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China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2004-05-06
ePub
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China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2004-05-06
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This is a study of China from the 1800s to the present day. It focuses on China's problems of development - the decay and collapse of the Chinese Empire, its failure to recover in the first half of the twentieth century, and its rapid emergence in world affairs since...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2003-04-04
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This is a study of China from the 1800s to the present day. It focuses on China's problems of development - the decay and collapse of the Chinese Empire, its failure to recover in the first half of the twentieth century, and its rapid emergence in world affairs since...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2003-04-03
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As exemplified by Madame Butterfly, East-West relations have often been expressed as the relations between the masculine, dominant West and the feminine, submissive East. Yet, this binary model does not account for the important role of white women in the construction...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2002-12-12
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Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in South Africa he developed his strategy of non-violence: the idea of opposing unjust laws by...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2001-02-22
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This new history of modern Japan covers its remarkable transformation from a small country on the fringe of international politics to the major world power it is today. Professor Tsuzuki traces Japan's pursuit of power, first by military and then by economic means, from...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2000-04-13
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What does it mean to be Chinese? How did the major political events of the early 20th century affect the everyday lives of ordinary people in China? This book uses a wealth of new sources, including newspapers, memoirs, interviews, and photographs, to look at the...
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
Parution :
2000-03-16
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This is a study of the political and economic activities of an important group of British businessmen in India between 1850 and 1960. Though denounced by Indian nationalists as the economic arm of the British Raj, the firms of these `Managing Agents' seemed unassailable...
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Clarendon Press
Parution :
1999-04-29
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Drawing on previously unknown primary sources in both Chinese and Russian, Deborah A. Kaple has written a powerful and absorbing account of the model of factory management and organization that the Chinese communists formulated in the 1949-1953 period. She reveals that...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1994-01-06
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Now available in a new, updated edition, this groundbreaking book on post-Mao China, written by the distinguished Asian scholar Immanuel C.Y. Hsü, explores the astonishing transformation that has occurred there. Since Mao Zedong's death in 1976, China's leaders have...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1990-03-22
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In 1720, an Ottoman ambassador was sent to the court of the Child King Louis XV to observe Western civilization and report on what he saw and how it could be applied in the Ottoman Empire. Based on the accounts of this ambassador, East Encounters West studies the impact...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1987-12-03
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This is a study of the origins and nature of Japanese imperialism from the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895 through to 1945. Japan is the only Asian country in modern times to have built both a successful industrial economy and an empire, and it is Professor Beasley's...
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OUP Oxford
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1987-03-05
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I Dialoghi di Confucio influenzano ancora oggi in profondità la cultura cinese poiché, insieme alle altre opere che costituiscono i Quattro Libri, insegnano le principali virtù: il decoro, la giustizia, la lealtà e la pietà filiale. Per circa due millenni, questi...
Editeur :
Cactus
Parution :
2024-07-25
epub sans DRM
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An account of four generations of Mongol leaders, from Genghis Khan, through his sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons. The book is arranged into a series of narratives, which are grouped dynastically and chronologically covering the span of the Thirteenth Century, and...
Editeur :
Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2022-05-12
epub sans DRM
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These are the memoirs of the great mystic and teacher who inspired a generation of disciples and followers before, during and briefing after the Second World War. In Meetings With Remarkable Men Gurdjieff introduces us to some of the companions he encountered in his...
Editeur :
Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2021-11-10
epub sans DRM
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Patriots, Traitors and Empires is an account of modern Korean history, written from the point of view of those who fought to free Korea from the domination of foreign empires. It traces the history of Korea’s struggle for freedom from opposition to Japanese colonialism...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2018-04-01
epub sans DRM
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A history of Chinese immigrants encounter with Canadian Protestant missionaries, “His Dominion” and the “Yellow Peril”: Protestant Missions to Chinese Immigrants in Canada, 1859-1967, analyzes the evangelizing activities of missionaries and the role of religion in...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-02-25
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Editions SR
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