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  • The Beggar Lama

    The Life of the Gyalrong Kuzhap

    de Jinba Tenzin ...
    The Beggar Lama is the story of the Gyalrong Kuzhap, a Tibetan Buddhist polymath and reincarnated lama who has led a remarkable life through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century. Born in 1930 in Tsanlha, Gyalrong, on the easternmost fringes of the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau, he would go on to become a monk, a Communist official, a professor of Tibetan studies, and a leader in the Tibetan ... Leer más

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  • The Beggar Lama

    The Life of the Gyalrong Kuzhap

    de Jinba Tenzin ...
    The Beggar Lama is the story of the Gyalrong Kuzhap, a Tibetan Buddhist polymath and reincarnated lama who has led a remarkable life through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century. Born in 1930 in Tsanlha, Gyalrong, on the easternmost fringes of the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau, he would go on to become a monk, a Communist official, a professor of Tibetan studies, and a leader in the Tibetan ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • In the Land of the Eastern Queendom

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Midnight in Peking

    The Murder That Haunted the Last Days of Old China

    de Paul French ...
    January, 1937: Peking is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, lavish cocktail bars and opium dens, warlords and corruption, rumours and superstition – and the clock is ticking down on all of it.In the exclusive Legation Quarter, the foreigners are jumpy. Japanese troops are poised to attack, and word has it the Chinese government is about to cut a deal with Tokyo, leaving Peking to its fate. Fear ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Puer Tea

    Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic

    de Jinghong Zhang, K. Sivaramakrishnan ...
    Series series Culture, Place, and Nature
    Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the “Six Great Tea Mountains” of Yunnan Province, and in imperial China it was a prized commodity, traded to Tibet by horse or mule caravan via the so-called Tea Horse Road and presented as tribute to the emperor in Beijing. In the 1990s, as the tea’s noble lineage and unique process of aging and fermentation were rediscovered, it achieved cult status both ... Leer más

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  • Browning FN Hi-Power: An Engraved Mystery

    Continuing Education, #8

    de TK Rolland ...
    Series Libro 8 - Continuing Education
    In 2009 an engraved 1935 Browning FN Hi-Power in perfectly preserved condition appeared for sale online. Purportedly a personal gift from Chiang Kai-shek, the gun had been carefully stored away until finally sold as part of an estate. This article looks into the mystery of the gun's provenance. How had this Browning passed from a once powerful Asian leader to an American soldier during WWII? ... Leer más

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  • An Uprising on a Voyage in the Coolie Trade. Illustrated.

    de Edgar Holden ...
    The tale of a voyage from Macao to Havana of a shipment of Mutinous Chinese Coolies. Written at a time (1864) when the Chinese were being considered as replacements for the soon to be freed American Slaves. ... Leer más

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  • Living with Reform

    China since 1989

    de Timothy Cheek ...
    Series series Global History of the Present
    China is huge. China is growing more powerful. Yet China remains a great mystery to most people in the West. This contemporary history, based on the latest scholarly research, offers a balanced perspective of the continuing legacy of Maoism in the lives not only of China's leaders but China's working people. It outlines the ambitious economic reforms taken since the 1980s and shows the complex ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet

    Imperial Strategy in the Early Qing

    de Yingcong Dai ...
    Series series China Program Books
    During China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), the empire's remote, bleak, and politically insignificant Southwest rose to become a strategically vital area. This study of the imperial government's handling of the southwestern frontier illuminates issues of considerable importance in Chinese history and foreign relations: Sichuan's rise as a key strategic area in relation to the complicated ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State

    de Justin M. Jacobs ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295806570Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Han officials who were tasked with governing Xinjiang. This region, inhabited by Uighurs, Kazaks, Hui, Mongols, Kirgiz, and Tajiks, is also the last significant “colony” of the former Qing empire to remain under continuous Chinese rule throughout the ... Leer más

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  • Familiar Strangers

    A History of Muslims in Northwest China

    de Jonathan N. Lipman ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295800554The Chinese-speaking Muslims have for centuries been an inseparable but anomalous part of Chinese society--Sinophone yet incomprehensible, local yet outsiders, normal but different. Long regarded by the Chinese government as prone to violence, they have challenged fundamental Chinese conceptions of "self" and "other" and denied the totally transforming ... Leer más

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  • The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

    Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire

    de Thomas H. Reilly ...
    Series series China Program Books
    Occupying much of imperial China’s Yangzi River heartland and costing more than twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion (1851-64) was no ordinary peasant revolt. What most distinguished this dramatic upheaval from earlier rebellions were the spiritual beliefs of the rebels. The core of the Taiping faith focused on the belief that Shangdi, the high God of classical China, had chosen the Taiping ... Leer más

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