Guides: Asian Studies: Finding Books

Books and eBooks on Asian Studies

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Below is a sample of the library's books and eBooks on topics in Asian studies:

Closing the Golden Door by Anna Pegler-Gordon
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9781469665733

Publication Date: 2021

Anna Pegler-Gordon draws on immigrants' oral histories and memoirs, government archives, newspapers, and other sources to reorient the history of migration and exclusion in the United States.
Colonial Transformation and Asian Religions in Modern History by Kim, David W.
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9781527519121

Publication Date: 2018

The localisation of a region, group, or culture was a common social phenomenon in pre-modern Asia, but global colonialism began to affect the lifestyle of local people. This book presents multi-angled perspectives.
China and the Philippines by Phillip B. Guingona
Call Number: DS740.5.P5 G85 2024

ISBN: 9781009359245

Publication Date: 2023

Through methodologically distinct case studies, Guingona presents a critique of Eurocentric approaches to world/global history, shedding light on the interconnected history of China and the Philippines in a transformative period.
Global Middle East by Asef Bayat (Editor)
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9780520968127

Publication Date: 2021

This volume highlights the global interconnectedness of the Middle East. It delves into the region's scientific, artistic, economic, political, religious, and intellectual formations and traces how they have taken shape through a dynamic set of encounters and exchanges.
Central Asia by Adeeb Khalid
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9780691220437

Publication Date: 2021

This book reveals how Central Asia has been profoundly shaped by the forces of modernity, from colonialism and social revolution to nationalism, state-led modernization, and social engineering.