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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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'The next Bill Bryson' New York TimesTwo tigers cannot share the same mountain - Chinese proverbDespite geographical proximity, cultural similarities, and shared status as highly powerful nations, China, Korea and Japan love to hate each other. Why?In search of an...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2020-01-16
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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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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
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Comparative East-West Philosophy
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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
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This book addresses growing tensions in Northeast Asia, notably between North Korea and China. Focusing on China’s economic participation in North Korea’s minerals and fishery industries, the author explores the role of China’s sub-state and non-state actors in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-20
Collection :
Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies
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This book is a critical study of the development of a racialised nationalism in China, exploring its unique characteristics and internal tensions, and connecting it to other forms of global racism. The growth of this discourse is contextualised within the party-state’s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-06
Collection :
Mapping Global Racisms
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China's Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Covering almost seventy countries by land and sea, it will affect every element of global society, from shipping to agriculture, digital economy to tourism,...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2019-02-01
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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery, could make a transition to the emerging state, capable of undertaking the task of economic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-01-16
Collection :
Emerging-Economy State and International Policy Studies
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This book investigates how rapid socio-political-economic change in China since 1949 has affected intergenerational relationships and practices in rural areas, specifically the care provided to elderly parents by their adult children. It focuses on the lived experiences...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-20
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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
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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
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This volume presents the first English translation of the Confucian classics, Four Books for Women, with extensive commentary by the compiler, Wang Xiang, and introductions and annotations by translator Ann A. Pang-White. Written by women for women's education, the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-04-02
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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
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