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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-674-50437-0
EAN 9780674504370
The friendships of writers of the mid-Tang era (780s-820s)-between literary giants like Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen, Han Yu and Meng Jiao, Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi-became famous through the many texts they wrote to and about one another. What inspired mid-Tang literati to write about their friendships with such zeal? And how did these ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-674-96767-0
EAN 9780674967670
When Japan invaded China in the summer of 1937, many Chinese journalists greeted the news with euphoria. For years, the Chinese press had urged Chiang Kai-shek to resist Tokyo's aggressive overtures. This was the war they wanted, convinced that their countrymen would triumph.Parks Coble recaptures the experiences of China's war correspondents during the Sino-Japanese War ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-674-05815-6
EAN 9780674058156
China's Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the revolution was just beginning. Andrew Walder narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist state from 1949 to 1976-an epoch of startling accomplishments and disastrous failures, steered by many forces but dominated above all by Mao Zedong.China's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 234 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-1-107-54497-0
EAN 9781107544970
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- Basic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 27,05 €
ISBN 978-0-465-02551-0
EAN 9780465025510
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 ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-674-50429-5
EAN 9780674504295
Joseph R. Dennis demonstrates the significance of imperial Chinese local gazetteers in both local societies and national discourses. Whereas previous studies argued that publishing, and thus cultural and intellectual power, were concentrated in the southeast, Dennis shows that publishing and book ownership were widely dispersed throughout China.This book is the definitive study of imperial Chinese ...
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- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-039-6
EAN 9781781250396
In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city's first Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it remained in the bowels of the library, until called up by an inquisitive reader.When Timothy Brook ...
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- Random House USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,80 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-8480-4
EAN 9780812984804
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Bending Adversity
The Japanese Art of Survival
- Penguin UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95767-7
EAN 9780241957677
This is a both definitive and highly enjoyable book on how modern Japan works, from Asia expert David Pilling. It is also the financial Times Book of the Year 2014. "An affectionate, beautifully written and counter-intuitively optimistic take on the country, which stresses Japan's ability to reinvent itself." (Gideon Rachman, Financial Times).Despite years of stagnation, ...
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The Blood Telegram
Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
- Hurst, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 548 páginas
PVP: 23,55 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-457-8
EAN 9781849044578
Named as a Book of the Year by the New York Times, Economist and Financial Times.2014 Pulitzer Prize FinalistA riveting history-the first full account-of the involvement of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in the 1971 atrocities in Bangladesh that led to war between India and Pakistan, shaped the fate of Asia, and left in their ...
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Empress Dowager Cixi
The Concubine who Launched Modern China
- Vintage UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-953239-2
EAN 9780099532392
Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age. At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor's numerous concubines and sexual partners.When he died in 1861, ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 346 páginas
PVP: 49,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-61284-3
EAN 9780691612843
Ronald P. Toby argues that this isolationism was by no means so complete as traditionally supposed. He demonstrates that the Tokugawa shoguns conducted a foreign policy that established the shogunate's legitimacy, preserved Japan's security in an unstable environment, and buttressed her ideological pretensions to centrality in an East Asian order independent of the Chinese world ...
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China's War with Japan, 1937-1945
The Struggle for Survival
- Penguin UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103145-3
EAN 9780141031453
Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident' plunged China and Japan into a conflict of extraordinary duration and ferocity - a war which would result in many millions of deaths and completely reshape East Asia ...
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How Asia Works
Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-243-8
EAN 9781846682438
Until the catastrophic economic crisis of the late 1990s, East Asia was perceived as a monolithic success story. But heady economic growth rates masked the most divided continent in the world - one half the most extraordinary developmental success story ever seen, the other half a paper tiger. Joe Studwell explores how policies ridiculed by ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 35,40 €
ISBN 978-1-4426-1416-1
EAN 9781442614161
The first book-length study of Kobe's Foreign Concession, Opening a Window to the West situates Kobe within the larger pattern of globalization occurring throughout East Asia in the nineteenth century.After more than two centuries of self-seclusion, Japan finally opened itself to Western traders and influences in the 1850s. However, Westerners were restricted to a handful ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 246 páginas
PVP: 53,80 €
ISBN 978-1-107-61788-9
EAN 9781107617889
Legal Imperialism examines the important role of nineteenth-century Western extraterritorial courts in non-Western states. These courts, created as a separate legal system for Western expatriates living in Asian and Islamic countries, developed from the British imperial model, which was founded on ideals of legal positivism. Based on a cross-cultural comparison of the emergence, function, and ...
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Krischer, Olivier; Nakamura, Fuyubi; Perkins, Morgan
Asia Through Art and Anthropology : Cultural Translation Across Borders
* AWARDED BEST ANTHOLOGY BY THE ART ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND * How has Asia been imagined, represented and transferred both literally and visually across linguistic, geopolitical and cultural boundaries? This book explores the shifting roles of those who produce, critique and translate creative forms and practices, for which distinctions of geography, ethnicity, ...
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Lost Colony
The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 27,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15957-7
EAN 9780691159577
During the seventeenth century, Holland created the world's most dynamic colonial empire, outcompeting the British and capturing Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Yet, in the Sino-Dutch War--Europe's first war with China--the Dutch met their match in a colorful Chinese warlord named Koxinga. Part samurai, part pirate, he led his generals to victory over the Dutch and ...
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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 20,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19410-4
EAN 9780300194104
A timely and illuminating history of Tibet, from the seventh century to what it means to be Tibetan todaySituated north of the Himalayas, Tibet is famous for its unique culture and its controversial assimilation into modern China. Yet Tibet in the twenty-first century can only be properly understood in the context of its extraordinary history.Sam ...
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