Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan’s history. Composed of 30 chapters written by an international grou...
Author: Metcalf, Barbara D. / Metcalf, Thomas R. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In a second edition of their successful Concise History of Modern India, Barbara Metcalf and Thomas Metcalf explore India's modern history afresh and update the events of the last decade. These includ...
Author: Harris, Mark F. Publisher: Trafford Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This unique collection of student essays is the result of an American teacher's fascination with the content and quality of stories submitted in his English composition classes at Qingdao University i...
Author: Soucek, Svat Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Svat Soucek's book offers a short and accessible introduction to the history of Inner Asia. The narrative, which begins with the arrival of Islam, charts the rise and fall of the different dynasties r...
Author: Goldstein, Melvyn C. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: It is not possible to fully understand contemporary politics between China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened-and why-during the 1950s. In a book that continues the story of Tibet'...
Author: Wigen, Karen Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: ""In this highly original work, author Kären Wigen takes the reader on an exciting journey across the elaborate history and colorful techniques of Japanese cartography. Through a series of wonderfu...
Author: Lam, Tong Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this path-breaking book, Tong Lam examines the emergence of the "culture of fact" in modern China, showing how elites and intellectuals sought to transform the dynastic empire into a nation-state, ...
Author: Goldstein, Melvyn C. / Sherap, Dawei / Siebenschuh, William R. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the as-told-to political autobiography of Phüntso Wangye (Phünwang), one of the most important Tibetan revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. Phünwang began his activism in school,...
Author: Lemoy, Christian Publisher: Universal Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In former times, even more than today, climatic changes had major influences on migratory flows, and consequently on ancient agrarian civilizations, leading to deep economic, social, political and rel...
Author: Avila, Richard Publisher: Trafford Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the untold, behind the headlines story of the rise and fall of Chile's Salvador Allende, and the restoration of Chilean democracy.
Author: Chong, Yagyong Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: "Admonitions on Governing the People is the most highly regarded and celebrated work by one of Korea's most creative thinkers. This carefully translated English language edition will be widely consult...
Author: Kal, Hong Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach. It looks at expositions, museums and the urban built env...
Author: Kal, Hong Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach. It looks at expositions, museums and the urban built env...
Author: Jalali, Ali Ahmad Publisher: Zenith Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, few experts believed the fledgling Mujahideen resistance movement had a chance of withstanding the modern, mechanized onslaught of the Soviet Army. B...
Author: Jarric, Father Pierre du Jarric Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Reproducing, or summarizing the most valuable of the missionaries' letters written prior to 1610, this volume makes available the illegible and scattered primary sources on the reign of the Emperor Ak...
Author: Law, Tom Publisher: Longership Publishing Australia Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The peoples of Xinjiang, west China, seek freedom and an end to the Chinese repression and yoke from Beijing. Young people in this great country need to come to terms with their immediate past, howeve...
Author: Lanzona, Vina A. Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Labeled “Amazons” by the national press, women played a central role in the Huk rebellion, one of the most significant peasant-based revolutions in modern Philippine history. As spies, organizers, n...
Author: Herschensohn, Bruce Publisher: Beaufort Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: January 27th, 1973: the United States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Viet Cong sign the Paris Peace Accords, guaranteeing the right of self-determination to the South Vietnamese people.
Author: Wintle, Michael Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An Economic and Social History of the Netherlands 1800-1920 provides a comprehensive account of Dutch history from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, examining population and health, ...
Author: Sugimoto, Yoshio Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In a second edition of his book which has become essential reading for students of Japanese society, Yoshio Sugimoto uses both English and Japanese sources to update and expand upon his original narr...
Author: Strand, David Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this cogent and insightful reading of China's twentieth-century political culture, David Strand argues that the Chinese Revolution of 1911 engendered a new political life-one that began to free men...
Author: Esherick, Joseph W. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Ancestral Leaves follows one family through six hundred years of Chinese history and brings to life the epic narrative of the nation, from the fourteenth century through the Cultural Revolution. The l...
Description: Meghnad Desai is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the LSE. He is founder of LSE Global Governance. From 1990-1995 he was Director of LSE’s Development Studies Institute and has been at the LSE ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The 1999 conflict between India and Pakistan near the town of Kargil in contested Kashmir was the first military clash between two nuclear-armed powers since the 1969 Sino-Soviet war. Kargil was a lan...
Author: de Guerville, Amédée Baillot Publisher: Parlor Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What they were saying in 1904 . . . "Monsieur de Guerville is a passionate, and perhaps overly partial, friend of Japan. What he describes for us [in AU JAPON] is what he himself witnessed-the fe...
Author: Connors, Tracy Publisher: Belle Aire Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Baited Trap, The Ambush of Mission 1890 is the story of helicopter rescue Mission 1890, one of the most heroic-and costly-air rescues of the Korean War. This harrowing Air Force-Navy mission is expla...
Author: Yang, Dali L. Publisher: Routledge Curzon Format: Adobe PDF
Description: <P>There are wide disparities of wealth between the different regions of China. The result has been increased tension between ethnic groups and serious divisions between China's provinces. This ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: There is a misty-eyed vision of Bhutan which has popularized it as 'the last Shangri-la', the hidden Himalayan jewel, the travel destination of celebrities and unique-experience-hunters. We are not en...
Author: Green, Nile Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As a thriving port city, nineteenth-century Bombay attracted migrants from across India and beyond. Nile Green's Bombay Islam traces the ties between industrialization, imperialism and the production ...
Author: Brunero, Donna Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book provides an overview of the Service, focusing especially on the later years of the Service and the experiences of the foreign administration of the Service as it attempted to negotiate betwe...
Author: Elverskog, Johan Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This groundbreaking work challenges contemporary stereotypes by revealing how both Buddhist and Muslim religious traditions were shaped by a millennium of cross-cultural exchange along the Silk Road f...
Author: Pigott, Peter Publisher: Dundurn Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As the war escalates in Afghanistan, Canadians are asking why we are there. This book is an introduction to what is happening and what we can expect through 2009.
Author: Everett-Heath, Tom Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Examines the transition Central Asia underwent in the twentieth century following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Soviet colonial legacy and the attempts of new states to build secular states wi...
Author: Boulger, Demetrius Charles Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "As China has now fairly taken her place in the family of nations, it is unnecessary to elaborate an argument in support of even the humblest attempt to elucidate her history. It is a subject to which...
Author: Wills, Jr., John E. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: China and Maritime Europe, 1500-1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection. New World silver, Chinese t...
Description: The emergence of China as a dominant regional power with global influence is a significant phenomenon in the twenty-first century. Its origin could be traced back to 1949 when the Chinese Communist Pa...
Author: Mark, Chi-kwan Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The emergence of China as a dominant regional power with global influence is a significant phenomenon in the twenty-first century. Its origin could be traced back to 1949 when the Chinese Communist Pa...
Author: Fewsmith, Joseph Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: China Since Tiananmen is the first book to look comprehensively at the intellectual and political trends in the decade since the Tiananmen Incident (1989) to assess the ways in which China has changed...
Author: Morton, W. Scott / Lewis, Charlton M. Publisher: McGraw-Hill Format: Adobe PDF
Description: “A wonderful job! So lucid, beautfully written, with greatrange and insight. This will set a new standard for shortgeneral histories of China.”—Michael Gasster,professor emeritus of ...
Author: Peerenboom, Randall Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: China has enjoyed considerable economic growth in recent years in spite of an immature, albeit rapidly developing, legal system, a system whose nature, evolution and path of development have been poor...
Author: Gries, Peter Hays Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Three American missiles hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and what Americans view as an appalling and tragic mistake, many Chinese see as a "barbaric" and intentional "criminal act," the latest in ...
Author: Deng, Kent G Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book makes an important contribution to the study of changes in China's institutions and their impact on the national economy as well as ordinary people's daily material life from 1800 to 2000. K...
Author: Deng, Kent G Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book makes an important contribution to the study of changes in China's institutions and their impact on the national economy as well as ordinary people's daily material life from 1800 to 2000. K...
Author: Smith Jr., Warren W. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This groundbreaking book explores China's efforts to assimilate Tibet, in the process rewriting Tibetan history to conform to Beijing's goals. Warren Smith provides the historical context for understa...
Author: Coble, Parks M. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this probing and original study, Parks M. Coble examines the devastating impact of Japan's invasion and occupation of the lower Yangzi on China's emerging modern business community. Arguing that th...
