This leading text provides a comprehensive and balanced introduction to Chinese foreign relations. Robert G. Sutter assesses Chinas growing international political and economic assertiveness and considers the causes and grave consequences of tensions with the United States.
Japans Quiet Leadership provides a sweeping look at Japans domestic economic and political evolution, its economic statecraft, and the array of geopolitical challenges that have triggered a gradual but substantial shift in the countrys security profile.
International relations of Asia are evolving rapidly due to economic growth, diverse political systems, vibrant societies, modernizing militaries, cutting-edge technologies, and strategic competition among major powers. In this fully updated volume, leading scholars offer the most current analysis available of Asias regional relationships.
Now in a significant new edition, this landmark book documents little-known wartime Japanese atrocities during World War II, including cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments.
Fully updated third edition of the all-in-one guide to travelling along the Silk Road from the Mediterranean Sea across Asia to China. Includes Syria, Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and China.
One of Indias most distinguished foreign policy thinkers addresses the many questions facing India as it seeks to find its way in the complex world of Asian geopolitics. A former Indian foreign secretary and national security adviser, Shivshankar Menon traces Indias approach to the shifting regional landscape since its independence in 1947.
Captain Thomas Bowrey gained renown in numerous fields. He would publish the first ever Malay-English dictionary; he was involved in the African slave trade to India and he collaborated with Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, in the founding of the South Sea Company.
Based on an original tale by award-winning Mongolian author, Dashdondog Jamba, and retold by distinguished international author, Anne Pellowski, find out how the traditional Mongolian tent house (called a ger in Mongolian and a yurt in Turkish), was created in the ancient past by drawing on the example of nature, and how it later became a ......
Presents a systematic critique of Edward Saids work "Orientalism". This book looks at the destructive influence of Saids study on the history of Western painting, especially of the 19th century, and shows how the epigones of Said have succeeded in relegating thousands of first-class paintings to the lofts and storage rooms of major museums.
