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Yinyang
The Way of Heaven and Earth in Chinese Thought and Culture
Häftad, 2012
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392 kr
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The concept of yinyang lies at the heart of Chinese thought and culture. The relationship between these two opposing, yet mutually dependent, forces is symbolized in the familiar black and white symbol that has become an icon in popular culture across the world. The real significance of yinyang is, …
Epidemics in Modern Asia
Häftad, 2016
418 kr
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Epidemics have played a critical role in shaping modern Asia. Encompassing two centuries of Asian history, Robert Peckham explores the profound impact that infectious disease has had on societies across the region: from India to China and the Russian Far East. The book tracks the links between …
The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals
Häftad, 2009
574 kr
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Between 1453 and 1526 Muslims founded three major states in the Mediterranean, Iran and South Asia: respectively the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires. By the early seventeenth century their descendants controlled territories that encompassed much of the Muslim world, stretching from the Balkans …
The Chinese People at War
Human Suffering and Social Transformation, 1937-1945
Av Diana Lary
Häftad, 2010
426 kr
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Diana Lary, one of the foremost historians of the period, tells the tragic history of China's War of Resistance and its consequences from the perspective of those who went through it. Using archival evidence only recently made available, interviews with survivors, and extracts from literature, she …
The Chinese People at War
Human Suffering and Social Transformation, 1937-1945
Av Diana Lary
Inbunden, 2010
938 kr
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Diana Lary, one of the foremost historians of the period, tells the tragic history of China's War of Resistance and its consequences from the perspective of those who went through it. Using archival evidence only recently made available, interviews with survivors, and extracts from literature, she …
China's Republic
Av Diana Lary
Häftad, 2007
435 kr
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Twenty-first century China is emerging from decades of war and revolution into a new era. Yet the past still haunts the present. The ideals of the Chinese Republic, which was founded almost a century ago after 2000 years of imperial rule, still resonate as modern China edges towards openness and …
Global South Asians
Introducing the modern Diaspora
Häftad, 2006
435 kr
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By the end of the twentieth century some nine million people of South Asian descent had left India, Bangladesh or Pakistan and settled in different parts of the world, forming a diverse and significant modern diaspora. In the early nineteenth century, many left reluctantly to seek economic …
The Asian Military Revolution
From Gunpowder to the Bomb
Häftad, 2008
385 kr
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Records show that the Chinese invented gunpowder in the 800s. By the 1200s they had unleashed the first weapons of war upon their unsuspecting neighbours. This extraordinarily ambitious book traces the history of that invention and its impact on the surrounding Asian world - Korea, Japan, South …
The Partition of India
Av Ian Talbot, Gurharpal Singh
Häftad, 2009
418 kr
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The British divided and quit India in 1947. The partition of India and the creation of Pakistan uprooted entire communities and left unspeakable violence in its trail. This volume tells the story of partition through the events that led up to it, the terrors that accompanied it, to migration and …
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History
Häftad, 2011
435 kr
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Gender and sexuality have been neglected topics in the history of Chinese civilization, despite the fact that there is a massive amount of historical evidence on the subject. China's late imperial government was arguably more concerned about gender and sexuality among its subjects than any other …
Early China
A Social and Cultural History
Av Li Feng
Häftad, 2013
426 kr
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'Early China' refers to the period from the beginning of human history in China to the end of the Han Dynasty in AD 220. The roots of modern Chinese society and culture are all to be found in this formative period of Chinese civilization. Li Feng's new critical interpretation draws on the most …
Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia
Häftad, 2011
475 kr
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Migration is at the heart of Asian history. For centuries migrants have tracked the routes and seas of their ancestors - merchants, pilgrims, soldiers and sailors - along the Silk Road and across the Indian Ocean and the China Sea. Over the last 150 years, however, migration within Asia and beyond …
China's Republic
Av Diana Lary
Inbunden, 2007
1391 kr
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Twenty-first century China is emerging from decades of war and revolution into a new era. Yet the past still haunts the present. The ideals of the Chinese Republic, which was founded almost a century ago after 2000 years of imperial rule, still resonate as modern China edges towards openness and …
Global South Asians
Introducing the modern Diaspora
Inbunden, 2006
838 kr
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By the end of the twentieth century some nine million people of South Asian descent had left India, Bangladesh or Pakistan and settled in different parts of the world, forming a diverse and significant modern diaspora. In the early nineteenth century, many left reluctantly to seek economic …
The Asian Military Revolution
From Gunpowder to the Bomb
Inbunden, 2008
1362 kr
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Records show that the Chinese invented gunpowder in the 800s. By the 1200s they had unleashed the first weapons of war upon their unsuspecting neighbours. This extraordinarily ambitious book traces the history of that invention and its impact on the surrounding Asian world - Korea, Japan, South …
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History
Inbunden, 2011
1394 kr
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Gender and sexuality have been neglected topics in the history of Chinese civilization, despite the fact that there is a massive amount of historical evidence on the subject. China's late imperial government was arguably more concerned about gender and sexuality among its subjects than any other …
The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals
Inbunden, 2009
1559 kr
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Between 1453 and 1526 Muslims founded three major states in the Mediterranean, Iran and South Asia: respectively the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires. By the early seventeenth century their descendants controlled territories that encompassed much of the Muslim world, stretching from the Balkans …
Early China
A Social and Cultural History
Av Li Feng
Inbunden, 2013
1559 kr
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'Early China' refers to the period from the beginning of human history in China to the end of the Han Dynasty in AD 220. The roots of modern Chinese society and culture are all to be found in this formative period of Chinese civilization. Li Feng's new critical interpretation draws on the most …
Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia
Inbunden, 2011
1391 kr
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Migration is at the heart of Asian history. For centuries migrants have tracked the routes and seas of their ancestors - merchants, pilgrims, soldiers and sailors - along the Silk Road and across the Indian Ocean and the China Sea. Over the last 150 years, however, migration within Asia and beyond …
The Battle for Inner Asia
Contesting Control of the Silk Roads, c.400-1000 CE
Inbunden, 2027
1272 kr
Kommande
The second Silk Roads Era, c.400-1000 CE, was a transformative period in world history. In this engaging holistic analysis, Craig Benjamin explores the developments that made it possible. Utilizing an extensive range of sources, he explores the consequences of Islamic expansion and the gripping …
The Battle for Inner Asia
Contesting Control of the Silk Roads, c.400-1000 CE
Häftad, 2027
401 kr
Kommande
The second Silk Roads Era, c.400-1000 CE, was a transformative period in world history. In this engaging holistic analysis, Craig Benjamin explores the developments that made it possible. Utilizing an extensive range of sources, he explores the consequences of Islamic expansion and the gripping …
Yinyang
The Way of Heaven and Earth in Chinese Thought and Culture
Inbunden, 2012
1351 kr
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The concept of yinyang lies at the heart of Chinese thought and culture. The relationship between these two opposing, yet mutually dependent, forces is symbolized in the familiar black and white symbol that has become an icon in popular culture across the world. The real significance of yinyang is, …
Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia
Inbunden, 2011
1152 kr
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Religious ideas and actors have shaped Asian cultural practices for millennia and have played a decisive role in charting the course of its history. In this engaging and informative book, Thomas David DuBois sets out to explain how religion has influenced the political, social, and economic …
India in the World Economy
From Antiquity to the Present
Inbunden, 2012
1509 kr
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Cross-cultural exchange has characterized the economic life of India since antiquity. Its long coastline has afforded convenient access to Asia and Africa as well as trading partnerships formed in the exchange of commodities ranging from textiles to military technology and from opium to indigo. In …
The Muslim Merchants of Premodern China
The History of a Maritime Asian Trade Diaspora, 750-1400
Inbunden, 2018
1492 kr
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In this major new history of Muslim merchants and their trade links with China, John W. Chaffee uncovers 700 years of history, from the eighth century, when Muslim communities first established themselves in southeastern China, through the fourteenth century, when trade all but ceased. These were …
June Fourth
The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989
Av Jeremy Brown
Inbunden, 2021
1362 kr
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The Tiananmen protests and Beijing massacre of 1989 were a major turning point in recent Chinese history. In this new analysis of 1989, Jeremy Brown tells the vivid stories of participants and victims, exploring the nationwide scope of the democracy movement and the brutal crackdown that crushed …
China's Civil War
A Social History, 1945-1949
Av Diana Lary
Inbunden, 2015
935 kr
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China's Civil War is the first book of its kind to offer a social history in English of the Civil War in 1945-9 that brought the Chinese Communist Party to power. Integrating history and memory, it surveys a period of intense upheaval and chaos to show how the Communist Party and its armies …
Japanese Confucianism
A Cultural History
Inbunden, 2016
1559 kr
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For more than 1500 years, Confucianism has played a major role in shaping Japan's history - from the formation of the first Japanese states during the first millennium AD, to Japan's modernization in the nineteenth century, to World War II and its still unresolved legacies across East Asia today. …
Epidemics in Modern Asia
Inbunden, 2016
1509 kr
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Epidemics have played a critical role in shaping modern Asia. Encompassing two centuries of Asian history, Robert Peckham explores the profound impact that infectious disease has had on societies across the region: from India to China and the Russian Far East. The book tracks the links between …
Islam and Asia
A History
Inbunden, 2020
1442 kr
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Chiara Formichi explores the ways in which Islam and Asia have shaped each other's histories, societies and cultures from the seventh century to today. Challenging the assumed dominance of the Middle East in the development of Islam, Formichi argues for Asia's centrality in the development of …
