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This book begins with the analysis of America's post-war
intelligence operations, propaganda campaigns, and strategic
psychological warfare in Japan. Banking on nuclear safety myths,
Japan promoted an aggressive policy of locating and building
nuclear power plants in depopulated areas suffering from a
significant decline of local industries and economies. The
Fukushima nuclear disaster substantiated that U.S. propaganda
programs left a long lasting legacy in Japan and beyond and created
the fertile ground for the future nuclear disaster. The book
reveals Japan's tripartite organization of the dominating state,
media-monopoly, and nuclear-plant oligarchy advancing nuclear
proliferation. It details America's unprecedented pro-nuclear
propaganda campaigns; Japan's secret ambitions to develop its own
nuclear bombs; U.S. dumping of reprocessed plutonium on Japan; and
the joint U.S.-Nippon propaganda campaigns for "safe" nuclear-power
and the current "safe-nuclear particles" myths. The study shows how
the bankruptcy of the central state has led to increased burdens on
the population in post-nuclear tsunami era, and the ensuing
dangerous ionization of the population now reaching into the
future.
An American woman's view of the Chinese war against the Japanese
invasion, from her travels with the Red Army, originally published
in the 1930s. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating
back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and
increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these
classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using
the original text and artwork. Contents Include From Yenan to Sian
From Sian to the Front With the Roving Headquarters of Chu Teh
Battles and Raids with the Forces of Lin Piao Travelling with the
Headquarters Staff of the Eighth Route Army Sights, News, Interview
and Bombardment A Breathing Spell and a Journey The New Year Begins
For over a decade the Middle East has monopolized news headlines in
the West. Journalists and commentators regularly speculate that the
region's turmoil may stem from the psychological momentum of its
cultural traditions or of a "tribal" or "fatalistic" mentality. Yet
few studies of the region's cultural psychology have provided a
critical synthesis of psychological research on Middle Eastern
societies.
Drawing on autobiographies, literary works, ethnographic accounts,
and life-history interviews, The Middle East: A Cultural
Psychology, offers the first comprehensive summary of psychological
writings on the region, reviewing works by psychologists,
anthropologists, and sociologists that have been written in
English, Arabic, and French. Rejecting stereotypical descriptions
of the "Arab mind" or "Muslim mentality, ' Gary Gregg adopts a
life-span- development framework, examining influences on
development in infancy, early childhood, late childhood, and
adolescence as well as on identity formation in early and mature
adulthood. He views patterns of development in the context of
recent work in cultural psychology, and compares Middle Eastern
patterns less with Western middle class norms than with those
described for the region's neighbors: Hindu India, sub-Saharan
Africa, and the Mediterranean shore of Europe. The research
presented in this volume overwhelmingly suggests that the region's
strife stems much less from a stubborn adherence to tradition and
resistance to modernity than from widespread frustration with
broken promises of modernization--with the slow and halting pace of
economic progress and democratization.
A sophisticated account of the Middle East's cultural psychology,
The Middle East provides students, researchers, policy-makers, and
all those interested in the culture and psychology of the region
with invaluable insight into the lives, families, and social
relationships of Middle Easterners as they struggle to reconcile
the lure of Westernized life-styles with traditional values.
Tibetan Buddhism and the Dalai Lama enjoy global popularity and
relevance, yet the longstanding practice of oracles within the
tradition is still little known and understood. The Nechung Oracle,
for example, is believed to become possessed by an important god
named Pehar, who speaks through the human medium to confer with the
Dalai Lama on matters of state. The Dalai Lama and the Nechung
Oracle is the first monograph to explore the mythologies and
rituals of this god, the Buddhist monastery that houses him, and
his close friendship with incarnations of the Dalai Lama over the
centuries. In the seventeenth century, during the reign of the
Fifth Dalai Lama, the protector deity Pehar and his oracle at
Nechung Monastery were state-sanctioned by the nascent Tibetan
government, becoming the head of an expansive pantheon of worldly
deities assigned to protect the newly unified country. The
governments of later Dalai Lamas expanded the deity's influence, as
well as their own, by establishing Pehar at monasteries and temples
around Lhasa and across Tibet. Pehar's cult at Nechung Monastery
came to embody the Dalai Lama's administrative control in a mutual
relationship of protection and prestige, the effects of which
continue to reverberate within Tibet and among the Tibetan exile
community today. The friendship between these two immortals has
spanned nearly five hundred years across the Tibetan plateau and
beyond.
Since its inception in 1974, Southeast Asian Affairs (SEAA) has
been an indispensable annual reference for generations of
policy-makers, scholars, analysts, journalists, and others.
Succinctly written by regional and international experts, SEAA
illuminates significant issues and events of the previous year in
each of the Southeast Asian nations and the region as a whole.
Southeast Asian Affairs 2008 provides an informed and readable
analysis of the events and developments in the region in 2007. In
the regional section, the first two articles provide the political
and economic overview of Southeast Asia. They are followed by an
article on India's geopolitics and Southeast Asia, and two articles
on ASEAN. Eleven country reviews as well as four country-specific
thematic chapters follow, delving into domestic political,
economic, security, and social developments during 2007 and their
implications for countries in the region and beyond.
Originally published in 1931, this is a systematic and
comprehensive history of caste in India and its influence on Hindu
law, social institutions and society as a whole. Many of the
earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and
before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in
affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text
and artwork. Contents Include: The Caste System - Caste in the
Rigveda - Caste during the Brahmana Period - Caste in the Sutras -
Caste in the Sutras Continued - Appendix - Verifications from
Non-Brahmanical Writings - Caste in Early Buddhist Literature -
Caste in Greek Accounts - Bibliography
This classic in the annals of village studies will be widely read
and debated for what it reveals about China's rural dynamics as
well as the nature of state power, markets, the military, social
relations, and religion. Built on extraordinarily intimate and
detailed research in a Sichuan village that Isabel Crook began in
1940, the book provides an unprecedented history of Chinese rural
life during the war with Japan. It is an essential resource for all
scholars of contemporary China.
Social network are nowadays inherent parts of our lives and highly
developed communication technique helps us maintain our
relationships. But how did it work in the early 19th century, in a
time without cell phones and internet? A Chinese Hong Merchant in
Canton Trade named Houqua (1769-1843), who lived in isolated Qing
China, gives us an outstanding answer. Despite various barriers in
cultures, languages, political situations and his identity as a
Chinese merchant strictly under control of the Qing government,
Houqua established a commercial network across three continents:
Asia, North America and Europe. This book will not only uncover his
secrets and actions in his Chinese social network especially
patronage relationships in traditional Chinese society, but also
reconstruct his intercultural network, including his unique and
even "modern" friendship with some American traders which lasted
almost half a century after Houquas death.
Originally published in 1908. Author: Lord John De Joinville
Language: English Keywords: History / Crusades Many of the earliest
books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are
now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are
republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality,
modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Recent attention to historical, geographic, and class differences
in the studies of women and gender in China has expanded our
understanding of the diversity and complexity of gendered China.
Nevertheless, the ethnic dimension of this subject matter remains
largely overlooked, particularly concerning women's conditions and
gender status. Consequently, the patriarchy and its oppression of
women among the Han, the ethnic majority in China, are often
inaccurately or erroneously associated with the whole gendered
heritage of China, epitomized by the infamous traditions of
footbinding and female-infanticide. Such academic and popular
predisposition belies the fact that gender systems in China span a
wide spectrum, ranging from extreme Han patriarchy to Lahu
gender-egalitarianism. The authors contributing to this book have
collectively initiated a systematic effort to bridge the gap
between understanding the majority Han and ethnic minorities in
regard to women and gender in contemporary Chinese societies. By
achieving a quantitative balance between articles on the Han
majority and those on ethnic minorities, this book transcends the
ghettoization of ethnic minorities in the studies of Chinese women
and gender. The eleven chapters of this volume are divided into
three sections which jointly challenge the traditions and norms of
Han patriarchy from various perspectives. The first section focuses
on gender traditions among ethnic minorities which compete with the
norms of Han patriarchy. The second section emphasizes the impact
of radical social transformation on gender systems and practices
among both Han and ethnic minorities. The third section underscores
socio-cultural diversity and complexity in resistance to Han
patriarchal norms from a broad perspective. This book complements
previous scholarship on Chinese women and gender by expanding our
investigative lens beyond Han patriarchy and providing images of
the multiethnic landscape of China. By identifying the Han as an
ethnically marked category and by bringing to the forefront the
diverse gender systems of ethnic minorities, this book encourages
an increasing awareness of, and sensitivity to the cross-cultural
diversity of gendered China both in academia and beyond.
Since the 1950s, China and India have been locked in a monumental
battle for geopolitical supremacy. Chinese interest in the ethnic
insurgencies in northeastern India, the still unresolved issue of
the McMahon Line, the border established by the British imperial
government, and competition for strategic access to the Indian
Ocean have given rise to tense gamesmanship, political intrigue,
and rivalry between the two Asian giants. Former Far Eastern
Economic Review correspondent Bertil Lintner has drawn from his
extensive personal interviews with insurgency leaders and civilians
in remote tribal areas in northeastern India, newly declassified
intelligence reports, and his many years of firsthand experience in
Asia to chronicle this ongoing struggle. His history of the "Great
Game East" is the first significant account of a regional conflict
which has led to open warfare on several occasions, most notably
the Sino-India border war of 1962, and will have a major impact on
global affairs in the decades ahead.
Since the age of the Sasanian Empire (224-651 AD), Iran and the
West have time and again appeared to be at odds. Iran and the West
charts this contentious and complex relationship by examining the
myriad ways the two have perceived each other, from antiquity to
today. Across disciplines, perspectives and periods contributors
consider literary, imagined, mythical, visual, filmic, political
and historical representations of the 'other' and the ways in which
these have been constructed in, and often in spite of, their
specific historical contexts. Many of these narratives, for
example, have their origin in the ancient world but have since been
altered, recycled and manipulated to fit a particular agenda.
Ranging from Tacitus, Leonidas and Xerxes via Shahriar Mandanipour
and Azar Nafisi to Rosewater, Argo and 300, this inter-disciplinary
and wide-ranging volume is essential reading for anyone working on
the complex history, present and future of Iranian-Western
relations.
At the height of the Cold War, the John F. Kennedy administration
designed an ambitious plan for the Middle East-its aim was to seek
rapprochement with Nasser's Egypt in order to keep the Arab world
neutral and contain the perceived communist threat. In order to
offset this approach, Kennedy sought to grow relations with the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and embrace Israel's defense priorities-a
decision which would begin the US-Israeli 'special relationship'.
Here, Antonio Perra shows for the first time how new relations with
Saudi Arabia and Israel which would come to shape the Middle East
for decades were in fact a by-product of Kennedy's efforts at
Soviet containment. The Saudi's in particular were increasingly
viewed as 'an atavistic regime who would soon disappear' but
Kennedy's support for them-which hardened during the Yemen Crisis
even as he sought to placate Nasser-had the unintended effect of
making them, as today, the US' great pillar of support in the
Middle East.
This book vividly portrays the past, current, and future
development of Yokohama Chinatown through the context of its
Cantonese residents, grounded through a family history. It is
useful for both academic and non- academic readers who are
interested in migration history, transformation of urban spaces,
anthropological perspectives of integration of immigrants,
diasporic studies and overseas Chinese studies. It is informative
when considering the role of immigrant communities in the world
today in the context of globalization stimulating cross-border
movements and anti-globalization forces that act as push and pull
factors for migration. It is also a study of harmonious integration
of the overseas Chinese community in Yokohama and its ability to
retain its own cultural traits, rights, rituals, traditions and
dialect language in one of the most homogenous countries in the
world. This increases the attractiveness of Yokohama City in terms
of ethnic diversity, cosmopolitan multiculturalism and urban space
renewal.
Located in Southeast Asia, the Republic of the Philippines is
comprised of over 7,000 islands. The first known inhabitants of
these tropical islands migrated to the Philippines 30,000 years ago
over land bridges that no longer exist today. Since then, the
Philippines has undergone drastic changes due to large numbers of
settlers and colonizers from abroad. For hundreds of years, the
Philippines was under Spanish and then United States control.
Spanish influence remains a large part of Filipino culture today.
Finally, in 1935, the Philippines embarked on the path to
independence. The past century has been a postcolonial roller
coaster ride for the Philippines. Today, the Philippines'
developing economy has sparked international interest and the
country has been marked as having one of the most promising
potentials for economic growth in the world. "The History of the
Philippines" offers a comprehensive account of the Philippines and
its struggle to discover a national identity. This volume is an
excellent addition to any library; perfect for student and general
readers.
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