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The Armenians in Modern Turkey. Post-Genocide Society, Politics and History
Häftad, 2026
347 kr
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Racing the Enemy
Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan
Inbunden, 2022
619 kr
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From April 1945, when Stalin broke the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact and Harry Truman assumed the presidency, to the final Soviet military actions against Japan, Hasegawa brings to light the real reasons Japan surrendered. From Washington to Moscow to Tokyo and back again, he shows us a …
Knowledge and the Ends of Empire
Av Ian Campbell
Inbunden, 2022
502 kr
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ENG:This book investigates the connections between knowledge production and policy formation on the Kazak steppes of the Russian Empire. Tsarist officials were desperate to obtain reliable information about the unfamiliar environment and population of the steppe. This thirst for knowledge created …
Circles of Compensation
Economic Growth and the Globalization of Japan
Av Kent Calder
Inbunden, 2022
536 kr
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This book identifies the crucial variables as classic Japanese forms of socio-political organization: the "circles of compensation." These cooperative groupings of economic, political, and bureaucratic interests dictate corporate and individual responses to such critical issues as investment and …
Religion in China
Survival and Revival under Communist Rule
Inbunden, 2022
477 kr
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Religion in China survived the most radical suppression in the human history—a total ban of any religion during the Cultural Revolution. All churches, temples, and mosques were closed down, converted for secular uses, or turned into museums for the purpose of atheist education. Since the 1970s, …
Women in Mongol Iran
The Khatuns, 1206-1335
Inbunden, 2022
502 kr
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Bruno De Nicola investigates the development of women’s status in the Mongol Empire from its original homeland in Mongolia up to the end of the Ilkhanate of Iran in 1335. Taking a thematic approach, the chapters show a coherent progression of this development and contextualise the evolution of the …
Intoxicating Manchuria
Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China's Northeast
Av Norman Smith
Inbunden, 2022
552 kr
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Intoxicating Manchuria reveals how the powerful alcohol and opium industries in Northeast China were altered by warlord rule, Japanese occupation, political conflict, and a vigorous anti-intoxicant movement. Through the lens of the Chinese media’s depictions of alcohol and opium, Norman Smith …
Rural China Takes Off
Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform
Av Jean C. Oi
Inbunden, 2022
502 kr
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In this incisive analysis of one of the most spectacular economic breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C. Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based industry has become the fastest growing economic sector not just in China but in the world. Oi argues that decollectivization and fiscal decentralization …
China under Мао
A Revolution Derailed
Inbunden, 2022
619 kr
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China’s Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long guerilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the revolution was just beginning. China under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist state from 1949 to 1976—an epoch of startling accomplishments and disastrous failures, steered by …
Unending Capitalism
How Consumerism Negated China's Communist Revolution
Av Karl Gerth
Inbunden, 2023
589 kr
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What forces shaped the twentieth-century world? Capitalism and communism are usually seen as engaged in a fight-to-the-death during the Cold War. With the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party aimed to end capitalism. Karl Gerth argues that despite the …
Age of Wild Ghosts
Memory, Violence, and Place in Southwest China
Inbunden, 2023
601 kr
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In Erik Mueggler’s powerful and imaginative ethnography, an Indigenous community in the mountains of Southwest China struggles to find its place at the margins of a nation-state. Here, people describe the period that began with the Great Leap Famine of 1958-1960 and continued through the 1990s as …
Revisiting Women's Cinema
Feminism, Socialism, and Mainstream Culture in Modern China
Inbunden, 2023
536 kr
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In Revisiting Women’s Cinema, Lingzhen Wang ponders the roots of contemporary feminist stagnation and the limits of both commercial mainstream and elite minor cultures by turning to socialist women filmmakers in modern China. She foregrounds their sociopolitical engagements, critical interventions, …
Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds
Cross-Cultural Exchange in Pre-modern Asia
Av Hyunhee Park
Inbunden, 2023
502 kr
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Long before Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope en route to India, the peoples of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia engaged in vigorous cross-cultural exchanges across the Indian Ocean. This book focuses on the years 700 to 1500, a period when powerful dynasties governed both regions, to …
Avant-garde' Art Groups in China
1979-1989
Inbunden, 2023
491 kr
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Avant-garde' Art Groups in China 1979-1989 gives a critical polylogic (multi-voiced) account of four of the most significant Chinese avant-garde art groups of the late 1970s and 1980s: The Stars, The Northern Art Group, The Pond Association and Xiamen Dada. The book includes extended conversations …
Japan's Siberian Intervention
1918–1922
Inbunden, 2023
502 kr
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The fifty months of the Siberian Intervention encompass the existential crisis which affected Japanese at virtually all levels when confronted with the new world situation left in the wake of the First World War. From elite politicians and military professionals, to public intellectuals and the …
Human Rights and Chinese Thought
A Cross-Cultural Inquiry
Inbunden, 2023
525 kr
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What should we make of claims by members of other groups to have moralities different from our own? Human Rights in Chinese Thought gives an extended answer to this question in the first study of its kind. It integrates a full account of the development of Chinese rights discourse with …
On the Horizon of World Literature
Forms of Modernity in Romantic England and Republican China
Av Emily Sun
Inbunden, 2023
534 kr
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On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China. These moments were oriented alike by “world literature” as a discursive framework of classifications that …
Dialect and Nationalism in China
1860–1960
Av Gina Tam
Inbunden, 2023
536 kr
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Taking aim at the conventional narrative that standard, national languages transform 'peasants' into citizens, Gina Anne Tam centers the history of the Chinese nation and national identity on fangyan - languages like Shanghainese, Cantonese, and dozens of others that are categorically different …
Urban China
Av Xuefei Ren
Inbunden, 2023
487 kr
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ENG: "Currently there are more than 125 Chinese cities with a population exceeding one million. The unprecedented urban growth in China presents a crucial development for studies on globalization and urban transformation. This concise and engaging book examines the past trajectories, present …
Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post–3.11 Japan
Av Mire Koikari
Inbunden, 2024
487 kr
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ENG: The Great East Japan Disaster – a compound catastrophe of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that began on March 11, 2011 – has ushered in a new era of cultural production dominated by discussions on safety and security, risk and vulnerability, and recovery and refortification. Gender, …
Festivals, Feasts, and Gender Relations in Ancient China and Greece
Av Yiqun Zhou
Inbunden, 2024
536 kr
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ENGAncient China and Greece are two classical civilisations that have exerted far-reaching influence in numerous areas of human experience and are often invoked as the paradigms in East-West comparison. This book examines gender relations in the two ancient societies as reflected in convivial …
Taiwan's Buddhist Nuns
Inbunden, 2024
373 kr
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ENG: Taiwan's Buddhist nuns are as unique as they are noteworthy. Boasting the greatest number of Buddhist nuns of any country, Taiwan has a much greater number of nuns than monks. These women are well known and well regarded as dharma teachers and for the social service work that has made them a …
Armenians in Modern Turkey
Post-Genocide Society, Politics and History
Inbunden, 2024
683 kr
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ENGAfter the Armenian genocide of 1915, in which over a million Armenians died, thousands of Armenian-Turks lived and worked in the Turkish state alongside those who had persecuted their communities. Talin Suciyan explores the life experienced by Turkey's Armenian communities as Turkey's great …
China's Geography
Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic, and Social Change
Av Gregory Veeck, Clifton W. Pannell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
672 kr
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ENGDespite China's growing importance on the world stage, the nation remains often and easily misunderstood. The book traces the changes occurring in this powerful and ancient nation across time and space to provide a better understanding of present conditions. Beginning with China's diverse …
Social Sciences in Modern Japan
The Marxian and Modernist Traditions
Inbunden, 2024
386 kr
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ENGThis incisive intellectual history of Japanese social science from the 1890s to the present day considers the various forms of modernity that the processes of “development” or “rationalization” have engendered and the role social scientists have played in their emergence. Andrew E. Barshay …
Classical World Literatures
Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman Comparisons
Inbunden, 2024
819 kr
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ENGEver since Karl Jaspers's "axial age" paradigm, there have been a number of influential studies comparing ancient East Asian and Greco-Roman history and culture. However, to date there has been no comparative study involving multiple literary traditions in these cultural spheres. This book …
Translation's Forgotten History
Russian Literature, Japanese Mediation, and the Formation of Modern Korean Literature
Inbunden, 2024
534 kr
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ENGTranslation’s Forgotten History investigates the meanings and functions that translation generated for modern national literatures during their formative period and reconsiders literature as part of a dynamic translational process of negotiating foreign values. By examining the triadic literary …
Practice of Concern
Ritual, Well-Being, and Aging in Rural Japan
Inbunden, 2024
477 kr
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В книге Джона Трафагана рассматриваются идеи и практики, связанные с религиозными ритуалами и здоровьем пожилых людей на севере Японии. Опираясь на результаты этнографических исследований, проводившихся на протяжении более чем трех лет, Трафаган рассматривает различные формы проведения ритуалов и …
Genre Networks and Empire
Rhetoric in Early Imperial China
Av Xiaoye You
Inbunden, 2024
502 kr
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Книга «Жанровые сети и Империя» объединяет деколониальный и транснациональный подход в построении риторической истории раннего имперского Китая. Сяо Ю ставит во главу угла древнюю китайскую риторику, сосредоточив внимание на имперской матрице власти династии Хань через жанры риторики и их …
Illuminations from the Past
Trauma, Memory, and History in Modern China
Av Ban Wang
Inbunden, 2024
552 kr
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В книге представлен взгляд на культурную историю современного Китая через исследование противоречий между памятью и историей. В отличие от большинства исследований о Китае, которые посвящены преимущественно проблемам экономики, управления, политики и международных отношений, автор этой книги …
