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  • East Asia and the Modern International Order

    From Imperialism to the Cold War

    Edited by Stephan Haggard, David C. Kang ...
    This crucial interdisciplinary work brings together historians and international relations specialists to re-examine fourteen events in twentieth-century East Asia that shaped world and regional politics. In a series of case studies framed by conceptual essays the authors examine key moments and their wider significance, including the Chinese Exclusion Acts in the United States; the Japanese ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Chinese Models of Development

    Global, Local, and Comparative Perspectives

    by Tse-Kang Leng, Yu-Shan Wu, Rumi Aoyama, Yun-han Chu, Szu-chien Hsu, Xiaoming Huang, David C. Kang, Allen C. Lynch, Hans H. Tung0, Herman Schwartz1, Brantly Womack2 ...
    Series series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
    Discussion of the “Chinese Model” abounds with the rise of China. This volume analyzes the Chinese case in a theoretical framework, provides an evolutionary perspective, and compares it with other models of development. Instead of focusing on one specific case, the book's contributors shed light on the application of theories of international relations, comparative politics, and development ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • State Formation through Emulation

    The East Asian Model

    by Chin-Hao Huang, David C. Kang ...
    Neither war nor preparations for war were the cause or effect of state formation in East Asia. Instead, emulation of China—the hegemon with a civilizational influence—drove the rapid formation of centralized, bureaucratically administered, territorial governments in Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Furthermore, these countries engaged in state-building not to engage in conflict or to suppress revolt. In ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • East Asia in the World

    Twelve Events That Shaped the Modern International Order

    Edited by Stephan Haggard, David C. Kang ...
    This innovative volume provides an introduction to twelve seminal events in the international relations of East Asia prior to 1900: twelve events that everyone interested in the history of world politics should know. The East Asian historical experience provides a wealth of new and different cases, patterns, and findings that will expand horizons from the Western, Eurocentric experience. Written ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • American Grand Strategy and East Asian Security in the Twenty-First Century

    by David C. Kang ...
    East Asia is richer, more integrated and more stable than ever before, whilst East Asian defense spending is now roughly half of what it was in 1990 and shows no sign of increasing. There is no evidence of any Asian arms race. All countries in the region are seeking diplomatic, not military solutions with each other. Yet this East Asia reality still runs counter to a largely Western narrative that ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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  • A History of China

    by Morris Rossabi ...
    Series series Blackwell History of the World
    Capturing China’s past in all its complexity, this multi-faceted history portrays China in the context of a larger global world, while incorporating the narratives of Chinese as well as non-Chinese ethnic groups and discussing people traditionally left out of the story—peasants, women, merchants, and artisans.Offers a complete political, economic, social, and cultural history of China, covering ... Read more

    $39.50 USD

  • East Asia Before the West

    Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute

    by David Kang ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal neighbors, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. These four territorial and centralized states have otherwise fostered peaceful and long-lasting relationships with one another, and as they have grown more powerful, the atmosphere around them has ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Demystifying China

    New Understandings of Chinese History

    Edited by Naomi Standen ...
    For westerners, China’s history is often reduced to a choice between timeless Confucian ideals or incomprehensible barbarisms such as footbinding or mass slaughter, fueled by generalizations such as “China has five thousand years of history,” “China was a Confucian society,” “Chinese women were victims,” “China is a communist country,” and many more. But China is now too globally important to ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • The Chinese State in Ming Society

    by Timothy Brook ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
    The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between state and society in Chinese history. This unique collection of reworked and heavily illustrated essays, by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, re-examines this relationship. It argues that, contrary to previous scholarship, it was radical responses within society ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Imperial China

    The Social Origins of State Development

    by Yuhua Wang ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Contemporary China
    How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese stateChina was the world’s leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China’s decline? The Rise and Fall of Imperial China offers a systematic look at the Chinese state from the seventh century through to the twentieth. Focusing on how ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Protest with Chinese Characteristics

    Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty

    by Ho-fung Hung ...
    The origin of political modernity has long been tied to the Western history of protest and revolution, the currents of which many believe sparked popular dissent worldwide. Reviewing nearly one thousand instances of protest in China from the eighteenth to the early-nineteenth centuries, Ho-fung Hung charts an evolution of Chinese dissent that stands apart from Western trends.Hung samples from mid ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Imperial China, 1350–1900

    by Jonathan Porter ...
    This clear and engaging book provides a concise overview of the Ming-Qing epoch (1368–1912), China’s last imperial age. Beginning with the end of the Mongol domination of China in 1368, this five-century period was remarkable for its continuity and stability until its downfall in the Revolution of 1911. Viewing the Ming and Qing dynasties as a coherent era characterized by the fruition of diverse ... Read more

    $42.99 USD