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The opening of the ports of Japan in 1859 brought a flood of Japanese craft products to the world marketplace. For ivory it was a golden age. This book examines the role that ivory and ivory carvers played in the expression of nationalism and the development of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-08-22
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In British India, the years during and following World War I saw imperial unity deteriorate into a bitter dispute over "native" effeminacy and India's postwar fitness for self-rule. This study demonstrates that increasingly ferocious dispute culminated in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-20
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Als ein Aspekt der Kommunikation zwischen Menschen begleitet das Übersetzen und Dolmetschen die menschliche Geschichte seit jeher. Die Geschichte der Translation in Korea im Zeitraum von ca. 700 n. Chr. bis heute ist Thema dieses Buches. Es wird nicht nur die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-28
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Wandering Between Two Worlds: The Formative Years of Cao Xueqin 1715–1745 is a biographical account of the first 30 years of the life of the eighteenth-century Chinese novelist who wrote Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber). It covers Cao Xueqin’s life from his birth...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-07-15
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A pioneering and comprehensive study of the historical imagination in Kashmir, this book explores the conversations between the ideas of Kashmir and the ideas of history taking place within Kashmir’s multilingual historical tradition. Analysing the deep linkages among...
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OUP India
Parution :
2014-07-09
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With an official population approaching fifteen million, Karachi is one of the largest cities in the world. It is also the most violent. Since the mid-1980s, it has endured endemic political conflict and criminal violence, which revolve around control of the city and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-07-01
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Capturing the history of Kashmir and its cultural and social evolution, Nyla Ali Kahn deconstructs the life of her grandmother and other women of her generation to reconceptualize woman's identity in a politically militarized zone. An academic memoir, this book...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-06-25
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Die Erforschung und Beschreibung außereuropäischer Regionen der Erde beförderten die Entwicklung moderner europäischer Wissenschaften und schufen die Grundlagen für die Kontrolle und Herrschaft europäischer Kolonialmächte über den Orient. Gegenstand der historischen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-24
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This book is a completely revised version of The Power of Prophecy; Prince Dipanagara and the End of an Old Order in Java, 1785–1855 (2007). A vivid biography of Indonesia’s foremost national hero, it tells the story of a remarkable figure whose life spanned his native...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-11
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In response to the recent surge of interest in studying epistemic transfers and changes, this volume assembles an interdisciplinary range of articles that look at the production, consumption and dissemination of knowledge in East Asia, centering on Korea, under the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-05
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This work explores some of the constitutive elements in the life and mind of Bengal in the twentieth century. The author addresses some frequently unasked questions about the history of modern Bengal. In what way was twentieth-century Bengal different from 'Renaissance'...
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OUP India
Parution :
2014-05-27
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Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung, Volume III focuses on the views of Mao Tse-Tung on communism, revolution, fascism, national unity, and patriotism. The volume first ponders on the proposition of Mao Tse-Tung to reform the method and system of study within the Communist...
Editeur :
Pergamon
Parution :
2014-05-18
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Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung, Volume IV focuses on the views of Mao Tse-Tung on communism, revolution, civil war, and patriotism. The volume first ponders on China's policy following victory in the war of resistance against Japan and the response of Mao Tse-Tung on...
Editeur :
Pergamon
Parution :
2014-05-18
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Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung, Volume II focuses on the thoughts of Mao Tse-Tung on revolution, communism, war tactics, national unity, and patriotism. The volume first discusses the policies, measures, and perspectives for resisting the invasion of Japan;...
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Pergamon
Parution :
2014-05-18
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Approx.520 pages
Editeur :
Pergamon
Parution :
2014-05-18
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The Far East: A Concise History summarizes the history of three Far East or East Asian countries — China, Japan, and Korea. This book begins with an introduction to the three Asian countries' geographical features, climatic conditions, agricultural features, racial...
Editeur :
Pergamon
Parution :
2014-05-16
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In the spring of 1989, millions of citizens across China took to the streets in a nationwide uprising against government corruption and authoritarian rule. What began with widespread hope for political reform ended with the People's Liberation Army firing on unarmed...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-04-09
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Oral History
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Tibet's enduring myth, animated by the tales of Himalayan adventurers, British military expeditions, and the novel, Lost Horizon, remains an inspirational fantasy, a modern morality play about the failure of brutality to subdue the human spirit. Tibet also exercises...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-04-01
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The New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal—and forgotten—massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China's capital city on the eve of World War II, “piecing together the abundant eyewitness reports into...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2014-03-11
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This volume explores the life stories of ordinary Burmese by drawing on the narratives of individual subjects and using an array of interdisciplinary approaches, covering anthropology, history, literature, ethnomusicology, economics and political science. Burma is one...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-02-14
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