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In the 1920s three adventurous and determined British women missionaries traveled along the traces of China's old Silk Road to "gossip the Gospel" in the Muslim regions of northwestern China. But as...

Desaix Anderson was the first American charge d'affairs to Vietnam when diplomatic relations were reestablished in 1995 after a hiatus of almost twenty years. His role was to meet, analyse, report...

This book is essential reading for any student of Burma, security in the Asia-Pacific region, China-India relations, or military and strategic priorities in Asia and the world. The key to coming to...

China and Postsocialist Anthropology applies lessons learned from socialist governance, especially in China, to the realm of social theory. Socialist governance explicitly draws on various aspects of...

Taken from journals and letters written during the final decades of the Manchu Empire and the chaotic years of revolution and civil war leading up to the War of Resistance (1937-1945), this is the...

China's Peaceful Evolution describes the impact on U.S.-China relations and relations between the two Chinas of the political policy of "Peaceful Evolution". While Taiwan and mainland China view the...

The most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis and reference on the enormous water resource crisis confronting the People's Republic of China. China's Water Crisis (Zhongguo Shui Weiji) describes in...

Chinese Characteristics (1894) was the most widely read American work on China until Pearl Buck's The Good Earth (1931). It was the first to take up the task of analyzing Chinese society in the light...

As a field of scholarly research, Sino-Japanese studies has grown considerably over the past twenty years, thanks in no small part to the efforts of Joshua Fogel, the editor of this and two previous...

A tragic - and largely forgotten - event following the liberation of Korea occurred on Jeju Island in 1948. An event now called "The Jeju Massacre".On April 3, 1948, an armed guerrilla uprising was...

"In 1978 China initiated a change that not only altered its own course but was to have a profound effect on the world. We have long known that it began when Deng emerged as China's preeminent leader...

The Dungans are Muslims who fled China for Russian territory in Central Asia after the failure of the Dungan Revolt (1862-1877). Their language, which UNESCO classifies as "definitely endangered," is...

Everlasting Empire (Yongwonhan chekuk) is a Korean historical novel written as a murder mystery. The narrator frames the main story with his "discovery" of a 150-year-old manuscript. Because of...

This classic account (1952) of the makers of "New Japan" tells the life stories of a journalist, an ex-Navy vice-admiral, a steel worker, a farmer, and Emperor Hirohito. Frank Gibney was a wartime...

Four Hundred Million Customers (1937) is a collection of humorous essays and piquant anecdotes underpinned by well-informed insight and highlighted by witty drawings by G. Sapojnikoff. Like a bowl of...

Four Hundred Million Customers (1937) is a collection of humorous essays and piquant anecdotes underpinned by well-informed insight and highlighted by witty drawings by G. Sapojnikoff. Like a bowl of...

"My war records are of military comfort women...", writes Dr. Aso, "...cabaret dance girls, the military secret service, missionaries, and . . . the incident". The "incident", as it is often referred...

This landmark study by a leading Chinese scholar of international relations significantly advances our understanding of the origins of Chinese Communist foreign policy. Basing himself on a wealth of...

Preacher, author, and explorer, John Hedley was an avid writer and photographer who wrote several books about his adventures. Many of his original photographs are here published for the first time. ...

A distinguished group of authoritative scholars, officals, and policy experts here express their first-hand insights, their ambitions, and their cautions for the future of Kazakhstan.Policy and...

In Lights! Camera! Kaishi! Sun and Li interview twenty-one young Chinese movie-makers on a variety of challenges facing them as cinema gradually emerges from the PRC's long-standing censorship...

Korea was "discovered" by the West after World War II when it became a flashpoint in the Cold War. Before the war, however, it was home to many hundreds of Westerners who experienced life there under...

Taiwan is undergoing significant change in its identity and its culture. The rapid changes of the last twenty years have seen Taiwanese culture diverge sharply from Chinese culture. Local Politics in...

When Soong Meiling, better known to the world as Madame Chiang Kai-shek, died in October 2003, her life of over a century almost exactly paralleled America's own century of direct involvement with...

In late 1940, General Vasilii Chuikov was sent by the Soviet government to China to serve as chief military adviser to General Chiang Kaishek, head of the Nationalist government. China was still...

China's rise to world power status has changed the shape of the world. The U.S.-China bilateral relationship is arguably already the most important one for both countries and it embraces issues of...

Oil for the Lamps of China (1934) was a best-selling novel when it was first published, just a few years after Pearl Buck's The Good Earth (1931). The hero of the story is a keen, young American...

Arguably the first book to take a generational approach to the Chinese cinema, One Hundred Years of Chinese Cinema offers a broad picture of the evolution of Chinese cinema in its historical context,...

These are the field diaries kept by the team of Russian merchant-explorers who traveled widely through northwest Mongolia in the summer of 1910. The expedition had been organized and funded by a...

Here for the first time in English is a selection of short stories representing over forty years of the creative output of one of South Korea's most prominent contemporary writers. Born in what is...