Category: Publication
22 Articles
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Golden-Silk Smoke
From the long-stemmed pipe to snuff, the water pipe, hand-rolled cigarettes, and finally, manufactured cigarettes, the history of tobacco in China is the fascinating story of a…
April 10, 2011
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Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
Among the environmental challenges facing us is alleviating the damage to marine ecosystems caused by pollution and overfishing. Coming to grips with contemporary problems, this…
December 31, 2009
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Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know
In the past two decades, Burma/Myanmar has become a front-page topic in newspapers across the world. This former British colony has one of the most secretive, corrupt, and…
November 5, 2009
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Business Innovation in Asia: Knowledge and Technology Networks from Japan (Routledge Contemporary Asia Series)
Industrial competition with rising economies, new regional investment from the West, and trade pacts among competitors threaten Japan’s long postwar prominence. Global market…
August 25, 2009
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Strait Talk: United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China
Relations among the United States, Taiwan, and China challenge policymakers, international relations specialists, and a concerned public to examine their assumptions about…
February 16, 2009
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Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia (Contemporary Asia in the World)
The Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive, and most widely watched event of the modern Olympic era. But did China present itself as a responsible…
December 30, 2008
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The Separatist Conflict in Sri Lanka: Terrorism, Ethnicity, Political Economy (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series)
The book provides a detailed historically-based analysis of the origin, evolution and potential resolution of the civil conflict in Sri Lanka over the struggle to establish a…
November 12, 2008
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Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang
Eurasian Crossroads is the first comprehensive history of Xinjiang, the vast central Eurasian region bordering India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan,…
April 10, 2007
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In Limpid Dream: Nostalgia and Zhang Dai’s Reminiscences of the Ming
The Chinese aesthete, historian and poet Zhang Dai wrote his Dream Reminiscences in the late 1640s, just after the Ming dynasty had fallen to Manchu.…
April 1, 2007
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A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Placing the People (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 5 Japan)
This magisterial history of Japanese nationalism reveals nationalism to be a contested and pluralistic practice that seeks to center the people in political life. It presents a…
December 1, 2006