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This book delves deep into China's World Heritage - listed urban sites: Pingyao, Lijiang, Macao, and Kulangsu (Gulangyu), which cities, as living cultural heritage, offer a rich vein of research material. The book uncovers how these cities have evolved over time,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-10-03
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Over the last 150 years, activists and policymakers...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-09-30
Format(s) : PDF
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Over the last 150 years, activists and policymakers...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-09-30
Format(s) : ePub
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Hong Kong is known as an entrepôt in its colonial history, but its place in early cinema has not received the same scholarly attention. The Colonial Screen: Early Cinema inHong Kong explores the exhibition, regulation, circulation, reception, and social place of motion...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-09-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book undertakes an in-depth exploration of the pivotal role of rice, which is the world's most essential food crops, sustaining over half of the global populace. It meticulously analyzes how rice cultivation constitutes the material bedrock and defining...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book follows the thread of transportation development along a continuous timeline of historical dynasties, with a primary focus on presenting the factual accounts of transportation development, key events, and their evolving characteristics. It paints a fundamental...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-09-26
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book explores the history of the Medieval Maritime Silk Route between the 4th and 17th Centuries CE as a dynamic network that facilitated extensive commercial exchange and profound cultural, political, and religious interactions across Eurasia and beyond. It...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-09-21
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Haji Imdadullah (1817-1899) was a prominent Sufi shaykh of the Chishti order. The first part of his life coincided with the period when the British were consolidating their power over India. His family were long settled in the small towns in the north of the country....
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-09-15
Format(s) : ePub
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This book analyzes the inferiors in the Qing Dynasty society, offering a comprehensive examination of their place within the feudal hierarchy. In autocratic eras, the distinction between nobility and inferiors was a cornerstone of social order, and the existence of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-08-28
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This groundbreaking study examines Peking Opera legend Mei Lanfang’s 1930 U.S. visit through extensive primary sources and a cross-cultural lens. It meticulously chronicles his 76 performances over 182 days, reconstructing his daily itinerary, highlighting key...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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During World War Two some 67,000 Indian personnel of the British Indian Army were captured by Imperial Japanese forces, including a large number at the surrender of Singapore in February 1942. This book, the first of its kind, critically examines why these colonial...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-07-23
Format(s) : PDF
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This book considers recent developments in Thai history and historiography, examining why Thai studies had suffered under a combination of protectionism, uncritical learning, and unwillingness to engage with scholarship from abroad. The essays collected here...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-22
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This open access book explores how China had already established political and economic dualisms—political by the Common Era and economic by the 10th century—long before the West developed its dualism of state and society in the 17th and 18th centuries. In...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-07-22
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Where lie the origins of North Korean ideology? When, why, and to what extent did North Korean ideology begin to transform into the idiosyncratic ideology that it is today?
In this first comprehensive Cold War history of North Korean ideology, Thomas Stock traces...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-07-16
Format(s) : PDF
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Where lie the origins of North Korean ideology? When, why, and to what extent did North Korean ideology begin to transform into the idiosyncratic ideology that it is today?
In this first comprehensive Cold War history of North Korean ideology, Thomas Stock traces...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-06-30
Format(s) : ePub
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During World War Two some 67,000 Indian personnel of the British Indian Army were captured by Imperial Japanese forces, including a large number at the surrender of Singapore in February 1942. This book, the first of its kind, critically examines why these colonial...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-06-30
Format(s) : ePub
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This open access book examines the life and work of Koki Hirota, who served as Japan's foreign minister and prime minister from 1933 to 1938 - the period that saw the final Japanese diplomatic attempts at achieving a modus vivendi with China before the outbreak of the...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-06-25
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book outlines the preface of bronze civilization in East Asia, and traces back to the beginning of “Bronze China”. Dating back from more than 6,000 years ago to 3,000 years ago, this book sorts out the archaeological discoveries in China from primitive...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-06-17
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The Silk Road may be one origin of globalization, but the Indian Ocean is another. Barry Cunliffe examines the beginning of maritime trade using the evidence of archaeology and the tales of great travellers such as Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, and the Chinese Admiral, Zheng...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-06-17
Format(s) : PDF
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Haji Imdadullah (1817-1899) was a prominent Sufi shaykh of the Chishti order. The first part of his life coincided with the period when the British were consolidating their power over India. His family were long settled in the small towns in the north of the country....
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-06-16
Format(s) : PDF
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