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The first ever ethnography of the newest commodity boom in China and the way it changed the economic fate of pastoralists on the Tibetan plateau.

This volume examines the most spectacular struggle for democracy in post-handover Hong Kong.

The book casts new light on the relation between religion and modernity in Southeast Asia and beyond.

An interdisciplinary collection of essays on migration by European and Southeast Asian scholars.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, colonial powers clashed over much of Central and East Asia: Great Britain and Germany fought over New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, Fiji, and Samoa; France and Great Britain competed over control of continental Southwest Asia; and the United States annexed the Philippines and Hawaii. Meanwhile, the possible disintegration of China and Japan's growing nationalism added new dimensions to the rivalries.Surveying these and other international developments in the Pacific basin during the three decades preceding World War I, Kees van Dijk traces the emergence of superpowers during the colonial race and analyzes their conduct as they struggled for territory. Extensive in scope, Pacific Strife is a fascinating look at a volatile moment in history.

This timely volume examines how migration trajectories in Asia are experienced and how they acquire new meanings.

This book explores the new interactions between Asia and Africa beyond the frequent narrow focus on China-Africa.

This volume brings together the insights of theories of management and marketing to give an original, alternative view of the organizational dynamics of globalizing Asian New Religious Movements (NRMs) and established religions.

This volume examines the most spectacular struggle for democracy in post-handover Hong Kong.

This book analyses what Myanmar's struggle for democracy has signified to Burmese activists and democratic leaders, and to their international allies. In doing so, it explores how understanding contested meanings of democracy helps make sense of the country's tortuous path since Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won historic elections in 2015. Using Burmese and English language sources, Narrating Democracy in Myanmar reveals how the country's ongoing struggles for democracy exist not only in opposition to Burmese military elites, but also within networks of local activists and democratic leaders, and international aid workers.