MB - Asia 1

This double special issue investigates the experiences of Soviet Afghan veterans and the ongoing impact of the Soviet-Afghan war (1979-89); and the new and reconstituted narratives of martyrdom that……続きを見る

Quoique très embarrassée dans ses rapports avec ses sujets chrétiens dont la fidélité n’a jamais été au-dessus de tout soupçon, la Turquie s’est sincèrement employée, depuis à peu près un siècle, à ……続きを見る

Origine de l’homme. ー L’homme est composé d’une substance spirituelle et d’un corps. ー L’âme provient du yang et le corps du yn. ー La mort envoyée par Chang-ti considérée aujourd’hui comme un fai……続きを見る

Notions géographiques et agricoles sur l’empire japonais. ー Habitudes, mœurs, caractère des habitants. ー Trait de piété filiale. ー Gouvernement, administration et police. ー Industries, arts et l……続きを見る

Silk Silver Opium not only tells the fascinating stories of silk and tea, porcelain, silver and opium, missionaries, mercenaries and trade, but also what became inevitable – war and humiliation. Muc……続きを見る

First published in 1895, "The War in the East" by Trumbull White is a book about the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), a war between the Qing dynasty of China, and the Empire of Japan, primarily ……続きを見る

The fifty months of the Siberian Intervention encompass the existential crisis which affected Japanese at virtually all levels when confronted with the new "world situation" left in the wake of the ……続きを見る

"Thailand Historical Heritage: The Story of The Land of Golden Temples" goes into great detail about how the country has changed over time, from ancient times to the present. In this book, the autho……続きを見る

A powerful, emotional memoir and an extraordinary portrait of three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Mao's Red Army crushes Tibetan independence, sending a ……続きを見る

Despite Cultures examines the strategies and realities of the Soviet state-building project in Tajikistan during the 1920s and 1930s. Based on extensive archival research, Botakoz Kassymbekova analy……続きを見る

This book links Calvinist belief in the Perpetual Assurance of Salvation with self-efficacy for economic success. Certain values are at stake for the success of economic behavior. Since the genesis ……続きを見る

This book presents a paradigm shift in the long-term study of South India’s deep history. It refuses the disciplinary constraints of history and prehistory and interrogates the archaeological and te……続きを見る

The book draws from regulation theory to explain urban planning policies and outcomes in Southeast Asia as a function of governance structures and processes. A considerable portion of the book is sp……続きを見る

Modernizing and colonizing forces brought nineteenth-century Sri Lankan Buddhists both challenges and opportunities. How did Buddhists deal with social and economic change; new forms of political, r……続きを見る

Pékin, printemps 1933. Un lourd silence règne sur la Cité interdite, demeure séculaire des empereurs chinois. Les troupes d’invasion japonaises sont aux portes de la ville. La guerre est là. Malgré ……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

Charles Holcombe begins by asking the question 'what is East Asia?' In the modern age, many of the features that made the region - now defined as including China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam - distinct……続きを見る

在浩如煙海的歷史長河，披瀝出台灣與世界各角落相關涉的歷史鉤沉，藉由一系列源自十七至十九世紀間西方世界，而與台灣的文化、宗教、政經發展有過影響的人物書寫，透由不同角度的側記勾勒，提供非比以往的歷史觀點……続きを見る

Un inteligente y entretenido libro de viajes sobre Pekín y la cultura china de la pluma de Santiago Gamboa. Una ciudad moderna nace en medio de los escombros de la vieja Pekín: torres multifamiliare……続きを見る

This book argues that long-distance trade in luxury items – such as diamonds, gold, cinnamon, scented woods, ivory and pearls, all of which require little overhead in their acquisition and were rela……続きを見る

Passing, Posing, Persuasion interrogates the intersections between cultural production, identity, and persuasive messaging that idealized inclusion and unity across Japan’s East Asian empire (1895–1……続きを見る

This book examines Japan’s Heisei era through the lens of the crisis in Japanese professional baseball of 2004, challenging the narrative of decline that dominates the discourse on the period. The s……続きを見る

Bailey describes how the Sea of Okhotsk area became integrated into a world system of economic and cultural ties between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. This happened primarily because of ……続きを見る

In 'Japan' biedt Aimé Humbert een diepgaande verkenning van de Japanse cultuur, geschiedenis en sociale structuren. Door middel van een felle literaire stijl, rijk aan gedetailleerde beschrijvingen ……続きを見る

In 1942 William Brown was posted as a recently commissioned Indian Army Officer to the Gilgit Agency in the very north of the North West Frontier. He travelled widely, learnt the local dialects and ……続きを見る

Central Asian post-independence media and communication industries, professional practices, education, persisting and evolving values, and traditions remain critically understudied with a notable sc……続きを見る

British travellers regarded all inhabitants of the seventeenth-century Ottoman empire as ‘slaves of the sultan’, yet they also made fine distinctions between them. This book provides the first histo……続きを見る

Written in the 1990s after retirement from his services as a doctor and discovered by his daughter in the loft of their house in Darjeeling in India in 2017, this memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba ……続きを見る

This book carries out a comprehensive analysis of the María Luz incident, a truly significant episode in Japanese and world history, from a legal perspective. In July 1872, the María Luz, a barque f……続きを見る

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