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by Steven A. Leibo
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Updated annually, East & Southeast Asia provides just enough historical background on the evolution of Modern East & Southeast Asia to help students gain a thorough understanding—in one semester—of contemporary developments in this vital region. Broad introductory regional and comparative...
The Geography of Southeast Asia
A Scholarly Bibliography and Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
In The Geography of Southeast Asia, Rumney discusses an area that has long been of interest to geographers and other academics. As interest in Southeast Asia has grown, particularly over the past forty years, the volume and variety of scholarly publications on the varied geographical aspects of the...
Embracing the East
White Women and American Orientalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2002
As exemplified by Madame Butterfly, East-West relations have often been expressed as the relations between the masculine, dominant West and the feminine, submissive East. Yet, this binary model does not account for the important role of white women in the construction of Orientalism. Mari Yoshihara's...
East Asia Before the West
Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal neighbors, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. These four territorial and centralized states have otherwise fostered peaceful and long-lasting relationships...
Peace in the East
An Chunggun's Vision for Asia in the Age of Japanese Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
On October 26, 1909, the Korean patriot An Chunggŭn assassinated the Japanese statesman Itō Hirobumi in Harbin, China. More than a century later, the ramifications of An’s daring act continue to reverberate across East Asia and beyond. This volume explores the abiding significance of An, his life,...
A Region in Turmoil
South Asian Conflicts since 1947
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
South Asia has been the setting for some of the century's most violent invasions, the Western world's bloodiest defeats, and a volatile geopolitical brew of religions, ethnicities, and nationalism that sends unsettling ripples through the global balance of power even today. Rob Johnson writes here...
by Beng Huat Chua
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
With the collapse of European socialism in the late 1980s, ascendancy of the liberal capitalist democracy and individual self-interest became prevalent in the West. In contrast, many polities in Asia, both by tradition and choice, have explicitly adopted communitarianism as a national ideology, for...
Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia
How People, Money, and Ideas from China Are Changing a Region
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
This is the first book to focus explicitly on how China�s rise as a major economic and political actor has affected societies in Southeast Asia. It examines how Chinese investors, workers, tourists, bureaucrats, longtime residents, and adventurers interact throughout Southeast Asia. The contributors...
After Bali
The Threat of Terrorism in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2003
This book critically analyses the specific threat of terrorism in Southeast Asia since the Bali blasts of 12 October 2002 and the US-led war on Iraq. It offers a comprehensive and critical examination of the ideological, socioeconomic and political motivations, trans-regional linkages, and media representations...
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South East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Southeast Asia needs to be dealt with as a whole, because, although the one national delegation from the region (Siam) took a minor part, nationalist movements in several Southeast Asian countries reached an early climax - significant though inconclusive - in the years 1919-1920. The planned Peace...
Whose Ideas Matter?
Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Asia is a crucial battleground for power and influence in the international system. It is also a theater of new experiments in regional cooperation that could redefine global order. Whose Ideas Matter? is the first book to explore the diffusion of ideas and norms in the international system from the...
Islamic Central Asia
An Anthology of Historical Sources
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Islamic Central Asia is the first English-language anthology of primary documents for the study of Central Asian history. Scott C. Levi and Ron Sela draw from a vast array of historical sources to illustrate important aspects of the social, cultural, political, and economic history of Islamic Central...
by Thanet Aphornsuvan, Richard L. Benkin, Melissa Kerr Chiovenda
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
South and Southeast Asia continue to be extremely critical regions, deeply intertwined and bound in many ways by centuries of intersecting histories. As the recent experiences of rapid and transformative political and economic changes in several countries in these two regions illustrate, these changes...
Social Policy in East and Southeast Asia
Education, Health, Housing and Income Maintenance
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Social Policy in East and South East Asia provides the first systematic comparison of the policy sectors of income maintenance, health, housing and education in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. It focuses particularly on the provision and financing arrangements of these four Asian newly...