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  • A Study of Legal Tradition of China from a Culture Perspective

    Searching for Harmony in the Natural Order

    by Zhiping Liang ...
    Translated by Jingrong Li, Junwu Pan, Jie Xue ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Professor Zhiping Liang offers a new understanding of Chinese legal tradition in this profoundly influential book. Unlike the available literature using the usual method of legal history research, this book attempts to illustrate ancient Chinese legal tradition through cultural interpretation. The author holds that both the concept and practice of law are meaningful cultural symbols. The law ... Read more

    $205.99 CAD

  • Green Solvents in Organic Synthesis

    Edited by Xiao-Feng Wu, Zhiping Yin, Liang-nian He, Feng Wang ...
    Green Solvents in Organic SynthesisEssential reference on replacing conventional solvents with greener alternatives in industrial chemicals synthesis and productionA well-timed book promoting sustainability in synthesis and production of chemicals, Green Solvents in Organic Synthesis details various green solvents, solvent systems, and solubilization techniques, including their chemistry, ... Read more

    $194.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Affective Relations

    East Asia and Beyond

    by Daniel A. Bell, Hahm Chaihark, Joseph Chan, Sin Yee Chan, Ruiping Fan, Tatiana Yu. Danilchenko, Sung Ho Kim, Shaomin Li, Randall Peerenboom0, Hoyt Cleveland Tillman1, Jane K. Winn2, David B. Wong3, R. Bin Wong4, Liang Zhiping5 ...
    Series series Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
    In The Politics of Affective Relations, editors Daniel Bell and Hahm Chaihark refine our understanding of the East Asian conception of the self by examining how that conception was formulated, reproduced, and utilized throughout history. Sparked by a strong dissatisfaction with the state over many discourses regarding East Asian politics, this volume moves beyond the simplistic exchange of ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

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  • Encountering China

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    Edited by Michael J. Sandel, Paul J. D'Ambrosio ...
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  • Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power

    by Xuetong Yan ...
    Translated by Edmund Ryden ...
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    From China's most influential foreign policy thinker, a vision for a "Beijing Consensus" for international relationsThe rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will China look like in the future? What should it look like? And what will China's rise mean for the rest of world? This book, written by China's most influential foreign policy ... Read more

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  • The Early Chinese Empires

    Qin and Han

    by Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook ...
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  • From the Soil

    The Foundations of Chinese Society

    by Xiaotong Fei ...
    This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil describes the contrasting organizational principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the essential ... Read more

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  • Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia

    Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering

    by Philipp Lottholz ...
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  • Asia as Method

    Toward Deimperialization

    by Kuan-Hsing Chen ...
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  • Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors

    Culture, Power, and Connections, 580-800

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  • Confucian Perfectionism

    A Political Philosophy for Modern Times

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    "This splendid book makes a powerful case that Confucianism has much to contribute to contemporary political thought and practice the world over." —Stephen C. Angle, Wesleyan UniversitySince the very beginning, Confucianism has been troubled by a serious gap between its political ideals and the reality of societal circumstances. Contemporary Confucians must develop a viable method of governance ... Read more

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