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  • The Origins of the Chinese Nation

    Song China and the Forging of an East Asian World Order

    In this major new study, Nicolas Tackett proposes that the Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127) witnessed both the maturation of an East Asian inter-state system and the emergence of a new worldview and sense of Chinese identity among educated elites. These developments together had sweeping repercussions for the course of Chinese history, while also demonstrating that there has existed in world ... Leer más

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    This extraordinary first-hand account of Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop's experiences as senior medical officer in the infamous prisoner-of-war camps in Java and on the Burma-Thailand Railway, is not only an account of great historical significance but also a testament to the ability of the human spirit to overcome the most unbearably cruel conditions.'I have the testimony of hundreds of Australians ... Leer más

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  • Comfort Women & My Kale Sister Plants

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    I have my two missing aunts!The only thing we knew was that my two aunts were in a truck taken somewhere by Japanese.It never occurred to me that my two missing aunts could have been used as Comfort Women—sex slaves until.... ... Leer más

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  • The Makings of Indonesian Islam

    Orientalism and the Narration of a Sufi Past

    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    Indonesian Islam is often portrayed as being intrinsically moderate by virtue of the role that mystical Sufism played in shaping its traditions. According to Western observers--from Dutch colonial administrators and orientalist scholars to modern anthropologists such as the late Clifford Geertz--Indonesia's peaceful interpretation of Islam has been perpetually under threat from outside by more ... Leer más

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  • Re-inventing Japan

    Nation, Culture, Identity

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  • The Archaeology of Japan

    From the Earliest Rice Farming Villages to the Rise of the State

    Series series Cambridge World Archaeology
    This is the first book-length study of the Yayoi and Kofun periods of Japan (c.600 BC–AD 700), in which the introduction of rice paddy-field farming from the Korean peninsula ignited the rapid development of social complexity and hierarchy that culminated with the formation of the ancient Japanese state. The author traces the historical trajectory of the Yayoi and Kofun periods by employing ... Leer más

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  • Epistolary Korea

    Letters in the Communicative Space of the Chosôn, 1392-1910

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  • The Confucian Mind

    A Historical and In-Depth Look at Asian Culture and Psyche

    de Daniel Wang ...
    Publication Date: July 2006The Confucian civilization is thoroughly examined and explained in this volume, historically, philosophically and psychologically, by its two most prominant examples (Chinese and Japanese cultures), after a multi-year research effort, with ground breaking findings and analyses not available elsewhere.Historically Asian civilizations followed a dramatically different path ... Leer más

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  • Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India

    The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness

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  • Rural Development in Transitional China

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    Since the late 1970s, China has experienced the most rapid social and economic changes in world history. Over 200 million rural inhabitants were lifted out of absolute poverty and tens of millions became wealthier than the average urban resident. This book offers an authoritative and in-depth analysis of the social and economic changes that have swept through the Chinese countryside. Topics ... Leer más

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    The Rise and Fall of Political Dynasty in the Middle East

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    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
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  • In the Lap of Tigers

    The Communist Labor University of Jiangxi Province

    Founded in the forested mountains of China's remote Jiangxi Province in 1958, the Communist Labor University, along with some 100 branch campuses, introduced uneducated farmers and peasants to basic agricultural science and farming techniques through an innovative work-study program until 1980. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials, John Cleverley here explores the inner workings of this ... Leer más

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