Category: Asia

By Alistair Moffat (auth.), Rafael E. Banchs, Fabrizio Silvestri, Tie-Yan Liu, Min Zhang, Sheng Gao, Jun Lang (eds.)

ISBN-10: 3642450679

ISBN-13: 9783642450679

ISBN-10: 3642450687

ISBN-13: 9783642450686

This publication constitutes the refereed court cases of the ninth details Retrieval Societies convention, AIRS 2013, held in Singapore, in December 2013. The 27 complete papers and 18 poster displays incorporated during this quantity have been conscientiously reviewed and chosen from 109 submissions. they're equipped within the following topical sections: IR concept, modeling and question processing; clustering, class and detection; ordinary language processing for IR; social networks, user-centered experiences and personalization and applications.

By Fa Hien, James Legge

ISBN-10: 0486213447

ISBN-13: 9780486213446

The current paintings involves 3 components: the interpretation of Fa-hien's Narrative of his Travels; copious Notes; and the chinese language textual content of a replica from Japan.

By Anthony Reid

ISBN-10: 019580399X

ISBN-13: 9780195803990

By Sung Chull Kim

ISBN-10: 0791469271

ISBN-13: 9780791469279

ISBN-10: 079146928X

ISBN-13: 9780791469286

'North Korea has lengthy been a rustic of mystique, either scary nuclear crises and receiving reduction from the overseas neighborhood and South Korea in additional fresh instances. North Korea below Kim Jong Il examines how inner alterations in North Korea because the early Nineteen Seventies have dependent that nation's it seems that provocative nuclear international relations and up to date financial reform measures. to appreciate those alterations, writer Sung Chull Kim uncovers particularly unknown inner features of the rustic lower than Kim Jong Il's management. His account, in keeping with a radical exam of fundamental assets, strains the origins, consolidation, and dissonance of North Korea's systemic identity.He unearths how reputable and unofficial advancements within the domain names of North Korea's politics, ideology, economics, and intellectual-cultural affairs have led to systemwide duality, rather among socialist ideas embedded within the legit ideology and financial institutions.'--BOOK JACKET. & nbsp;Read more... 1. advent : a conceptual body for systemic alterations -- 2. Kim Jong Il : the political guy and his management personality -- three. The party's strengthening self-discipline and weakening potency -- four. Military-first politics and alterations in party-military kin -- five. Chuch'e in transformation -- 6. The fluctuation of monetary associations and the emergence of entrepreneurship -- 7. The altering roles of intellectuals -- eight. end : dilemmas of establishing up Examines inner alterations in North Korea less than the increasing rule of Kim Jong Il

By Tran Van Hoa, Charles Harvie

ISBN-10: 0312226551

ISBN-13: 9780312226558

This booklet, written by means of overseas specialists within the Asian and international economies, presents a well timed, entire and authoritative evaluate at the most likely explanations and strength influence of the Asian monetary predicament. The nations lined contain Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam within the ASEAN, Korean and China in Asia, and the main international locations in North the US and the eu Community.

By Larry Clinton Thompson

ISBN-10: 0786445297

ISBN-13: 9780786445295

The autumn of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos to communist armies in 1975 prompted an enormous outpouring of refugees from those countries. This paintings makes a speciality of the refugee situation and the yank reduction workers--a colourful staff of malcontents and mavericks drawn from the country division, army, USAID, CIA, and the Peace Corps--who took at the activity of supporting these such a lot impacted through the Vietnam struggle. specialists in Southeast Asia, its languages, cultures and folks, they stored thousands of lives. They have been the very antithesis of the "Ugly American."

By Jonathan Falla

ISBN-10: 0511521065

ISBN-13: 9780511521065

ISBN-10: 0521390192

ISBN-13: 9780521390194

ISBN-10: 0521399203

ISBN-13: 9780521399203

The Karen, considered one of Burma's many minority peoples, were waging an more and more determined battle for autonomy opposed to the Burmese executive on account that 1949. Karen society in Burma has been little studied because the Twenties, and up to date writers were pressured (by Burma's "closed door" guidelines) to be aware of Karen refugee groups in Thailand. This e-book is a portrait of an historical tradition remolded to the needs of ethnic uprising. the image is enriched with old comparisons and relies on pix of person Karen as they try to protect their lifestyle and to maintain their trust of their personal independence. There are chapters on track, nutrients, love, the styles of the rebels' woodland and river existence, at the Karen army hierarchy and its weaponry, on girls and on mercenaries, at the language and the symbols of insurgent nationalism. Jonathan Falla has led a various existence. He attended the collage of Cambridge and is the founding father of the Cambridge Poetry Society. He has labored in Indonesia and Uganda and has written a number of performs, being named considered one of Britain's so much Promising Playwrights in 1983. Falla spent an unlawful 12 months in Burma dwelling with the Karen rebels. presently, he lives in Scotland and works as a nurse.

By Scott C. Levi

ISBN-10: 0670087300

ISBN-13: 9780670087303

Caravans tells the interesting tale of numerous Punjabi Khatri retailers who equipped nice enterprise empires via their ingenuity and spirit of experience. working in the course of the 16th via 19th centuries, those retailers risked every little thing and travelled throughout Afghanistan, principal Asia, Iran and Russia. They used subtle concepts to transform a modest volume of item into enormous portfolios for exchange and moneylending ventures.

Caravans demanding situations the assumption that the emerging tide of eu alternate within the Indian Ocean usurped the overland ‘Silk street’ exchange, and demonstrates how hundreds of thousands of Punjabis created a booming industry in significant Asia at accurately this ancient second.

By L. K. Bharathi, K. Joseph John

ISBN-10: 813221031X

ISBN-13: 9788132210313

ISBN-10: 8132210328

ISBN-13: 9788132210320

Asiatic Momordica contains 10 species of which three are monoecious and leisure dioecious. they're certain within the feel that every one are wild or cultivated greens with medicinal makes use of. Barring sour gourd, all are less than applied greens with little learn and conservation efforts. during this e-book, the authors have provided the on hand details on numerous facets of Asiatic Momordica like taxonomy, cytogenetics, crop development, beginning, ethnobotany and crop construction at one position. The ebook is definitely illustrated with colour maps and images depicting behavior, morphology and distribution of person taxa. Species distribution map for all Indian taxa, descriptor for characterization and initial overview of dioecious and monoecious staff to be had kinds, keys for botanical id are many of the distinct positive factors of the booklet. The publication can be priceless to botanists, horticulturists, foresters, surroundings educators, conservation biologists, plant technology scholars mostly and all drawn to agrobiodiversity.

By Xianbin Yao

ISBN-10: 9715618049

ISBN-13: 9789715618045

This record makes an attempt to undertaking the stability among power call for and provide for the forty eight nearby individuals of the Asian improvement financial institution. although, because of the unavailability of strength info, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Tuvalu are usually not incorporated within the research. The outlook effects are provided by means of member, through subregion, and by way of area. in response to the projected power call for and provide, carbon dioxide emissions and funding specifications are derived. those will supply a foundation for coverage making and improvement making plans aimed toward sustainable financial improvement within the nearby individuals in Asia and the Pacific.