The 1997 Asian crisis is described in order to show a plausible chain of causes and events that led to the eventual collapse of many Asian currencies. Empirical evidence is presented based upon the experiences of five ...

“Bollywood” has finally made it to the Oxford English Dictionary. The 2005 edition defines it as: “a name for the Indian popular film industry, based in Bombay. Origin 1970s. Blend of Bombay and Hollywood.” The incorporation ...

Translator’s Introduction Thus it is that, for the six years now since the Wushen year [1608], I have spent much of my time aboard a junk. As one junk fell into disrepair, I have had another built. Whenever I live in town ...

Organising peasants was a Chinese Communist strategy for 'democratising' rural China. In the view of most western historians, the Communists’ grassroots organisations have been the means through which a hegemonising ...

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the relevance of Indian epistemology to Western philosophy. Hence I shall discuss: 1. How to suggest solutions to some unsolved problems of Western philosophy. 2. How to suggest ...

Asian Studies Institute inaugural lecture.

The root cause of instability and hostility in South Asia stems from the unresolved nature of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. It has led to two major wars and several near misses in the past. Since the early ...

This first Paper consists of a translation of a short story by the Korean writer, Pak Wansô. Pak Wansô (1931), although little known in the West, is the most well known woman writer in Korea today.