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Imagining the Course of Life: Self-transformation in a Shan Buddhist Community

March 22, 2015

“Imagining the Course of Life” offers a rich portrait of rural life in contemporary Southeast Asia and an accessible introduction to the complexities of Theravada Buddhism, as it is actually lived and experienced. It is both an ethnography of indigenous views of human development and a theoretical consideration of how any ethnopsychology is embedded in […]
Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream 1899-1999

March 22, 2015

U.S. intervention in the Philippines began with the little-known 1899 Philippine-American War. Using the war as its departure point in analyzing U.S.—Philippine relations, Vestiges of War retrieves this willfully forgotten event and places it where it properly belongs—as the catalyst that led to increasing U.S. interventionism and expansionism in the Asia Pacific region. This seminal, […]
The Buddha on Mecca’s Verandah: Encounters, Mobilities, and Histories Along the Malaysian-Thai border (Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies)

March 22, 2015

The Buddha on Mecca’s Verandah examines the many ways in which people living along an international border negotiate their ethnic, cultural, and political identities. This ethnography of a small community of Thai Buddhists in the Malaysian state of Kelantan draws on rich, original vignettes to show how issues such as territoriality, identity, and power frame […]
The Damned: The Canadians at the Battle of Hong Kong and the POW Experience, 1941-45

March 22, 2015

The Damned tells the largely unknown saga of Canada’s first land battle of the Second World Warfought in the hills and valleys of Hong Kong in December 1941and the terrible years the survivors of the battle spent as slave labourers for the Empire of Japan. Their story begins in the fall of 1941, when almost […]
Folk Tales from Tibet (With original Early 20th-Century Tibetan Illustrations)

March 22, 2015

Excerpt:HOW THE HARE GOT HIS SPLIT LIPA Hare was going along a road one day, when suddenly, on turning a corner, he came upon a large Tiger. The Tiger at once seized the Hare, and said that he was going to eat him.”Please, please, Uncle Tiger,” said the Hare, holding up his thumbs in supplication, […]
Lute: Kao Ming’s P’i-p’a chi (Translations from the Asian Classics)

March 22, 2015

This book brings the collected wisdom of several world-renowned political scientists to bear on what is now termed transitology — the study of changes from an authoritarian regime to a democratic government. Sale Price:$45.48 0231047606
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)

March 22, 2015

THE GREATGAME: THE EPIC STORY BEHIND TODAY’S HEADLINES Peter Hopkirk’s spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asoa has been hailed as essential reading with that era’s legacy playing itself out today. The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia was fought across desolate terrain from the Caucasus to China, […]
The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama’at-i Islami of Pakistan (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies)

March 22, 2015

In this groundbreaking study, Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr examines the origins, historical development, and political strategies of one of the oldest and most influential Islamic revival movements, the Jama’at-i Islami of Pakistan. He focuses on the inherent tension between the movement’s idealized vision of the nation as a holy community based in Islamic law and […]
Struggle across the Taiwan Strait: The Divided China Problem (Hoover Institution Press Publication, 542)

March 22, 2015

A concise and informative history of how China divided in 1949 into two regimes, why they struggled to achieve the same political goal-reunification of China—and why their struggle today continues in a more complex and dangerous way. The authors detail how the changes brought about by the 2000 election not only intensified the conflict between […]
We Shared The Peeled Orange: The Letters of "Papa Louis" from the Thai-Cambodian Border Refugee Camps 1981-1993

March 22, 2015

Book by Braile, Louis, American Refugee Committee Sale Price:$30.94 0929636341

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