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This book provides a comprehensive overview and explanation of China’s population analysing is special characteristics and patterns of growth over the past two... Læs mere
This book explores the representations of national Asian histories in digital games. Situated at the intersection of regional game studies and historical... Læs mere
This book explores the decision by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in 1924 to abolish the caliphate. The Ottoman sultans had long borne the title of caliphs of Islam and even after the demise of the sultanate in 1922 the caliphate retained great symbolic relevance.
Understanding culture as a whole way of life, this book touches on various aspects of Sino-foreign interactions, tracing cultural exchanges depicted in Chinese and foreign sources, with particular attention to events or anecdotes in the Tang and Qing periods.
Political Economy, Race, and the Image of Nature in the United States, 1825-1878 is an interdisciplinary work analyzing the historical origins of a dominant concept of Nature in the culture of the United States during the period of its expansion across the continent.
This book explores and brings to light untold stories from the margins of Chinese society. It investigates and reveals grassroots and popular cultural beliefs, amusing anecdotes, items of lore, and accounts of the strange and the unusual.
As the first volume of a two-volume set on Chinese ancient characters and newly unearthed literature, this book brings together the author’s research articles that discuss the development of Chinese characters and the tradition of Chinese paleography.
As the second volume of a two-volume set on Chinese ancient characters and unearthed literature, this book brings together the author’s scholarly works on Chinese scripts studies and unearthed materials.
This volume explores how individuals use moral agency to craft the moral dispositions and moral capabilities needed for... Læs mere
The issue of riba i.e., interest/the ‘excess’ or ‘surplus’ on loans is crucial for both Islamic... Læs mere
This book analyses the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and features the socioeconomic fallouts for disadvantaged communities in... Læs mere
This book focuses on the tension between the modernising thrust that places France on a trajectory of convergence with comparable... Læs mere