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This book elaborates on the distinctive characteristics as well as the archaeological, historical and artistic value of Liangzhu pottery, welcoming readers to the wonderful world of Liangzhu by introducing them to its origin, type, design, decoration, evolution and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-01-30
Collection :
Liangzhu Civilization
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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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This book vividly portrays the past, current, and future development of Yokohama Chinatown through the context of its Cantonese residents, grounded through a family history. It is useful for both academic and non- academic readers who are interested in migration...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-11
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This book is the first monograph to study the processes of establishing and reconstructing the academician system, and the landmark events in the history of science and technology in 20th century China. It also provides new insights to help us understand the...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-11-30
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Referencing more than 40 ancient works as well as 70 books and papers of contemporary scholars, this book opens up the civilization, society, culture and communication of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang period represented unprecedented prosperity in the ancient world....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-11
Collection :
Sociology, Media and Journalism in China
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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,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-10-23
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This book explores xiangsheng, one of the most popular folk art performance genres in China, its enlistment by official propaganda machine after the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and its revival in popularity under Guo Degang and his Deyun Club. Just...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-17
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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,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-10-13
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Well-grounded on abundant Japanese language sources which have been underused, this book uncovers the League of Nations’ works in East Asia in the inter-war period. By researching the field of social and other technical issues, namely, the trade in narcotics, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-02
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This global history as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especially the drive to "Make China Great Again." We in the West routinely ask: "What does China want?" The answer is quite simple:...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2020-06-09
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Legendary Port of the Maritime Silk Routes: Zayton (Quanzhou) is a book of Asian premodern maritime history from global perspectives. The book is targeted at learners and students of China study in the field of literature relating to the knowledge of premodern maritime...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-04-03
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The book offers new perspectives on the history of China’s late imperial period and presents a much-needed novel explanation for China’s stagnation and decline in recent centuries. It begins by questioning all the conventional wisdom on the factors behind China’s...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-31
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This book presents the syllabus of Hu Shih’s course on the History of Chinese Thought, which he taught at Harvard University from 1944 to 1945, and has been transcribed from his (more than 1500) hand-written notes.This book focuses on Hu Shih’s in-depth study and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-01-14
Collection :
China Academic Library
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This open access book captures and elaborates on the skill of storytelling as one of the distinct leadership features of Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and the President of the People’s Republic of China. It gathers the stories...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-20
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This book is the first to trace the unique monetary history of the Indian Ocean World. Long-distance trade across the region was facilitated by a highly complex multi-currency system undergirded by shared ideas that transcended ethno-linguistic, religious and class...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-24
Collection :
Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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In the decades following World War II, factories in many countries not only provided secure employment and a range of economic entitlements, but also recognized workers as legitimate stakeholders, enabling them to claim rights to participate in decision making and hold...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-08-01
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This open access book discusses a variety of important but unprecedented ways in which psychology can be useful to philosophy. The early chapters illustrate this theme via comparisons between Chinese and Western philosophy. It is argued that the Chinese notion of a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-30
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This book explains compellingly that, despite common belief, in the early modern period, the intra-East Asian commercial network still functioned sustainably, and within that network, the Sino-Japanese trade can be seen as the most significant part which not only...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-06-08
Collection :
Studies in Economic History
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Written by the Director of the Tokyo Trial Research Centre at China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University, this book provides a unique analysis of war crime trials in Asia-Pacific after World War II. It offers a comprehensive review of key events during this period,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-06
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The Indian Ocean's strategic importance to China cannot be underestimated, given the oil, African minerals and container traffic that pass through it. Not since Admiral Zheng He sailed his fleet through these waters in the fifteenth century -- exploring and mapping them...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2019-04-15
ePub
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