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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) : PDF
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On September 30, 2006 gunfire echoed through the thin air near Advance Base Camp on Cho Oyu Mountain. Frequented by thousands of climbers each year, Cho Oyu lies nineteen miles east of Mt. Everest on the border between Tibet and Nepal. To the elite mountaineering...
Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2010-06-01
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
8,99€ (-11%)
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Entertaining and masterly biography of Madame Chiang Kai-shek - the woman who built modern China.THE LAST EMPRESS revolves around a fascinating, manipulative woman and her family who were largely responsible for dragging China into the modern world. Soong May-ling, or...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2010-02-25
Format(s) : ePub
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Through a study of the readership of the most popular commercial daily newspaper in China during the early twentieth century, Reading Shenbao investigates ideas of nationalism, consumerism and individuality, looking at the relationship between advertising, modern...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-11-30
Format(s) : PDF
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The rise of China presents a long-term challenge to the world not only economically, but politically and culturally. Callahan meets this challenge in China:The Pessoptimist Nation by using new Chinese sources and innovative analysis to see how Chinese people understand...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-11-19
Format(s) : ePub
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The rise of China presents a long-term challenge to the world not only economically, but politically and culturally. Callahan meets this challenge in China:The Pessoptimist Nation by using new Chinese sources and innovative analysis to see how Chinese people understand...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-11-19
Format(s) : PDF
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This book explores particular facets of the history and representation of the Pacific Rim region, focusing on the interactions between the United States and China at the beginning of the twentieth century. It critically examines contemporary discourses on such...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-10-26
Format(s) : PDF
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British knowledge about China changed fundamentally in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather than treating these changes inBritish understanding as if Anglo-Sino relations were purely bilateral, this study looks at howBritish imperial networks in India and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-10-15
Collection :
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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An authoritative and “exquisitely written” (Guardian) account of five thousand years of Chinese history Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. Taking into account the country's unrivaled,...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2009-10-06
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
14,99€ (-13%)
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Bringing together historians, sociologists, and political scientists, this volume documents persistent prejudices against consistently marginal groups in China, and the moral claims they have mustered in response.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-06-22
Format(s) : PDF
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Some observers expect China to become an economic superpower. Others expect it to fragment into pieces. Is China nationalistic and on the march, or is it a stumbling Communist dinosaur? Is it already a billion-citizen member of the global village? Is it, as the Clinton...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2009-03-05
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
11,99€ (-8%)
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Over several years, some of the most distinguished Chinese and American scholars have engaged in a major research project, sponsored by the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation (USEF), to address the big bilateral and global issues the two countries face. Historically, the...
Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2009-03-03
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
15,99€ (-13%)
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Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2009-02-05
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book looks at the bitter factionalism in the last days of China's Ming Dynasty as an ideological struggle between scholar-officials who believed that sovereignty resided in the imperial state and those who believed that it resided with the learned gentry.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-12-22
Format(s) : PDF
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Zhou Enlai, the premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976, is the last Communist political leader to be revered by the Chinese people. He is considered "a modern saint" who offered protection to his people during the Cultural...
Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2008-10-16
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
10,99€ (-14%)
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This collection examines the cultural and intellectual dimensions of war and its resolution between Han Chinese and the various ethnically dissimilar peoples surrounding them during the crucial 'middle period' of Chinese history.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-05-12
Collection :
The New Middle Ages
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China today is never out of the news: from human rights controversies and the continued legacy of Tiananmen Square, to global coverage of the Beijing Olympics, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-02-28
Format(s) : ePub
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China today is never out of the news: from human rights controversies and the continued legacy of Tiananmen Square, to global coverage of the Beijing Olympics, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-02-28
Format(s) : PDF
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Since Zen Buddhism first captivated the attention of Western seekers the dominant discourse about this sect has been romantic, idealistic, and utopian. The essence of Zen has been described as ineffable, holistic, and promoting social harmony. In recent years, however,...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2007-12-31
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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When books about Zen Buddhism began appearing in Western languages just over a half-century ago, there was no interest whatsoever in the role of ritual in Zen. Indeed, what attracted Western readers' interest was the Zen rejection of ritual. The famous 'Beat Zen'...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2007-11-14
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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