Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects books

This book explores the fundamental creative tension between the native and the foreign in many areas of Japanese...  Read More >>

The volume collects a series of contributions that help reconstruct the recent history of the Nath tradition, highlighting...  Read More >>

Unani Medicine in the Making examines the institutions and practices of Unani medicine, the Graeco-Islamic healing...  Read More >>

Vietnam: A War, Not a Country explores the conflicting ways in which the American-Vietnamese War has been collectively...  Read More >>

This book analyzes these three centuries of Japan-Russia relations so as not to miss out any essential factors of...  Read More >>

First study published in English. An intractable, divisive social problem with roots in pre-history, the ongoing...  Read More >>

This volume discusses how Japan responds to a more threatening security environment while managing its domestic...  Read More >>

Former Professor of Modern Japanese Studies at Oxford, Arthur Stockwin explores his personal journey from being...  Read More >>

Travel Writing in Mongolia and Northern China, 1860-2020 invites readers to explore Mongolia as an important cultural...  Read More >>

This book departs from the universalising and rescue narratives of poor children and technologies. It offers complex...  Read More >>

This collection of ten essays represents a new and significant contribution to the study of recipe books from the...  Read More >>

This ethnography explores how Balinese citizens produce postcolonial intimacy-a complex interaction of claims to...  Read More >>

The contributions in this volume provide critical insights into how the changing state–civil society relationship...  Read More >>

Borderland Anxieties explores the complex relationships between liberalization, gender and migration in Nagaland,...  Read More >>

This collection adopts a transnational approach that highlights the complexity of Timor-Leste’s road to independence....  Read More >>

The formal diplomatic relations between Japan and Western nations dawned when the first American consul-general...  Read More >>

This book traces the evolution of this growing branch of diplomacy and examines the role it has played in the foreign...  Read More >>

This book tells the story of the negotiations between China, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam and other Southeast...  Read More >>

Focusing on films from the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora, this book considers...  Read More >>

Part personal memoir, part socio-cultural commentary, The Call of Japan chronicles the author’s experiences of 40...  Read More >>

This book examines China's heritage practices since the 1990s heritage turn through diverse case studies using multiple...  Read More >>

Visual Culture of Post-Industrial Europe investigates visual cultural projects in Europe from the 1970s onwards...  Read More >>

This book examines the recent developments in school education and music education in Greater China, Mainland China,...  Read More >>

This multidisciplinary collective volume advances the scholarly discussion on the origins of Islam. It simultaneously...  Read More >>

This work records a dialogue between two eminent Japanese scholars – a political historian and a political scientist...  Read More >>