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India's history and culture is ancient and dynamic, spanning back to the beginning of human civilization. Beginning with a mysterious culture along the Indus River and in farming communities in the southern lands of India, the history of India is punctuated by constant integration with migrating peoples...

Since its arrival in Japan in the sixth century, Buddhism has played a central role in Japanese culture. But the historical figure of the Buddha, the prince of ancient Indian descent who abandoned his wealth and power to become an awakened being, has repeatedly disappeared and reappeared, emerging...

The Thai language has extraordinarily rich, varied, and multi-leveled vocabularies for sexual anatomy, sexual behaviors, sexual identities, and attitudes to sexuality. The authors of this in-depth study of twenty-one keywords deal directly and unflinchingly with the language of sex in Thailand in...

This is the third volume in the Indian history series of books with the generic title, From Indus to Independence: A Trek Through Indian History. It takes up the narrative from the decline of Gupta power when the sub-continent was slipping into chaos, although the Vardhana dynasty stemmed the tide...

This book uses empirical evidence from various case studies to examine the relationship between territorial and regional autonomy, the nation-state and ethnic conflict resolution in South and South-East Asia. The concept of territorial or regional autonomy holds centre stage in the literature...

一百年，一百零一個故事。這是我的世紀！ 李時雍、何敬堯、林妏霜、馬翊航、陳允元、盛浩偉、楊傑銘、詹閔旭、鄭芳婷、蔡林縉、蕭鈞毅、顏訥，他們寫下101篇「故事」，回顧百年臺灣文學！ 12位「80世代」，透過故事的形式，獻給所有在長夜寫作的人們、給底層的心靈、給無名者。 這是上一個文學百年的備忘錄，屬於「福爾摩沙」的百年風華，給下一代的島嶼紀事。 從臺灣文學萌芽到正式誕生、爍爍火花迅速綻放，直至晝夜間動亂的希望明滅，《百年降生：1900-2000臺灣文學故事》以歷史為本，全新創作，在拼湊建構中，再現另一種更貼近常民生活的可能面貌，有別史料專著之龐雜細目，以時代思潮為段，從1900到2000年，一年一篇，是為上一個文學百年備忘，更期許島嶼後浪之不息；屬於「福爾摩沙」的百年風華。 二十世紀的臺灣文學，是一場漫長的降生，徘徊著文學者們思考與困惑的身影。這些文字紀錄照亮了歷史的空缺，留了微光。因此你將看見一個人，默默結束了他的時代，看見被遺忘的故事，看見終戰之時，鏡頭的焦點，留在南洋的密林、留在忘了將死亡帶回來的那人；風車接收到光年外的電波，現代主義成為年代的底色，《劇場》反藝術的藝術家卻來到了臺前。故事的擇取，除反映寫作者敏銳的目光，確實也呈現了千禧後的二十年間，愈成熟、更新的臺灣文學研究成果。 ※...

The emergence of state in the Central Asian region, in the course of the last century, entailed both a reconguration of political space and a reforging of Collective identities within the borders of the States.As the fuzzy limits of frontiers were transformed to more rigidly determined borders,identities were transformed.

The British Imperial Century provides a concise but comprehensive overview of the formation and administration of the empire from its origins in the early nineteenth century, to its climax at mid-century, to its denouement on the eve of the First World War.Considering the impact of British imperial...

In Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia, Rodan rejects the notion that the 1997-98 Asian economic crisis was further evidence that ultimately capitalism can only develop within liberal social and political institutions, and that new technology necessarily undermines authoritarian...

Mikhail Gorbachev's relations with the West have captured the imagination of contemporaries and historians alike, but his vision of Soviet leadership in Asia has received far less attention. The failure of Gorbachev's Asian initiatives has had dramatic consequences, by the late 1980s, the Soviet Union...

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, and who defines it. This is achieved through case studies that range from the nineteenth to twenty-first...

Since the 1980s there has been a continual engagement with the history and the place of western medicine in colonial settings and non-western societies. In relation to South Asia, research on the role of medicine has focussed primarily on regions under direct British administration. This book looks...

In this volume, the author challenges a number of widely held cultural stereotypes about India. Caste is not as old as Indian civilization itself, and current changes are no more radical than in the past, for caste has evolved throughout its history. It is not a colonial invention, nor does it result...

Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emerging colonial settlements, while European powers banished rivals to faraway locations. Exile in Colonial...