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Among the conflicts to break out during the Cultural Revolution in Tibet, the most famous took place in the summer of 1969 in Nyemo, a county to the south and west of Lhasa. In this incident, hundreds of villagers formed a mob led by a young nun who was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910553008Author D G PitcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 280g

This volume traces the complex story of the Asian response to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, an important but neglected watershed for Asian nations. The Conference marked the end of a conflict which, although intrinsically European, had globalized...

Bob Saunders was called up for National Service on VJ (Victory in Japan) Day, 1945, at the age of 18. Early the following year, he was posted to India, where he stayed during the momentous era of Partition, before returning to England in October 1947. ...

This book introduces readers to the many dimensions of historical and contemporary Indian transnationalism and the experiences of migrants and workers to reveal the structures of transnationalism and the ways in which Indian origin groups are affected. ...

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The colonial experience of the twentieth century...

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the land war during the Second World War in South-East Asia and the South and South-West Pacific. The extensive existing literature focuses on particular armies - Japanese, British, American,...

First published in 1969. Contains some of Joseph Needham's most significant essays, lectures and broadcasts on the history of Chinese science, technology and culture. Also included are some more personal thoughts stimulated by his own travels and...

The contributions in this volume were mostly first presented at the conference "Research on Nestorianism in China. Zhongguo jingjiao yanjiu 中國景教研究" held in Salzburg, 20– 26 May 2003. Like the conference, the volume explores the subject of "Nestorianism"...

It is not possible to fully understand contemporary politics between China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened in the 1950's. The third volume in Melvyn Goldstein's History of Modern Tibet series, The Calm before the Storm, examines...

In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's...

The establishment of the Indian National Congress in 1885 marked a turning point in modern South Asian history. At the time, few grasped the significance of the event, nor understood the power that its leader would come to wield. From humble beginnings,...

This title was first published in 1972: This bibliography is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference work available on developments in Chinese education since 1966. In addition to primary materials from the people's Republic of China, the entries...

The Afghan crisis has grabbed the attention of the entire world, and underlined the desperate need in the West for a better understanding of the region and its challenges in the face of increasingly militant interpretations of Islam. Carved up and...

A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching Pacific histories for the first time or for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses. It can also serve those who are training...

First published in 1937, India’s Social Heritage is intended to give a simple statement of the principal features of the social system in pre-independence India. The social system of pre-Independence India retained many features characteristic of an...

First published in 1929, A History of Nationalism in the East brings together in one truly fascinating volume a mass of information hitherto scattered and partly unavailable. Hans Kohn sums up the general situation in his Introduction. He tells us that...

Few general books are currently available on Indonesia despite its enormous human and economic resources. Hence the importance of this book, which offeres the latest research of internationally respected scholars with extensive first-hand experience in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670094486Author Uttam Kumar SinhaFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaWeight(grams) 156g

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

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

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...

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...