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China's Forgotten People
Xinjiang, Repression and the Chinese State
- IBTauris, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-140-9
EAN 9781784531409
In October 2013 a jeep ploughed through a busy crowd before exploding in Tiananmen Square. The Chinese authorities identified the driver as Uyghur - one of an Islamic ethnic minority, 10 million strong, who live in Chinas North West province of Xinjiang. Six months later, eight knife-wielding Uyghurs went on a rampage at a train ...
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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-374-53527-8
EAN 9780374535278
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction. An Economist Best Book of 2014.A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformationFrom abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global economy--or an addled Goliath, ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-674-96768-7
EAN 9780674967687
Asia Inside Out reveals the dynamic forces that have historically linked regions of the world's largest continent, stretching from Japan and Korea to the South China Sea, Indian Ocean, and the Middle East. Connected Places, the second installment in this pioneering three-volume survey, highlights the transregional flows of goods, ideas, and people across natural and ...
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Buy Me the Sky
The Remarkable Truth of China's One-Child Generations
- Ebury, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84604-472-4
EAN 9781846044724
With journalistic acumen and a novelist's flair, Xinran tells the remarkable stories of men and women born in China after 1979 - the recent generations raised under China's single-child policy. At a time when the country continues to transform at the speed of light, these generations of precious 'one and onlies' are burdened with expectation, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-022927-6
EAN 9780190229276
One of our foremost authorities on modern Afghanistan, Barnett R. Rubin has dedicated much of his career to the study of this remote mountain country. He served as a special advisor to the late Ambassador Richard Holbrooke during his final mission to the region and still serves the Obama administration under Holbrooke's successor, Ambassador Marc ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 648 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-939203-2
EAN 9780199392032
A vivid, balanced, and complete biography of one of the 20th century's most influential figures, Deng Xiaoping, who presided over China's transformation into the world power it is todayDeng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of Mao's from the 1930s onward. Two ...
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- Basic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 36,45 €
ISBN 978-0-465-05667-5
EAN 9780465056675
As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the worlds second biggest economy, China has recently reclaimed its historic place at the center of global affairs after decades of internal chaos and disastrous foreign relations. But even as China tentatively reengages with the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-85786-004-0
EAN 9780857860040
Since the opening up of India's economy in 1991, wealth has poured into the country, and especially into Delhi. Capital bears witness to the astonishing metamorphosis of India's capital city, charting its emergence from a rural backwater to the center of India's new elites. No other place on earth better embodies the breakneck, radically disruptive ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
ISBN 978-0-674-50379-3
EAN 9780674503793
For 1,400 years, two colossal Buddhas overlooked the Bamiyan Valley on the Silk Road in Afghanistan. The Buddhas embodied the intersection of East and West, and their destruction by the Taliban in 2001 provoked international outrage. Morgan excavates the layers of meaning these vanished wonders hold for a fractured Afghanistan.
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- Hurst, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-511-7
EAN 9781849045117
In his third book, David Kilcullen takes us out of the mountains: away from the remote, rural guerrilla warfare of Afghanistan, and into the marginalised slums and complex security threats of the world's coastal cities, where almost 75 per cent of us will be living by mid-century. Scrutinising major environmental trends - population growth, coastal ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-0-19-021842-3
EAN 9780190218423
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- Random House Uk, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84604-483-0
EAN 9781846044830
It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, except for the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. This is where Suki Kim has accepted a job teaching English. Over the next six months she will eat three meals a day with her young charges and ...
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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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- Harper Collins, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 22,35 €
ISBN 978-0-00-758092-7
EAN 9780007580927
In 1938, with the Japanese army approaching from Nanking, Huan Hsu's great-great grandfather, Liu, and his five granddaughters, were forced to flee their hometown on the banks of the Yangtze River. But before they left a hole was dug as deep as a man, and as wide as a bedroom, in which was stowed the ...
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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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Earthquake, tsunami, nuclear meltdown: three disasters that simultaneously threatened Japan but have somehow galvanized a strong national and political response. In Bending Adversity, Financial Times Asia editor David Pilling pres- ents a portrait of a stubbornly resistant nation with a history of overcoming and transcending successive waves of adversity. Pilling draws on his own deep ...
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