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China Unbound - Evolving Perspectives On The Chinese Past

by Paul A. Cohen

100,69€ + 10% CARD

 By one of the leading experts on modern Chinese history and historiography, this volume argues for fresh ways of approaching the Chinese past, spotlighting Western historians, Chinese historians, and the history itself.
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China'S Past, China'S Future

by Vaclav Smil

70,21€ + 10% CARD

 China has a population of 1.3 billion people which puts enormous strain on her natural resources. This volume, by one of the leading scholars on the earth's biosphere, provides the fullest account yet of the environmental challenges that China faces.
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Global And Regional In China'S Nation-Formation

by Prasenjit Duara

62,26€ + 10% CARD

 Covers the major historical problems of China in the twentieth century, namely imperialism, nationalism, state-building, religion and the role of history from the perspective of global and regional circulations and interactions.
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Women And The Family In Chinese History

by Patricia Ebrey

70,21€ + 10% CARD

 This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, it explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems and places them in an historical context.
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Technology, Gender And History In Imperial China - Great Transformations Reconsidered

by Francesca Bray

70,21€ + 10% CARD

 What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow a well-worn plot: in about 1400 after an early ferment of creativity that made it the most technologically sophisticated civilisation in the world, China entered an era of technical lethargy and decline. But how are we to reconcile this tale, which portrays China in the Ming and Qing dynasties as a dying giant that had outgrown its own strength, with the wealth of counterevidence affirming that the country remained rich, vigorous and powerful at least until the end of the eighteenth century? Does this seeming contradiction mean that the stagnation story is simply wrong, or perhaps that technology was irrelevant to how imperial society worked? Or does it imply that historians of technology should ask better questions about what technology was, what it did and what it meant in pre-modern societies like late imperial China?In this book, Francesca Bray explores subjects such as technology and ethics, technology and gendered subjectivities (both female and male), and technology and statecraft to illuminate how material settings and practices shaped topographies of everyday experience and ideologies of government, techniques of the self and technologies of the subject. Examining technologies ranging from ploughing and weaving to drawing pictures, building a house, prescribing medicine or composing a text, this book offers a rich insight into the interplay between the micro- and macro-politics of everyday life and the workings of governmentality in late imperial China, showing that gender principles were woven into the very fabric of empire, from cosmology and ideologies of rule to the material foundations of the state and the everyday practices of the domestic sphere.This authoritative text will be welcomed by students and scholars of Chinese history, as well as those working on global history and the histories of gender, technology and agriculture. Furthermore, it will be of great use to those interested in social and cultural anthropology and material culture.
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China, East Asia And The Global Economy - Regional And Historical Perspectives

by Takeshi Hamashita

67,56€ + 10% CARD

 This book presents a selection ofÂ essays from Takeshi Hamashita'sÂ ouevre on Asian trade to introduce this important historian's work on China and East Asia's incorporation to the world economy to theÂ English speaking reader.
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Chinese State In Ming Society

by Timothy Brook

78,16€ + 10% CARD

 This unique collection of reworked and heavily illustrated essays, by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, re-examines the relationship between the present day state and society in China.
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Mapping China And Managing The World - Culture, Cartography And Cosmology In Late Imperial Times

by Richard J. Smith

72,86€ + 10% CARD

 From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the notion of ordering their world. Efforts to create and maintain order are expressed not only in China’s bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also in Chinese philosophy, religious and secular ritual, and comprehensive systems of classifying all natural and supernatural phenomena. Mapping China and Managing the World focuses on Chinese constructions of order (zhi) and examines the most important ways in which elites in late imperial China sought to order their vast and variegated world. This book begins by exploring the role of ancient texts and maps as the two prominent symbolic devices that the Chinese used to construct cultural meaning, and looks at how changing conceptions of ‘the world’ shaped Chinese cartography, whilst both shifting and enduring cartographic practices affected how the Chinese regarded the wider world. Richard J. Smith goes on to examine the significance of ritual in overcoming disorder, and by focusing on the importance of divination shows how Chinese at all levels of society sought to manage the future, as well as the past and the present. Finally, the book concludes by emphasizing the enduring relevance of the Yijing (Classic of Changes) in Chinese intellectual and cultural life as well as its place in the history of Sino-foreign interactions.Bringing together a selection of essays by Richard J. Smith, one of the foremost scholars of Chinese intellectual and cultural history, this book will be welcomed by Chinese and East Asian historians, as well as those interested more broadly in the culture of China and East Asia.
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Decoding Subaltern Politics - Ideology, Disguise, And Resistance In Agrarian Politics

by James C. Scott

78,16€ + 10% CARD

 This title brings together some of James C. Scott's most important work. The book covers three distinct yet interlinked bodies of work. It lays out a framework for understanding peasant politics and rebellion, much of which is applicable to rural areas of the contemporary global south.
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Southeast Asia - A Testament

by George Mct. Kahin

70,21€ + 10% CARD

 Southeast Asia: A Testament gives a personal account of the US involvement in Indochina and covers the tragic history of post war Indonesia from its successful struggle against the Dutch to Suharto's bloody overthrow of Sukarno in 1965.
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China, East Asia And The Global Economy - Regional And Historical Perspectives

by Takeshi Hamashita

~~216,30€~~ 151,41€ 30% OFF

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 This book presents a selection ofÂ essays from Takeshi Hamashita'sÂ ouevre on Asian trade to introduce this important historian's work on China and East Asia's incorporation to the world economy to theÂ English speaking reader.
ENGLISH

The Global And Regional In China'S Nation-Formation

by Prasenjit (National University Of Singapore) Duara

~~216,30€~~ 151,41€ 30% OFF

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 Covers the major historical problems of China in the twentieth century, namely imperialism, nationalism, state-building, religion and the role of history from the perspective of global and regional circulations and interactions.
ENGLISH

Women And The Family In Chinese History

by Patricia Ebrey

~~216,30€~~ 151,41€ 30% OFF

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 This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, it explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems and places them in an historical context.
ENGLISH

China'S Past, China'S Future - Energy, Food, Environment

by Vaclav Smil

~~216,30€~~ 151,41€ 30% OFF

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 China has a population of 1.3 billion people which puts enormous strain on her natural resources. This volume, by one of the leading scholars on the earth's biosphere, provides the fullest account yet of the environmental challenges that China faces.
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Decoding Subaltern Politics - Ideology, Disguise, And Resistance In Agrarian Politics

by James C. (Yale University, Usa) Scott

~~79,75€~~ 55,83€ 30% OFF

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 This title brings together some of James C. Scott's most important work. The book covers three distinct yet interlinked bodies of work. It lays out a framework for understanding peasant politics and rebellion, much of which is applicable to rural areas of the contemporary global south.
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Decoding Subaltern Politics - Ideology, Disguise, And Resistance In Agrarian Politics

by James C. (Yale University, Usa) Scott

~~209,54€~~ 146,68€ 30% OFF

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 This title brings together some of James C. Scott's most important work. The book covers three distinct yet interlinked bodies of work. It lays out a framework for understanding peasant politics and rebellion, much of which is applicable to rural areas of the contemporary global south.
ENGLISH

Women And The Family In Chinese History

by Patricia Ebrey

~~71,64€~~ 50,15€ 30% OFF

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 This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, it explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems and places them in an historical context.
ENGLISH

Southeast Asia - A Testament

by George Mct. Kahin

~~71,64€~~ 50,15€ 30% OFF

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 Southeast Asia: A Testament gives a personal account of the US involvement in Indochina and covers the tragic history of post war Indonesia from its successful struggle against the Dutch to Suharto's bloody overthrow of Sukarno in 1965.
ENGLISH

The Chinese State In Ming Society

by Timothy Brook

~~79,75€~~ 55,83€ 30% OFF

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 This unique collection of reworked and heavily illustrated essays, by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, re-examines the relationship between the present day state and society in China.
ENGLISH

The Chinese State In Ming Society

by Timothy Brook

~~209,54€~~ 146,68€ 30% OFF

free shipping

 This unique collection of reworked and heavily illustrated essays, by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, re-examines the relationship between the present day state and society in China.
ENGLISH

Southeast Asia - A Testament

by George Mct. Kahin

~~216,30€~~ 151,41€ 30% OFF

free shipping

 Southeast Asia: A Testament gives a personal account of the US involvement in Indochina and covers the tragic history of post war Indonesia from its successful struggle against the Dutch to Suharto's bloody overthrow of Sukarno in 1965.
ENGLISH

The Global And Regional In China'S Nation-Formation

by Prasenjit (National University Of Singapore) Duara

~~63,53€~~ 44,47€ 30% OFF

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 Covers the major historical problems of China in the twentieth century, namely imperialism, nationalism, state-building, religion and the role of history from the perspective of global and regional circulations and interactions.
ENGLISH

China Unbound - Evolving Perspectives On The Chinese Past

by Paul A. Cohen

~~102,73€~~ 71,91€ 30% OFF

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 By one of the leading experts on modern Chinese history and historiography, this volume argues for fresh ways of approaching the Chinese past, spotlighting Western historians, Chinese historians, and the history itself.
ENGLISH

China'S Past, China'S Future - Energy, Food, Environment

by Vaclav Smil

~~71,64€~~ 50,15€ 30% OFF

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 China has a population of 1.3 billion people which puts enormous strain on her natural resources. This volume, by one of the leading scholars on the earth's biosphere, provides the fullest account yet of the environmental challenges that China faces.
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