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East and Southeast Asia has long been a powerful player in the world trading system. Whether it's spices like pepper, textiles, rubber, or microprocessors, this region has much to offer the world, including its amazing cultures. Home to many ethnic groups and some of the world's biggest and smallest countries, the region has produced a unique array of cultural traditions. This book's accessible narrative helps readers understand how geographic features,...
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"There is a vast cultural movement emerging from beyond the Western world. Truly global in its range and allure, it is the biggest challenge yet to Hollywood, McDonald's, and blue jeans. This is a book about these new arbiters of mass culture arising from the East-India's Bollywood films, Turkish soap opera, or dizi, and South Korean pop music. Carefully packaging not always secular modernity with traditional values in urbanized settings, they have...
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Hoover Institution publication volume 109
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Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University
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[1972]
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English
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Thameside Press
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[2002]
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English
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Provides information about the networks of land and sea routes by which trade was conducted across and around the continent of Asia, branching into Europe and Africa, and discusses the ways in which people, communities, and cultures were affected by the exchange of goods, ideas, and beliefs.
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Asian art and culture volume no. 6
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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[2002]
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English
14) The Middle Ages
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World history by era volume 3
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Greenhaven Press
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[2002]
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English
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Da Capo Press
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[2008]
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English
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While European intellectual, cultural, and commercial life stagnated during the early medieval period, Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of religious, commercial, and intellectual connections, the different regions of Asia's vast civilization, from Arabia to China, hummed with commerce, international diplomacy, and the brisk exchange of ideas. Stewart Gordon has fashioned a look at Asia...
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PBS Distribution
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[2021]
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English
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These visually stunning documentaries are pilgrimages to legendary places in Southeast Asia and Tibet, including the spiritual wonders of Laos, Thailand, Burma, Bali, Cambodia, Java, and Central Tibet. Journey into the living traditions and lost civilizations of this vibrant part of the world and explore the universal ideals of wisdom, compassion, and inner peace at the very heart of these ancient Buddhist cultures.
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CultureGrams volume 4
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Axiom Press
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2003.
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English
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Examines the traditional culture and customs of countries located in Asia, and Oceania.
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