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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Taking as its premise the belief that communalism is not a resurgence of tradition but is instead an inherently modern phenomenon, as well as a product of the fundamental agencies and ideas of modernity, and that globalization is neither a unique nor unprecedented process, this book addresses the...
Grounds of Judgment
Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, the nineteenth century encounter between East Asia and the Western world has been narrated as a legal encounter. Commercial treaties--negotiated by diplomats and focused on trade--framed the relationships among Tokugawa-Meiji Japan, Qing China, Choson...
The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century
The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
The Arabian Seas is a magisterial work on the world political economy (trade, war, power) that explores the intersect of the worlds of Islam (including South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East and East Africa) and the European world-economy (particularly the seafaring Portuguese, Dutch, and British)...
Japan Between Asia and the West: Economic Power and Strategic Balance
Economic Power and Strategic Balance
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Japan seeks economic competitiveness vis-a-vis the West and economic dominance in Asia, but it mainly competes through cooperative use of economic resources, which facilitates realization of the goals of partner nations. This book studies Japan's balance between the United States and East Asia by...
The International Politics of the Asia-Pacific
Fourth and Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
This fully revised fourth edition of Michael Yahuda's successful textbook brings the subject up-to-date, introducing students to the international politics of the Asia-Pacific region since 1945. As well as assessing the post-cold War uncertainties that challenged balance and power with the region,...
Civil Life, Globalization and Political Change in Asia
Organizing between Family and State
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Academics and policy makers have grown increasingly interested in the ways that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) may encourage better governance, democratic politics, and perhaps ultimately a global civil society. In Civil Life, Globalization and Political Change in Asia, Robert Weller has brought...
by Tiantian Zheng, Kevin Carrico, Professor Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
In globalizing Asia, sexual mores and gender roles are in constant flux. How have economic shifts and social changes altered and reconfigured the cultural meanings of gender and sexuality in the region? How have the changing political economy and social milieu influenced and shaped the inner workings...
by Trin Aiyara, Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim, Ngeow Chow-Bing
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
In 2012, the Communist Party of China (CPC) inaugurated the Xi Jinping era when it elected him to be the General Secretary of the CPC. The following year Xi was elected President of the People’s Republic of China. The Xi Jinping era has seen a remarkable transformation of Chinese foreign policy,...
Fungible Life
Experiment in the Asian City of Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
In Fungible Life Aihwa Ong explores the dynamic world of cutting-edge bioscience research, offering critical insights into the complex ways Asian bioscientific worlds and cosmopolitan sciences are entangled in a tropical environment brimming with the threat of emergent diseases. At biomedical centers...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
What do the major states of Asia view as the emerging challenges in their immediate security environment as well as in the broader Asian region? What future security outcomes would make them believe that strategic stability had been achieved in the Asian continent? Central to the latter question is...
The International History of East Asia, 1900-1968
Trade, Ideology and the Quest for Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
This book provides a broad account of the international history of East Asia from 1900 to 1968 - a subject that is essential to any understanding of the modern epoch. Whereas much of the scholarship on this subject has focused purely on the immediate origins and consequences of violent events such...
The United States and Southeast Asian Regionalism
Collective Security and Economic Development, 1945–75
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
The Nixon or Guam Doctrine of 1969 stressed the importance of progress towards regional cooperation and Asian collective security, indicating that Asian countries themselves should take the initiative in creating programs in which the United States could participate.
This book analyses the...
by Insight Guides
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Insight Guides: all you need to inspire every step of your journey.
From deciding when to go, to choosing what to see when you arrive, this is all you need to plan your trip and experience the best of Southeast Asia, with in-depth insider information on must-see, top attractions like Angkor...
by Chami Jotisalikorn, Karina Zabihi
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
With over 180 photographs Contemporary Asian Living Rooms explores 50 of Southeast Asia's most interesting homes and hotels.
Living room design in Asia has moved away form the classical Asia style to incorporate the new global chic. This Asian design book takes you into the living rooms of...