contained in this reference, covering everything from ethno-historical entries to those on culinary favorites and personalities. A chronology, an introductory...

Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater

by Scott J. Miller

Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature_narrative, poetry, and drama_in modern Japan. It focuses specifically...

Gandhi the Man iPad Edition: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World

by Eknath Easwaran

Designed for the iPad, with more than 70 photographs, this is the moving story of a nonviolent hero, told by a highly respected author who grew up in Gandhi’s India.

Gandhi’s life continues to inspire and...

Manners and Customs of the Japanese in the Nineteenth Century: From the Accounts of Dutch Residents in Japan and from the German Work of Dr. Philipp F

by Philipp Franz von Siebold & Terence Barrow

Manners and Customs of the Japanese in the Nineteenth Century is a delightful account of the Japanese of Tokugawa Japan. First published in New York in 1841, this small book is one of the earliest accounts of...

A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day

by Alexander Jacoby & Donald Richie

For film lovers and scholars, an essential resource and reference guide.

A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel: Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in China

by Pin Ho & Wenguang Huang

The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Party factions, one that reached all the way to China’s new president...