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  • Portraits of Chinese Schools

    by Mingyuan Gu, Jiansheng Ma, Jun Teng ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book unravels the mysteries of the Chinese school system to enable international scholars to better understand the logic of basic education in China. By collecting the latest, first-hand empirical data, it outlines a panoramic and vivid portrait of Chinese schools from principals’, teachers’, students’ and parents’ perspectives, including descriptions of their daily lives. It also interprets ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modern Asian Educators

    1850–2000

    Edited by Shin'ichi Suzuki, Gary McCulloch, Mingyuan Gu, Parimala V. Rao, Ji-Yeon Hong ...
    This handbook is a unique and major resource on modern educators of Asia and their contribution to Asian educational development through the 19th and 20th centuries when modernization started in Asia. In one comprehensive volume, this handbook covers a selection of modern educators from East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia – and their contributions to the development of modern education, ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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  • China in the 21st Century:What Everyone Needs to Know

    by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, Jeffrey Wasserstrom provides cogent answers to the most urgent questions ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know

    What Everyone Needs to Know

    by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The need to understand China has never been more pressing. Within one generation, the global giant has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse; yet conflicting impressions of the country and its leaders abound. In the fully revised and updated second edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, China expert Jeffrey ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Rohingyas

    Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide

    by Azeem Ibrahim ...
    The Rohingya are a Muslim group who live in Rakhine state (formerly Arakan state) in western Myanmar (Burma), a majority Buddhist country. According to the United Nations, they are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. They suffer routine discrimination at the hands of neighboring Buddhist Rakhine groups, but international human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch (HRW) have ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • China in the 21st Century

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world's newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China's meteoric rise from developing country to superpower. Framing their answers through the historical legacies ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • George Yeo: Musings

    Series One

    by George Yeo, Tai Ho Woon ...
    Over sessions which lasted two to three hours each time, every week for half a year, George Yeo met and mused over a wide range of topics with writer Woon Tai Ho and research assistant Keith Yap. Speaking from notes, he began with himself and his hope for Singapore, and then spanned over a wide range of subjects — from the importance of human diversity and Singapore's reflection within itself of ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The China Questions

    Critical Insights into a Rising Power

    Edited by Jennifer Rudolph, Michael Szonyi ...
    “Cuts through the cacophony of information, misinformation, and nonsense on China that circulates in our modern world to give us reliable answers to crucial questions… Should be on the shelf of anyone seeking to understand this fast-rising superpower.”—Ian Johnson, author of The Souls of ChinaAfter years of isolation, China is now center stage as an economic and global power, but its rise has ... Read more

    $24.89 CAD

  • The Religious Question in Modern China

    by Vincent Goossaert, David A. Palmer ...
    Recent events—from strife in Tibet and the rapid growth of Christianity in China to the spectacular expansion of Chinese Buddhist organizations around the globe—vividly demonstrate that one cannot understand the modern Chinese world without attending closely to the question of religion. The Religious Question in Modern China highlights parallels and contrasts between historical events, political ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Rohingyas

    Inside Myanmar's Genocide

    by Azeem Ibrahim ...
    According to the United Nations, Myanmar's Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Only now has the media turned its attention to their plight at the hands of a country led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet the signs of this genocide have been visible for years. For generations, this Muslim group has suffered routine discrimination, violence, arbitrary ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Demystifying China

    New Understandings of Chinese History

    Edited by Naomi Standen ...
    For westerners, China’s history is often reduced to a choice between timeless Confucian ideals or incomprehensible barbarisms such as footbinding or mass slaughter, fueled by generalizations such as “China has five thousand years of history,” “China was a Confucian society,” “Chinese women were victims,” “China is a communist country,” and many more. But China is now too globally important to ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Women in Modern Burma

    by Tharaphi Than ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This book challenges the popular notion that Burmese women are powerful and are granted equal rights as men by society. Throughout history Burmese women have been represented as powerful and as having equal status to men by western travellers and scholars alike. National history about women also follows this conjecture. This book explains why actually very few powerful Burmese women exist, and how ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD