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  • The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy

    de Fung Yu-Lan ...
    Traducido por E. R. Hughes ...
    First published in 1947. The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy covers the major philosophers and philosophical movements in China from Confucius to the middle of the twentieth century including: Confucius, Mencius, Yang Chu and Mo Ti, the Dialecticians and Logicians, Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu, The Han Scholars, The Mystical School, The Ch'an Tsung of Buddhism, The Neo-Confucianist Philosophy. ... Leer más

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  • By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean

    The Birth of Eurasia

    By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years, from the origins of farming around 9000 BC to the expansion of the Mongols in the thirteenth century AD. An unashamedly 'big history', it charts the development of ... Leer más

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  • In Camp with the Katchins, Burma, Illustrated.

    de H E Colevile ...
    This report from an outpost of the British Empire in Northern Burma during the last decade of the nineteenth century highlights the colonial mindset. Written for an American Audience of the period. ... Leer más

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  • A History of the Mahrattas

    In Three Volumes

    A History of the Mahrattas: In Three Volumes by James Grant Duff.The want of a complete history of the rise, progress, and decline of our immediate predecessors in conquest, the Mahrattas, has been long felt by all persons conversant with the affairs of India; in so much, that it is very generally acknowledged, we cannot fully understand the means by which our own vast empire in that quarter was ... Leer más

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  • The Mystique of Transmission

    On an Early Chan History and Its Context

    de Wendi Adamek ...
    The Mystique of Transmission is a close reading of a late-eighth-century Chan/Zen Buddhist hagiographical work, the Lidai fabao ji (Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations), and is its first English translation. The text is the only remaining relic of the little-known Bao Tang Chan school of Sichuan, and combines a sectarian history of Buddhism and Chan in China with an account of the ... Leer más

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  • China and the Chinese in Popular Film

    From Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan

    Series series Cinema and Society
    There's a folk memory of China in which numberless yellow hordes pour out of the 'mysterious East' to overwhelm the vulnerable West, accompanied by a stereotype of the Chinese as cruel, cunning and depraved. Hollywood films played their part in perpetuating these myths and stereotypes that constituted 'The Yellow Peril'. Jeffrey Richards examines in detail how and why they did it. He shows how the ... Leer más

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  • Primitive Selves

    Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910–1945

    Series Libro 5 - Colonialisms
    This remarkable book examines the complex history of Japanese colonial and postcolonial interactions with Korea, particularly in matters of cultural policy. E. Taylor Atkins focuses on past and present Japanese fascination with Korean culture as he reassesses colonial anthropology, heritage curation, cultural policy, and Korean performance art in Japanese mass media culture. Atkins challenges the ... Leer más

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  • Peasants without the Party

    Grassroots Movements in Twentieth Century China

    de Lucien Bianco ...
    Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes in modern and contemporary Asia and the Pacific. The leading specialist on China's twentieth century peasant resistance reexamines, in bold and original ways, the question: Was the Chinese peasantry a revolutionary force? Where most scholarly ... Leer más

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  • The Fatal Fortress

    The Guns and Fortifications of Singapore 1819–1953

    de Bill Clements ...
    The military historian presents a fascinating reassessment of Britain's Singapore Naval Base and the WWII Battle of Singapore.The Fall of Singapore in February 1942 was arguably the greatest disaster suffered by the British Empire. Between 1923 and 1938, the Singapore naval base had been upgraded with some of the largest coast guns ever installed. But the guns' design and incorrect siting have ... Leer más

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  • Missionary Discourses of Difference

    Negotiating Otherness in the British Empire, 1840-1900

    de E. Cleall ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Missionary Discourse examines missionary writings from India and southern Africa to explore colonial discourses about race, religion, gender and culture. The book is organised around three themes: family, sickness and violence, which were key areas of missionary concern, and important axes around which colonial difference was forged. ... Leer más

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  • Selected Topics on Archaeology, History and Culture in the Malay World

    This book presents selected academic papers addressing five key research areas – archaeology, history, language, culture and arts – related to the Malay Civilisation. It outlines new findings, interpretations, policies, methodologies and theories that were presented at the International Seminar on Archaeology, History, and Language in the Malay Civilisation (ASBAM5) in 2016. Further, it provides ... Leer más

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  • Indian Doctors in Kenya, 1895-1940

    The Forgotten History

    Series series History (R0)
    This ground-breaking book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya during the height of British colonialism, between 1895 and 1940. The story of these important Indian professionals presents a rare social history of an important political minority. ... Leer más

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