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From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea

March 22, 2015

In this vivid ethnography, Paige West tracks coffee as it moves from producers in Papua New Guinea to consumers around the world. She illuminates the social lives of the people who produce coffee, and those who process, distribute, market, and consume it. The Gimi peoples, who grow coffee in Papua New Guinea’s highlands, are eager […]
The Dragon and the Crown: Hong Kong Memoirs (Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies)

March 22, 2015

While Hong Kong’s spectacular economic growth and political development have been well documented, the social and cultural lives of the ordinary people swept up in the changes have not found a significant voice. Through the personal experiences of Stanley Kwan and those around him, this book gives such a voice to people whose lives have […]
India and Pakistan: The First Fifty Years (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)

March 22, 2015

One fifth of the world’s people live in India and Pakistan. Looking back on their first fifty years of independence, leading specialists on South Asia assess their progress and problems, their foreign and defense policies and their relations with the United States. The three coeditors, who compare the achievements of India and Pakistan in a […]
Water Margin: Hong Kong’s Link to the Sea

March 22, 2015

Water Margin: Hong Kong’s Link to the Sea is an enchanting exploration of the human and natural geography of Hong Kong’s coastline and waters. The volume opens with Hong Kong’s early history as a wild coastal frontier ( haijiang) of imperial China and follows the social and cultural development of its maritime border zone. During […]
A Chinese Pioneer Family: The Lins of Wu-feng, Taiwan, 1729-1895 (Studies of the East Asian Institute)

March 22, 2015

In an absorbing account of a frontier family’s rise to local eminence, from pioneer hardship to gentry affluence, Johanna Meskill presents not just a family history but a social history of late imperial China. The narrative centers on a half dozen major figures whose fame or infamy shaped family fortunes and is interwoven with an […]
Singapore: Wealth, Power and the Culture of Control (Asia’s Transformations/Asia’s Great Cities)

March 22, 2015

This volume examines Singapore’s culture of control, exploring the city-state’s colonial heritage as well as the forces that have helped to mould its current social landscape. Taking a comparative approach, Trocki demonstrates the links between Singapore’s colonial past and independent present, focusing on the development of indigenous social and political movements. In particular, the book examines […]
A History of Thailand

March 22, 2015

In A History of Thailand, Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit reveal how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree labour evolved into a rural society of smallholder peasants and an urban society populated mainly by migrants from southern China. They trace how a Buddhist cosmography adapted to new ideas of time and space, and a […]
Hong Kong: Becoming a Chinese Global City (Asia’s Transformations/Asia’s Great Cities)

March 22, 2015

Hong Kong is a small city with a big reputation. As mainland China has become an ‘economic powerhouse’ Hong Kong has taken a route of development of its own, flourishing as an entrepot and a centre of commerce and finance for Chinese business, then as an industrial city and subsequently a regional and international financial […]
Asia (Seven Continents)

March 22, 2015

Describes the landscapes, geology, weather, oceans, coastlines, air, soil, plants, animals, and people of the continent of Asia. Sale Price:$2,526.76 0761313680
Modern Korean Fiction: An Anthology

March 22, 2015

To represent the past century of Korean fiction, this definitive collection extends beyond familiar writers, challenges cultural norms, and crosses political borders. By inlcuding stories from neglected female, North Korean, and wolbuk writers (those who migrated to the North after 1945 and whose works were widely banned in South Korea) and by bringing politically engaged […]

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