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From the Black Mountain to Waziristan
H.C. Wylly
KEY FEATURE(S) While serving in the British Army in the North-West frontier region in the 1890s, Colonel Wylly found that there was no reliable, up to date information on the tribes or on the terrain. His work remains valuable for the detailed descriptions of tribes and their way of life, as well as for the regional background and information on the campaigns waged by the British in an attempt at subjugation.
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Children of the Steppes
Chokan and Murat Laumulin
KEY FEATURE(S) Here is a well-informed, concise introduction to the culture and history of the vast territory of Kazakhstan, equivalent to the size of Western Europe, located at the centre of geographical Eurasia.
Written by two brothers – one a distinguished scholar and the other well known in Kazakhstan’s media – the book focuses on the Kazakh people who today make up over half the population of some 15 milli... |
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Essays on Everyday Life in Contemporary Society
Harumi Kimura
KEY FEATURE(S) This volume forms a unique and remarkable enterprise in the context of contemporary Japanese literature, social studies and the nature of Japanese society. It comprises 70 essays by private individuals living in Japan today (members of a writing club) who have chosen a subject to write about with a view to projecting a genuine insight into the events, issues and aspirations that make them who they are – from life in a condominium to dealing with in-laws, early retirement and life after children.
Edited and introduced by the distinguished best-selling author Harumi Kimura (winner of the Ohya non-fiction prize for her book “Letters from Twilight London”), the book’s objective is to make ‘Japan’... |
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EDITED by Rebecca Empson
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
How do prophets and their prophecies influence the processes of decision-making, concepts of authority and ideas about causality and time? How can we talk about prophets and prophecy in the Mongolian ... |
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The Japanese Concept of Need-love
Takeo Doi
KEY FEATURE(S) ‘I am sure that Dr Doi’s amae theory would have wider repercussions outside his specialized field of psychiatry, if applied to other disciplines as well. Is not Japan’s love-hate relationship with the West worth much closer attention from this psychological point of view?’
SUKEHIRO HIRAKAWA
This volume brings together twenty-six of Prof. Doi’s principal papers on the subject of the Japanese psyche and the subject of dependency (amae) published in English over the last fifty year... |
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Tsu Yun Hui (Ed.)
UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
KEY FEATURE(S) This is the first interdisciplinary study in English to consider social memory in Japan across a wide range of issues and phenomena, including music and song, artefacts and tools, oral testimonies and written documents, stones and performances, rivers and earthquakes, ritual and ceremonies as well as art and artists.
Unlike previous studies which have focused on isolated issues, especially Second World War events, this collection examines in depth a variety of memorialization subjects, provides valuable perspectiv... |
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David Prendergast
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
KEY FEATURE(S) This insightful account of the
treatment and provision for an ageing population in
South Korea is based on intensive fieldwork in the
county of Puan and adds considerably to the
literature on what is happening in the fusion
between older Korean culture and modern Western
individualism.
The structure of the book revolves around an analysis of the roles of the individual and family in the ongoing development of a capitalist Asian society at the end of the twentieth century. The study ... |
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This series will highlight important Japanese writers, with much of the content being published in English for the first time. The series currently has four titles published: Vol. 1, Takeo Doi, Unders... |
