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81 produkter
Shanghai
The Story of China's Most Dynamic City
Inbunden, 2026
304 kr
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A comprehensive new history of Shanghai, revealing its vital place in Chinese history and politics across the centuries“A compelling book that will resonate for many readers.”—Stephen R. Platt, Wall Street Journal Home to 25 million people, Shanghai is the most populous and wealthiest city in …
Chinese Minorities at home and abroad
Häftad, 2019
502 kr
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The classification of ethnic identities (minzu) remains controversial in China. Categories established in the 1950s are still used by the state to administer minority areas, despite the existence of a complicated web of subjective identities which potentially undermines efforts to use these …
China in the Age of Xi Jinping
Inbunden, 2021
2586 kr
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This book presents a concise introduction to China in the Xi Jinping era. It is intended as a first book for those coming new to the subject, providing the essential information that most people need to know, without going into excessive detail. Its coverage includes the economy, society, politics, …
China in the Age of Xi Jinping
Häftad, 2021
727 kr
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This book presents a concise introduction to China in the Xi Jinping era. It is intended as a first book for those coming new to the subject, providing the essential information that most people need to know, without going into excessive detail. Its coverage includes the economy, society, politics, …
Xinjiang in the Twenty-First Century
Islam, Ethnicity and Resistance
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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There has been a significant increase in the twenty-first century in the frequency and intensity of violent incidents in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the far northwest province of China, where the Uyghurs, the Turkic-speaking Muslim people who historically constituted the majority …
Politics of Security
Towards a Political Phiosophy of Continental Thought
Inbunden, 1996
2133 kr
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In this critique of security studies, with insights into the thinking of Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, Levinas and Arendt, Michael Dillon contributes to the rethinking of some of the fundamentals of international politics developing what might be called a political philosophy of continental …
Politics of Security
Towards a Political Phiosophy of Continental Thought
Häftad, 1996
735 kr
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In this critique of security studies, with insights into the thinking of Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, Levinas and Arendt, Michael Dillon contributes to the rethinking of some of the fundamentals of international politics developing what might be called a political philosophy of continental …
Xinjiang
China's Muslim Far Northwest
Inbunden, 2003
2512 kr
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Xinjiang, the nominally autonomous region in China's far northwest, is of increasing international strategic and economic importance. With a population which is mainly non-Chinese and Muslim, there are powerful forces for autonomy, and independence, in Xinjiang. This book provides a comprehensive …
Contemporary China - An Introduction
Häftad, 2008
839 kr
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This book presents a concise introduction to contemporary China. It is intended as a first book for those coming new to the subject, providing the essential information that most people need to know, without going into excessive detail. Its coverage includes the economy, society, politics and …
Contemporary China - An Introduction
Inbunden, 2008
2705 kr
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This book presents a concise introduction to contemporary China. It is intended as a first book for those coming new to the subject, providing the essential information that most people need to know, without going into excessive detail. Its coverage includes the economy, society, politics and …
Encyclopedia of Chinese History
Inbunden, 2016
7805 kr
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China has become accessible to the west in the last twenty years in a way that was not possible in the previous thirty. The number of westerners travelling to China to study, for business or for tourism has increased dramatically and there has been a corresponding increase in interest in Chinese …
Biopolitics of Security
A Political Analytic of Finitude
Inbunden, 2015
2512 kr
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Taking its inspiration from Michel Foucault, this volume of essays integrates the analysis of security into the study of modern political and cultural theory. Explaining how both politics and security are differently problematised by changing accounts of time, the work shows how, during the course …
Biopolitics of Security
A Political Analytic of Finitude
Häftad, 2015
793 kr
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Taking its inspiration from Michel Foucault, this volume of essays integrates the analysis of security into the study of modern political and cultural theory. Explaining how both politics and security are differently problematised by changing accounts of time, the work shows how, during the course …
Xinjiang
China's Muslim Far Northwest
Häftad, 2009
910 kr
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Xinjiang, the nominally autonomous region in China's far northwest, is of increasing international strategic and economic importance. With a population which is mainly non-Chinese and Muslim, there are powerful forces for autonomy, and independence, in Xinjiang. This book provides a comprehensive …
Deconstructing International Politics
Inbunden, 2012
2512 kr
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Michael Dillon is internationally regarded for his contributions by political philosophers, international relations scholars and security studies experts, as well as by philosophers more broadly. It is difficult to overrate his importance to the development of critical deconstructive approaches not …
Deconstructing International Politics
Häftad, 2012
648 kr
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Michael Dillon is internationally regarded for his contributions by political philosophers, international relations scholars and security studies experts, as well as by philosophers more broadly. It is difficult to overrate his importance to the development of critical deconstructive approaches not …
Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power
Kashgar in the Early Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2014
2744 kr
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Xinjiang, China's far northwestern province where the majority of the population are Muslim Uyghurs, was for most of its history contested territory. On the Silk Road, a region of overlapping cultures, the province was virtually independent until the late nineteenth century, nominally part of the …
Chinese Minorities at home and abroad
Inbunden, 2017
1521 kr
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The classification of ethnic identities (minzu) remains controversial in China. Categories established in the 1950s are still used by the state to administer minority areas, despite the existence of a complicated web of subjective identities which potentially undermines efforts to use these …
Liberal Way of War
Killing to Make Life Live
Av Michael Dillon, Julian Reid
Inbunden, 2009
2512 kr
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The liberal way of war and the liberal way of rule are correlated; this book traces that correlation to liberalism's original commitment to 'making life live'. Committed to making life live, liberalism is committed to waging war on behalf of life, specifically to promote the biopolitical life of …
Liberal Way of War
Killing to Make Life Live
Av Michael Dillon, Julian Reid
Häftad, 2009
822 kr
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The liberal way of war and the liberal way of rule are correlated; this book traces that correlation to liberalism's original commitment to 'making life live'. Committed to making life live, liberalism is committed to waging war on behalf of life, specifically to promote the biopolitical life of …
China
A Cultural and Historical Dictionary
Häftad, 1998
1252 kr
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Compiled by specialists from the University of Durham Department of East Asian Studies, this new reference work contains approximately 1500 entries covering Chinese civilisation from Peking Man to the present day. Subjects include history, politics, art, archaeology, literature, etc. The Dictionary …
China's Muslim Hui Community
Migration, Settlement and Sects
Inbunden, 1999
2512 kr
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This is a reconstruction of the history of the Muslim community in China known today as the Hui or often as the Chinese Muslims as distinct from the Turkic Muslims such as the Uyghurs. It traces their history from the earliest period of Islam in China up to the present day, but with particular …
Dictionary of Chinese History
Inbunden, 1979
787 kr
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First Published in 1979. This title is intended as a guide to personalities, events, ideas and institutions in China from earliest times right up to the present day. The dictionary should be particularly useful to anyone interested in Chinese history for its own sake, or in contemporary China, …
China
A Modern History
Häftad, 2021
313 kr
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In this complete guide to modern China, Michael Dillon takes students through its social, political and economic changes, from the Qing Empire, through the civil war and the Communist state, to its incarnation as a hybrid capitalist superpower. Key features of the new edition include: - A brand new …
China
A Modern History
E-bok, 2021
337 kr
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In this complete guide to modern China, Michael Dillon takes students through its social, political and economic changes, from the Qing Empire, through the civil war and the Communist state, to its incarnation as a hybrid capitalist superpower. Key features of the new edition include: - A brand new …
China
A Modern History
E-bok, 2021
327 kr
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In this complete guide to modern China, Michael Dillon takes students through its social, political and economic changes, from the Qing Empire, through the civil war and the Communist state, to its incarnation as a hybrid capitalist superpower. Key features of the new edition include: - A brand new …
China
A Modern History
Inbunden, 2021
1026 kr
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In this complete guide to modern China, Michael Dillon takes students through its social, political and economic changes, from the Qing Empire, through the civil war and the Communist state, to its incarnation as a hybrid capitalist superpower. Key features of the new edition include: - A brand new …
China
A Modern History
E-bok, 2010
273 kr
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China's transformation in the last few decades has been perhaps the most remarkable - and most controversial - development in modern history. Barely a century removed from the struggling and outdated Qing Empire, China has managed to reinvent itself on an unprecedented scale: from Empire, to …
Deng Xiaoping
The Man Who Made Modern China
E-bok, 2014
761 kr
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One of the most important figures in global politics during the second half of the 20th century; Deng Xiaoping is generally considered the central figure behind China's economic liberalization programme that produced historically unprecedented growth rates and development beginning in the late …
Deng Xiaoping
The Man Who Made Modern China
E-bok, 2014
739 kr
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One of the most important figures in global politics during the second half of the 20th century; Deng Xiaoping is generally considered the central figure behind China's economic liberalization programme that produced historically unprecedented growth rates and development beginning in the late …
