2015 | Asian History Books

India and Pakistan: Continued Conflict or Cooperation?

March 22, 2015

Beginning in 1947, when “India and Pakistan were born to conflict,” renowned India scholar Stanley Wolpert provides an authoritative, accessible primer on what is potentially the world’s most dangerous crisis. He concisely distills sixty-three years of complex history, tracing the roots of the relationship between these two antagonists, explaining the many attempts to resolve their […]
A Cobra Hijacked My Camera Bag! Snakes and Stories from Taiwan

March 22, 2015

The herp is on! Hans Breuer searches for a new pet ratsnake in Taipei restaurants, loses a coral snake in his living room, confronts a cobra in complete darkness, and assumes unorthodox yogic postures to photograph kraits, habus, and bamboo vipers. Between the tree ferns of Taiwan’s lush, rugged mountains, Hans draws us along to […]
Kashmir: The Case for Freedom

March 22, 2015

Leading international voices condemn the brutalities of the Kashmir occupation.At home, the Kashmiri people’s ongoing quest for justice and self-determination is as much ignored by their venal politicians as it is rejected by Pakistan. Internationally, their struggle is forgotten, as the West refuses to bring pressure to bear on its regional ally India. Kashmir: The […]
Underground Front – The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong

March 22, 2015

Underground Front is a pioneering examination of the role that the Chinese Communist Party has played in Hong Kong since the creation of the Party in 1921, through to the present day. This book brings events right up to date and includes the results of a survey about the Hong Kong public’s attitude towards the […]
Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara: The British Library Kharosthi Fragments

March 22, 2015

As the Dead Sea Scrolls have changed our understanding of Judaism and early Christianity, so a set of 29 scroll fragments acquired in 1994 by The British Library promise to improve our knowledge of the history of Buddhism in India. The fragmentary birch bark scrolls were found inside one of set of inscribed clay pots. […]
The Man from Pakistan: The True Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Nuclear Smuggler

March 22, 2015

The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation is on the rise. Should such an assault occur, there is a strong likelihood that the trail of devastation will lead back to Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani father of the […]
Secret of the Vajra World: The Tantirc Buddhism of Tibet

March 22, 2015

This book provides an entrée into the Tantric (or Vajrayana) Buddhism of Tibet, as conveyed by Tibetan masters teaching in the West, and as received by their Western students. The Tantric tradition is a unique collection of lesser-known texts, concepts, and meditation practices that are usually made available only to experienced and specially initiated practitioners. […]
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 – Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History … to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

March 22, 2015

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. Sale Price:buy at discount B004TRD2BO
Perfidious Albion: The Abandonment of Hong Kong

March 22, 2015

When Britain agreed to “restore” Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China in 1984, British spokesmen explained that the Communist Chinese were reforming and would allow Hong Kong to continue its dynamic capitalist ways. But the brutal suppression of the Chinese student protest in Tiananmen Square in 1989 made it clear that totalitarian Beijing […]
Queer Politics and Sexual Modernity in Taiwan

March 22, 2015

This book delineates the history and politics of gender and sexuality since postwar Taiwan. Tracking the interface between queerness and national culture, it underscores the imbrications of male homosexuality, prostitution and feminism within the modernizing process and offers a trenchant critique of the violence of sexual modernity. Sale Price:$20.00 9888083082

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