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One of Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015 An epic, multigenerational story of courage and sacrifice set in a tropical dictatorship, The Rebel of Rangoon captures a gripping moment of possibility in Burma (Myanmar) Once the shining promise of Southeast Asia, Burma in May...
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Bold Type Books
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2015-07-14
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Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied examines transwar political, military and social transitions inJapan and various territories that it controlled, including Korea, Borneo, Singapore, Manchuria and China, before and after August 1945. This approach allows a more...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-06-02
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His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming the overlord of a Mongol federation that stretched from the...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2015-05-21
Collection :
Brief Histories
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Der Autor verfolgt mit seinem Buch zwei Ziele: Er zeichnet ein Bild der chinesischen Rezeptionsgeschichte am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts und spürt darüber hinaus den möglichen Gründen für und Einflüssen auf die Rechtsrezeption nach. Das Deliktsrecht wird von ihm als...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-05-04
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Korea and Japan must work together to open a new era for true peace and prosperity in East Asia. It is our reality, however, that the memory of the invasion, Japan’s forced annexation ofKorea in 1910 and the scars of exploitation are still important obstacles to new...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-04-30
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Vyvyen Brendon's evocative, at times heart-tugging book, runs from the 18th century and the East India Company, through the Afghan wars, the Indian mutiny and the more settled era of the Queen Empress, and culminates in the conflict leading to Britain's hurried exit in...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2015-04-30
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DEALING WITH CHINA takes the reader behind closed doors to witness the creation and evolution and future of China's state-controlled capitalism.Hank Paulson has dealt with China unlike any other foreigner. As head of Goldman Sachs, Paulson had a pivotal role in opening...
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Headline
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2015-04-14
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This book is a full translation of the Gongyang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals, a history of the Chinese state of Lu from 722 to 481 BCE, annotated so as to highlight the moral philosophy of its supposed writer, Confucius.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-18
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How did a 'chai wallah' who sold tea on trains as a boy become Prime Minister of India? On May 16, 2014, Narendra Modi was declared the winner of the largest election ever conducted anywhere in the world, having fought a campaign unlike any before. Political parties...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2015-03-12
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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...
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Basic Books
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2015-03-03
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For countless generations families have lived in isolated communities in the Godavari Delta of coastal Andhra Pradesh, learning and reciting their legacy of Vedas, performing daily offerings and occasional sacrifices. They are the virtually unrecognized survivors of a...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-03-02
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The May Fourth movement (1915-1923) is widely considered a watershed in the history of modern China. This book is a social history of cultural and political radicals based in China's most important hinterland city at this pivotal time, Wuhan.
Current narratives of May...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-02-17
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Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address a crucial question: How does the world's most populous democracy survive repeated assaults on its pluralistic values? India's stunning linguistic, cultural, and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-02-09
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This compendium synthesizes innovations of the UN High Commissioners for Refugees (UNHCR) since 1951. The book bridges the gap between academic and field work and uses Joseph Nye’s concept of «soft power» as a methodological approach for understanding and solving...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-02
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Shin Kanemaru (1914-1996) served as a key power broker at the national level in Japan from the 1970s until the early 1990s. He was at the heart of the '1955 system' of conservative political rule. Though never Prime Minister himself, he controlled or strongly influenced...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-01-28
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First published in 1992, The Discourse of Race in Modern China rapidly became a classic, showing for the first time on the basis of detailed evidence how and why racial categorisation became so widespread in China. After the country's devastating defeat against Japan in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-01-08
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Buddhism in Mongolian History, Culture, and Society explores the unique elements of MongolianBuddhism while challenging its stereotyped image as a mere replica of Tibetan Buddhism. Vesna A. Wallace brings together an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-01-02
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This book examines the links between Britain's withdrawal from its east of Suez role and the establishment of South-East Asian regional security arrangements. The link between these two events is not direct, but a relationship existed, which is important to a wider...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-15
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This cultural and political study examines British perceptions and policies on India's Afghan Frontier between 1918 and 1948 and the impact of these on the local Pashtun population, India as a whole, and the decline of British imperialism in South Asia.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-10
Collection :
Britain and the World
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Two thousand years ago, the Qin/Han and Roman empires were the largest political entities of the ancient world, developing simultaneously yet independently at opposite ends of Eurasia. Although their territories constituted only a small percentage of the global land...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-12-01
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