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53 produkter
Early Chinese Empires
Qin and Han
Av Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook
Häftad, 2010
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
258 kr
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In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of an …
Age of Confucian Rule
The Song Transformation of China
Häftad, 2011
235 kr
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Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly half of all humankind. In this concise history, we learn why the inventiveness of this era has been favorably compared with the European Renaissance, …
China’s Cosmopolitan Empire
The Tang Dynasty
Av Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook
Häftad, 2012
235 kr
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The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent …
China between Empires
The Northern and Southern Dynasties
Av Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook
Häftad, 2011
286 kr
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After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes …
Vermeer's Hat
The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world
Häftad, 2009
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
149 kr
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'Effortless and compelling, Brooks is a wonderful storyteller. I doubt I will read a better book this year.' Sunday TelegraphEach of Vermeer's paintings tells a story. In one, a military officer leans toward a laughing girl; in another, a woman stands by a window and weighs silver; in a third, …
China's Last Empire
The Great Qing
Av William T. Rowe, Timothy Brook
Häftad, 2012
235 kr
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In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West.The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three strong Manchu emperors worked diligently to …
Troubled Empire
China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties
Av Timothy Brook, Timothy Brook
Häftad, 2013
235 kr
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The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire—a millennium and a half in the making—was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no longer what it would be in the future. …
Great State
China and the World
Häftad, 2021
149 kr
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China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight centuries since. Even the European colonial …
Great State
China and the World
E-bok, 2020
93 kr
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The author of Vermeer''s Hat shares "a dizzying and exhilarating journey" through 800 years of Chinese history and national identity (New Statesman).China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the thirteenth century …
Sacred Mandates
Asian International Relations since Chinggis Khan
Av Timothy Brook, Michael van Walt van Praag m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
384 kr
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Contemporary discussions of international relations in Asia tend to be tethered in the present, unmoored from the historical contexts that give them meaning. Sacred Mandates, edited by Timothy Brook, Michael van Walt van Praag, and Miek Boltjes, redresses this oversight by examining the complex …
Sacred Mandates
Asian International Relations since Chinggis Khan
Av Miek Boltjes, Michael van Walt van Praag m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
749 kr
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Contemporary discussions of international relations in Asia tend to be tethered in the present, unmoored from the historical contexts that give them meaning. Sacred Mandates , edited by Timothy Brook, Michael van Walt van Praag, and Miek Boltjes, redresses this oversight by examining the complex …
Chinese State in Ming Society
Inbunden, 2004
2591 kr
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The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between state and society in Chinese history. This unique collection of reworked and heavily illustrated essays, by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, re-examines this …
Chinese State in Ming Society
Häftad, 2004
938 kr
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The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between state and society in Chinese history. This unique collection of reworked and heavily illustrated essays, by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, re-examines this …
Nation Work
Asian Elites and National Identities
Av Andre Schmid, Timothy Brook
E-bok, 2010
606 kr
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As increasing attention is drawn to globalization, questions arise about the fate of "the nation," a political and social unit that for centuries has seemed the common-sense way to organize the world. In Nation Work, Timothy Brook and André Schmid draw together eight essays that use historical …
Documents on the Rape of Nanking
Häftad, 1999
349 kr
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The Japanese Army's invasion of China in 1937 was the first step toward a hemispheric war that would last until the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. What ended in one atrocity began with another: the savage military takeover of China's capital city, which quickly became known as …
Nation Work
Asian Elites and National Identities
Av Timothy Brook, André Schmid
Häftad, 2000
384 kr
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As increasing attention is drawn to globalization, questions arise about the fate of "the nation," a political and social unit that for centuries has seemed the common-sense way to organize the world. In Nation Work, Timothy Brook and André Schmid draw together eight essays that use historical …
Culture and Economy
The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asia
E-bok, 2025
1070 kr
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In recent years, most of the economies of Eastern Asia have been absorbed into global capitalism. Capitalism has transformed these economies, but the process has not been one-way. The cultures of Eastern Asia have in turn shaped how capitalism organizes labor, capital, and markets in ways that …
Confusions of Pleasure
Commerce and Culture in Ming China
Häftad, 1999
382 kr
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The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644. During that time, China, not Europe, was the center of the world: the European voyages of exploration were searching not just for new lands but also for new trade routes to the Far East. In this book, Timothy …
Opium Regimes
China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952
Av Timothy Brook, Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
Häftad, 2000
312 kr
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Opium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. Over the past two centuries it has been a palliative medicine, an addictive substance, a powerful mechanism for concentrating and transferring wealth and power between nations, and the anchor for a now vanished sociocultural world in and around …
Confusions of Pleasure
Commerce and Culture in Ming China
E-bok, 1998
321 kr
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The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644. During that time, China, not Europe, was the center of the world: the European voyages of exploration were searching not just for new lands but also for new trade routes to the Far East. In this book, Timothy …
China and Historical Capitalism
Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge
Av Timothy Brook, Gregory Blue
Häftad, 2002
586 kr
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This book addresses the historical relationship that has arisen between the concept of capitalism and the idea of China. Formulated by European intellectuals in order to identify the social formation in which they found themselves, capitalism was portrayed as unique to Europe and as an organic …
China and Historical Capitalism
Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge
Av Timothy Brook, Gregory Blue
Inbunden, 1999
1828 kr
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This book addresses the historical relationship that has arisen between the concept of capitalism and the idea of China. Formulated by European intellectuals in order to identify the social formation in which they found themselves, capitalism was portrayed as unique to Europe and as an organic …
Collaboration
Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China
Häftad, 2007
305 kr
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Studies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this aspect of wartime conduct has remained largely unacknowledged. In a bold new work, Timothy Brook breaks the silence surrounding the sensitive topic of wartime collaboration …
Death by a Thousand Cuts
Av Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
443 kr
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In a public square in Beijing in 1904, multiple murderer Wang Weiqin was executed before a crowd of onlookers. He was among the last to suffer the extreme punishment known as lingchi. Called by Western observers “death by a thousand cuts” or “death by slicing,” this penalty was reserved for the …
Price of Collapse
The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China
Inbunden, 2023
287 kr
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How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history’s mighty empiresIn 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China, but the truth is far more profound. The Price …
Price of Collapse
The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China
Häftad, 2026
208 kr
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How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history’s mighty empiresIn 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China, but the truth is far more profound. The Price …
Price of Collapse
The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China
E-bok, 2023
279 kr
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How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history’s mighty empires In 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China, but the truth is far more profound. The Price …
Civil Society in China
Av Timothy Brook, B. Michael Frolic
Inbunden, 1997
2516 kr
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The concept of civil society was borrowed from 18th-century Europe to provide a framework for understanding the transition to post-authoritarian regimes in Latin America and post-communist regimes elsewhere. This book asks whether this concept is useful for analyzing China.
Civil Society in China
Av Timothy Brook, B. Michael Frolic
Häftad, 1997
751 kr
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The concept of civil society was borrowed from 18th-century Europe to provide a framework for understanding the transition to post-authoritarian regimes in Latin America and post-communist regimes elsewhere. This book asks whether this concept is useful for analyzing China.
Quelling the People
The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement
Häftad, 1998
310 kr
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This is a riveting, day-by-day, hour-by-hour reconstruction of the massacre in Tiananmen Square on June 3-4, 1989, as well as of the crucial events in Beijing during the previous weeks that largely precipitated the massacre. The author focuses on the army—the People's Liberation Army—which, with …
