INCREDIBLE JAPAN is a crash course in Japanese culture--an introduction to those inimitable aspects of the country which are necessarily alien to the foreign observer. With delightful cartoons by the Japanese artist-illustrator, Masakazu Kuwata, the book proves that what is incredible about Japan is not inexplicable, and provides enlightenment on such potentially incomprehensible paradoxes as: - Highly-skilled young men who hold degrees in judo --and flower arrangement. - The "man in the moon"...
H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence and Avondale in Southern India. by J. D. Rees ... with a Narrative of Elephant-Catching in Mysore by G. P. Sanderson ... with Maps, Portraits and Illustrations. - Scholar's Choice Edition
by John David Sir K C I E Rees and George P Sanderson
HRH Prince Chula Chakrabongse, well known in his lifetime as an author and broadcaster, was in a uniquely favourable position for writing the history of the Royal House of Chakri, the current Thai royal dynasty. He had access to unpublished royal letters, archives and documents of all kinds and, as a grandson of King Chulalongkorn, he had personal knowledge of many of the leading figures in his story. Therefore he was able to give an authoritative and quite fascinating account of the monarchs wh...
Refugee Workers in the Indochina Exodus, 1975-1982
by Clinton Thompson Larry
Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India (Empires in Perspective, #15)
by Angma Dey Jhala
Investigating the aesthetics of the zenana - the female quarters of the Indic home or palace - this study discusses the history of architecture, fashion, jewellery and cuisine in princely Indian states during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The women of these groups inhabited multiple worlds, equally at home in their often remote semi-autonomous princely states as in the metropolitan cities of British India and Europe or at 'coming out' parties in London. During British colonial rul...
The Description for this book, Government and Local Power in Japan 500-1700: A Study Based on Bizen Province, 500-1700, will be forthcoming.
Eurasian Influences on Yuan China
This book documents the extraordinarily significant transfers and cultural diffusion between the Mongol Yuan Dynasty of China and Central and West Asia, which had a broad impact on Eurasian history in the 13th and 14th centuries. The Yuan era witnessed perhaps the greatest inter-civilisational contacts in world history and has thus begun to attract the attention of both scholars and the general public. This volume offers tangible evidence of the Western and Central Asian influences, via the Mong...
Islands of Eight Million Smiles (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
by Hiroshi Aoyagi
Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 1900, Vol. 28 (Classic Reprint)
by Asiatic Society of Japan
Serving Empire, Serving Nation: James Tod and the Rajputs of Rajasthan (European Expansion and Indigenous Response)
Snapshots of a New China (Cultural China: Chinese-English Readers)
by Shanghai Daily