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Race for empire
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Takashi Fujitani |
"Race for Empire offers a profound and challenging reinterpretation of nationalism, racism, and wartime mobilization during the Asia-Pacific war. In parallel case studies--of Japanese Americans mobil… |
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Youth culture in China
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Clark, Paul |
"The lives and aspirations of young Chinese (those between 14 and 26 years old) have been transformed in the past five decades. By examining youth cultures around three historical points - 1968, 1988… |
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Chinese martial arts
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Peter Allan Lorge |
"In the global world of the twenty-first century, martial arts are practiced for self-defense and sporting purposes only. However, for thousands of years, they were a central feature of military prac… |
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Food culture in colonial Asia
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Cecilia Leong-Salobir |
"Presenting a social history of colonial food practices in India, Malaysia and Singapore, this book discusses the contribution that Asian domestic servants made towards the development of this cuisin… |
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Religion and the making of modern East Asia
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Thomas David DuBois |
"Religion and religious ideas have played a fundamental role in the shaping of Asian history, society, and cultural practices. In this engaging and informative book, Thomas David DuBois sets out to e… |
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Anti-Japan
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Leo T. S. Ching |
Although the Japanese empire rapidly dissolved following the end of World War II, the memories, mourning, and trauma of the nation's imperial exploits continue to haunt Korea, China, and Taiwan. In '… |
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Great catastrophe
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Thomas De Waal |
"The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was a brutal mass crime that prefigured other genocides in the 20th century. By various estimates, more than a million Armenians wer… |
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Asian comics
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John A. Lent |
"Grand in its scope, Asian Comics dispels the myth that, outside of Japan, the continent is nearly devoid of comic strips and comic books. Relying on his fifty years of Asian mass communication and c… |
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Black dragon river
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Dominic Ziegler |
"Black Dragon River is a personal journey down one of Asia's great rivers that reveals the region's essential history and culture. The world's ninth largest river, the Amur serves as a large part of … |
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China at the center
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Natasha Reichle,Theodore N. Foss,Mark Stephen Mir |
"Global exploration in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led to new interactions between Europe and Asia. Jesuit priests were instrumental in spreading knowledge of the world to China and infor… |
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Negotiating knowledge in early modern empires
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Antonella Romano,Silvia Sebastiani,László Kontler,Borbála Zsuzsanna Török |
"The contributions to this volume are united by a common interest in the practices that shaped 'science' in the early modern period, with a special emphasis on the ones bred by the emulation, competi… |
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