Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

Books and Monographs

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A Cold War Alliance: Philippine-South Korean Relations, 1948–1971

Author: Lily Ann Polo
Price: PhP 100 | Availability: In Stock
Year of Publication: 1984
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The work covers "the initial establishment of relations between the Philippines and the South Korean Republic in 1948, to the period f a trend towards the multi-polarization in the East Asian region in the 1970s."

Development Diplomacy: Foreign Policy and Technology Transfer

Author: Elisa Tible-Caoyonan
Price: PhP 100 | Availability: In Stock
Year of Publication: 1994
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This book determines "how technology transfer as an activity of development diplomacy can help promote development. It is based on the premise that foreign policy in general, or development diplomacy, in particular, affects the economy."

East Asian Popular Culture: Philippine Perspectives

Editor: Michiyo Yoneno-Reyes
Price: PhP 250 | Availability: Out of print but free PDF
Year of Publication: 2013
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This book contains articles on Japanese and Korean pop culture, offering interdisciplinary analyses of manga, films, TV dramas, and music and examining how these cultural forms are consumed in a Philippine context.

From Ayodhya to Pulo Agama-Niog: Rama's Journey to the Philippines

Author: Juan R. Francisco
Price: PhP 100 • Availability: In stock
Year of Publication: 1994
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This book "traces the journey of the Ramayana from India to the Philippines and other parts of Southeast Asia. [It] brings out how the story... changed as the epic journeyed beyond India under the influence of the local cultural ethos in different countries.

Going Global: Asian Societies on the Cusp of Change

Editor: Armando Malay, Jr.
Price: PhP 150 • Availability: In stock
Year of Publication: 2001
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".....in the waning years of the 20th century, that convergence of vivid psychological and historical moments were seemingly constitutive of the spirit, if not the substance of a radically difference social order in most human communities the world over."