North Korea

Heonik Kwon, Byung-Ho Chung

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• This timely, pathbreaking study of North Korea's political history and culture sheds invaluable light on the country's unique leadership continuity an... Lees meer

Biology and Revolution in Twentieth-Century China

Laurence Schneider

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• Using the field of genetics as a case study, this book follows the troubled development of modern natural science in China from the 1920s, through Mao... Lees meer

The Indonesian Presidency

Angus McIntyre

• Paperback | Engels | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• This pioneering study of the Indonesian presidency significantly redefines our understanding of Indonesian politics from independence to the present. ... Lees meer

Little Friends

Stephanie Hemelryk Donald

• Paperback | Engels | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• Contributing to the growing debates on children and media worldwide, Little Friends explores the pervasive presence of film culture in the lives of ch... Lees meer

Contentious Kwangju

• Paperback | Engels | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• One of the largest political protests in contemporary Korean history, the May 1980 Kwangju Uprising still exerts a profound, often contested, influenc... Lees meer

Bound to Emancipate

Angelina Chin

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• Emancipation, a defining feature of twentieth-century Chinese society, is explored in detail in this compelling study. Angelina Chin expands and reint... Lees meer

The United States and China

Dong Wang

• Paperback | Engels | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• Now fully revised and updated, The United States and China offers a comprehensive synthesis of US-Chinese relations from initial contact to the presen... Lees meer

Japan's New Middle Class

Ezra F Vogel

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• This classic study on the sociology of Japan remains the only in-depth treatment of the Japanese middle class. Now in a fiftieth-anniversary edition t... Lees meer

Crime, Punishment, and Policing in China

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• Crime has long been a silent partner in China's march to modernization, just as law and order has become increasingly important in legitimizing the Ch... Lees meer

The Korean War

Wada Haruki

• Paperback | Engels | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• This classic history of the Korean War--from its origins through the armistice--is now available in a paperback edition including a substantive introd... Lees meer

The United States and China

Dong Wang

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• Now fully revised and updated, The United States and China offers a comprehensive synthesis of US-Chinese relations from initial contact to the presen... Lees meer

China in Revolution

Joseph W Esherick

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• This book examines key events in modern Chinese history to question the notion of historical inevitability and stresses the role of contingent circums... Lees meer

When the Earth Roars

Gregory Smits

• Paperback | Engels | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• Japan, which is among the most earthquake-prone regions in the world, has a long history of responding to seismic disasters. However, despite advances... Lees meer

Pan-Asianism

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives | nr. 1
• Pan-Asianism has been an ideal of Asian solidarity, regional cooperation, and regional integration but also served to justify expansionism and aggress... Lees meer

Resistant Islands

Gavan McCormack, Satoko Oka Norimatsu

• Paperback | Engels | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• Resistant Islands offers an overview of Okinawan history, focusing on the colonization by Japan, its fate during World War II, and its status as a US ... Lees meer

The Japanese Family in Transition

Suzanne Hall Vogel

• Paperback | Engels | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• These gripping biographies poignantly illustrate the strengths and the vulnerabilities of professional housewives and of families facing social change... Lees meer

Hidden Treasures

Jackie J Kim

• Paperback | Engels | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• Ten first-generation Korean women who migrated to Japan during Korea's colonial period tell their compelling stories in Hidden Treasures . Powerful na... Lees meer

A Century of Change in a Chinese Village

Lin Juren, Xie Yuxi

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• This compelling book analyzes the dramatic changes in rural Chinese society as a result of rapid urbanization. Building on eight decades of studies of... Lees meer

Pan-Asianism

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives | nr. 2
• Pan-Asianism has been an ideal of Asian solidarity, regional cooperation, and regional integration but also served to justify expansionism and aggress... Lees meer

Chinese Civil Justice, Past and Present

Philip C C Huang

• Paperback | Engels | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• The culmination of twenty years of research, this essential book completes distinguished historian Philip C. C. Huang's pathbreaking trilogy on Chines... Lees meer

From Underground to Independent

• Paperback | Engels | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• This groundbreaking book presents a critical introduction to the cultural and political dimensions of contemporary Chinese cinema. Exploring the compl... Lees meer

Making the Foreign Serve China

Anne-Marie Brady

• Hardcover | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• This is a detailed analysis of a distinctive element of Chinese foreign policy, waishi, the external policies intended to influence and control both f... Lees meer

Pan-Asianism

• Boek | Engels | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives | nr. 1
• This two-volume set provides the only comprehensive, Western-language history of Pan-Asianism through primary sources and commentaries. The book argue... Lees meer

China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

• Paperback | Engels | Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• Treating China's Cultural Revolution as much more than a political event, this innovative volume explores its ideological dimensions. The contributors... Lees meer