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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781876843380Author Takashi InoguchiFormat PaperbackPage Count 201Imprint Trans Pacific PressPublisher Trans Pacific Press

On 22 July 1918 a group of Japanese fishermen's wives met in a small village on the coast to discuss what they could do to lower the spiraling cost of rice. This peaceful meeting gave rise to the 1918 race riots, a series of mass demonstrations and armed...

This highly topical book exposes the tensions between state policies of broadcasting regulation and practices of civil society in the Asian region which is struggling with its incorporation into a new globalised, electronic information and entertainment...

First published in 1932, Nationalism and Imperialism in the Hither East seeks to present the history of Turkey, Egypt and Arabia in the decade where the political structures created by World War I and the Peace Conferences sought consolidation and the...

First published in 1980, The City in South Asia is a collection of papers which were presented at an inter-disciplinary seminar on The City in South Asia: pre-modern and modern, held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, under the auspices of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474442893Author Arash ZeiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

This book discusses what is now called "Buddhism". It started as an effort to strengthen a weak point in that "immanence" which had become the accepted religious teaching in the valley of the Ganges, by showing that the...

First Published in 1965. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780714612560Author Kenneth R. WalkerFormat HardbackPage Count 209Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 340g

First Published in 1971. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780714626918Author Frank Joseph ShulmanFormat HardbackPage Count 343Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 1021g

Shedding new light on how the histories of zainichi Koreans have been written, consumed, and discussed, this book addresses the roots of postwar debates concerning the wartime experiences of Koreans in Japan.Providing an overview of the complicated...

The dispossession of indigenous peoples by conquest regimes remains a pressing issue. This book, unlike most other books on the subject, contrasts two different colonial administrations – first the Chinese Qing Empire, then, from 1895, the Japanese. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952636370Author Jeffrey L RicheyFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian StudiesWeight(grams)...

The Routledge Handbook of Revolutionary China covers the evolution of Chinese society from the roots of the Republic of China in the early 1900s until the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976.The chapters in this volume explain aspects of the process...

This examination of French trade with Asia analyzes France's attempt to establish a mercantile empire in the East by breaking into the lucrative market of the Indian Ocean. Between 1664 and 1674, France advanced a vigorous strategy of commerce and...

First Published in 1966. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780714620183Author Walter Wallace McLarenFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 726g

This volume discusses the causes of economic achievement in the leading East Asian countries in relation to the Porter thesis which links economic success with the capabilities of indigenous industrial clusters.Book InformationISBN 9780714641447Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784866582207Author Takashi OkamotoFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for CulturePublisher Japan Publishing Industry...

States are the key to contemporary government reform efforts in the United States, but we know very little about their relative effectiveness at resource allocation and their actual capacity to absorb additional fiscal and managerial responsibilities...

First Published in 1956 A History of Turkey presents a comprehensive overview of Turkey's journey from empire to republic. The book attempts to give a picture of the growth of the Turkish people, the institutions they have created and the ideas that have...

This book deals firstly with the economic and social conditions of life among the villagers, the artisans, and other workers in cities and towns of South India, and also with the new issues raised in India during the most momentous years of its history...

An exploration of the Karens, a small nation that inhabited the mountains and forests of the Lower Burma who were loyal to the British during the Anglo-Burmese wars.Book InformationISBN 9781138568877Author Donald MacKenzie SmeatonFormat PaperbackPage...

Based on new archival research in many countries, this volume broadens the context of the U.S. intervention in Vietnam. Its primary focus is on relations between China and Vietnam in the mid-twentieth century; but the book also deals with China's...

In this pathbreaking book, Xiaoyuan Liu establishes the ways in which the history of the Chinese Communist Party was, from the Yan'an period onward, intertwined with the ethnopolitics of the Chinese "periphery." As a Han-dominated party, the...

In our contemporary globalized society, where contact between different groups and societies on many social levels is as common as never before, questions of conflict, prejudice, interaction and adaptation are of primary importance. One abundant source...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922235107Author Joost CoteFormat PaperbackPage Count 910Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 368g

Cosmopolitanism has emerged as a key category in Islamic Studies, defining models of Muslim mobility, pluralism and tolerance that challenge popular perceptions of religious extremism. Such celebrations and valorisations of mobility and trans-regional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789937082129Author Gérard ToffinFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint Vajra PublicationsPublisher Vajra Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784866581736Author Sumio HatanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for CulturePublisher Japan Publishing Industry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780367152666Author Harrison M HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 156g

This book is about the Basel Mission in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) before the First World War. Miller reconstructs the backgrounds and motivations of the mission's participants and describes the organizational structure that shaped their activities at...

This superb collection of essays on late imperial and modern Chinese history spans the brilliant forty-year career of the late Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. Appearing for the first time in one volume, the essays offer richly textured narratives of critical...

This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes--including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias--to chart the emergence of a new geographical...

The role of markets in linking local communities to larger networks of commerce, culture, and political power is the central element in Anand A. Yang's provocative and original study. Yang uses bazaars in the northeast Indian state of Bihar during the...

Byron K. Marshall offers here a dramatic study of the changing nature and limits of academic freedom in prewar Japan, from the Meiji Restoration to the eve of World War II. Meiji leaders founded Tokyo Imperial University in the late nineteenth century to...

Ever since Korea was first divided at the end of World War II, the tension between its northern and southern halves has riveted,and threatened to embroil,the rest of the world. In this landmark history, now thoroughly revised and updated in conjunction...

Soonil Hwang studies the doctrinal development of nirvana in the Pali Nikaaya and subsequent tradition and compares it with the Chinese aagama and its traditional interpretation. He clarifies early doctrinal developments of Nirvana and traces the word...

Investigating the dynamics of balancing patterns in the Asia-Pacific, this book focuses particularly on the contribution of great powers and middle powers to regional stability. Taking the US and China as great powers, and using ASEAN, Russia, Australia...

The Asia-Pacific region has not only the greatest concentration of population but is, arguably, the future economic centre of the world. Epidemiological transition in the region is occurring much faster than it did in the West and many countries face the...

This book provides an analysis of the processes of micro-regionalization in East Asia within the broader context of globalization and regionalization. The author examines the specifics of corporation production and investment networks that link parts of...

This volume discusses the relationship between economics, geopolitics and regional institutional growth and development in the Asia-Pacific region. How do states (re)define their relationships amid the current global power transition? How do rival...