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  • East Asia

    A New History

    Histories of East Asia traditionally emphasize China and Japan, and neglect Korea and Vietnam. Essentially, 20th century East Asia is re-written into the past, as though China and Japan was always the core of East Asian development. This is not at all how East Asia developed. Chinese prehistoric cultures became historic in the 18th century B.C.! Japan was not part of East Asia for over 2300 more ... Leer más

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  • Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

    28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway Bazaar

    de Paul Theroux ...
    The acclaimed author of The Great Railway Bazaar retraces his legendary journey through Europe and Asia in this "funny, informative and lyrical" travelogue ( The Guardian, UK).Paul Theroux virtually invented the modern travel narrative by recounting his 25,000-mile journey by train through eastern Europe, central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. Three decades later, the ... Leer más

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  • Long Road Home

    Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor

    de Yong Kim ...
    Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp-a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state. Although it is known that gulags exist in North Korea, little information is available about their organization and conduct, for prisoners rarely escape both incarceration and the country alive. Long Road Home shares the remarkable story of one such survivor, a ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

  • Shinto Meditations for Revering the Earth

    The first book in English to apply ancient Japanese Shinto traditions to daily spiritual fulfillment.Complementing Buddhism, Shinto is Japan's 2,000-year-old worship tradition that celebrates the relationship of humans to the natural world. This modern-day collection of Shinto-inspired devotions shows the reader how to commune directly with Great Nature for health, wisdom, and serenity.These ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Youth Culture in China

    From Red Guards to Netizens

    de Paul Clark ...
    The lives and aspirations of young Chinese (those between 14 and 26 years old) have been transformed in the past five decades. By examining youth cultures around three historical points - 1968, 1988 and 2008 - this book argues that present-day youth culture in China has both international and local roots. Paul Clark describes how the Red Guards and the sent-down youth of the Cultural Revolution ... Leer más

    $30.39 USD

  • Children of Achilles

    The Greeks in Asia Minor since the Days of Troy

    de John Freely ...
    Since the days of Troy historic lands of Asia Minor have been home to Greeks. They are steeped in a rich fusion of Greek and Turkish culture and the histories of both are irrevocably entwined, fatefully connected. "Children of Achilles" tells the epic and ultimately tragic story of the Greek presence in Anatolia, beginning with the Trojan War and culminating in 1923 with the devastating population ... Leer más

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  • The Sole Spokesman

    Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan

    de Ayesha Jalal ...
    Series Libro 31 - Cambridge South Asian Studies
    In 1940 the All-India Muslim League orchestrated the demand for independent Muslim states in India. Seven years later Pakistan was created amidst a communal holocaust of unprecedented proportions. Concentrating on the All-India Muslim League and its leader, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, The Sole Spokesman assesses the role of religious communalism and provincialism in shaping the movement for Pakistan. ... Leer más

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  • Ancient Central China

    Centers and Peripheries along the Yangzi River

    Series series Case Studies in Early Societies
    Ancient Central China provides an up-to-date synthesis of archaeological discoveries in the upper and middle Yangzi River region of China, including the Three Gorges Dam reservoir zone. It focuses on the Late Neolithic (late third millennium BC) through the end of the Bronze Age (late first millennium BC) and considers regional and interregional cultural relationships in light of anthropological ... Leer más

    $36.09 USD

  • Ming China and Vietnam

    Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia

    Studies of Sino-Viet relations have traditionally focused on Chinese aggression and Vietnamese resistance, or have assumed out-of-date ideas about Sinicization and the tributary system. They have limited themselves to national historical traditions, doing little to reach beyond the border. Ming China and Vietnam, by contrast, relies on sources and viewpoints from both sides of the border, for a ... Leer más

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  • Origins of Chinese Culture

    Series series Culture Origins
    Origins of Chinese Culture guides you through the perplexing maze of all things Chinese. Pick up interesting facts about the "Four Treasures of the Study" - the brush, ink, paper and inkstone - which form the cornerstone of Chinese culture. ... Leer más

    $4.50 USD

  • Locked in Place

    State-Building and Late Industrialization in India

    de Vivek Chibber ...
    Why were some countries able to build "developmental states" in the decades after World War II while others were not? Through a richly detailed examination of India's experience, Locked in Place argues that the critical factor was the reaction of domestic capitalists to the state-building project. During the 1950s and 1960s, India launched an extremely ambitious and highly regarded program of ... Leer más

    $39.59 USD

  • Religious Cultures in Early Modern India

    New Perspectives

    Series series Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
    Religious authority and political power have existed in complex relationships throughout India’s history. The centuries of the ‘early modern’ in South Asia saw particularly dynamic developments in this relationship. Regional as well as imperial states of the period expanded their religious patronage, while new sectarian centres of doctrinal and spiritual authority emerged beyond the confines of ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD