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This book explores the subcultures, cultural trends and regulations of leisure and subcultures among young people in Beijing from 1949 to the 1980s. It complicates our understanding of the successes of the CCP and the nature of those successes—more a synergy or...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-18
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Based on extensive oral history interviews, Dreaming the New Woman uncovers the experiences of girls who attended missionary middle schools in Republican China in the first half of the twentieth century. Chinese missionary schoolgirls were often labelled "foreign...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-02-15
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This book sheds light on the variety of mathematical cultures in general. To do so, it concentrates on cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world, mainly in ancient China, South Asia, and the Ancient Near East and offers case studies focused on...
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Springer
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2023-01-01
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Perhaps no category of people on earth has been perceived as more endangered, nor subjected to more conservation efforts, than indigenous peoples. And in India, calls for the conservation of Adivasi culture have often reached a fever pitch, especially amongst urban...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-05
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Perhaps no category of people on earth has been perceived as more endangered, nor subjected to more conservation efforts, than indigenous peoples. And in India, calls for the conservation of Adivasi culture have often reached a fever pitch, especially amongst urban...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-11-24
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This book examines the origins and basic concepts of sociology in China and traces the discipline’s evolutionary trajectory. Building on the premise that qunxue, which goes back to Xunzi, is essentially the Chinese antecedent of...
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Springer
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2022-11-14
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This book tackles the question of border control in and around imperial Japan in the first half of the twentieth century, with a specific focus on its documentation regime. It explores the institutional development, media and literary discourses, and on[1]the-ground...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-07
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Winner of the Norbert Elias Book Prize 2023
This book charts the process of civilisation in Japan. Using the theory of civilising processes developed by Norbert Elias, the author examines the complex underlying structural and psychological processes from the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-03
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Dieses Buch enthält eine Sammlung deutscher diplomatischer Dokumente - darunter Telegramme, Depeschen und Berichte -, die von deutschen Diplomaten in Nanking an das Auswärtige Amt in Berlin und den deutschen Botschafter in Hankou, China, geschickt wurden und die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-10-12
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Winner, The Lionel Gelber Prize
Silver Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award
For decades, China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Then, as Susan L. Shirk, shows in this sobering, clear-eyed account of China today, something...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-10-07
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From airports crowded with refugees desperate to flee Partition violence to the mountainous battlefields of Kashmir, aircraft proved indispensable to newly independent India. The aeroplane played a small but significant role in India's transformation from a British...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-03
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This book analyzes the drawing data and methods of the Chinese ancient maps that are neglected by the previous researches, and reevaluates the drawing theories and methods, the influences, and accuracy of the maps that represents the scientificity of Chinese ancient...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-08-23
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This book presents a collection of annotated English translations of German diplomatic documents—including telegrams, dispatches and reports—sent to the Foreign Office in Berlin and the German Ambassador in Hankou, China, by German diplomatic officials in...
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Springer
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2022-08-02
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This book offers a re-interpretation of the political history of Macau from 1937 to 1945, during which Japan and China were engulfed in the Second World War. Using an array of English and Chinese sources, the author explores the diplomatic and social landscape of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-07-15
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Through case studies of pilot conservation projects launched by the Yunnan Provincial Archives in recent years, this book comprehensively and systematically discusses issues in the conservation of ethnic oral history material and the development of ethnic oral history...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-05-18
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This book discusses the sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands from the perspectives of Ryukyu and Okinawa. Written in chronological order, the book has 13 chapters featuring 121 documents and maps. The first 12 chapters explain, based on detailed historical facts on the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-05-03
Collection :
China Academic Library
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This book analyzes Ohira's ideology, philosophy, and actions as a politician and a minister, based on primary sources from Japan and the USA, and makes a significant contribution to the field of Japanese political and diplomatic history.This book is the first critical...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-04-26
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This book, the result of a landmark colloquium held in Korea to reflect on the role of education in Korean society, provides fascinating insights into the interplay of political evolution and pedagogy. Korea has gone from one of the world's poorest societies after the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-26
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This book explores how steam engine technology was transferred into nineteenth-century China in the second half of the nineteenth century by focusing on the transmission of knowledge and skills. It takes on the long-term problem in historiography that puts too much...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-22
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On Arid Ground focuses on the relationships between empire and environment in Central Asia, using environmental history to examine the practice of Russian imperialism in Turkestan at the end of empire, from the 1860s until 1916. It reveals for the first time a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-14
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