Mapping Central Asia

Mapping Central Asia

Author: Sébastien Peyrouse

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-13

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1317100956

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With renewed American involvement in Afghanistan, Pakistan's growing fragility, and China's rise in power in the post-Soviet space, Central Asia-South Asia relations have become central to understanding the future of the Eurasian continent. Mapping Central Asia identifies the trends, attitudes, and ideas that are key to structuring the Central Asia-South Asia axis in the coming decade. Structured in three parts, the book skillfully guides us through the importance of the historical links between the Indian sub-continent and Central Asia, the regional and global context in which the developing of closer relations between India and Central Asia has presented itself since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the precise domains of Indo-Central Asian cooperation, and studies three conflict zones that frame Indo-Central Asian relations: the Kashmir question; the situation in Afghanistan; and fear of destabilization in Xinjiang. The international line-up of established scholars convincingly demonstrate the fundamental necessity to define the Indian approach on these issues and provide cutting-edge insights on the tools needed to understand the solutions for the decade to come.


History, Culture, and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives

History, Culture, and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives

Author: O. W. Wolters

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1501732609

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A new edition of this classic study of mandala Southeast Asia. The revised book includes a substantial, retrospective postscript examining contemporary scholarship that has contributed to the understanding of Southeast Asian history since 1982.


Asian Nationalism in an Age of Globalization

Asian Nationalism in an Age of Globalization

Author: Roy Starrs

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-23

Total Pages: 499

ISBN-13: 1134278691

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Topics include: Government Intervention and Economic Growth in East Asia, Agricultural Nationalism in the Age of Globalization, Japan's Dominance and Multi- Racial Coalitions in Malaysia.


Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map

Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map

Author: Laura Hostetler

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-02-06

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 9004684786

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How did Asia come to be represented on European World maps? When and how did Asian Countries adopt a continental system for understanding the world? How did countries with disparate mapping traditions come to share a basic understanding and vision of the globe? This series of essays organized into sections on Jesuit Circuits of Communication and Publication; Jesuit World Maps in Chinese; Reverberations of Matteo Ricci's Maps in East Asia; and Reflections on the Curation of Cartographic Knowledge, go a long way toward answering these questions about the shaping of our modern understandings of the world.


Hinduism and Buddhism

Hinduism and Buddhism

Author: Asha Kumari

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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Comparative study of the various aspects of Hinduism and Buddhism in Thailand.


Asian Cultural Traditions

Asian Cultural Traditions

Author: Carolyn Brown Heinz

Publisher: Waveland Press

Published: 2018-05-30

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 1478637641

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The Second Edition of Asian Cultural Traditions expands our understanding of the bewildering diversity that has existed and continues to exist in the cultures of South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. In a single volume, the authors pull together some of the major cultural strands by which people in Asian societies have organized their collective life and made their lives meaningful. With new sections on Central Asia, Islam, Korea, and Insular Southeast Asia, this first survey of its kind draws on multiple disciplines to contextualize the interplay of culture, historical events, language, and geography to promote better understanding of a realm often misunderstood by Westerners. The skillful synthesis of a vast amount of information, boxed items featuring popular culture or current events, abundant in-text illustrations, and vivid color plates make Asian Cultural Traditions, 2/E an outstanding introduction to Asian cultures. The Second Edition welcomes the editorial collaboration of Jeremy Murray and is sure to have continued broad classroom appeal.