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The History Of Famine Relief In China

by Yunte Deng

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 This is the first English translation of Deng Yunte's classic study of famine relief in Chinese history. Richly researched, Deng both plots the history of famine from ancient times to the Republican period and provides a fascinating example of historical scholarship from twentieth-century China.
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An Early Modern Economy In China - The Yangzi Delta In The 1820s

by Bozhong (Peking University, Beijing) Li

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 The first English translation of Li Bozhong's pioneering study An Early Modern Economy in China, which uses sophisticated analysis to reconstruct the GDP of the Lower Yangzi Delta. An innovative economic history that contributes to the Great Divergence debate, Li draws comparisons the Netherlands in the same period.
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Rumor In The Early Chinese Empires

by Zongli (Hong Kong University Of Science And Technology) Lu

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 This is the first English translation of Lu Zongli's study of how rumor formed and spread through non-official channels in early Chinese history. Utilising popular songs, mythology and prophetic texts, Lu explores rumors in all their diverse forms, dissecting their nature, function and implications for politics and culture.
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Chinese Culture And The Chinese Military

by Haizong Lei

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 This is the first English translation of Lei Haizong's iconic study of the Chinese army. First published in 1940 in the midst of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Lei examines the rise and fall of ideas about militarism in China in a global context.
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The Death Arts In Renaissance England - A Critical Anthology

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 This critical anthology, an ideal resource for researchers, instructors, and students, outlines the cultural contexts in which people grappled with their mortality in Renaissance England. Illuminating death's intersections with gender, sex, and race, this book offers indispensable insights into living with death in early modern England.
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The History Of Famine Relief In China

by Yunte Deng

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 This is the first English translation of Deng Yunte's classic study of famine relief in Chinese history. Richly researched, Deng both plots the history of famine from ancient times to the Republican period and provides a fascinating example of historical scholarship from twentieth-century China.
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An Early Modern Economy In China - The Yangzi Delta In The 1820s

by Bozhong (Peking University, Beijing) Li

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 The first English translation of Li Bozhong's pioneering study An Early Modern Economy in China, which uses sophisticated analysis to reconstruct the GDP of the Lower Yangzi Delta. An innovative economic history that contributes to the Great Divergence debate, Li draws comparisons the Netherlands in the same period.
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Rethinking China'S Rise - A Liberal Critique

by Jilin (Shanghai Normal University) Xu

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 This volume is a vision of contemporary China from the inside. Eight recent essays by the prominent public intellectual Xu Jilin offer a liberal reaction to China's economic rise, critiquing China's rejection of universal values, the nation's embrace of particularism and the cult of the state.
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A History Of Modern Chinese Popular Literature

by Boqun (Fudan University, Shanghai) Fan

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 This is the first English translation of one of the most authoritative and significant studies of its kind. Utilising a broad range of literary genres from the late Qing through the Republican period, Fan Boqun's innovative, illustrated analysis charts the historical blueprint of modern Chinese popular literature.
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Chinese Culture And The Chinese Military

by Haizong Lei

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 This is the first English translation of Lei Haizong's iconic study of the Chinese army. First published in 1940 in the midst of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Lei examines the rise and fall of ideas about militarism in China in a global context.
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A Cultural History Of Modern Chinese Literature

by Fuhui (Peking University, Beijing) Wu

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 In this illustrated cultural history of the emergence of modern literature in China from the late nineteenth century to 1949, Wu Fuhui argues that this transformative period was informed both by developments in China's domestic history and the dynamics of global circulation and encounter.
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Mao Zedong: Volume 1, 1893â€“1949 - A Biography

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 Volume 1 of the official Chinese Communist Party biography of Mao Zedong. This volume covers Mao's career in the pre-revolutionary period, 1893â€"1949. This is a unique source through which to view the ways in which the transformative events of the twentieth century have been understood and portrayed in contemporary China.
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The Qing Empire And The Opium War - The Collapse Of The Heavenly Dynasty

by Haijian Mao

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 The Opium War of 1839â€"42 is a subject of enduring interest. The Chinese historian Mao Haijian presents a revisionist reading of the conflict and its main Chinese protagonists, offering a comprehensive explanation as to why the Qing Empire was so badly defeated by the British.
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Art And Artists In China Since 1949

by Ying Yi

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 A lavishly illustrated study of the development of art and artists in China since 1949. The art of this period is of historical, political and cultural interest, being first used to promote the revolutionary cause, later to criticise and, more recently, charting changes that have taken place since 1978.
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The Tokyo Trial - Recollections And Perspectives From China

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 The Tokyo Trial was held from 1946â€"8 to try Japanese military and civil officials for war crimes committed during World War II. The trial proceedings were controversial at the time and remain an emotive subject. This collection of translated essays represents a distinctively Chinese approach to the interpretation of the trial.
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The Development Of Chinese Martial Arts Fiction - A History Of Wuxia Literature

by Chen (Peking University, Beijing) Pingyuan

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 The seminal work on the evolution, aesthetics and politics in the late Qing period of wuxia, a genre of modern Chinese martial arts fiction, from one of China's leading literary scholars, presented here in English translation for the first time.
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A Social History Of Middle-Period China - The Song, Liao, Western Xia And Jin Dynasties

by Bangwei Zhang, Chongbang Cai, Ruixi Zhu e Zengyu Wang

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 A valuable reference work for the social history of the Song, Liao, Western Xia and Jin Dynasties (960â€"1279) from leading Chinese scholars, exploring topics including material culture, food, technology, ritual, religion, medicine, gender, family and language.
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Economic Reform And Development In China

by Yining (Peking University, Beijing) Li

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 Known internationally as 'Mr Share Holding', the economist Li Yining has had a transformative impact on China's economic transition. Incorporating original research, policy proposals and theoretical thinking, these papers trace the development of Li's thought and the process through which the 'China Miracle' has occurred over the last three decades.
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The History Of Chinese Civilisation 4 Volume Set

by Yulie Lou

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 A comprehensive, illustrated history of Chinese civilisation from Neolithic times to 1911 by the foremost Chinese scholars of their generation.
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Languages Of The World - An Introduction

by Pereltsvaig Asya

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 Requiring no background in linguistics, this book introduces readers to the rich diversity of human languages.
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Rumor In The Early Chinese Empires

by Zongli (Hong Kong University Of Science And Technology) Lu

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 This is the first English translation of Lu Zongli's study of how rumor formed and spread through non-official channels in early Chinese history. Utilising popular songs, mythology and prophetic texts, Lu explores rumors in all their diverse forms, dissecting their nature, function and implications for politics and culture.
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Sociable Places - Locating Culture In Romantic-Period Britain

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 This collection explores how location shaped sociability in the Romantic period.
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When Someone You Love Is Polyamorous - Understanding Poly People And Relationships

by Elisabeth Sheff

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Heat Transfer - Third Edition

by Anthony F Mills e Carlos F M Coimbra

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