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Antiwarriors: The Vietnam War and the Battle for America’s Hearts and Minds (Vietnam: America in the War Years)

March 25, 2015

The anti–Vietnam War movement marked the first time in American history that record numbers marched and protested to an antiwar tune—on college campuses, in neighborhoods, and in Washington. Although it did not create enough pressure on decision-makers to end U.S. involvement in the war, the movement’s impact was monumental. It served as a major constraint […]
The Binding Tie: Chinese Intergenerational Relations in Modern Singapore (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory)

March 25, 2015

Since gaining independence in 1965, Singapore has become the most trade-intensive economy in the world and the richest country in Southeast Asia. This transformation has been accompanied by the emergence of a deep generational divide. More complex than simple disparities of education or changes in income and consumption patterns, this growing gulf encompasses language, religion, […]
Lords of Things

March 25, 2015

Lords of Things offers a fascinating interpretation of modernity in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Siam by focusing on the novel material possessions and social practices adopted by the royal elite to refashion its self and public image in the early stages of globalization. It examines the westernized modes of consumption and self-presentation, the […]
The Trident: The Forging and Reforging of a Navy SEAL Leader

March 25, 2015

Decorated US Navy SEAL lieutenant Jason Redman served his country courageously and with distinction in Colombia, Peru, Afghanistan, and Iraq, where he commanded mobility and assault forces. He conducted over forty capture/kill missions with his men in Iraq, locating more than 120 al-Qaida insurgents. But his journey was not without supreme challenges—both emotional and physical. […]
Tan Kah-Kee : The Making of an Overseas Chinese Legend (Revised Edition)

March 25, 2015

For a Chinese immigrant in South-East Asia to make good is not unique, but what is unique in Tan Kah-kee’s case is his enormous contribution to employment and economic development in Singapore and Malaya. He was the only Chinese in history to have single-handedly founded a private university in Amoy and financially maintained it for […]
The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition Of Mahamudra

March 25, 2015

Mahamudra, the great sealing nature, refers to systems of meditation on both the conventional and ultimate natures of the mind. These have been transmitted through the Kagyu, Sakya, and Gelug traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Within the Gelug, Mahamudra teachings occur in a combined Gelug/Kagyu tradition exemplified in the First Panchen Lama’s Root Text for the […]
Some Survived: An Eyewitness Account of the Bataan Death March and the Men Who Lived Through It

March 25, 2015

Manny Lawton was a twenty-three-year-old Army captain on April 8, 1942, when orders came to surrender to the Japanese forces invading the Philippine Islands. The next day, he and his fellow American and Filipino prisoners set out on the infamous Bataan Death March–a forced six-day, sixty-mile trek under a broiling tropical sun during which approximately […]
Sources of East Asian Tradition, Vol. 1: Premodern Asia (Introduction to Asian Civilizations)

March 25, 2015

In Sources of East Asian Tradition, Wm. Theodore de Bary offers a selection of essential readings from his immensely popular anthologies Sources of Chinese Tradition, Sources of Korean Tradition, and Sources of Japanese Tradition so readers can experience a concise but no less comprehensive portrait of the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of East Asia. […]
Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization

March 25, 2015

Filipino seamen currently compose approximately twenty percent of the 1.2 million international maritime transportation workers. Ninety percent of the world’s goods and commodities are transported by ship. Taken together, these statistics attest to the critical role Filipino seamen play in worldwide maritime trade. In Filipino Crosscurrents, an interdisciplinary ethnography, Kale Bantigue Fajardo examines the cultural […]
The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature

March 25, 2015

Including works of varied genres from fiction and poetry to folk stories and elegies, travelogues and jokes to criticism and theory, this wide-ranging collection brings together more than two thousand years of great works in one portable volume. Sale Price:$39.35 0231074298

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