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China's Battler Poetry

Writing Like There's No Tomorrow

By Maghiel van Crevel
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Chinese, History, China
Series: cultural china

China’s Battler Poetry tells a gripping story of underclass writing as art and social practice.

God’s Own Land

Sacred Landscape, Pilgrim Economy, and Religious Change in the Ganga Himalaya

By James G. Lochtefeld
Subjects: History, General, Religion, General
Series: ASIANetwork Books

Traces the Garhwal Himalaya region’s sacred history and the development of Hindu pilgrimage there

Traditional Chinese Children’s Primers

A Sourcebook

Edited by Katherine Ngo & Kelly Ngo
Subjects: History, China, Education, History
Series: Re-Editions: Literary and Cultural Texts Recovered for the Classroom

First anthology of traditional Chinese children’s primers in a European language

Knowing an Empire

Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue

Edited by Mackenzie Cooley & Huiyi Wu
Subjects: History, China, Spain & Portugal
Series: ASIANetwork Books

Revealing dynamic dialogues between early modern China and Latin America through a new methodology

In the Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon

Happiness, History, and Environment in a Changing Bhutan

By Betsy Bolton
Subjects: History, General, India & South Asia, Political Science, Asian
Series: ASIANetwork Books

A journey through Bhutan that looks at the Buddhist mountain kingdom’s recent history, gross national happiness, ethnic conflicts, and biocultural heritage