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  • Chinese Revolution in Practice

    From Movement to the State

    by Guo Wu ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    This book employs multiple case studies to explore how the Chinese communist revolution began as an ideology-oriented intellectual movement aimed at improving society before China’s transformation into a state that suppresses dissenting voices by outsourcing its power of coercion and incarceration.The author examines the movement’s methods of early self-organization, grass-roots level engagement, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Archaeological Research on the Societies of Late Prehistoric Xinjiang, Vol 2

    by Guo Wu, Mark Elliot Seeley, Frank P. Saunders ...
    Translated by Wu Lihuan, Yan Jinglan ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book presents cutting-edge archaeological materials from Xinjiang, from the Bronze Age to the early Iron Age. Through a systematic topological study of major archaeological cemeteries and sites, it establishes chronologies and cultural sequences for three main regions in Xinjiang, namely the circum-Eastern Tianshan region, the circum-Dzungarian Basin region and the circum-Tarim Basin region. ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Archaeological Research on the Societies of Late Prehistoric Xinjiang, Vol 1

    by Guo Wu, Mark Elliot Seeley, Frank P. Saunders ...
    Translated by Wu Lihuan, Yan Jinglan ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book presents cutting-edge archaeological materials from Xinjiang, from the Bronze Age to the early Iron Age. Through a systematic topological study of major archaeological cemeteries and sites, it establishes chronologies and cultural sequences for three main regions in Xinjiang, namely the circum-Eastern Tianshan region, the circum-Dzungarian Basin region and the circum-Tarim Basin region. ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • An Anthropological Inquiry into Confucianism

    Ritual, Emotion, and Rational Principle

    by Guo Wu ...
    An Anthropological Inquiry into Confucianism provides a chronological, historicized reappraisal of Confucianism as a belief system and a way of life that revolves around three key concepts: ritual (Li), emotion (qing), and rational principle (li). Instead of examining all pertinent concepts of Confucianism, the book focuses on how Confucian thinkers grappled with these three words and tried to ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Narrating Southern Chinese Minority Nationalities

    Politics, Disciplines, and Public History

    by Guo Wu ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Based on fieldwork, archival research, and interviews, this book critically examines the building of modern Chinese discourse on a unified yet diverse Chinese nation on various sites of knowledge production. It argues that Chinese ideology on minority nationalities is rooted in modern China's quest for national integration and political authority. However, it also highlights the fact that the ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Complex Conjugate Matrix Equations for Systems and Control

    by Ai-Guo Wu, Ying Zhang ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book is the first book on complex matrix equations including the conjugate of unknown matrices. The study of these conjugate matrix equations is motivated by the investigations on stabilization and model reference tracking control for discrete-time antilinear systems, which are a particular kind of complex system with structure constraints. It proposes useful approaches to obtain iterative ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

    by Jack Weatherford ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world created an empire that led the world into the modern age—by the author featured in Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan.The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the ... Read more

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  • The Secret History of the Mongol Queens

    How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

    by Jack Weatherford ...
    “A fascinating romp through the feminine side of the infamous Khan clan” (Booklist) by the author featured in Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan“Enticing . . . hard to put down.”—Associated PressThe Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. The daughters of the Silk Route turned their father’s conquests into the first truly international ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Silk Road

    A New History

    by Valerie Hansen ...
    The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality was different--and far more interesting--as revealed in this new history. In The Silk Road, Valerie Hansen describes the remarkable archeological finds ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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  • The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by James A. Millward ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The phrase "silk road" evokes vivid scenes of merchants leading camel caravans across vast stretches to trade exotic goods in glittering Oriental bazaars, of pilgrims braving bandits and frozen mountain passes to spread their faith across Asia. Looking at the reality behind these images, this Very Short Introduction illuminates the historical background against which the silk road flourished, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean

    The Birth of Eurasia

    by Barry Cunliffe ...
    By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years, from the origins of farming around 9000 BC to the expansion of the Mongols in the thirteenth century AD. An unashamedly 'big history', it charts the development of ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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  • Central Asia in World History

    by Peter B. Golden ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders, including pre-modern Europe, the Middle East, and China. In Central Asia in World History, Peter B. Golden provides an engaging ... Read more

    $28.49 USD