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This revelatory book shows how the influential and controversial Empress Dowager Cixi used art and architecture to establish her authority
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A sumptuous re-issue in two volumes of James Tod’s Annals and Antiquities of Rajast’han (1829–32) alongside a new critical volume which reframes this monumental, but often misunderstood, work
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This book overviews Singapore's fascinating history from the precolonial era to the present, examining this wealthy island nation from economic, political, cultural, and social perspectives.
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This book studies how the act of migration drives the production of popular culture in both homeland and destination. It looks at cultural formations in the process of identity-making of nearly 200 million Indians scattered across the world, from colonial to contemporary times.
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This book explains how Burma's booming drug production, insurgency, and counter-insurgency interrelate—and why the country has been unable to shake off thirty years of military rule and build a modern, democratic society.
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This book is regarded as a personal manifesto, a statement through the history of partition and its aftermath, of the values which India's... Læs mere
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Published in conjunction with The Asia Society's Festival of Korea, this expanded issue of Korea Briefing provides historical insight into Korea, with... Læs mere
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This book examines India's perception of its international role in relation to post-Cold War global realignment, describes social and literary movements among India's "Untouchables,"... Læs mere
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Most modern scholars recognize that there were great differences between China's ruling elite in the middle and late traditional period; but until now there has been no serious effort to discover how the social elite was defined in medieval times, and who belonged to it.
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This book provides a brief overview of events in the People's Republic of China (PRC) since mid-1981. It includes essays that focus on underlying trends and key issues in the PRC and the island of Taiwan. The book is useful for business executives, tourists, and students.
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Excavating the power of memory offers a succinct examination of how memory is constructed, embedded and disseminated in contemporary Japanese society. It brings... Læs mere
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This book challenges the general perception that indigenous claims coming from the Tracts are a recent phenomenon, which emerged with the founding of the Bangladesh state.