2015 | Asian History Books

A Pictorial Journey on the Old Mekong: Mekong Exploration Report 1866-1868

March 22, 2015

A Pictorial Journey on the Old Mekong: Cambodia, Laos and Yunnan, Vol. 3 of the Mekong Exploration Commission Report (1866-1868). Sale Price:$125.00 9748496767
Government and People in Hong Kong 1841-1962: A Constitutional History

March 22, 2015

No description available. Sale Price:$101.05 0313235953
Dogeaters

March 22, 2015

Jessica Hagedorn has transformed her bestselling novel about the Philippines during the reign of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos into an equally powerful theatrical piece that is a multi-layered tour de force. As Harold Bloom writes, “Hagedorn expresses the conflicts experienced by Asian immigrants caught between cultures . . . she takes aim at racism in […]
Andrew Lau and Alan Mak’s Infernal Affairs – The Trilogy (The New Hong Kong Cinema)

March 22, 2015

In this book, Gina Marchetti explores the way this example of Hong Kong’s cinematic eclecticism has crossed borders as a story, a commercial product and a work of art; and has had an undeniable impact on current Hong Kong cinema. Sale Price:$14.00 9622098010
Not Quite Shamans: Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia (Culture and Society after Socialism)

March 22, 2015

The forms of contemporary society and politics are often understood to be diametrically opposed to any expression of the supernatural; what happens when those forms are themselves regarded as manifestations of spirits and other occult phenomena? In Not Quite Shamans, Morten Axel Pedersen explores how the Darhad people of Northern Mongolia’s remote Shishged Valley have […]
MacArthur (Great Generals)

March 22, 2015

Douglas MacArthur is best remembered for his ability to adapt, a quality that catalyzed his greatest accomplishments. Adaptability has become an indispensable trait for military leadership in an era of technological leaps that guarantee the nature of war will radically change during the span of an ordinary career. One of the first proponents of a new dimension […]
Inner Revolution: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Real Happiness

March 22, 2015

While the Western world was launching the scientific revolution that would ultimately produce an industrialized society, parts of India, Tibet and China launched a revolution of inner science that began a social revolution that we now have an opportunity to complete. Based on his in-depth knowledge of Tibet and a 30-year relationship with the Dalai […]
War Talk

March 22, 2015

As the United States pushes for war on Iraq, Arundhati Roy, the internationally acclaimed author of The God of Small Things, addresses issues of democracy and dissent, racism and empire, and war and peace in this collection of new essays.The eloquence, passion, and political insight of Roy’s political essays have added legions of readers to […]
The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop: Java and the Burma – Thailand Railway 1942-1945

March 22, 2015

More than 40 years ago Sir Edward Dunlop, then a Lieutenant-Colonel, began these diaries at the start of his imprisonment by the Japanese in Java and on the Burma-Thailand railway. His meticulous observations of prison camp life were concealed all through the war, and by the time peace came in 1945, he carried with him […]
Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand (Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies)

March 22, 2015

Winner of the Henry J. Benda Prize sponsored by the Association for Asian StudiesGathering Leaves and Lifting Words examines modern and premodern Buddhist monastic education traditions in Laos and Thailand. Through five centuries of adaptation and reinterpretation of sacred texts and commentaries, Justin McDaniel traces curricular variations in Buddhist oral and written education that reflect […]

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