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  • Primitive Selves

    Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910–1945

    Serie Bok 5 - Colonialisms
    This remarkable book examines the complex history of Japanese colonial and postcolonial interactions with Korea, particularly in matters of cultural policy. E. Taylor Atkins focuses on past and present Japanese fascination with Korean culture as he reassesses colonial anthropology, heritage curation, cultural policy, and Korean performance art in Japanese mass media culture. Atkins challenges the ... Läs mer

    335,55 kr

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  • China in the 21st Century

    What Everyone Needs to Know

    Serie serie What Everyone Needs To Know®
    The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In the fully revised and updated second edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, China expert Jeffrey ... Läs mer

    100,27 kr

  • Wealth and Power

    China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century

    By now everyone knows the basic facts of China's rise to pre-eminence over the past three decades. But how did this erstwhile sleeping giant finally manage to arrive at its current phase of dynamic growth? How did a century-long succession of failures to change somehow culminate in the extraordinary dynamism of China today?By examining the lives of eleven influential officials, writers, activists ... Läs mer

    165,99 kr

  • Modern China

    A Very Short Introduction

    av Rana Mitter ...
    Serie serie Very Short Introductions
    China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities, heir to an ancient civilization that is still trying to find a modern identity. This Very Short ... Läs mer

    76,71 kr

  • Lives of Confucius

    Civilization's Greatest Sage Through the Ages

    Confucius—“Master Kung” (551–479 BCE), the Chinese thinker and social philosopher—originated teachings that have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese thought and life over many centuries. His philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality, justice, and appropriateness in social relationships. In time these values gained prominence in China over other doctrines, ... Läs mer

    61,26 kr

  • Chinese Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    av Sabina Knight ...
    Serie serie Very Short Introductions
    Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of Chinese literature from antiquity to the present, focusing on the key role literary culture played in supporting social and political concerns. ... Läs mer

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  • Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power

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    Översatt av Edmund Ryden ...
    Serie serie The Princeton-China Series
    From China's most influential foreign policy thinker, a vision for a "Beijing Consensus" for international relationsThe rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will China look like in the future? What should it look like? And what will China's rise mean for the rest of world? This book, written by China's most influential foreign policy ... Läs mer

    211,99 kr

  • Illusive Utopia

    Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea

    av Suk-Young Kim ...
    Serie serie Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    "North Korea is not just a security or human rights problem (although it is those things) but a real society. This book gets us closer to understanding North Korea beyond the usual headlines, and does so in a richly detailed, well-researched, and theoretically contextualized way."---Charles K. Armstrong, Director, Center for Korean Research, Columbia University"One of this book's strengths is how ... Läs mer

    492,68 kr

  • Tragic Spirits

    Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia

    A "highly readable ethnographic study" of the resurgence of shamanism among nomadic Mongolians in a time of radical political and economic change ( The Journal of Asian Studies).Winner, Francis Hsu Book Prize from the Society for East Asian AnthropologyShortlisted, ICAS (International Convention of Asia Scholars) Book PrizeThe collapse of socialism at the end of the twentieth century brought ... Läs mer

    159,94 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • A Confucian Constitutional Order

    How China's Ancient Past Can Shape Its Political Future

    av Jiang Qing ...
    Översatt av Edmund Ryden ...
    Serie serie The Princeton-China Series
    What a Confucian constitutional government might look like in China's political futureAs China continues to transform itself, many assume that the nation will eventually move beyond communism and adopt a Western-style democracy. But could China develop a unique form of government based on its own distinct traditions? Jiang Qing—China's most original, provocative, and controversial Confucian ... Läs mer

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  • Asia as Method

    Toward Deimperialization

    Centering his analysis in the dynamic forces of modern East Asian history, Kuan-Hsing Chen recasts cultural studies as a politically urgent global endeavor. He argues that the intellectual and subjective work of decolonization begun across East Asia after the Second World War was stalled by the cold war. At the same time, the work of deimperialization became impossible to imagine in imperial ... Läs mer

    227,25 kr

  • The Great Civilized Conversation

    Education for a World Community

    Having spent decades teaching and researching the humanities, Wm. Theodore de Bary is well positioned to speak on its merits and reform. Believing a classical liberal education is more necessary than ever, he outlines in these essays a plan to update existing core curricula by incorporating classics from both Eastern and Western traditions, thereby bringing the philosophy and moral values of Asian ... Läs mer

    361,66 kr