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The New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal—and forgotten—massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China's capital city on the eve of World War II, “piecing together the abundant eyewitness reports into...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2014-03-11
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
12,99€ (-8%)
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An acclaimed history of the Korean Peninsula from World War II to the present day North Korea is an impoverished, famine-ridden nation, but it is also a nuclear power whose dictator Kim Jong-un regularly threatens his neighbors and adversaries, the United States in...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2013-12-10
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
12,99€ (-8%)
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Developed by an international team of historians, sociologists, political scientists and economists, this collection is the most comprehensive reader of the history of Sino-Italian relations currently available in the English language.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-11-07
Format(s) : PDF
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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...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2013-10-10
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
5,99€ (-50%)
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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,...
Editeur : e-artnow
Parution : 2013-10-08
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-07-24
Format(s) : PDF
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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
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
6,49€ (-54%)
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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...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2013-03-13
Format(s) : PDF
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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...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2013-03-05
Format(s) : PDF
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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...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-02-28
Format(s) : PDF
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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
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-12-23
Format(s) : PDF
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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
Format(s) : PDF
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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
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
12,99€ (-8%)
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The first book to tell the strange and fascinating story of General Zhang Xue-liang, the Chinese-Manchurian 'Young Marshall' - a man who left an indelible mark on the history of modern China, but few know his story. Unlocking the mystery of this man's life, Aron...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-01-17
Format(s) : PDF
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The book shows how the study of the evolving discourse employed during a political process spanning more than a decade can provide insights for critical discourse analysis, on the one hand, and understanding of a real world political process on the other, thereby...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-12-01
Format(s) : PDF
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The history of China is a history of warfare. Rarely in its 3,000-year existence has the country not been beset by war, rebellion, or raids. Warfare was a primary source of innovation, social evolution, and material progress in the Legendary Era, Hsia dynasty, and Shang...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2011-03-01
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
20,99€ (-10%)
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A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders,...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2011-01-26
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The Buddhist monk Tanxu surmounted extraordinary obstacles--poverty, wars, famine, and foreign occupation--to become one of the most prominent monks in China, founding numerous temples and schools and attracting crowds of students and disciples wherever he went. Heart...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-12-03
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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A 16th century Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China and one of the most famous missionaries of all time.A pioneer in bringing Christianity to China, Ricci spent twenty eight years in the country, in which time he crossed the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-10-28
Format(s) : ePub
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