Asian Studies

How researchers understood the atomic bomb's effects on the human psyche before the recognition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In 1945, researchers on a mission to Hiroshima with the United States Strategic Bombing Survey canvassed survivors of the...

Examines literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of Chinese women, across centuries and continents.Crossing Borders and Confounding Identity advances our understanding of the diversity of Chinese women's experiences and achievements, from the Han...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786162152160Author Stephen SimmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Silkworm BooksPublisher Silkworm Books

Park investigates the unexpected success of early Korean creationists, who were mostly scientists, and argues that creationism is not a product of the lack of intelligence or proper scientific education but a consequence of more profound social...

This book looks at the regional policies of two ‘middle powers’ in the Indo-Pacific region, Taiwan and South Korea, and provides critical reflections on the ways both have sought to broaden their options for strategic manoeuvres with their southern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032768960Author Rijul Singh UppalFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint RoutledgePublisher Routledge

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032752273Author Asok Kumar RayFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint RoutledgePublisher Routledge

China's news sector is a place where newsmakers, advertising executives, company bosses, and Party officials engage one another in contingent and evolving arrangements that run from cooperation and collaboration to manipulation and betrayal. Drawing on...

Internet and Gender in Kazakhstan offers an empirically rich and theoretically compelling analysis of how the Internet is influencing societal attitudes towards women’s roles and agency in Kazakhstan.Equipped with intimate perspectives from the wider...

In this book, Josephine Lee looks at the intertwined racial representations of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American theater. In minstrelsy, melodrama, vaudeville, and musicals, both white and African American performers enacted blackface...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920850517Author Decha TangseefaFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Trans Pacific PressPublisher Trans Pacific Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621386544Author Edwin O ReischauerFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781778252204Author Alberto M CacopardoFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Orchid PressPublisher Orchid PressWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988410607Author Arthur A HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Nichi Bei FoundationPublisher Nichi Bei FoundationWeight(grams) 395g

This book analyses credit crisis issues in China from the aspect of individuals, enterprises, and government through investigations of six Chinese urban and rural areas.After China’s reform and opening up in the 1970s, a slew of new problems involving...

Ethnicity and Development explores the impact of ethnic fragmentation on the success or failure of nations and uses case studies of Bangladesh and Pakistan to illustrate this. It analyzes the role of institutions in engendering economic and social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887307718Author Luanjiao HuFormat HardbackPage Count 166Imprint Information Age PublishingPublisher Information Age PublishingWeight(grams) 413g

Building Sustainable Agrifood Systems and Resilient Rural Communities in Japan explores the challenges Japan has been facing as a post-industrialized society. Through case studies across rural Japan, this book shows how these challenges are being...

This volume gives an in-depth account of cultural heritage of Nagaland covering important themes like cultural beliefs, traditional knowledge, material culture, and social institutions. Contributors from diverse dis­ciplines and backgrounds have delved...

This book analyses strategic discourse on the Himalayas from the perspective of India’s interests. Home to many communities, cultures, natural resources and political boundaries, it is the geopolitical landscape of the Himalayas between India and China...

In the last decade, addressing the persistent problem of maternal, infant, young child and adolescent malnutrition in India has gained significant attention. With the well-established serious implications of malnutrition on mortality and morbidity;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887307701Author Luanjiao HuFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Information Age PublishingPublisher Information Age PublishingWeight(grams) 240g

This book explores the transformation of the American-led alliances, as well as of US allies’ responses to potential American disengagement from regional security amid the rising Russian and Chinese threats.The post-Cold War international order has led...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478028154Author Gyanendra PandeyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Duke University PressPublisher Duke University PressWeight(grams) 572g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798330453597Author Chad M ZimmermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Chad ZimmermanPublisher Chad ZimmermanWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915271846Author Dong WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Lived Places PublishingPublisher Lived Places PublishingWeight(grams) 395g

This book examines the history of aging and old age during the Qing dynasty, a pivotal period marked by rapid population growth that resulted in the largest elderly population in imperial China. Drawing on previously overlooked first-person accounts from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501780875Author Nga DaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Cornell University PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams) 454g

In the late 1950s, Suzuki Seijun was an unknown, anxious low-ranking film director churning out so-called program pictures for Japan’s most successful movie studio, Nikkatsu. In the early 1960s, he met with modest success in directing popular movies...

Jews in Japan: Presence and Perception. Antisemitism, Philosemitism and International Relations is a study on the history of real and imagined Jews in Japan, which discusses the little known cultural, political and economic ties between Jews and Japan,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925608359Author Yasuyuki NagafuchiFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Trans Pacific PressPublisher Trans Pacific PressWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478031383Author Gyanendra PandeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Duke University PressPublisher Duke University PressWeight(grams) 445g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915734143Author Mark DodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Lived Places PublishingPublisher Lived Places PublishingWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798330236268Author Jose RizalFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Natal Publishing, LLCPublisher Natal Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814259306Author Sheng-Mei MaFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814259269Author Audrey Wu ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920850418Author Teruko SaitoFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Trans Pacific PressPublisher Trans Pacific Press

This study is an unique approach to social and cultural history of Japan through the scope of food and food ways. In this book-length study of food markets in the early modern Japanese capital of Edo, Akira Shimizu draws a fascinating picture of early...

Why is Bali the only Hindu island in Muslim Indonesia? Although Indonesia is overwhelmingly Muslim, 90 percent of the population in Bali is Hindu. In the title of 'Bali and Hinduism in Indonesia', a comprehensive study of Hindu society and culture in...

Centuries have passed since the demise of many precapitalist agricultural states. Despite the British invasion of 1903 and the Chinese invasion in 1950, the Tibetan state continued to fully function until 1959. For this reason, this biography of George...