Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship – serie
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Women and the Family in Chinese History
Inbunden, 2002
2588 kr
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This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, Patricia Buckley. In the essays she has selected for this fascinating volume, Professor Ebrey explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems as practices and ideas intimately connected to history …
Women and the Family in Chinese History
Häftad, 2002
847 kr
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This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, Patricia Buckley. In the essays she has selected for this fascinating volume, Professor Ebrey explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems as practices and ideas intimately connected to history …
China Unbound
Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past
Häftad, 2003
1208 kr
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This volume contains a number of articles on modern Chinese history and historiography written by one of the leading academic experts on the subject. The author provides a critique of older approaches to nineteenth-century history and offers powerful reinterpretations of such key events in the …
Southeast Asia
A Testament
Inbunden, 2002
2668 kr
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Southeast Asia: A Testament covers the tragic history of post war Indonesia from its successful struggle against the Dutch to Suharto's bloody overthrow of Sukarno in 1965. It also gives a personal account of the US involvement in Indochina, where George Kahin was an early critic of the Vietnam war …
Southeast Asia
A Testament
Häftad, 2002
874 kr
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Southeast Asia: A Testament covers the tragic history of post war Indonesia from its successful struggle against the Dutch to Suharto's bloody overthrow of Sukarno in 1965. It also gives a personal account of the US involvement in Indochina, where George Kahin was an early critic of the Vietnam war …
China's Past, China's Future
Av Vaclav Smil
Inbunden, 2003
2513 kr
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China has a population of 1.3 billion people which puts strain on her natural resources. This volume, by one of the leading scholars on the earth's biosphere, is the result of a lifetime of study, and provides the fullest account yet of the environmental challenges that China faces. The author …
China's Past, China's Future
Av Vaclav Smil
Häftad, 2003
823 kr
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China has a population of 1.3 billion people which puts strain on her natural resources. This volume, by one of the leading scholars on the earth's biosphere, is the result of a lifetime of study, and provides the fullest account yet of the environmental challenges that China faces. The author …
Chinese State in Ming Society
Inbunden, 2004
2588 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
937 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 …
China, East Asia and the Global Economy
Regional and Historical Perspectives
Av Takeshi Hamashita, Mark Selden m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
2588 kr
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Takeshi Hamashita, arguably Asia's premier historian of the longue durée, has been instrumental in opening a new field of inquiry in Chinese, East Asian and world historical research. Engaging modernization, Marxist and world system approaches, his wide-ranging redefinition of the evolving …
China, East Asia and the Global Economy
Regional and Historical Perspectives
Av Takeshi Hamashita, Mark Selden m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
817 kr
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Takeshi Hamashita, arguably Asia's premier historian of the longue durée, has been instrumental in opening a new field of inquiry in Chinese, East Asian and world historical research. Engaging modernization, Marxist and world system approaches, his wide-ranging redefinition of the evolving …
Global and Regional in China's Nation-Formation
Inbunden, 2008
2588 kr
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China’s history tends to be studied from a national perspective only. The Global and Regional in China’s Nation-Formation attempts to train our eyes to see the picture of China less as a self-contained entity, a "geobody", than as part of a broader set of global and regional processes; from the …
Global and Regional in China's Nation-Formation
Häftad, 2008
742 kr
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China’s history tends to be studied from a national perspective only. The Global and Regional in China’s Nation-Formation attempts to train our eyes to see the picture of China less as a self-contained entity, a "geobody", than as part of a broader set of global and regional processes; from the …
Decoding Subaltern Politics
Ideology, Disguise, and Resistance in Agrarian Politics
Inbunden, 2012
2588 kr
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James C. Scott has researched and written on subaltern groups, and, in particular, peasants, rebellion, resistance, and agriculture, for over 35 years. Yet much of Scott’s most interesting work on the peasantry and the state, both conceptually and empirically, has never been published in book form. …
Decoding Subaltern Politics
Ideology, Disguise, and Resistance in Agrarian Politics
Häftad, 2012
937 kr
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James C. Scott has researched and written on subaltern groups, and, in particular, peasants, rebellion, resistance, and agriculture, for over 35 years. Yet much of Scott’s most interesting work on the peasantry and the state, both conceptually and empirically, has never been published in book form. …
Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China
Great Transformations Reconsidered
Inbunden, 2013
2588 kr
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What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow a well-worn plot: in about 1400 after an early ferment of creativity that made it the most technologically sophisticated civilisation in the world, …
Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China
Great Transformations Reconsidered
Häftad, 2013
847 kr
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What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow a well-worn plot: in about 1400 after an early ferment of creativity that made it the most technologically sophisticated civilisation in the world, …
Mapping China and Managing the World
Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times
Inbunden, 2012
2588 kr
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From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the concept of order (zhi). This cultural preoccupation has found expression not only in China’s highly refined bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also …
Mapping China and Managing the World
Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times
Häftad, 2012
877 kr
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From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the concept of order (zhi). This cultural preoccupation has found expression not only in China’s highly refined bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also …
