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  • Monster of the Twentieth Century

    Kotoku Shusui and Japan's First Anti-Imperialist Movement

    by Robert Thomas Tierney ...
    This extended monograph examines the work of the radical journalist Kotoku Shusui and Japan’s anti-imperialist movement of the early twentieth century. It includes the first English translation of Imperialism (Teikokushugi), Kotoku’s classic 1901 work.Kotoku Shusui was a Japanese socialist, anarchist, and critic of Japan’s imperial expansionism who was executed in 1911 for his alleged ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Tropics of Savagery

    The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame

    by Robert Thomas Tierney ...
    Series Book 5 - Asia Pacific Modern
    Tropics of Savagery is an incisive and provocative study of the figures and tropes of "savagery" in Japanese colonial culture. Through a rigorous analysis of literary works, ethnographic studies, and a variety of other discourses, Robert Thomas Tierney demonstrates how imperial Japan constructed its own identity in relation both to the West and to the people it colonized. By examining the ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

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  • In the Valley of Mist

    Kashmir: One Family In A Changing World

    by Justine Hardy ...
    A personal, moving, and vibrant picture of one of the most beautiful and troubled places in the world, described through the experiences of one family, whose fortunes have changed dramatically with those of the region.If there is a paradise on earth, it is definitely here, here and only here," said the early seventeenth-century Mughal Emperor Jehangir when describing the Kashmir Valley. But for ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Yangtze River Gunboats 1900–49

    by Angus Konstam ...
    Series Book 181 - New Vanguard
    From the end of the 19th century through the first half of the 20th, most Western powers maintained a naval presence in China.These gunboats protected traders and missionaries, safeguarded national interests, and patrolled Chinese rivers in search of pirates. It was a wild, lawless time in China as ruthless warlords fought numerous small wars to increase their power and influence.This book covers ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Singapore and Asia - Celebrating Globalisation and an Emerging Post-Modern Asian Civilisation

    by Thiow Kong Ti, Edwards SW Ti ...
    Singapore and Asia- Celebrating Globalisation and an Emerging Post-modern Asian Civilisation TK Ti and Edward SE Ti This book examines the history of the global economy and how cultural values have empowered the rapid emergence of Singapore and East Asia. A review of the major world civilizations recounts Western hegemony since the 16th century. With legacies from Classical Mediterranean, Islamic ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia

    Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought

    by Cemil Aydin ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in modern Asia is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western imperialism. Instead, by focusing on the agency and achievements of non-Western intellectuals, Aydin demonstrates that modern anti-Western discourse grew ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Desert Chronicles (Book 3): Forts of Rajasthan

    Desert Chronicles (Book 5): Mehrangarh under Seige, #3

    by Harpreet Kaur Kapoor ...
    Series Book 3 - Desert Chronicles
    This is the third in the series I am writing called the Desert Chronicles. This one is on the stone sentinels or forts located within the state of Rajasthan, India. Rajasthan was a war zone from 5th century onwards until after independence. Its constant guardians have been the forts and watch towers guarded by brave, sacrificing and sometimes reckless generation of Rajputs. ... Read more

    $3.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Siege Weapons of the Far East (2)

    AD 960–1644

    by Dr Stephen Turnbull ...
    Series Book 44 - New Vanguard
    From the 11th century AD, East Asian armies made increasing use of exploding missiles and siege cannons to reduce the fortifications of their enemies.Some of these weapons were very similar to those used in Europe - for example, the heavy siege cannon used in the siege of P'yongyang during the Japanese invasion in the late 16th century. Others, like the Korean hwach'a carts mounting over a hundred ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Old Stories Retold

    Narrative and Vanishing Pasts in Modern China

    by Andrew G. Stuckey ...
    Old Stories Retold explores the ways modern Chinese narratives dramatize and embody the historical sense that links them to the past and to the Chinese literary tradition. Largely guided by Walter Benjamin's discussions of history, G. Andrew Stuckey looks at the ways Chinese narrative engages a historical process that pieces together fragments of the past into new configurations to better serve ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Advancing East Asian Regionalism

    Edited by Melissa Curley, Nicholas Thomas ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    Developments in East Asia have progressed rapidly in terms of regionalism since the 1997 crisis. The end of the Asian miracle called into question not only the capacity of regional states to meet the needs of their attendant peoples, but also challenged the viability of regional organizations, such as ASEAN, to adapt and respond to the changing circumstances.Advancing East Asian Regionalism looks ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Worse Than a Monolith

    Alliance Politics and Problems of Coercive Diplomacy in Asia

    by Thomas J. Christensen ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    In brute-force struggles for survival, such as the two World Wars, disorganization and divisions within an enemy alliance are to one's own advantage. However, most international security politics involve coercive diplomacy and negotiations short of all-out war. Worse Than a Monolith demonstrates that when states are engaged in coercive diplomacy--combining threats and assurances to influence the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Translation as Citation

    Zhuangzi Inside Out

    by Haun Saussy ...
    Series series Global Asias
    This volume examines translation from many different angles: it explores how translations change the languages in which they occur, how works introduced from other languages become part of the consciousness of native speakers, and what strategies translators must use to secure acceptance for foreign works. Haun Saussy argues that translation doesn't amount to the composition, in one language, of ... Read more

    $79.19 USD