Contemporary Kayagŭm Music in Korea offers the first book-length account of a new musical genre developed in post-war South Korea for kayagŭm, a traditional 12-stringed long board zither. The book examines the process by which a traditional instrument has become a vessel for the expression of new ideas concerning modernity, tradition and identity by examining history …
Author/Speaker:HEE Limin
From Rebellion to Riots is a critical analysis of the roots of contemporary violence in one of Indonesia’s most ethnically heterogeneous provinces, West Kalimantan. Citing evidence from his research, internal military documents and ethnographic accounts, Jamie S. Davidson refutes popular explanation for these flare-ups. The recurrent riots have less to do with the clash of cultures, the …
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Sino-Japanese relations experienced great qualitative changes during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. By the reign period of the Yongzheng Emperor (r. 1723–1735) one can even speak of a partial reversal of the former master-vassal relationship, which existed during the Ming period: whereas during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Japan was the vassal which had …
Driven by demographic changes, and reinforced by intensifying globalization, international labour mobility has been on the rise in recent decades in the Asia-Pacific region. It seems that, after trade and investment, labour mobility constitutes the final frontier for regional integration among the Asia-Pacific economies. There is no doubt that labour movements are integral to regional …
Buku ini memberikan banyak perhatian pada tema-tema besar juga menganalisis pengealam hidup individual para pengikut Laskar Jihad, Disini ditemukan hal- hal yang membantu kita memahami asal- usul naka- anak muda yang disiapkan untuk mengikuti Ja’far Thalib berjihad.
The rapid urban transition now underway in Asia focuses on a limited number of mega-urban regions (MURs) that have reached population sizes in excess of 10 million people. This book examines four of these urban agglomerations–Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh–in Southeast Asia and two Shanghai and Taipei–in East Asia. The conventional use of …
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Asian Population Studies is the first international population journal to focus exclusively on population issues in Asia. The journal publishes original research on matters related to population in this large, complex and rapidly changing region, and welcomes substantive empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research, and contributions to methodology. Topics covered include all branches of population studies …
Seri strategi arsitektur (warna abu-abu), yang dikelola oleh Heinz Frick sebagai editor seri, diciptakan sebagai karya ilmiah arsitektur, terutama mahasiswa-mahasiswi arsitektur. Semoga buku seri strategi arsitektur 3 Modal baru perancangan kota yang kontekstualini, yang menerangkan model baru pada perancangan kota mencerminkan kota sebagai sistem yang mengatur diri sendiri secara berjaringan, dapat didiskusikan dalam pendidikan tata …
