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  • Religion and Religious Practices in Rural China

    by Mu Peng ...
    Series series Routledge Religion in Contemporary Asia Series
    This book explores how, unlike in the West, the daily religious life of most Chinese people spreads without institutional propagation. Based upon more than a decade of field research in rural China, the book demonstrates the decisive role of rites of passage and yearly festival rituals held in every household in shaping people’s religious dispositions. It focuses on the family, the unit most ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • The Chinese Particle De

    by Quan Wan ...
    Translated by Peng Xinjia, Mu Yezi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book indicates that the nature and function of de is one of the core issues in the study of Chinese grammar. There are many related studies, which are not only a long-term controversial and difficult problem, but also a theoretical issue that constantly invites the renewal of research methods. This book mainly focuses on the following aspects, summarizes the achievements of the previous ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • China And East Asia: After The Wall Street Crisis

    by Yaqing Qin, Peng Er Lam, Mu Yang ...
    Series Book 33 - Series On Contemporary China
    This book examines the need for greater East Asian cooperation and the challenges to this grand endeavor. With differing national outlooks, how can East Asia preserve peace, prosperity and stability amidst geopolitical competition? To answer this question, the volume examines the political and economic relations between Beijing and its neighbors against the backdrop of two trends: the power shift ... Read more

    $48.39 CAD

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    Structure, Use and Context

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  • China in the Era of Xi Jinping

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    by Robert S. Ross, Jo Inge Bekkevold, Zhiyue Bo, Yongnian Zheng, Cuifen Weng, Barry Naughton, Joseph Fewsmith, Stig Stenslie, Gang Chen0, Linda Jakobson1, Andrew Nathan2, Helge Hveem3, T J. Pempel4, Mingjiang Li5 ...
    Since becoming president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping has emerged as China's most powerful and popular leader since Deng Xiaoping. The breathtaking economic expansion and military modernization that Xi inherited has convinced him that China can transform into a twenty-first-century superpower.In this collection, leading scholars from the United States, ... Read more

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  • Daoism

    A Beginner's Guide

    by James Miller ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    From T’ai Chi to the Ming Dynasty, this is an engrossing guide to the elusive Chinese tradition of Daoism.Spanning the centuries and crossing the globe, this engaging introduction covers everything Daoist, from the religion of the ancients to 21st century T’ai Chi and meditation. Complete with a timeline of Daoist history and a full glossary, Daoism: A Beginner's Guide will prove invaluable not ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • State Capitalism

    How the Return of Statism is Transforming the World

    by Joshua Kurlantzick ...
    The end of the Cold War ushered in an age of American triumphalism best characterized by the "Washington Consensus:" the idea that free markets, democratic institutions, limitations on government involvement in the economy, and the rule of law were the foundations of prosperity and stability. The last fifteen years, starting with the Asian financial crisis, have seen the gradual erosion of that ... Read more

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  • Lives of Confucius

    Civilization's Greatest Sage Through the Ages

    by Michael Nylan, Thomas Wilson ...
    Confucius—“Master Kung” (551–479 BCE), the Chinese thinker and social philosopher—originated teachings that have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese thought and life over many centuries. His philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality, justice, and appropriateness in social relationships. In time these values gained prominence in China over other doctrines, ... Read more

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  • Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar

    by Stephen Matthews, Virginia Yip ...
    Series series Routledge Comprehensive Grammars
    Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to Cantonese as spoken by native speakers in Hong Kong. It presents a fresh and accessible description of the language, concentrating on the real patterns of use in current Cantonese. This makes it the ideal reference source for all learners and users of Cantonese, irrespective of level, in schools, colleges, universities and adult ... Read more

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  • Corruption and Good Governance in Asia

    Edited by Nicholas Tarling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Bringing together contributions on the nature of corruption in East and Southeast Asia, this edited volume examines the means of limiting and ultimately eliminating corruption at a national and international level. Taking a country by country approach the text explores:the concept of corruption, now and in the pastrecent experiences of Asian countries at the macro- and micro-levelspractical local ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Feng Shui

    by Ole Bruun ...
    Series series Introduction to Religion
    Feng Shui has been known in the West for the last 150 years but has mostly been regarded as a primitive superstition. During the modern period successive regimes in China have suppressed its practice. However, in the last few decades Feng Shui has become a global spiritual movement with professional associations, thousands of titles published on the subject, countless websites devoted to it and ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation

    Perspectives from East Asian Languages

    Edited by Andrew Simpson, Audrey-Li Yen-hui ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics
    The issue of how interpretation results from the form and type of syntactic structures present in language is one which is central and hotly debated in both theoretical and descriptive linguistics. This volume brings together a series of eleven new cutting-edge essays by leading experts in East Asian languages which shows how the study of formal structures and functional morphemes in Chinese, ... Read more

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