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Original Copies - Architectural Mimicry In Contemporary China

by Bianca Bosker

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 While the center of many Chinese cities now flaunt structures that reflect cutting edge design, engineering, and building technology, the environs of Chinas megalopolises, larger cities, and even smaller towns in provinces throughout the country have bee
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Essential Trade - Vietnamese Women In A Changing Marketplace

by Ann Marie Leshkowich

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The Hermit'S Hut - Asceticism And Architecture In India

by Kazi Ashraf

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A Tokyo Anthology - Literature From Japan'S Modern Metropolis, 1850-1920

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Refiguring Women, Colonialism, And Modernity In Burma

by Chie Ikeya

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Hiri - Archaeology Of Long-Distance Maritime Trade Along The South Coast Of Papua New Guinea

by Bruno David

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 In the late 1800s, missionaries in Papua New Guinea began to observe large fleets of indigenous sailing ships in present-day Port Moresby. Each year the women of nearby villages manufactured thousands of pots to be loaded onto the ships and sailed westward. Robert Skelly and Bruno David investigate the origins of this indigenous maritime trade system.
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Saving Buddhism - The Impermanence Of Religion In Colonial Burma

by Alicia Turner

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 Explores the dissonance between the goals of the colonial state and the Buddhist worldview that animated Burmese Buddhism at the turn of the twentieth century. Saving Buddhism contributes to ongoing studies of colonialism, nation, and identity in Southeast Asian studies by working to denaturalize nationalist histories.
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In Pursuit Of Progress - Narratives Of Development On A Philippine Island

by Hannah C. M. Bulloch

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 Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research on the Philippine island of Siquijor, this volume explores myths, meanings, and practices of development and its counterparts, progress and modernization. It does so not only by considering development as planned, community-wide interventions aimed at society-wide improvements in living standards, but by recognizing that development is personal.
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Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies - Conversations On Race And Racializations

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Why People Pray - The Universal Power Of Prayer

by Mordecai Schreiber

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Siam'S New Detectives - Visualizing Crime And Conspiracy In Modern Thailand

by Samson W. Lim

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 Visual evidence is the sine qua non of the modern criminal process - from photographs and video to fingerprints and maps. Siam's New Detectives, covering the period between the late nineteenth century and the end of the Cold War, offers an analytical history of these visual tools as employed by the Thai police when investigating crime.
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The 1728 Musin Rebellion - Politics And Plotting In Eighteenth-Century Korea

by Andrew David Jackson

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 Provides the first comprehensive account in English of the Musin Rebellion, an attempt to overthrow King Y?ngjo, and the largest rebellion of eighteenth-century Korea. In this keenly reasoned study, Andrew David Jackson investigates the causes, development, suppression, legacy, and significance of this bloody rebellion.
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Domination And Resistance - The United States And The Marshall Islands During The Cold War

by Martha Smith-Norris

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 Illuminates the twin themes of superpower domination and indigenous resistance in the central Pacific during the Cold War, with a compelling historical examination of the relationship between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
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The Uprooted - Race, Children, And Imperialism In French Indochina, 1890-1980

by Christina Elizabeth Firpo

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 For over a century French officials in Indochina systematically uprooted mÃ©tis children - those born of Southeast Asian mothers and white, African, or Indian fathers - from their homes. The Uprooted offers an in-depth investigation of this child-removal programme: the motivations behind it, reception of it, and resistance to it.
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Sunny Skies, Shady Characters - Cops, Killers, And Corruption In The Aloha State

by James Dooley

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 Memoir of the author's career as an investigative reporter.
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The Sinitic Encounter In Southeast China Through The First Millennium Ce

by Hugh Clark

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Lovable Losers - The Heike In Action And Memory

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A Garden Of Marvels - Tales Of Wonder From Early Medieval China

by Robert Campany

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 The selection of stories presented here provides an alluring introduction to early medieval Chinese storytelling and opens a doorway to the enchanted world of thought, culture, and religious belief of that era. Known as zhiguai, or â€œaccounts of anomalies,â€ they convey a great deal about how people saw the cosmos and their place in it.
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At Home And In The Field - Ethnographic Encounters In Asia And The Pacific Islands

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 Crossing disciplinary boundaries, At Home and in the Field is an anthology of twenty-first century ethnographic research and writing about the global worlds of home and disjuncture in Asia and the Pacific Islands. Unique in its inclusion of â€œhomeworkâ€, the anthology contributes to growing trends that complicate the distinction between â€œinsidersâ€ and â€œoutsidersâ€.
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Translingual Narration - Colonial And Postcolonial Taiwanese Fiction And Film

by Bert Scruggs

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 Offers a study of colonial Taiwanese fiction, its translation from Japanese to Chinese, and films produced during and about the colonial era. It is a postcolonial intervention into a field largely dominated by studies of colonial Taiwanese writing as either a branch of Chinese fiction or part of a larger empire of Japanese language texts.
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It Was Me All Along - A Memoir

by Andie Mitchell

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Selfless Offspring - Filial Children And Social Order In Medieval China

by Keith N. Knapp

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 Both Western and Chinese intellectuals have long derided filial piety tales as an absurd and grotesque variety of children's literature. This book offers a fresh perspective on the genre, revealing the rich historical worth of these stories by examining them in their original context: the tumultuous and politically fragmented early-medieval era.
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Foreign Policy For America In The Twenty-First Century - Alternative Perspectives

by Thomas H. Henriksen

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The Lost Territories - Thailand'S History Of National Humiliation

by Shane Strate

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