2015 | Asian History Books

K2: Challenging the Sky

March 25, 2015

“An almost perfect cone, incredibly high”, a mountain so breathtakingly beautiful as to leave Colonel Francis Younghusband, the first European to breach the Old Muztag Pass in 1887, quite literally speechless in front of sudden, almost unreal apparition. Over a hundred years later K2, the highest peak in the Karakoram Range, continues to bewitch generations […]
The African Presence in Early Asia

March 25, 2015

The contributors to this volume argue that blacks were a formative civilizing influence on Asian societies. Presenting their case with persuasive eloquence and research, the authors examine cultural forms, art motifs, weapons, scripts, and skeletal evidence to link Asian civilizations to Africa’s Nile Valley. Articles detail both the physical and cultural presence of Africans in […]
Sky Dancer: The Secret Life And Songs Of Lady Yeshe Tsogyel

March 25, 2015

Yeshe Tsogyel, consort of Guru Padmasambhava, is the most famous of the enlightened women of Tibet. Women have a special place in tantra, but except for Sky Dancer there are few writings that present the spiritual practices and evolution of female aspirants. Here women are in an eminent position, and a path of practice is […]
Early Ch’an in China and Tibet (Berkeley Buddhist Studies Series 5)

March 25, 2015

Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism was popularized in the West by writers such as D.T. Suzuki and Alan Watts as a kind of romantic abstraction outside of history. The papers in this volume, originally presented as a unique conference sponsored by UC-Berkeley and the San Francisco Zen Center, go a long way towards revealing the complex historical […]
Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War

March 25, 2015

This ground-breaking book chronicles the 1971 war in South Asia by reconstituting the memories of those on opposing sides of the conflict.1971 was marked by a bitter civil war within Pakistan and war between India and Pakistan, backed respectively by the Soviet Union and the United States. It was fought over the territory of East […]
Letters from Burma

March 25, 2015

Letters from Burma – an unforgettable collection from the Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi In these astonishing letters, Aung San Suu Kyi reaches out beyond Burma’s borders to paint for her readers a vivid and poignant picture of her native land. Here she celebrates the courageous army officers, academics, actors and everyday […]
The Modern Middle East: A History

March 25, 2015

Newly revised and updated for the second decade of the twenty-first century, the third edition of The Modern Middle East: A History explores how the forces associated with global modernity have shaped the social, economic, cultural, and political life in the region over the course of the past 500 years. Beginning with the first glimmerings […]
Very Thai: Everyday Popular Culture

March 25, 2015

A pioneering insight into contemporary Thai culture, revised and updated. Sale Price:$16.92 6167339376
Afghanistan: The Bear Trap: The Defeat of a Superpower

March 25, 2015

How did the horrendous situation in Afghanistan, with all its implications for recent events and the present time, come to pass? What was the role of the CIA and Pakistani intelligence in the creation of what became the Taliban? What are the implications for the future and lessons from the past for American forces today?This […]
Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore: Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money (Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series)

March 25, 2015

The volume collects the published articles of Dr Marjorie Topley, who was a pioneer in the field of social anthropology in the postwar period and also the first president of the revived Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Sale Price:$60.00 9888028146

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