Dec 12, 2015 16:14 PM- Need for Counterculture Art to Hold a Mirror to Society
- Popular art in 2015 has raised some uncomfortable questions, but only a few have caught their subversive message
Dec 12, 2015 16:01 PM- Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World
- This retake on the narrative of a bipolar world order in the past shows it was a myth and offers fresh evidence to show China was also embroiled in the tussle for global influence
Dec 12, 2015 16:01 PM- Staging Corruption: The Link between Chinese Television and Politics
- This work of non-fiction delves into how popular culture deals with the real-life drama of corruption and explores the complicated relationships between power, media and society
Dec 09, 2015 09:37 AM- JFK's Forgotten Crisis in the East
- CIA veteran Bruce Riedel talks about the invisible hand behind instability in Tibet and the Sino-Indian War
Dec 09, 2015 09:37 AM- The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Historic Rise of the West
- This insightful narrative looks at why China lost its place as a major military power in the ancient world despite inventing gunpowder four centuries before the technology passed to the West
Dec 05, 2015 17:38 PM- Better Etiquette Needed for Mature Online Debate
- Free speech on the Internet is threatened by verbal abuse, so Net users need to come up with a way to weed out trolls
Dec 05, 2015 17:31 PM- Turbulent History of the Great Wall in 50 Objects
- William Lindesay hunts down fifty artifacts from around the world to trace the story of China's most famous national landmark
Dec 05, 2015 17:31 PM- Portuguese Conquests in Asia and the First Global Empire
- In this sweeping narrative Roger Crowley says Columbus's discovery of the Americas had a lesser impact on history, when compared to Portuguese forays into the Indian Ocean
Nov 28, 2015 14:58 PM- Cathay: Ezra Pound's re-imagination of Chinese Poetry
- This slim volume, born from an accidental discovery, set the tone for modern translations of Chinese poetry into English
Nov 28, 2015 14:58 PM- The Clash of Titans: A Look Back at the Sino-Indian War
- This sweeping take on a defining moment in Asian history looks at the tumultuous decade leading up to the brief but devastating war in 1962 and its effect on those living on the roof of the world
Nov 21, 2015 16:47 PM- The Real Drivers of China's New Culture Movement
- One of the most defining cultural movements in China in the early 20th century had values that sharply differed from western liberal thought
Nov 21, 2015 16:38 PM- Emerging From The Cocoon: Literary Culture in Myanmar
- This sweeping take on Myanmar's vibrant literary culture looks at how long suppressed art forms are emerging from the shadows of the military junta, after the recent historic elections
Nov 21, 2015 16:30 PM- China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
- Time magazine's first Beijing bureau chief reveals why experienced China hands in the United States fell for Mao's charm offensive in the 50s and for years believed in the Communist propaganda fed to them
Nov 14, 2015 17:52 PM- Ancient Water Town Turns In To Stage for World Theater
- An emerging theater festival is breathing new life into a 1300-year-old water town, but critics say rush of tourists may clash with goal to preserve local culture
Nov 14, 2015 17:40 PM- Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life
- In this portrait of Deng, authors tap into Soviet archives to shed light on the elusive life of the architect of post-Mao era reforms in China
Nov 14, 2015 17:39 PM- The Poetry of Place
- Poet Shirley Geok-lin Lim explores the fluid link between place and identity in her new collection Do You Live In?
Nov 07, 2015 12:07 PM- Last War of the World-Island: The Geopolitics of Contemporary Russia
- This illuminating analysis of the Russian worldview and the country's foreign policies highlights the emergence of key intellectual groups in recent years
Nov 07, 2015 12:06 PM- Blood, Dreams and Gold: The Changing Face of Burma
- A sweeping survey of Burma's political and economic history offers an eye-opening read for devotees of regional geopolitics
Oct 31, 2015 16:35 PM- Auguries and Ambiguities
- Photographer Zhang Lijie's portraits of individuals with disabilities extend an artistic phenomenon in China that emerged in the wake of the late 1980s
Oct 31, 2015 16:27 PM- A Brief History of Indonesia
- Weaving together Indonesia's cultural and political past, this book captures a wide sweep of several centuries yet remains readable and succinct
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