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Xi Jinping wants to become the world's most powerful leader. To succeed, he must balance Mao's Little Red Book with the Analects of Confucius, and more.
For Xi, the task ahead of China is to preserve the guiding ideology of Marxism, while challenging mistaken credos...
Editeur : Hurst
Parution : 2018-11-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This proceedings book presents the first-ever cross-disciplinary analysis of 16th–20th century South, East, and Southeast Asian cartography. The central theme of the conference was the mutual influence of Western and Asian cartographic traditions, and the focus was on...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-06-27
Collection :
Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
Format(s) : PDF
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The staggering story of the most important Chinese political dissident of the Mao era, a devout Christian who was imprisoned, tortured, and executed by the regimeBlood Letters tells the astonishing tale of Lin Zhao, a poet and journalist arrested by the authorities in...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2018-03-20
Format(s) : ePub
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This book reviews the medical history of Hong Kong, beginning with its birth as a British colony. It introduces the origins of Hong Kong’s medical education, which began in 1887 when the London Missionary Society set up the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese....
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-03-14
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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'One of the clearest and most thorough statements of an argument often made about the country: that its government has relied on constant stimulus to keep growth strong, an addiction that is bound to backfire. Second, he comes closer than any previous writer to covering...
Editeur : Little, Brown Book Group
Parution : 2018-03-13
Format(s) : ePub
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In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world's newest superpower and offer a framework for...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2018-03-12
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Chinese practices related to ancestors have long been the subject of conflicting interpretations. These practices are rooted in the lived experience of practitioners, and therefore need to be considered as embodied expressions of the quest for existential meaning. For...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-01-25
Collection :
Asian Christianity in the Diaspora
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia is a wide-ranging study of vernacularization in East Asia - not only China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, but also societies that no longer exist, such as the Tangut and Khitan empires. Peter Kornicki takes the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-01-19
Format(s) : ePub
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Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia is a wide-ranging study of vernacularization in East Asia - not only China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, but also societies that no longer exist, such as the Tangut and Khitan empires. Peter Kornicki takes the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-01-11
Format(s) : PDF
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This book examines the socio-political conflicts which have arisen since Hong Kong’s return to China and confronts the fundamental problems in the design of the One Country, Two Systems (OCTS) Model. It considers not only the issue of democratization, but also the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-10
Collection :
Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy
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Guan Yu was a minor general in the early third century CE, who supported one of numerous claimants to the throne. He was captured and executed by enemy forces in 219. He eventually became one the most popular and influential deities of imperial China under the name Lord...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-10-06
Format(s) : ePub
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Guan Yu was a minor general in the early third century CE, who supported one of numerous claimants to the throne. He was captured and executed by enemy forces in 219. He eventually became one the most popular and influential deities of imperial China under the name Lord...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-09-29
Format(s) : PDF
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During the early modern period, Muslims in China began to embrace the Chinese characteristics of their heritage. Several scholar-teachers incorporated tenets from traditional Chinese education into their promotion of Islamic knowledge. As a result, some Sino-Muslims...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2017-09-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Anarchy in the Pure Land investigates the twentieth-century reinvention of the cult of Maitreya, the future Buddha, conceived by the reformer Taixu and promoted by the Chinese Buddhist reform movement. The cult presents an apparent anomaly: It shows precisely the kind...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2017-08-31
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book illustrates how the one-dot theory, which is a dialectical study, is well suited to describing, explaining and inferring contemporary China’s past, present and future. It argues that since October 1949, the field of contemporary China studies has been...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-07-03
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book presents for the first time a full translation and analysis of a newly discovered bamboo divination manual from the fourth century BCE China, called the Stalk Divination Method (Shifa). It was used as an alternative to the better-known Zhouyi (popularly known...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2017-06-20
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OFTHE LEWIS TRILOGY ANDTHE ENZO FILESAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OFTHE CWA DAGGER INTHE LIBRARY 2021'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.' Undiscovered Scotland 'No one can create a more eloquently written...
Editeur : Riverrun
Parution : 2017-03-31
Collection :
China Thrillers
Format(s) : ePub
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Using previously unexplored archives from colonial institutions and individuals, and primary materials produced by the Burmese Chinese, this comprehensive study investigates over a century of history of the Burmese Chinese under British colonial rule. Due to the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-02-25
Collection :
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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This book is aimed at readers and researchers who are interested in Chinese garden architecture, the rise and fall of Yuanming Yuan and the history of the Qing dynasty. It is the first comprehensive study of the palatial garden complex in a Western language, and is...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-11-25
Collection :
China Academic Library
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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"Sainthood" has been, and remains, a contested category in China, given the commitment of China's modern leadership to secularization, modernization, and revolution, and the discomfort of China's elite with matters concerning religion. However, sainted religious leaders...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-11-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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