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This book examines social transformation during the Tang-Song period by focusing on the emergence and development of the "society of moneyed elite" in ancient China. Specifically, the author tries to shed light on three important theoretical questions. First, how to...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-02-09
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This book studies the academic history of the humanities of Southwestern Associated University from the following aspects: the general situation of academic research, research institutions and academic journals, philosophical research, historical research, literary...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-10-30
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The southwestern borderland in imperial China covers the area encompassing present-day Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou, southwestern Sichuan, and the northern part of the Indochina Peninsula, once under the Central Plains dynasty’s rule. For more than two millennia, China...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2023-10-16
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Focusing on the integration of the Chinese civilization over the last four millennia, this book outlines the history of clashes, interactions, and fusion between the Huaxia civilization and the Grassland civilization, the two major powers shaping the history of China,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2023-06-27
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The thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they paid for in this Murder on the Orient Express–style adventure, set in China’s republican era. In May 1923, when Shanghai publisher and reporter John...
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PublicAffairs
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2023-04-04
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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY THE NEW YORKERWOMEN'S NATIONAL BOOK ASSOCIATION 2023 Great Group Read This extraordinary memoir shares an insight into the lives of the Uyghurs, a people and culture being systematically destroyed by China—and a woman who...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2023-02-21
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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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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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Based on more than a decade's writing, research, and travel, this book offers a rare glimpse into China's expanding economic, cultural, and political power in the Eurasian heartland.
China's rise is changing the world. Much attention has been given to how China's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-14
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Based on more than a decade's writing, research, and travel, this book offers a rare glimpse into China's expanding economic, cultural, and political power in the Eurasian heartland.
China's rise is changing the world. Much attention has been given to how China's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-03-31
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A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable. The relationship between the US and China, the world’s two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault—of...
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PublicAffairs
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2022-03-22
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'excellent' LSE Review of Books
China is the world's most populous country and newest superpower, whose place on the international stage can only be understood through the lens of its modern history.
The Oxford History of Modern China is essential reading for anyone...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-01-27
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'excellent' LSE Review of Books
China is the world's most populous country and newest superpower, whose place on the international stage can only be understood through the lens of its modern history.
The Oxford History of Modern China is essential reading for anyone...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-01-27
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This book aims to introduce all aspects of Chinese civilization in a way that is easiest for readers in the Western world to understand. The first chapter of this book introduces the emergence, historical evolution and characteristics of Chinese civilization. The second...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-08-23
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Bravo; this is a big, complex and utterly involving portrait of 19th-century China'THE TIMESThe internationally bestselling author portrays the great clash of East and West in his new epic: China China in the nineteenth century: a proud and...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2021-05-13
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The untold story of China's rise as a global superpower, chronicled through the diplomatic shock troops that connect Beijing to the world.
China's Civilian Army charts China's transformation from an isolated and impoverished communist state to a global superpower from...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-05-13
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Discover the complexity of China’s past with this multi-faceted portrayal of the storied nation from a leading expert in the field The newly revised Second Edition of A History of China delivers a comprehensive treatment of the political, economic, social, and cultural...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-02-25
Collection :
Blackwell History of the World
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Investigating the nature of Chinese modernity from the perspectives of social and intellectual history and inspired by Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities, this book reveals the ambiguity of nation as a modern concept and opens up a new possibility for the turn of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-01-21
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The Oxford Handbook on Early China brings 30 scholars together to cover early China from the Neolithic through Warring States periods (ca 5000-500BCE).The study is chronological and incorporates a multidisciplinary approach, covering topics from archaeology,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-10-23
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Heaven Has Eyes is a comprehensive but concise history of Chinese law and justice from the imperial era to the post-Mao era. Never before has a single book treated the traditional Chinese law and judicial practices and their modern counterparts as a coherent history,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-10-13
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