An interconnected, nuanced, and nonlinear view of Chinese family life since 1949 With Embedded Generations, Liu Jieyu offers a comprehensive examination of Chinese family life since the Chinese...

Fiction set in the spring of 1857 and is about life for the British at Krishnapur, India and what occurs when there is a mutiny.

Born during the Great Famine of the early 1960's, Hong Ying, or Little Six as she was known, grew up in a slum on the hilly Yangtze bank, a neighbourhood permanently veiled in fog and steeped in...

Comprises 11 major essays by Joseph Needham, one of the pre-eminent scholars in the study of the history of science in Chinese civilization and critic of the dominating role of science in Western...

From 1868-1872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China. His reports on what he found there would transform Western interest in China from the land of porcelain and...

The Theology of Struggle is a genuinely popular Filipino theology rooted in the history and culture of a people who have endured colonial oppression at the hands of Spain, North America, and Japan,...

The Punan societies of Borneo, traditionally nomadic rainforest hunters and gatherers, have undergone a transformation over the past centuries. As downriver farming peoples expanded upstream and...

"Han Minzhu" and her assistant editor, "Hua Sheng," both writing under pseudonyms to protect their identities, present a rich collection of translations of original writings and speeches from the...

Iris Chang made headlines in 1997 with the publication of The Rape of Nanking-a meticulously researched and brilliantly rendered examination of the sacking of that great city by the Japanese during...

The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this tragic episode...

With reference to India; contributed articles.

First published in 1943, and long recognized as one of the best guides to Delhi, this engaging book is being reissued after almost fifty years. Following in Dr Spear's footsteps, Narayani Gupta and...

The eight essays in this volume seek to combine an empirical study of themes in late-colonial Indian history with an intervention in current debates about the extent and nature of Western colonial...

Jenny Huberman provides an ethnographic study of encounters between western tourists and the children who work as unlicensed peddlers and guides along the riverfront city of Banaras, India. She...

Changing Electoral Politics in Delhiis an in-depth analysis of voting patterns of voters in Delhi. Rapid immigration has changed the social profile of Delhi's voters who seemed to vote more on class...

From renowned, prize-winning historian Frank Dikotter, a commanding new history of China's path to Communism.

A deluxe large-format edition of this beautifully illustrated introduction to Katsushika Hokusai, the most prolific artist of Japan's Edo period, and master of ukiyo-e - 'images of the floating...

The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of assimilation and presentation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a...