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Filipina: A Tribute to the Filipino Woman

March 22, 2015

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Blood on the Risers: An Airborne Soldier’s Thirty-five Months in Vietnam

March 22, 2015

From Dak To to the Tet Offensive, John Leppelman saw it all. In three tours of duty, he made combat jumps, spent months of fruitless effort looking for the enemy, watched as his budies died because of lousy leadership and lousy weapons. He saw the war as few others did, and lives to tell about […]
Across the Taiwan Strait: Democracy: The Bridge Between Mainland China and Taiwan

March 22, 2015

Taiwan’s recent moves to democratize its political system have undermined the “one China” policy and demanded the redefinition of relations between Taiwan and China. Across the Taiwan Strait provides a new and timely look at the pivotal role of democracy in the fifty-year-old conflict. Drawn from the proceedings of a conference organized by the Claremont […]
The Jews of Singapore

March 22, 2015

Many would be surprised to learn that Singapore has been home to a thriving Jewish community for almost 170 years – and even more surprised to hear that the community traces its roots to Baghdad, Iraq. What brought this group of Jewish pioneers from Baghdad to an island in the Southeast Asia? How did a […]
Pakistan

March 22, 2015

BORN ONLY FIVE YEARS AFTER PAKISTAN WAS CREATED IN 1947, IMRAN KHAN HAS LIVED HIS COUNTRY S HISTORY. UNDERMINED BY A RULING ELITE, AND UNABLE TO PROTECT ITS PEOPLE FROM THE CARNAGE OF REGULAR BOMBINGS FROM TERRORISTS AND ITS OWN ALLY, AMERICA, PAKISTAN HAS FOR YEARS SUFFERED FROM INSTABILITY. NOW IMRAN KHAN AND HIS OWN […]
India, Pakistan, and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia (Contemporary Asia in the World)

March 22, 2015

In May 1998, India and Pakistan put to rest years of speculation as to whether they possessed nuclear technology and openly tested their weapons. Some believed nuclearization would stabilize South Asia; others prophesized disaster. Authors of two of the most comprehensive books on South Asia’s new nuclear era, Šumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur, offer […]
Untying the Knot: Making Peace in the Taiwan Strait

March 22, 2015

The relationship between Taiwan and China is a paradox. On the one hand, the two economies are becoming increasingly integrated, as Taiwanese companies have come to regard the mainland as the best place to manufacture their products and maintain global competitiveness. On the other hand, the long-running and changing political dispute between the two governments […]
K2 the 1939 Tragedy

March 22, 2015

After an incident-packed 1938 attempt, an American team made another bid to climb the world’s second highest peak the following year. The expedition was led by the mercurial Austrian emigre Fritz Wiessner. With the more experienced climbers recovering after the events of 1938, Wiessner was forced to take a weaker team that included a number […]
Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)

March 22, 2015

Under globalization, the project of area studies and its relationship to the fields of cultural, ethnic, and gender studies has grown more complex and more in need of the rigorous reexamination that this volume and its distinguished contributors undertake. In the aftermath of World War II, area studies were created in large part to supply […]
Hong Kong: Migrant Lives, Landscapes, and Journeys (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)

March 22, 2015

In 1997 the United Kingdom returned control of Hong Kong to China, ending the city’s status as one of the last remnants of the British Empire and initiating a new phase for it as both a modern city and a hub for global migrations. Hong Kong is a tour of the city’s postcolonial urban landscape, […]

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