Asian Studies

In Available to be Poisoned: Toxicity as a Form of Life, Dipali Mathur contends that the saturation of the planet with toxic chemicals is not the "inevitable" price of progress but marks a deliberate, violent relationship with the Earth and its "others,"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538146989Author Kyong Yoon Yong JinFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

How Japanese coastal residents and transnational conservationists collaborated to foster relationships between humans and sea life Drawing the Sea Near opens a new window to our understanding of transnational conservation by investigating projects in...

Understanding Contemporary Asia Pacific provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most complex and rapidly changing regions in the world today. This thoroughly revised new edition reflects more than a decade of major developments in the region...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The rise of China and India could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will the foreign policies of China and India look...

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...

Hikikomori, which literally means "withdrawal," is considered an increasingly prevalent form of social isolation in Japanese society. This issue has been attracting worldwide attention for two decades and is now recognized as a problem for the youth as...

This supplement to volume 20 of Prism is the first installment of a four-part project, with roughly concurrent publication in Chinese and English. The works in this project, which include Chinese monographs by Prism's editor Zong-qi Cai, cover Chinese...

In Japan the number of "Special Permanent Residents"-most of whom are of Korean descent, the so-called "Zainichi"-is declining according to government statistics. Does this mean Koreans living in Japan are becoming Japanese? This volume presents a...

What are the boundaries of Hui identity?The Chinese Communist Party points to the Hui-China's largest Muslim ethnic group-as a model ethnic minority and touts its harmonious relations with the group as an example of the Party's great success in ethnic...

This book tells the story of the Mekong River, from its source in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to its delta in southern Vietnam, and the geographical changes in its environment on its journey to the sea. It mainly focuses on the many ethnic minorities...

In Sexuality and the Rise of China Travis S. K. Kong examines the changing meanings of same-sex identities, communities, and cultures for young Chinese gay men in contemporary Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China. Drawing on ninety life stories, Kong's...

A pioneering analysis of exemplary feature filmsCommercial cinema has been among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization in South Asia. So argues Iftikhar Dadi in his provocative examination of cinema produced between 1956 and...

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...

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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...

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...

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