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The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System, Second Edition

March 22, 2015

An examination of Afghan society in conflict, from the 1978 communist coup to the fall of Najibullah, the last Soviet-installed president, in 1992. This edition, revised by the author, reflects developments since then and includes material on the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. Drawing on two decades of research, Barnett Rubin provides an account of […]
Early Singapore 1300s – 1819: Evidence in Maps, Text and Artefacts

March 22, 2015

There have been few accessible studies of the pre-1819 period of Singapore, a time usually seen as a vacant era. These nine papers set out what is known. By using written material and recent archaeological discoveries, much light is shed on the 900 or so years before Stamford Raffles “founded” Singapore. This collation of evidence […]
Javanese Lives: Women and Men in Modern Indonesian Society

March 22, 2015

Java is the most populous island of Indonesia, the fifth largest nation in the world. Yet despite its importance, outsiders know little about the country or its people. With the help of Indonesian students and scholars, Walter L. Williams has collected and translated the life histories of twenty-seven Javanese women and men. The people interviewed […]
Lee Kuan Yew: The Beliefs Behind the Man (Nias Monographs)

March 22, 2015

Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first Prime Minister, is a figure whose international stature far exceeds that of the tiny island over which he ruled for thirty years. Lee is the principal architect of Singapore’s political stability and its economic success and is often credited with being the leader of economic development throughout Asia. Yet the […]
The Transformation of Yiguan Dao in Taiwan: Adapting to a Changing Religious Economy

March 22, 2015

The most influential sect in the Chinese mainland in the 1940s, Yiguan Dao was largely destroyed in mainland China in 1953. Yiguan Dao not only survived, however, but developed into the largest sect in Taiwan, despite its suppression by the Kuomintang state. In 1987, through relentless efforts, the sect finally gained legal status in Taiwan. […]
Harappan Technology and Its Legacy

March 22, 2015

The ancient civilization of the Harappan people covered a vast area and made significant contributions to the evolution of human culture and society. One of its salient features was its technological innovativeness which is somewhat overshadowed by the modesty and functionality of its architecture and artefacts. Its technological expertise is reflected in the architectural, hydrological […]
The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East

March 22, 2015

Barely a year after the self-immolation of a young fruit seller in Tunisia, a vast wave of popular protest has convulsed the Middle East, overthrowing long-ruling dictators and transforming the region’s politics almost beyond recognition. But the biggest transformations of what has been labeled as the “Arab Spring” are yet to come.An insider to both […]
Localities at the Center: Native Place, Space, and Power in Late Imperial Beijing (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

March 22, 2015

A visitor to Beijing in 1900, Chinese or foreign, would have been struck by the great number of native-place lodges serving the needs of scholars and officials from the provinces. What were these native-place lodges? How did they develop over time? How did they fit into and shape Beijing’s urban ecology? How did they further […]
Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets (Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series)

March 22, 2015

Reorganising Power in Indonesia is a new and distinctive analysis of the dramatic fall of Soeharto, the last of the great Cold War capitalist dictators, and of the struggles that reshape power and wealth in Indonesia. The dramatic events of the past two decades are understood essentially in terms of the rise of a complex […]
Taiwan Cinema: A Contested Nation on Screen

March 22, 2015

***Listed in THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION’s Weekly Book List, April 4, 2011***Interview with the author: http://dgeneratefilms.com/critical-essays/cinematalk-a-conversation-with-professor-guo-juin-hong-on-taiwan-cinema-1949-and-documentaries/A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, this is the first English language book that covers its entire history. Hong revises how Taiwan cinema is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, […]

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