Asian Studies: Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Nearly a thousand articles dealing with Chinese culture and history.

Thirty leading scholars offer original essays on a wide range of topics. The chapters trace Asian American history from the beginning of the migration flows toward the Pacific Islands and the American continent to Japanese American incarceration and Asian American participation in World War II, from the experience of exclusion, violence, and racism to the social and political activism of the late twentieth century.

Intended for students and non-specialists, this 6-volume print set does a good job of covering all aspects of modern Asia (economics, religion, technology, politics, education, the arts, environmental issues, international relations, and scientific advances).

This 3-volume print set contains over eight hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about topics related to the historical development and global influence of Southeast Asia, covering politics, war, religion, socioeconomics, ethnohistory, geography, and folklore.

Print volume that provides the latest vocabulary from business, the media, computing, and the arts; includes over 300,000 words and phrases, 370,00 translations, and examples of phrases illustrating key points of construction and usage.