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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “shu li wang”
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  • In Search of National Ancestors

    Heritage, Identity and Placemaking in China

    by Shu-Li Wang ...
    Series series Elements in Critical Heritage Studies
    This Element examines how international heritage discourses are internalized and reshaped in China, using the Yellow Emperor cults as a lens to explore broader themes of intangible heritage, religious resurgence, and identity construction. The central argument is that cultural heritage serves as a powerful tool for shaping new religious expressions and enabling Chinese localities to assert their ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Proceedings of 2025 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Transportation

    Volume VII

    Edited by Shu-Feng Wang, Zhihong Li, Mingyang Pei, Wenhui Zhang, Tianli Tang, Ying Rong ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book reflects the latest research trends, methods, and experimental results in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Transportation, which covers abundant state-of-the-art research theories and ideas. As a vital research area that is highly relevant to current developments in a number of technological domains, the topics covered include Autonomous Transportation Systems, ... Read more

    $384.99 CAD

  • Heritage and Religion in East Asia

    Edited by Shu-Li Wang, Michael Rowlands, Yujie Zhu ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Museums and Heritage in Asia
    Heritage and Religion in East Asia examines how religious heritage, in a mobile way, plays across national boundaries in East Asia and, in doing so, the book provides new theoretical insights into the articulation of heritage and religion.Drawing on primary, comparative research carried out in four East Asian countries, much of which was undertaken by East Asian scholars, the book shows how the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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    And the World He Created

    by Michael Schuman ...
    Confucius is perhaps the most important philosopher in history. Today, his teachings shape the daily lives of more than 1.6 billion people. Throughout East Asia, Confucius's influence can be seen in everything from business practices and family relationships to educational standards and government policies. Even as western ideas from Christianity to Communism have bombarded the region, Confucius's ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • 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

  • Chinese History in Geographical Perspective

    by Kathlene Baldanza, Peter K. Bol, Andrew Chittick, Luke Hambleton, Laura Hostetler, Huei-Ying Kuo, Yajun Mo, Gregory Rohlf, Karl Ryavec, Daoqin Tong, Stephen Whiteman, Jiang Wu, Xiaoquan Raphael Zhang ...
    The authors in this volume believe that long-term, profound, and sometimes tumultuous changes in the last five hundred years of the history of China have been no less geographical than social, political, or economic. From the dialectics of local-empire relations to the imperial state’s persistent array of projects for absorbing and transforming ethnic regions on the margins of empire; from the ... Read more

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  • China's Last Imperial Frontier

    Late Qing Expansion in Sichuan's Tibetan Borderlands

    by Xiuyu Wang ...
    China's Last Imperial Frontier explores imperial China's frontier expansion in the Tibetan borderlands during the last decades of the Qing. The empire mounted a series of military attacks against indigenous chieftaincies and Buddhist monasteries in the east Tibetan region seeking to replace native authorities with state bureaucrats by redrawing the politically diverse frontier into a system of ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • A History of Chinese Political Thought

    by Youngmin Kim ...
    China's rapid rise as a regional and global power is one of the most important political developments of the twenty-first century. Yet the West still largely overlooks or oversimplifies the complex ideas and ideals that have shaped the country’s national and international transformation from antiquity to the present day.In this beautifully written introductory text, Youngmin Kim offers a uniquely ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • In the Land of the Eastern Queendom

    The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border

    by Tenzin Jinba ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804842The story underlying this ethnography began with the recent discovery and commercialization of the remnant of an ancient “queendom” on the Sichuan-Tibet border. Recorded in classical Chinese texts, this legendary matriarchal domain has attracted not only tourists but the vigilance of the Chinese state. Tenzin Jinba’s research examines the consequences ... Read more

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  • Civilization and Empire

    China and Japan's Encounter with European International Society

    by Shogo Suzuki ...
    Series series New International Relations
    This book critically examines the influence of International Society on East Asia, and how its attempts to introduce ‘civilization’ to ‘barbarous’ polities contributed to conflict between China and Japan.Challenging existing works that have presented the expansion of (European) International Society as a progressive, linear process, this book contends that imperialism – along with an ideology ... Read more

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  • China

    The Political Philosophy of the Middle Kingdom

    by Tongdong Bai ...
    Series series World Political Theories
    China is a rising economic and political power. But what is the message of this rise? Tongdong Bai addresses this increasingly pressing question by examining the rich history of political theories and practices from China's past, and showing how it impacts upon the present.Chinese political traditions are often viewed negatively as 'authoritarian' (in contrast with 'Western' democratic traditions) ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Faiths on Display

    Religion, Tourism, and the Chinese State

    Edited by Tim Oakes, Donald S. Sutton ...
    By providing a unique perspective on China's changing relationship with religion, this groundbreaking book explores the role the Chinese state continues to play in religious revival today. Over the past several decades, China has experienced a rapid expansion of religious spaces and activities. More recently, a growing middle-class urban society has fueled an upsurge in Chinese domestic tourism. ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD