The arts were cultivated in South Asia not only as a noble pastime but also in a spirit of dedication, as an offering to a god. Passages in literature refer to princes studying works of art for possible defects. One inscription that mentions the name of the sūtra-dhāra (“architect”) ...
The 100 Greatest Southeast Asian History and Politics Books list has a focus on politics and imperialism in the region.
With the spread of new military technologies in the Central Asian Steppe, the language and culture of Indo-European tribes spread southward in the 2nd millennium bce and began to overtake the earlier customs of the subcontinent. Vedic literature, composed in Sanskrit, was one of the early ...
father saw to my luggage. There was quite a bit of luggage and he had to bargain with the porter over the fee. I was then such a smart aleck that I frowned upon the way father was haggling and on the verge of chipping in a few words when the bargain was ...
As the essays collected in Teri Shaffer Yamada's Modern short fiction of Southeast Asia: A literary history illustrate, short fiction has been central to many modern Southeast Asian literary traditions, and E.U. Kratz's description of Indonesian literature as 'a literature of short stories' ...
Along with the preparation of scholarly monographs, collaborative scholarly works, and educational literature, an important part of these institutions’ work is the publication of historical sources and journals. In the USSR the leading general historical journal is Voprosy istorii (Problems of History)...
The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English traces the development of literature in the region within its historical and cultural contexts. This volume explores creative writing in English across different genres and media, establishing connections from the colonial activity of the...
Literature Review of the Bronze Age Cultural in Southeast Asia and Ancient Bronze Drum[J]. Southeast Asian Affairs, 2007(4): 49--63.梁志明.东南亚的... 梁志明 - 《南洋问题研究》 被引量: 17发表: 2007年 东南亚华侨民族主义发展研究(1912-1928) 本文努力站在华侨的立场上,把海外华侨民族主义发生...
the ideas of noblemen, asarticulatedin architecture and literature, reflect varying degrees of exposure to influences from beyond the archipelago. Moreover, they reveal points of intersection in the beliefs and practices ofcommunitiesthroughout the region; all groups maintained basic assumptions concerning...
in European history by the economist Nikolai Kondratiev. In Southeast Asian history, as Boomgaard (2002) has shown, the Kondratiev cycle is only of late and limited significance. In recent literature, however, another, much longer and more important economic cycle has emerged in the historiography...