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Articulating The Sinosphere - Sino-Japanese Relations In Space And Time

by Joshua A. Fogel

68,90€ + 10% CARD

 Joshua Fogel offers an incisive historical look at Sino-Japanese relations from three different perspectives. Introducing the concept of â€œSinosphereâ€ to capture the nature of Sino-foreign relations both spatially and temporally, Fogel presents an original and thought-provoking study on the long, complex relationship between China and Japan.
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Lost Modernities - China, Vietnam, Korea, And The Hazards Of World History

by Alexander Woodside

55,65€ + 10% CARD

 Woodside offers an overview of the bureaucratic politics of preindustrial China, Vietnam, and Korea. He focuses on the political and administrative theory of the three mandarinates and their long experimentation with governments recruited in part through meritocratic civil service examinations.
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Lost Modernities - China, Vietnam, Korea, And The Hazards Of World History

by Alexander Woodside

55,65€ + 10% CARD

 Woodside offers an overview of the bureaucratic politics of preindustrial China, Vietnam, and Korea. He focuses on the political and administrative theory of the three mandarinates and their long experimentation with governments recruited in part through meritocratic civil service examinations.
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Empire And Righteous Nation - 600 Years Of China-Korea Relations

by Odd Arne Westad

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 600 Years of ChinaKorea Relations. Historian Odd Arne Westad provides a concise, insightful overview of 600 years of relations between China and the Koreas. The story traces the transition from Korean cultural and political dependence to the tensions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, providing essential background to a complex contemporary geopolitical dynamic.
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East Asian Development - Foundations And Strategies

by Dwight H. Perkins

29,15€ + 10% CARD

 East Asia has three of the most powerful economies on earth, but they are losing steam. Dwight Perkins draws on extensive experience in the region to explain the reasons for this rapid economic growth since the 1960s and to ask if the recent slowdown is a local phenomenon or typical of all economies at this stage of development.
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East Asian Development - Foundations And Strategies

by Dwight H. Perkins

42,40€ + 10% CARD

 East Asia has three of the most powerful economies on earth, but they are losing steam. Dwight Perkins draws on extensive experience in the region to explain the reasons for this rapid economic growth since the 1960s and to ask if the recent slowdown is a local phenomenon or typical of all economies at this stage of development.
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The Chinese Overseas - From Earthbound China To The Quest For Autonomy

by Gungwu Wang

37,79€ + 10% CARD

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 The Chinese overseas now number 25 to 30 million, yet the 2,000-year history of the Chineseâ€™s attempts to venture abroad and the underlying values affecting that migration have never before been presented in a broad overview. In pursuing this story, international scholar Wang Gungwu uncovers some major themes of global history.
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Politics Of Development - Perspectives On Twentieth-Century Asia

by Robert A. Scalapino

41,84€ + 10% CARD

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 Blending political, cultural and economic perspectives, this text traces the evolution of Asian countries in the 20th century. Its aim is to determine the mix of culture, experience, scale, timing, leadership and policy that shapes individual developing nations.
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Grooming, Gossip & The Evolution (Usa)

by Dunbar

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Empire And Righteous Nation - 600 Years Of China-Korea Relations

by Odd Arne Westad

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 Historian Odd Arne Westad provides a concise, insightful overview of 600 years of relations between China and the Koreas. The story traces the transition from Korean cultural and political dependence to the tensions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, providing essential background to a complex contemporary geopolitical dynamic.
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Suzuki - The Man And His Dream To Teach The Children Of The World

by Eri Hotta

36,44€

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 Shinichi Suzuki, of the eponymous Suzuki Method, debunked Western stereotypes about â€œauthenticâ€ classical performance while transforming music education globally. Yet as Eri Hotta shows, his movement was about much more than developing music skills. A committed humanist, he aspired to nurture the potential, musical or otherwise, in every child.
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The Borders Of Chinese Architecture

by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt

64,83€

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 Chinese architecture is astonishingly uniform. Buddhists, Daoists, and Muslims, inside China and beyond, built Chinese-style structures the same way for two thousand years, despite mastering new technologies along the way. Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt offers an authoritative overview of design principles that have stood the test of timeâ€"and geography.
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The Lyric Journey - Poetic Painting In China And Japan

by James Cahill

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 Poetic paintingsâ€"works done in response to lyric poems or as pictorial equivalents to themâ€"compose a major category of East Asian art. In this beautifully illustrated book, James Cahill looks at three exemplary traditions in this genre.
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East Asian Development - Foundations And Strategies

by Dwight H. Perkins

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 East Asia has three of the most powerful economies on earth, but they are losing steam. Dwight Perkins draws on extensive experience in the region to explain the reasons for this rapid economic growth since the 1960s and to ask if the recent slowdown is a local phenomenon or typical of all economies at this stage of development.
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The Four Little Dragons - The Spread Of Industrialization In East Asia

by Ezra F. Vogel

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 Vogel brings masterly insight to the underlying question of why Japan and the little dragonsâ€"Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singaporeâ€"have been so extraordinarily successful in industrializing while other developing countries have not.
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East Asian Civilizations - A Dialogue In Five Stages

by Wm. Theodore De Bary

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 The doyen of Confucian studies in America here constructs a magisterial overview of 3,000 years of East Asian civilizations, principally in the form of dialogues among the major systems of thought that have dominated the Asian world's historical development.
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The Asian American Century

by Warren I. Cohen

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 In this meditation on the relationship between East Asia and the United States, Warren I. Cohen examines how cultural influences have transformed - and benefited - both Asians and Americans.
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Cultivating Global Citizens - Population In The Rise Of China

by Susan Greenhalgh

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 Accounts of China's global rise emphasize economics and politics, largely neglecting the cultivation of China's people. This title by focusing on the decade since 2000, and especially 2004 - 09, argues that the vital politics of population has been central to the globalizing agenda of the reform state.
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China And Japan In The Global Setting

by Akira Iriye

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 The relationship between China and Japan remains among the most significant of all the worldâ€™s bilateral affairsâ€"yet it is also the most tortured and the least understood. Akira Iriye adds brilliant clarity to the past century of Chineseâ€"Japanese interactions in this masterful interpretive survey.
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Articulating The Sinosphere - Sino-Japanese Relations In Space And Time

by Joshua A. Fogel

59,42€

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 Joshua Fogel offers an incisive historical look at Sino-Japanese relations from three different perspectives. Introducing the concept of â€œSinosphereâ€ to capture the nature of Sino-foreign relations both spatially and temporally, Fogel presents an original and thought-provoking study on the long, complex relationship between China and Japan.
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Lost Modernities - China, Vietnam, Korea, And The Hazards Of World History

by Alexander Woodside

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 Woodside offers an overview of the bureaucratic politics of preindustrial China, Vietnam, and Korea. He focuses on the political and administrative theory of the three mandarinates and their long experimentation with governments recruited in part through meritocratic civil service examinations.
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Visible Cities - Canton, Nagasaki, And Batavia And The Coming Of The Americans

by Leonard Blusse

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 The eighteenth century witnessed the rise of the China market and the changes that resulted in global consumption patterns, from opium smoking to tea drinking. In a valuable transnational perspective, BlussÃ© chronicles the economic and cultural transformations in East Asia through three key citiesâ€"Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia.

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