Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures – serie
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14 produkter
Empire and Righteous Nation
600 Years of China-Korea Relations
Häftad, 2023
178 kr
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“The relationship between China and Korea is one of the most important, and least understood, in Asia. With the wisdom and clarity we have come to expect from Westad, this book illuminates the long history of these two neighbors.”—Rana Mitter, author of China’s Good War“A timely must-read primer on …
Borders of Chinese Architecture
Inbunden, 2022
511 kr
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An internationally acclaimed expert explains why Chinese-style architecture has remained so consistent for two thousand years, no matter where it is built.For the last two millennia, an overwhelming number of Chinese buildings have been elevated on platforms, supported by pillars, and covered by …
Asian American Century
Inbunden, 2002
417 kr
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Warren Cohen reviews the role of the United States in East Asia over the past century, making a convincing case for American influence in Asia as generally positive. He illustrates specific ways in which American culture has affected Asians, from forms of government to entertainment, and offers …
Chinese Overseas
From Earthbound China to the Quest for Autonomy
Av Gungwu Wang
Häftad, 2002
299 kr
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The Chinese overseas now number 25 to 30 million, yet the 2,000-year history of Chinese attempts to venture abroad and the underlying values affecting that migration have never before been presented in a broad overview. Despite centuries of prohibition against leaving the land and traveling and …
Lost Modernities
China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History
Inbunden, 2006
430 kr
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In Lost Modernities Alexander Woodside offers a probing revisionist overview of the bureaucratic politics of preindustrial China, Vietnam, and Korea. He focuses on the political and administrative theory of the three mandarinates and their long experimentation with governments recruited in part …
Visible Cities
Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans
Inbunden, 2008
430 kr
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The eighteenth century witnessed the rise of the China market and the changes that resulted in global consumption patterns, from opium smoking to tea drinking. In a valuable transnational perspective, Leonard Blussé chronicles the economic and cultural transformations in East Asia through three key …
Articulating the Sinosphere
Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time
Inbunden, 2009
509 kr
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Joshua Fogel offers an incisive historical look at Sino-Japanese relations from three different perspectives. Using first a wide lens, he suggests a new way to capture the relationship between China and Japan by characterizing the nature of their contact. From the first century CE, the primary …
Cultivating Global Citizens
Population in the Rise of China
Inbunden, 2010
430 kr
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Current accounts of China’s global rise emphasize economics and politics, largely neglecting the cultivation of China’s people. Susan Greenhalgh, one of the foremost authorities on China’s one-child policy, places the governance of population squarely at the heart of China’s ascent.Focusing on the …
China and Japan in the Global Setting
Av Akira Iriye
Häftad, 1998
383 kr
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The relationship between China and Japan remains among the most significant of all the world’s bilateral affairs—yet it is also the most tortured and the least understood. Akira Iriye adds brilliant clarity to the past century of Chinese–Japanese interactions in this masterful interpretive …
East Asian Civilizations
A Dialogue in Five Stages
Häftad, 1991
324 kr
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De Bary constructs a magisterial overview of three thousand years of East Asian civilizations, principally in the form of dialogues among the major systems of thought that have dominated the Asian world’s historical development.
Four Little Dragons
The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia
Häftad, 1993
299 kr
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Japan and the four little dragons—Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore—constitute less than 1 percent of the world’s land mass and less than 4 percent of the world’s population. Yet in the last four decades they have become, with Europe and North America, one of the three great pillars of …
Lyric Journey
Poetic Painting in China and Japan
Av James Cahill
Inbunden, 1996
1988 kr
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Creating paintings with poetic resonances, sometimes with ties to specific lines of poetry, is a practice that began in China in the eleventh century, the Northern Sung period. James Cahill vividly surveys its first great flowering among artists working in the Southern Sung capital of Hangchou, …
Politics of Development
Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Asia
Häftad, 1998
371 kr
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The renowned political scientist Robert Scalapino traces the evolution of Asian countries in our century, seeking to determine the precise mix of culture, experience, scale, timing, leadership, and policy that shapes individual developing nations. Blending discussions of political, cultural, and …
East Asian Development
Foundations and Strategies
Inbunden, 2013
441 kr
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In the early 1960s, fewer than five percent of Japanese owned automobiles, China’s per capita income was among the lowest in Asia, and living standards in South Korea’s rural areas were on par with some of the world’s poorest countries. Today, these are three of the most powerful economies on …
