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  • medi@sia

    Global Media/tion In and Out of Context

    by T.J.M. Holden, Timothy J. Scrase ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
    This new inter-disciplinary book is the first comparative, case-based analysis of media panoply in (and out of) Asia today. Examining what the authors call the "media/tion equation", the contributors demonstrate the multiple links between media, society and culture, and advance the claim that media is the key means through which Asians experience, understand, effect and are affected by the worlds ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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    by Tony Wheeler, Lonely Planet ...
    Series series Lonely Planet
    Lonely Planet Across Asia on the Cheap is a reprint of the very first Lonely Planet guide, originally published in 1973. It gives anyone interested in travel a unique insight into how Lonely Planet began and an idea of what it was like to travel overland from Europe to Asia, 40 years ago.Inside Lonely Planet Across Asia on the CheapIntroduction to the Lonely Planet storyLatest eBooks Discove... ... Read more

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  • Soldier Sahibs

    by Charles Allen ...
    This text retells the story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to one of the most notorious frontiers in the world: India's north-west frontier, which in the late 1990s forms the volatile boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Known collectively as Henry Lawrence's Young Men, each had distinguished himself in the East India Company's wars in the Punjab in the 1840s before ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Fistful of Kung Fu

    Hong Kong Movie Wargame Rules

    by Andrea Sfiligoi ...
    Series Book 6 - Osprey Wargames
    A Fistful of Kung Fu brings the hyper-kinetic, bullet-spraying, demon-slaying, kung-fu-fighting action of Hong Kong movies and Asian cinema to the wargames tabletop. In a modern world walking a precarious line between the advances of next-generation technology and the tradition and mysticism of ancient cultures, Kung Fu schools face off in no-holds-barred tournaments, corporations hire agents and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Burma's Economy in the Twentieth Century

    by Ian Brown ...
    At the beginning of the twentieth century, Burma was among the most prosperous territories in the East. Yet since gaining independence in 1948, its economy has struggled. Burma's developmental failure has often been attributed to gross mismanagement of the economy by the military who took power in 1962 but in this illuminating book, Ian Brown, one of the leading economic historians of Southeast ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Economic History of China

    From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

    by Richard von Glahn ...
    China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between political institutions and economic development. Economic prosperity also was vitally important to the longevity of the Chinese Empire throughout the preindustrial era. Before the eighteenth century, China's economy shared some of the features, ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Building Democracy in Japan

    by Mary Alice Haddad ...
    How is democracy made real? How does an undemocratic country create new institutions and transform its polity such that democratic values and practices become integral parts of its political culture? These are some of the most pressing questions of our times, and they are the central inquiry of Building Democracy in Japan. Using the Japanese experience as starting point, this book develops a new ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Japan and Reconciliation in Post-war Asia

    The Murayama Statement and Its Implications

    Edited by K. Togo ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Taking a comparative approach and bringing together perspectives from Japan, China, Korea, and Taiwan, this volume considers former Japanese prime minister Tomiichi Murayama's 1995 apology statement, the height of Japan's post-war apology, and examines its implications for memory, international relations, and reconciliation in Asia. ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India

    The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness

    by Ruby Lal ...
    In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the becoming of nineteenth-century Indian women through a critique of narratives of linear transition from girlhood to womanhood. In the north Indian patriarchal environment, women's lives were dominated by the expectations of the male universal, articulated most clearly in household chores and domestic duties. The author argues that girls and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Churchill, America and Vietnam, 1941-45

    by T. Smith ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Put in the wider context of British imperial and diplomatic aims in 1941-1945, the book clarifies the importance of Vietnam to Britain's regional objectives in Southeast Asia; concluding that Churchill was willing to sacrifice French colonial interests in Vietnam for his all-important 'special relationship' with the United States. ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Asia in Washington

    Exploring the Penumbra of Transnational Power

    by Kent E. Calder ...
    For several centuries, international relations has been primarily the purview of nation-states. Key powers have included at various times Great Britain, France, Japan, China, Russia (then the U.S.S.R., and then Russia again), and the nation most influential in international relations for the past several decades has been the United States. But in a world growing smaller, with a globalizing system ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • A History of Land Use in Mongolia

    The Thirteenth Century to the Present

    by Elizabeth Endicott ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    An illustrated history of the pastoral nomadic way of life in Mongolia, this book examines the many challenges that Mongolian herders continue to face in the struggle over natural resources in the post-socialist free market era. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD