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- Profile Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 9,96 €
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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- Viking, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-00430-2
EAN 9780241004302
Before becoming the worlds most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Koreas Ministry for Propaganda and its film studios. Conceiving every movie made, he acted as producer and screenwriter. Despite this control, he was underwhelmed by the available talent and took drastic steps, ordering the kidnapping of Choi Eun-Hee (Madam Choi)'South Koreas most famous actress'and ...
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- Authorhouse, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 34,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4772-3769-4
EAN 9781477237694
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The South China Sea
The Struggle for Power in Asia
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 31,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18683-3
EAN 9780300186833
A discerning account of simmering conflict in the South China Sea and why the world can't afford to be indifferentChina's rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing's back yard: the South China Sea. For decades tensions have smoldered in the region, but today the ...
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- Pan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-5337-2
EAN 9781447253372
An ambitious and gripping exploration of the world's most secretive state through the intertwined lives of two North Koreans, one infamous, one obscure: Kim Il Sung, the former North Korean leader and No Kum Sok, once the state's youngest jet fighter pilot. Shortly before the Korean War ended, their paths crossed. Kim Il Sung congratulated ...
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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 Struggle for Pakistan
A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics
- Harvard University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 35,45 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05289-5
EAN 9780674052895
In a probing biography of her native land, Ayesha Jalal provides a unique insider's assessment of how the nuclear-armed Muslim nation of Pakistan evolved into a country besieged by military domination and militant religious extremism, and explains why its dilemmas weigh so heavily on prospects for peace in the region.Established as a homeland for India's ...
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Empress Dowager Cixi
The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
- Anchor, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 19,40 €
ISBN 978-0-307-45670-0
EAN 9780307456700
From the author of Mao and Wild Swans comes the epic biography of the woman who ruled China for fifty years, overcoming centuries of tradition to bring a medieval empire into the modern age.Empress Dowager Cixi ("Tsu-Shee") is the most important woman in Chinese history. At the age of sixteen, she was chosen as one ...
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China goes Global
The Partial Power
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-19-936103-8
EAN 9780199361038
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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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- IBTauris, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-910-3
EAN 9781780769103
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Hirata, Keiko; Warschauer, Mark
Japan
The Paradox of Harmony
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 31,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18607-9
EAN 9780300186079
Following a crushing defeat in World War II, Japan rose like a phoenix from the literal ashes to become a model of modernity and success, for decades Asia's premier economic giant. Yet it remains a nation hobbled by rigid gender roles, protectionist policies, and a defensive, inflexible corporate system that has helped bring about political ...
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- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 31,75 €
ISBN 978-1-137-34060-3
EAN 9781137340603
ContentsList of Maps1. Introduction PART I: BEFORE IMPERIALISM2. Prehistory and the first Indian Civilizations3. The Development of Indian Culture: Hinduism and Buddhism4. Early South-East Asia: The Ships from India5. China: The Eternal Nation6. Early Japan and the Tang Dynasty in China7. The Awakening of Europe and the Challenge of Islam8. Floodtide in China: The Song, ...
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The People's Republic of Amnesia
Tiananmen Revisited
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 21,20 €
ISBN 978-0-19-934770-4
EAN 9780199347704
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North Korea
State of Paranoia
- Zed Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78032-947-5
EAN 9781780329475
North Korea is a country that continues to make headlines, arousing curiosity and fear in equal measure. The world's most secretive nuclear power, it is a nation that still has Gulag-style prison camps, allows no access to the internet, and bans its people from talking to foreigners without official approval. In this remarkable and eye-opening ...
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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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Birmingham, Lucy; McNeill, David
Strong in the Rain
Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-137-27894-4
EAN 9781137278944
Intrinsically gripping an important contribution to remembering the tsunami and its aftermath. --Publishers Weekly In March of 2011, a 9.0 earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Japan, unleashing a tsunami onto the densely populated coast. Over 19,000 people would be left dead, or missing, and the disaster triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis since ...
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