The Cold War in East Asia By Xiaobing Li
2017 | 242 Pages | ISBN: 1138651796 | PDF | 9 MB
This textbook provides a survey of East Asia during the Cold War from 1945 to 1991. Focusing on the persistence and flexibility of its culture and tradition when confronted by the West and the US, this book investigates how they intermesh to establish the nations that have entered the modern world.Through the use of newly declassified Communist sources, the narrative helps students form a better understanding of the origins and development of post-WWII East Asia. The analysis demonstrates how East Asia's position in the Cold War was not peripheral but, in many key senses, central. The active role that East Asia played, ultimately, turned this main Cold War battlefield into a "buffer" between the United States and the Soviet Union. Covering a range of countries, this textbook explores numerous events, which took place in East Asia during the Cold War, including:The occupation of Japan,Civil war in China and the establishment of Taiwan,The Korean War,The Vietnam War,China's Reforming Movement.Moving away from Euro-American centric approaches and illuminating the larger themes and patterns in the development of East Asian modernity,The Cold War in East Asiais an essential resource for students of Asian History, the Cold War and World History.

South-East Asia Eye Health: Systems, Practices, and Challenges
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9811637865 | 435 Pages | PDF EPUB | 82 MB
The book covers all aspects of eye health in South-East Asia from public health to health system to education to industry in 6 sections. The World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia region comprises of 11 countries - Bangladesh, Bhutan, DPR Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor-Leste. This region is home to 26% of world population; there is a disproportionate amount of blindness (30.6%) and visual impairment (36%).

Food, Faith and Gender in South Asia - The Cultural Politics of Women's Food Practices
pdf | 17.83 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 1350137065 | Author: Nita Kumar;Usha Sanyal; | Year: 2020

Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion by Jane H. Hong
English | November 18, 2019 | ISBN: 1469653354, 1469653362 | EPUB | 280 pages | 6.7 MB
Over the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receives more immigrants from Asia than from anywhere else in the world. Yet questions of how that dramatic shift took place have long gone unanswered. In this first comprehensive history of Asian exclusion repeal, Jane H. Hong unearths the transpacific movement that successfully ended restrictions on Asian immigration.

Food, Faith and Gender in South Asia: The Cultural Politics of Women's Food Practices by Nita Kumar and Usha Sanyal
English | Feb 20, 2020 | ISBN: 1350137065, 1350278033 | 240 pages | PDF | 18 MB
How do women express individual agency when engaging in seemingly prescribed or approved practices such as religious fasting? How are sectarian identities played out in the performance of food piety? What do food practices tell us about how women negotiate changes in family relationships?

Ethnobiology of Mountain Communities in Asia by Arshad Mehmood Abbasi
English | EPUB | 2021 | 439 Pages | ISBN : 3030554937 | 65.3 MB
Natural resources and associated biological diversity provide the basis of livelihood for human population, particularly in the rural areas and mountain regions across the globe. Asia is home to the world's highest mountain regions including the Himalayas, Karakorum and Hindukush. These regions are renowned around the globe because of their unique beauty, climate, and biocultural diversity.

The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600 - 1750
pdf | 1.79 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 110848395X | Author: David Veevers | Year: 2020

The Postcolonial Moment in South and Southeast Asia By Gyan Prakash; Nikhil Menon; Michael Laffan
2018 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 1350038636 | PDF | 6 MB
By exploring themes of fragility, mobility and turmoil, anxieties and agency, and pedagogy, this book shows how colonialism shaped postcolonial projects in South and Southeast Asia including India, Pakistan, Burma, and Indonesia. Its chapters unearth the contingency and contention that accompanied the establishment of nation-states and their claim to be decolonized heirs.The book places key postcolonial moments - a struggle for citizenship, anxious constitution making, mass education and land reform - against the aftermath of the Second World War and within a global framework, relating them to the global transformation in political geography from empire to nation. The chapters analyse how futures and ideals envisioned by anticolonial activists were made reality, whilst others were discarded. Drawing on the expertise of eminent contributors,The Postcolonial Moment in South and Southeast Asiarepresents the most ground-breaking research on the region.

Watts Alan The Philosopies Of Asia
pdf | 155.12 KB | English | Isbn:‎ 978-0804831987 | Author: Jerry | Year: 1999

The Routledge Companion to Dance in Asia and the Pacific: Platforms for Change by Stephanie Burridge
2021 | ISBN: 036761507X, 0367748762 | English | 246 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This Companion documents and celebrates artistic journeys within the framework of rich and complex cultural heritages and traditional dance practices of the Asia-Pacific region. It presents various dance forms from Australia, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and the South Pacific. Drawing on extensive research and decades of performative experience as artists, choreographers, producers, teachers, and critics, the authors approach issues of dance and cultural diversity from a theoretical perspective while at the same time exploring change, process, and transformation through dance.