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The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension and always has been. Pakistan—to American eyes—has gone from being a quirky irrelevance, to a stabilizing friend, to an essential military ally, to a seedbed of terror....
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PublicAffairs
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2013-11-05
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'Chu's smart, iconoclastic portrait dismantles seven misconceptions' [NEW STATESMEN] about modern China and offers a corrective to Western assumptions.THE CHINESE ARE THE MOST HARDWORKING PEOPLE ON EARTH...so why are the younger generation derided as spoiled and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2013-10-10
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This carefully crafted ebook: “Classic of History (Part 1 & 2: The Book of Thang & The Books of Yü)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Originally called Shu (Book), The Classic of History got the name in the Han Dynasty,...
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e-artnow
Parution :
2013-10-08
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Conflict and Conversion explores how Catholic missionaries, merchants, and adventurers brought their faith to the strategically and commercially crucial region of Southeast Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This region conjured visions of the exotic in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-03
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Continuing the argument developed in the author's previous book, this exhaustively researched study describes the humiliation of the Chinese gentry at the hands of the statist Oboi regents in the 1660s and the Kangxi emperor's self-declared Confucian sagehood in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-07-24
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'A splendid, exciting book' Daily Mirror'The story of the first all-out struggle in Asia between Communism and the West, vividly told in an exciting and engrossing book' Sunday ExpressOnly three short years after the end of the Japanese occupation, war came again to...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-05-30
Collection :
W&N Military
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What does it mean for a cinematic work to be "Chinese"? Does it refer specifically to a work's subject, or does it also reflect considerations of language, ethnicity, nationality, ideology, or political orientation? Such questions make any single approach to a vast...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-03-13
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The French Religious Protectorate was an institutionalized and enduring policy of the French government, based on a claim by the French state to be guardian of all Catholics in China.The expansive nature of the Protectorate's claim across nationalities elicited...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-03-05
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The anecdotal literature of late-medieval China is not unknown, but it is under-used. Glen Dudbridge explores two collections of anecdotal memoirs to construct an intimate portrait of the first half of the tenth century as seen by people who lived through it.The author...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-02-28
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'Clements has a knack for writing suspenseful sure-footed conflict scenes: His recounting of the Korean invasion led by samurai and daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi reads like a thriller. If you're looking for a samurai primer, Clements' guide will keep you on the hook' Japan...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2013-02-07
Collection :
Brief Histories
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In this original study British rule in Burma is examined through quotidian acts of corruption. Saha outlines a novel way to study the colonial state as it was experienced in everyday life, revealing a complex world of state practices where legality and illegality were...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-02-04
Collection :
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Most global citizens are well aware of the explosive growth of the Chinese economy. Indeed, China has famously become the "workshop of the world." Yet, while China watchers have shed much light on the country's internal dynamics--China's politics, its vast social...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-01-18
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This volume brings together experts with diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the China field, from cultural studies to history to musicology, to make a timely intervention—from the historical demise of enuchism to male cross-dressing shows in contemporary Taiwan—to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-23
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Assuming power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party was soon faced with a crucial problem: how to construct the socialist 'New Man'? Using Foucault's theory of 'technologies of the self', Lynteris examines the conflict between self-cultivation and the abolition of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2012-10-30
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As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world's second biggest economy, China has recently reclaimed its historic place at the center of global affairs after decades of internal...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2012-08-28
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Neuhaus explores the roots of the long-standing European fascination with Tibet, from the Dalai Lama to the Abominable Snowman. Surveying a wide range of travel accounts, official documents, correspondence and fiction, he examines how different people thought about both...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-08-07
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King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India presents an English translation of Kautilya's Arthasastra (AS.) along with detailed endnotes. When it was discovered around 1905, the AS. was described as perhaps the most precious work in the whole range of Sanskrit...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-08-01
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This study of Japanese political culture from c. 1940 to 2009 challenges standard periodizations of «postwar» Japan, arguing that the postwar period began, much later than previously argued, when a culture of pacifism developed. We can see evidence of this in feature...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-07-04
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Wirtschaftliche und diplomatische Beziehungen Mexikos zu den Inseln Ostasiens während der frühen Kolonialzeit waren eine entscheidende Episode in der Globalisierung. In diesem Buch werden wenig bekannte schriftliche und bildliche Quellen veröffentlicht, die vor allem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-07-03
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Avec ses quelque trois millions de morts civils et militaires, et ses innombrables destructions matérielles, la guerre dite du Vietnam reste à ce jour une des plus grandes tragédies humaines depuis 1945. Une réflexion sur les conditions politiques, diplomatiques et...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2012-07-03
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