Asian Studies

From hungry ghosts, vampiric babies, and shapeshifting fox spirits to the avenging White Lady of urban legend, for generations, Asian women’s roles have been shaped and defined through myth and story. In Unquiet Spirits, Asian writers of horror reflect...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621386537Author Edwin O ReischauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Through the analytic of racialization, the chapters in this book argue that social difference in India is reproduced and buttressed through casteist, racist, colonial, and Hindu nationalist projects that generate tacit or explicit consent for continued...

Alcantara, Shinohara, and their contributors evaluate the current state of diversity and inclusion (D&I) within business and higher education in Japan, and the importance of D&I to the growth of Japan’s economy and the enrichment of its society. Japan is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781022889620Author Benoy Kumar SarkarFormat HardbackPage Count 756Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 1225g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469669625Author Josephine LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint University of North Carolina PressPublisher University of North Carolina...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472074976Author John D. CiorciariFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

Shinjuku Ni-ch?me is a nightlife district in central Tokyo filled with bars and clubs targeting the city’s gay male community. Typically understood as a “safe space” where same-sex attracted men and women from across Japan’s largest city can gather to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781022896420Author Benoy Kumar SarkarFormat PaperbackPage Count 756Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 1039g

Fire Dancers in Thailand's Tourism Industry explores the evolution of fire dancing from informal community jam sessions into the iconic, tourist-oriented performances at beach parties and bars, through a close consideration of the role of affect in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666936261Author Rekha PandeFormat HardbackPage Count 430Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

Originally published in 2003, this volume studies village politics and the changes brought about in rural society through political developments. It focuses on the social, political and cultural circumstances of communist mobilization in rural West...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666924657Author Pau Sian LianFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666936988Author Suseela Devi ChandranFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

In Secularism as Misdirection, Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism fixes attention to and hypervisualizes women and religion while obscuring other related issues. Showing how secularism is often invoked to serve capital and antiminority...

In Secularism as Misdirection, Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism fixes attention to and hypervisualizes women and religion while obscuring other related issues. Showing how secularism is often invoked to serve capital and antiminority...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978816459Author Nayma QayumFormat HardbackPage Count 214Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 152g

In Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Volume I, Matthew T. Kapstein and an international team of specialists provide a comprehensive introduction to the material and aesthetic features of the wide range of Tibetan books, described in detail and...

The recent heritage boom in China is transforming local social, economic, and cultural life and reshaping domestic and global notions of China's national identity. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork conducted largely by young anthropologists in...

Digital Media, Online Activism, and Social Movements in Korea deepens the current understanding of online activism and its impacts on society by highlighting how various forms of social movements have been mobilized in Korea. Through exploring movements...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793642288Author Hojeong LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 424Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 152g

The Korean American community is one of the major Asian ethnic subgroups in the United States. Though considered among one of the model minority groups, excelling academically and professionally, members in this community are plagued by unaddressed...

At nearly 1.9 million, the Korean American community is one of the major Asian ethnic subgroups in the United States. Though considered among one of the model minority groups, excelling academically and professionally, members in this community are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760763015Author Deng QiyaoFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Thames & HudsonPublisher Thames & HudsonWeight(grams) 2175g

China’s Long and Winding Road to Modernization: Uncertainty, Learning, and Policy Change interprets contemporary China’s economic transformation from Austrian and evolutionary perspectives. Fu-Lai Tony Yu and Diana S. Kwan incorporate culture,...

China has produced a tremendous amount of propaganda justifying its invasion and occupation of Tibet. This book reproduces excerpts from some of the most notable of these articles, along with a critical analysis. The primary themes of Chinese propaganda...

In Between War and the State, Van Nguyen-Marshall examines an array of voluntary activities, including mutual-help, professional, charitable, community development, student, women's, and rights organizations active in South Vietnam from 1954 to 1975. By...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501769993Author Eric TagliacozzoFormat PaperbackImprint Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell UniversityPublisher Cornell University...

Stalemate reveals the history and contemporary politics of the United Wa State Army (UWSA), Asia's strongest insurgent army on Myanmar's border with China. This ethnographic tale recounts how a highland group, often dismissed as rebels or...

Outsourcing the Polity offers a new account of social outsourcing in post-independence Myanmar, demonstrating how the bankrupt post-socialist junta mediated market reform in the 1990s and 2000s and forced private and non-state actors to take the burden...

Outsourcing the Polity offers a new account of social outsourcing in post-independence Myanmar, demonstrating how the bankrupt post-socialist junta mediated market reform in the 1990s and 2000s and forced private and non-state actors to take the burden...

In Among Women across Worlds, Suzy Kim excavates the transnational linkages between women of North Korea and a worldwide women's movement. Women of Asia, especially those espousing communism, are often portrayed as victims or pawns of a patriarchal...

In Imperial Gateway, Seiji Shirane explores the political, social, and economic significance of colonial Taiwan in the southern expansion of Japan's empire from 1895 to the end of the Second World War. Challenging understandings of empire that focus on...

The Party Family explores the formation and consolidation of the state in revolutionary China through the crucial role that social ties—specifically family ties—played in the state's capacity to respond to crisis before and after the foundation of the...

How race continues to shape the citizenship and everyday lives of later-generation Japanese Americans Japanese Americans are seen as the “model minority,” a group that has fully assimilated and excelled within the US. Yet third- and fourth-generation...

In Crip Colony, Sony Coráñez Bolton examines the racial politics of disability, mestizaje, and sexuality in the Philippines. Drawing on literature, poetry, colonial records, political essays, travel narratives, and visual culture, Coráñez Bolton traces...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439921760Author Y-Dang TroeungFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Temple University PressPublisher Temple University PressWeight(grams) 152g

War, Violence and Women’s Agency in Pakistan investigates the prominent features of gender ideology in the Swat region, Pakistan and how they influence the norms and forms of women’s agency during conflict.After 9/11, the War on Terror brought a new wave...

In 1943, the Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) was forced to evacuate to the Canadian West China Mission in Chengdu, Sichuan. As part of an extraordinary mass migration to Free China during the Japanese occupation, the refugee PUMC transformed nursing...

As news spread that more women died from breast and cervical cancer in India than anywhere else in the world in the early twenty-first century, global public health planners accelerated efforts to prevent, screen, and treat these reproductive cancers in...