Storia / Storia dei Paesi / Asia

Twenty-First Century Seapower: Cooperation and Conflict at Sea

di Peter Dutton, Robert Ross & Øystein Tunsjø

This book offers an assessment of the naval policies of emerging naval powers, and the implications for maritime security relations and the global maritime order.

Since the end of the Cold War, China, Japan,...

Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema

di Daw-Ming Lee

The Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema covers the history of Taiwan cinema during both the Japanese colonial period (1895–1945) and Chinese Nationalist period (1945–present). This is accomplished through...

Restless Valley

di Philip Shishkin

It sounds like the stuff of a fiction thriller: two revolutions, a massacre of unarmed civilians, a civil war, a drug-smuggling highway, brazen corruption schemes, contract hits, and larger-than-life characters...

Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre

di Samuel L. Leiter

The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre covers all four genres (nT, kyTgen, bunraku, and kabuki), providing information on nearly every aspect, including actors, theatres, companies, history,...

The Immobile Empire

di Alain Peyrefitte

In 1793, Lord George Macartney and an enormous delegation—including diplomats, doctors, scholars, painters, musicians, soldiers, and aristocrats—entered Beijing on a mission to open China to British trade....

Journeys on the Silk Road: A Desert Explorer, Buddha's Secret Library, and the Unearthing of the World's Oldest Printed Book

di Joyce Morgan & Conrad Walters

A literary thriller-meets-travel adventure-meets-popular history rife with a fascinating cast of characters that includes a misfit explorer named Aurel Stein, a cunning abbot, and a fox terrier named Dash the...

Southeast Asian History: Essential Readings

di D. R. SarDesai

A thoroughly updated collection providing a balance of countries, eras, and perspectives in Southeast Asian history

Southeast Asia in the New International Era

di Robert Dayley

An essential introduction to contemporary Southeast Asia in the context of a post-Cold War world

The Legacy of Tiananmen Square

di Michel Cormier

With the loosening of restrictions on the Chinese economy in the 1980s and 1990s and the rise of the middle class, many observers thought that Western-style democracy would soon follow. Instead, China has adopted...

To the People, Food Is Heaven: Stories of Food and Life in a Changing China

di Audra Ang

In China, the world’s next superpower, life is comfortable for the fortunate few. For others, it’s a hand-to-mouth struggle for a full stomach, a place to live, wages for work done, and freedom to speak...

Status and Security in Southeast Asian States

di Nicholas Tarling

Southeast Asia serves as an excellent case study to discuss major transformations in the relationship between states. This book looks at the changing nature of relationships between countries in Southeast Asia,...

A Brief History of the Samurai

di Jonathan Clements

From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior. The Samurai emerged as a warrior caste in Medieval Japan and would have a powerful...

The Janissaries

di Godfrey Goodwin

From the fifteenth to the sixteenth century, the janissaries were the scourge of Europe. With their martial music, their muskets and their drilled march, it seemed that no one could withstand them. Their loyalty...

Private World of Ottoman Women

di Godfrey Goodwin

Recovering the oft-neglected role of women in Ottoman high society and power politics, this book brings to life the women who made their mark in a male domain. Though historical records tend to favour the glitter...

The Voice that Remembers: A Tibetan Woman's Inspiring Story of Survival

di Joy Blakeslee, Ama Adhe & His Holiness The Dalai Lama

Ama Adhe's spirit soars over national and cultural boundaries. Her tenacious struggle to remain human in the face of inhuman torture and deprivation while imprisoned by the Chinese for 27 years inspires any...

In the Realm of a Dying Emperor

di Norma Field

When the Emperor Hirohito died in 1989, Japanese newspapers had to use a special, exalted word to refer to his death, and had to depict his life uncritically, as one beginning in turbulence but ending in magnificent...

The Tibetan History Reader

di Gray Tuttle & Kurtis R. Schaeffer

Answering a critical need for an accurate, in-depth history of Tibet, this single-volume resource reproduces essential, hard-to-find essays from the past fifty years of Tibetan studies. Covering the social,...

Sources of Tibetan Tradition

di Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Matthew T. Kapstein & Gray Tuttle

The most comprehensive collection of classic Tibetan works in a Western language, this volume illuminates the complex historical, intellectual, and social movements of Tibetan civilization from its earliest...

A Short History of Indonesia: The Unlikely Nation?

di Colin Brown

New in the Short Histories of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a readable, well-informed and comprehensive history of Indonesia and its peoples, from ancient origins to the present day.

Reformasi: The Struggle for Power in Post-Soeharto Indonesia

di Kevin O'Rourke

A gripping account of Indonesia's political and economic struggles, from the final days of Soeharto's rule through the first two years of Wahid's presidency. Kevin O'Rourke's accessible and compelling style...