This is an introduction to the representational culture of Japan, China, Korea and Southeast Asia. From architecture - sacred and secular, to painting, crafts and dance these volumes piece together a colourful mosaic of human expression.
This volume, the second and final in the series, takes us into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from the late eighteenth century of the Christian era when most of the region was incorporated into European empires to the complexity ...
Volume 2, Part 2 covers the period from World War II to the present.
Johnson, B. F., Japanese food management in World War II (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1953). Johnston, David B., 'Rice cultivation in Thailand: the development of an export economy by indigenous capital and labor', ...
Between 1013 and 1112 elites based in Kiev erected some 83 percent of all masonry, or to use David B. Miller's phrase ”monumental,” build— ings in the lands of Rus?6 The city and its environs boasted the most numerous and opulent ...
Blending fine-grained case studies with overarching theory, this book seeks to rethink 1,000 years of Eurasian history.
Focusing on the role of the "tribute system" in maintaining stability in East Asia and fostering diplomatic and commercial exchange, Kang contrasts this history against the example of Europe and the East Asian states' skirmishes with ...
"Wm. Theodore de Bary offers a selection of essential readings from his immensely popular anthologies Sources of Chinese Tradition, Sources of Korean Tradition, and Sources of Japanese Tradition so readers can experience a concise but no ...
"...DESERVES A PLACE IN REFERENCE COLLECTIONS."--CHOICE. "..IT ENABLES SPECIALISTS OF ONE COUNTRY OR SUBJECT TO IDENTIFY RAPIDLY REFERENCE SOURCES ON COUNTRIES & SUBJECT AREAS WITHIN THE REGION WITH WHICH THEY...
Ceritalah: Journeys through Southeast Asia