Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2008

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• Performing "Nation"

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editors Doris Croissant; Catherine Yeh; Doris Croissant; Catherine Yeh; Joshua S. Mostow
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  • Uniquely covering literary, visual and performative expressions of culture, this volume aims to correlate the conjunctions of nation building, gender and representation in late 19th and early 20th century China and Japan.

• Policing Marital Violence in Singapore

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: G. Narayanan
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  • Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s relational concepts of the ‘field’ and ‘habitus’, the book offers an alternative conceptual framework to appreciate the police response to marital violence in the Singapore context.

• The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895–1919

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: E. Kaske
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  • Viewing education as the central battleground over the status of language, this book investigates the language policies of various social agents in early 20th century China and offers a comprehensive and fascinating analysis of the emergence of China’s national language.

• Practical Materia Medica of the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean According to the Cairo Genizah

  • Type: E-Book
  • Authors: E. Lev; Z. Amar
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  • The authors provide a new insight to the practice of medical care in the medieval world. They examine the medicinal prescriptions and references to materia medica of the Cairo Genizah by combining the approaches of ethnobotany and history of medicine.

• Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003. Volume 11: Tibetan Modernities

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editors Robert Barnett; Ronald D. Schwartz
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  • This book, the first scholarly publication in the West to provide detailed documentation of modern life in contemporary Tibet, presents the cutting-edge field work carried out by an interdisciplinary group of researchers studying caste, pop music, media, painting, education, economics, childbirth and environment in Tibetan communities today.