Asian States and Empires
About the Book Series
The importance of Asia will continue to grow in the twenty-first century, but remarkably little is available in English on the history of the polities that constitute this critical area. Most current work on Asia is hindered by the extremely limited state of knowledge of the Asian past in general, and the history of Asian states and empires in particular. Asian States and Empires is a book series that will provide detailed accounts of the history of states and empires across Asia from earliest times until the present. It aims to explain and describe the formation, maintenance and collapse of Asian states and empires, and the means by which this was accomplished, making available the history of more than half the world’s population at a level of detail comparable to the history of Western polities. In so doing, it will demonstrate that Asian peoples and civilizations had their own histories apart from the West, and provide the basis for understanding contemporary Asia in terms of its actual histories, rather than broad generalizations informed by Western categories of knowledge.
Tajikistan’s National Epics: Muqanna's Rebellion and The Tajik People's Hero Temur Malik
1st Edition
By Sadriddin Ayni
December 18, 2024
Sadriddin Ayni (1878–1954) was a Tajik intellectual, regarded by many as one of the most important writers in the country’s history. This book provides a translation of two historical monographs by Ayni: Is’yoni Muqanna (Muqanna’s Rebellion) and Qahramoni Khalqi Tojik Temurmalik (The Tajik People’s...
China's New Imperialism: Nature, Causes, and Rationalization
1st Edition
By Yu-Ping Chang
February 14, 2023
This book discusses the nature of China’s current international reassertion of itself and the thinking and attitudes which lie behind it. It argues that the Chinese leadership has a strongly held view of its own high moral authority, which emphasizes inclusion, equality and mutual benefits, and ...
China during the Tang-Song Interregnum, 878–978: New Approaches to the Southern Kingdoms
1st Edition
By Hugh Clark
January 09, 2023
This book challenges the long-established structure of Chinese history around dynasties, adopting a more "organic" approach which emphasises cultural and economic trends that transcend arbitrary dynastic boundaries. It argues that with the collapse of the Tang court and northern control over the ...
China’s Northern Wei Dynasty, 386-535: The Struggle for Legitimacy
1st Edition
By Puning Liu
December 16, 2022
The Northern Wei was a dynasty which originated outside China and ruled northern China when the south of China was ruled by a series of dynasties which originated inside China. Both during the time that the Northern Wei dynasty was in power and over many centuries subsequently, the ...
China's Borderlands under the Qing, 1644–1912: Perspectives and Approaches in the Investigation of Imperial Boundary Regions
1st Edition
By Daniel McMahon
August 29, 2022
This book explores new directions in the study of China’s borderlands. In addition to assessing the influential perspectives of other historians, it engages innovative approaches in the author’s own research. These studies probe regional accommodations, the intersections of borderland management, ...
Early Modern East Asia: War, Commerce, and Cultural Exchange
1st Edition
Edited
By Kenneth M. Swope, Tonio Andrade
December 12, 2019
This book presents a great deal of new primary research on a wide range of aspects of early modern East Asia. Focusing primarily on maritime connections, the book explores the importance of international trade networks, the implications of technological dissemination, and the often unforeseen ...
Rethinking Prehistoric Central Asia: Shepherds, Farmers, and Nomads
1st Edition
By Claudia Chang
December 12, 2019
The peoples of Inner Asia in the second half of the first millennium BC have long been considered to be nomads, engaging in warfare and conflict. This book, which presents the findings of new archaeological research in southeastern Kazakhstan, analyzes these findings to present important ...
Tropical Warfare in the Asia-Pacific Region, 1941-45
1st Edition
By Kaushik Roy
December 12, 2019
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the land war during the Second World War in South-East Asia and the South and South-West Pacific. The extensive existing literature focuses on particular armies – Japanese, British, American, Australian or Indian – and/or on particular ...
Capital Cities and Urban Form in Pre-modern China: Luoyang, 1038 BCE to 938 CE
1st Edition
By Victor Xiong
March 07, 2018
Luoyang, situated in present-day Henan province, was one of the great urban centres of pre-Qin and early imperial China, the favoured site for dynastic capitals for almost two millennia. This book, the first in any Western language on the subject, traces the rise and fall of the six different ...
The Eurasian Way of War: Military Practice in Seventh-Century China and Byzantium
1st Edition
By David A. Graff
January 12, 2018
This book is a comparative study of military practice in Sui-Tang China and the Byzantine Empire between approximately 600 and 700 CE. It covers all aspects of the military art from weapons and battlefield tactics to logistics, campaign organization, military institutions, and the grand strategy of...
Warfare in Pre-British India – 1500BCE to 1740CE
1st Edition
By Kaushik Roy
December 21, 2017
This book presents a comprehensive survey of warfare in India up to the point where the British began to dominate the sub-continent. It discusses issues such as how far was the relatively bloodless nature of pre-British Indian warfare the product of stateless Indian society? How far did technology ...
The East Asian War, 1592-1598: International Relations, Violence and Memory
1st Edition
Edited
By James B. Lewis
October 23, 2017
As East Asia regains its historical position as a world centre, information on the history of regional relations becomes ever more critical. Astonishingly, Northeast Asia enjoyed five centuries of international peace from 1400 to 1894, broken only by one major international war – the invasion of ...