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Bang Chan traces the changing cultural characteristics of a small Siamese village during the century and a quarter from its founding as a wilderness settlement outside Bangkok to its absorption into……続きを見る

Chaldea was a Semitic-speaking nation which existed between the late 10th or early 9th and mid-6th centuries BC. This book brings the complete history of Chaldean nation and gives insight into Chald……続きを見る

In Hong Kong Public and Squatter Housing: Geopolitics and Informality, 19631985, Alan Smart and Fung Chi Keung Charles trace two decades of development of squatting in Hong Kong. The authors reconst……続きを見る

★ 「台北文學獎」散文首獎得主洪愛珠首部著作。 ★ 備受矚目、眾人垂涎敲碗的飲食書寫新聲音。 ★ 舒國治、馬世芳、蔡珠兒、古碧玲、セン宏志、韓良憶、簡媜重量級推薦。 ∣ 她的老派，是養成，是本性，也是鄉愁 ∣ 她……続きを見る

This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia. It seeks to probe issues such as what constitutes the ‘medical’, in which context,……続きを見る

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Outcasts of Empire unveils th……続きを見る

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Few things make Japanese adul……続きを見る

Blending fine-grained case studies with overarching theory, this book seeks both to integrate Southeast Asia into world history and to rethink much of Eurasia's premodern past. It argues that Southe……続きを見る

The first edition of this book, The Almighty Genghis Khan was a Kyrgyz, was published in 2015, by Turar Publishers in Kyrgyzstan, with the print run of 1,000 copies. Originally, the work started wit……続きを見る

The many instances of regional insurgency and unrest that erupted on China’s borderlands at the turn of the nineteenth century are often regarded by scholars as evidence of government disability and……続きを見る

山海封神榜 第一部 原初之始﹐天地混沌黒暗﹐自盤古開天闢地以來﹐地繞黃道每六萬六千六百六十六年必有一次大劫﹐ 那横災會使萬里方圓的地域發生海嘯山崩。一旦大劫來臨，不僅池枯地裂﹐氣溫驟降﹐甚至還會洪災横……続きを見る

★暢銷書《臺灣歷史地圖》姊妹作 ★議題性×可看性×權威性****全新歷史全民讀本 接地氣觀點，方法論研究，為早期臺灣史開光解密 　　臺灣的存在，從頭說起── **　　有圖為證，以史為憑，翻轉臺灣史，全新說故事** 你……続きを見る

A free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Ginseng and Borderland e……続きを見る

* raises to prominence the role of a non-White from the West in the opening of Japan * forthcoming Tom Cruise movie The Last Samurai will bring westernization of Japan into popular media * extensive……続きを見る

The basis of Hinduism is dharma or righteousness, incorporating duty, cosmic law and justice. Five thousand years ago, the Vedas showed a clear appreciation of the natural world and its ecology, the……続きを見る

Maris Boyd Gillette's groundbreaking study tells the story of Jingdezhen, China's porcelain capital, from its origins in 1004 in Song dynasty China to the present day. Gillette explores how Jingdezh……続きを見る

This monumental series, acclaimed as a "masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship" in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia's high civilizations on the development of modern West……続きを見る

The city of Kyoto has undergone radical shifts in its significance as a political and cultural center, as a hub of the national bureaucracy, as a symbolic and religious center, and as a site for the……続きを見る

The Mongols erupted out of Central Asia in 1206 and soon controlled an empire stretching from Poland to Korea; although remembered as a destructive force, they united a great part of the world under……続きを見る

There are two unresolved mysteries in history. One is the disappearance of the ten Israelite tribes that the Assyrians had enslaved and transported to their lands and put them to slave for the empir……続きを見る

This is the second volume in a series that traces, century by century, the role of Asia in the making of Europe. The rise to world dominance of the Western nations in modern times and the rapid indu……続きを見る

Travellers in search of the unexpected found it in Old Japan. Here was a strange land indeed, where women blackened their teeth, men wore tattoos in lieu of clothing, and the whole family bathed tog……続きを見る

Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang examines one of the least understood migrations in modern East Asia - the human exodus from China to Taiwan when Chiang Kai-shek's regime collapsed in 1949. Peeling back laye……続きを見る

Lonely Planet Across Asia on the Cheap is a reprint of the very first Lonely Planet guide, originally published in 1973. It gives anyone interested in travel a unique insight into how Lonely Planet ……続きを見る

This book aims at representing to the western reader whatever is most noteworthy and interesting in the home life, manners and customs, occupations and surroundings, modes of thought, superstitions ……続きを見る

雷震的成長歷程、政治生涯及對抗威權體制的勇氣 自由主義的實踐者、轉型正義的典範人物，在威權年代追求民主憲政， 一生的堅持與風骨，為戰後台灣政治史寫下壯闊的一頁。 雷震作為一個知識份子，能夠超越時空、引……続きを見る

Michael Leifer, who died in 2001, was one of the leading scholars of Southeast Asian international relations. He was hugely influential through his extensive writings and his contacts with people in……続きを見る

Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia. Instead of assuming a univers……続きを見る

Sufism is often regarded as standing mystically aloof from its wider cultural settings. By turning this perspective on its head, Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century reveals the politics and ……続きを見る

Intra-Asian trade is a major theme of recent writing on Asian economic history. From the second half of the nineteenth century, intra-Asian trade flows linked Asia into an integrated economic system……続きを見る