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This book examines the rising global prominence of China’s art market throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. To understand the far-reaching impact of Chinese art on global consumption, this book traces the shift from regional markets to global markets. It...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-09-30
Collection :
Worlds of Consumption
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This innovative volume provides insight into the vast changes in societies now and in the near future, and highlights the need for a new sociological approach to analyse these changes. It particularly reviews and critiques existing theories of globalization and analyses...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-08-04
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book explores how narratives, exhibitions, media representations, and cultural heritage sites that communicate memories of conflicts in East Asia between 1930 and 1945 spread, interact, and are re-packaged for post-war audiences across national divisions. The...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-06-29
Collection :
Entangled Memories in the Global South
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Focusing on the integration of the Chinese civilization over the last four millennia, this book outlines the history of clashes, interactions, and fusion between the Huaxia civilization and the Grassland civilization, the two major powers shaping the history of China,...
Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2023-06-27
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they paid for in this Murder on the Orient Express–style adventure, set in China’s republican era. In May 1923, when Shanghai publisher and reporter John...
Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2023-04-04
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
16,99€ (-12%)
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This book offers the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the origins and development of China’s genealogy, as well as its fundamental role in eugenics, ethics, politics and culture throughout China’s history. This book is divided into two parts:...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-03-22
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book presents an archeological interpretation of the history of Chinese civilization. Tracing back from recent history to the distant past, it explores the breadth of Chinese civilization. Using archeological remains and cultural relics as starting points and...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-02-24
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY THE NEW YORKERWOMEN'S NATIONAL BOOK ASSOCIATION 2023 Great Group Read This extraordinary memoir shares an insight into the lives of the Uyghurs, a people and culture being systematically destroyed by China—and a woman who...
Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2023-02-21
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
12,99€ (-8%)
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Based on extensive oral history interviews, Dreaming the New Woman uncovers the experiences of girls who attended missionary middle schools in Republican China in the first half of the twentieth century. Chinese missionary schoolgirls were often labelled "foreign...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2023-02-15
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book examines the origins and basic concepts of sociology in China and traces the discipline’s evolutionary trajectory. Building on the premise that qunxue, which goes back to Xunzi, is essentially the Chinese antecedent of...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-11-14
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Dieses Buch enthält eine Sammlung deutscher diplomatischer Dokumente - darunter Telegramme, Depeschen und Berichte -, die von deutschen Diplomaten in Nanking an das Auswärtige Amt in Berlin und den deutschen Botschafter in Hankou, China, geschickt wurden und die...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2022-10-12
Format(s) : PDF
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Winner, The Lionel Gelber Prize
Silver Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award
For decades, China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Then, as Susan L. Shirk, shows in this sobering, clear-eyed account of China today, something...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2022-10-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book analyzes the drawing data and methods of the Chinese ancient maps that are neglected by the previous researches, and reevaluates the drawing theories and methods, the influences, and accuracy of the maps that represents the scientificity of Chinese ancient...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-08-23
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This book presents a collection of annotated English translations of German diplomatic documents—including telegrams, dispatches and reports—sent to the Foreign Office in Berlin and the German Ambassador in Hankou, China, by German diplomatic officials in...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-08-02
Format(s) : PDF
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This book offers a re-interpretation of the political history of Macau from 1937 to 1945, during which Japan and China were engulfed in the Second World War. Using an array of English and Chinese sources, the author explores the diplomatic and social landscape of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-07-15
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Through case studies of pilot conservation projects launched by the Yunnan Provincial Archives in recent years, this book comprehensively and systematically discusses issues in the conservation of ethnic oral history material and the development of ethnic oral history...
Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2022-05-18
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This book explores how steam engine technology was transferred into nineteenth-century China in the second half of the nineteenth century by focusing on the transmission of knowledge and skills. It takes on the long-term problem in historiography that puts too much...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-04-22
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Based on more than a decade's writing, research, and travel, this book offers a rare glimpse into China's expanding economic, cultural, and political power in the Eurasian heartland.
China's rise is changing the world. Much attention has been given to how China's...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-04-14
Format(s) : ePub
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History didn't end. Democracy didn't triumph. America's leading role in the world is no longer assured. Instead, autocrats and populist strongmen are on the rise, and the global order established after 1945 is under attack. This is the phenomenon Katie Stallard tackles...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2022-04-08
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Based on more than a decade's writing, research, and travel, this book offers a rare glimpse into China's expanding economic, cultural, and political power in the Eurasian heartland.
China's rise is changing the world. Much attention has been given to how China's...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-03-31
Format(s) : PDF
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