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"The Heart of Asia" by Francis Henry Skrine and Edward Denison Ross offers readers a fascinating and insightful journey into the rich and diverse cultures of Central Asia. This classic work provides……続きを見る

Step into the fascinating world of feudal Japan, where swords ruled the battlefield, and scrolls governed the state. In Sword and Scroll: The Duality of Japan's Shogun Era, Francis Cho takes readers……続きを見る

Step into the fascinating world of feudal Japan, where swords ruled the battlefield, and scrolls governed the state. In Sword and Scroll: The Duality of Japan's Shogun Era, Francis Cho takes readers……続きを見る

The Gambia Colony and Protectorate (1967) provides both a history of the colony and a wealth of valuable practical and statistical information about its establishment and running. It provides a clea……続きを見る

This book is unique in its kind. It is the first scholarly work to attempt a comprehensive and fairly detailed look into the lingering legacies of the communist totalitarian modes of thought and exp……続きを見る

Named one of Foreign Affairs' Best Books of 2016 In his magisterial 1,208 page narrative of the Pacific War, Francis Pike's Hirohito's War offers an original interpretation, balancing the existing W……続きを見る

John DeFrancis (1911–2009) was a legendary sinologist, linguist, and educator. His many works – the landmark ABC Chinese–English Dictionary and his myth-busting The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantas……続きを見る

Did Marco Polo reach China? This richly illustrated companion volume to the public television film chronicles the remarkable two-year expedition of explorers Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell as……続きを見る

In the ten years of the Cultural Revolution, political persecutions, violation of rights, deprivation of freedom, violence and brutality were daily occurrences. Especially striking is the huge numbe……続きを見る

An Encyclopedia of Collected Stories. Two millennia worth of tales – from Ancient Rome to the Crusades, thru Colonialism to Nuclear War. From the Apostle Thomas in India, to Mother Teresa's Calcutta……続きを見る

Asia - with four billion people, almost two-thirds of the world's population, a huge landmass and the fastest-growing economies - has in the past decade transformed the geopolitical global balance. ……続きを見る

Drawing on previously unavailable archival material, this book argues that Indonesian nationalism rested on Islamic ecumenism heightened by colonial rule and the pilgrimage. The award winning author……続きを見る

Replica of 1838 edition by John W. Parker, London. With color illustrations.
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William Francis Ainsworth (1807–1896), an English surgeon, traveller, geograph……続きを見る

Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia is a wide-ranging study of vernacularization in East Asia - not only China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, but also societies that no longer e……続きを見る