Asia

ISBN: 9780813176079
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Paul Rusch first traveled from Louisville, Kentucky, to Tokyo in 1925 to help rebuild YMCA facilities in the wake of the Great Kanto earthquake. What was planned as a yearlong stay became his life's work as he joined with the Japan Episcopal Churc... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789088906183
Published by : Sidestone Press
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Southeast Asia has a long history with Buddhism that continues to the present day. Centuries ago, Buddhism spread to various areas of Southeast Asia, where some of the greatest Buddhist images and monuments were produced over 1,000 years ago. Thes... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407316130
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Haimenkou was an important location, with trade and cultural links connecting parts of modern Southeast Asia and northwestern China in ancient times. This book is based on an analysis of the faunal assemblage recovered from the Haimenkou site duri... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780813175881
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
North Korea has posed a threat to stability in Northeast Asia for decades. Since Kim Jong-un assumed power, this threat has both increased and broadened. Since 2011, the small, isolated nation has detonated nuclear weapons multiple times, tested a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781681777962
Published by : Pegasus Books
Exciting investigations in northwest China are about to reveal more of the mysteries of the huge mausoleum of the Qin Emperor, a portion of which was accidently discovered in 1974 by farmers who were digging a well. The second phase of an internat... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822965435
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Central Eurasia in Context
Robert Kindler's seminal work is a comprehensive and unsettling account of the Soviet campaign to forcefully sedentarize and collectivize the Kazakh clans. Viewing the nomadic life as unproductive, and their lands unused and untilled, Stalin and h... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780861592180
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 218
Among world religions, only Buddhism and Christianity attach a central significance to the role of relics. These two traditions, however, are different in both conceptual and material terms. In Buddhism, the most sacred relics are those considered... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822964636
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Central Eurasia in Context
Learning to Become Turkmen examines the ways in which the iconography of everyday life—in dramatically different alphabets, multiple languages, and shifting education policies—reflects the evolution of Turkmen society in Central Asia over the ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781107141452
Published by : Cambridge University Press
In this book, Li Min proposes a new paradigm for the foundation and emergence of the classical tradition in early China, from the late Neolithic through the Zhou period. Using a wide range of historical and archaeological data, he explains the dev... .... Learn More