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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “kristin stapleton”
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  • The Sage Handbook of Interpreting Chinese History

    Edited by Kristin Stapleton, Xin Fan, Els van Dongen ...
    Series series Sage Handbooks of Modern China
    The Sage Handbook of Interpreting Chinese History offers an in-depth exploration of the evolution of historical narratives in China over the past century. Bringing together some of the world’s leading scholars, this handbook provides both depth and breadth to our understanding of how Chinese leaders, intellectuals, and the public conceive of their place in the world. It examines the dramatic ... Read more

    $99.89 USD

  • The Modern City in Asia

    by Kristin Stapleton ...
    Series series Elements in Global Urban History
    Kristin Stapleton analyzes how concepts and practices associated with the 'modern city' were received, transformed, and contested in Asia over the past 150 years. In the early twentieth century, activists took advantage of the new significance of the city to pursue a wide variety of goals. Thus, the concept of the modern city played an important role in Asia, despite much critical commentary on ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Japanese City

    Edited by Pradyumna P. Karan, Kristin Stapleton ...
    Japan is one of the most crowded countries on earth, with three-fourths of its population now living in cities. Tokyo is easily the most populous city on the planet. And yet, though closely packed, its citizens dwell together in relative peace. In America, inner-city violence—often attributed in part to overcrowding—is frequently emphasized as one of the great social problems of the day. What ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • A History of Asia

    by Rhoads Murphey, Kristin Stapleton ...
    A History of Asia is the only textbook to provide a historical overview of the whole of this region, encompassing India, China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Engaging and lively, it chronicles the complex political, social, and intellectual histories of the area from prehistory to the present day.Taking a comparative approach throughout, the book offers a balanced history of each major ... Read more

    $200.00 USD

  • Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm

    In Search of Chinese Modernity

    by Jianhua Chen, Denise Gimpel, Frederick Lau, Viren Murthy, Kristin Stapleton, Lung-kee Sun, Xiong Yuezhi, Fa-ti Fan, Ted Huters ...
    When did China make the decisive turn from tradition to modernity? For decades, the received wisdom would have pointed to the May Fourth movement, with its titanic battles between the champions of iconoclasm and the traditionalists, and its shift to more populist forms of politics. A growing body of recent research has, however, called into question how decisive the turn was, when it happened, and ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • The Human Tradition in Modern China

    Edited by Kristin Stapleton, Kenneth J. Hammond ...
    Series series The Human Tradition around the World series
    This lively and engaging text offers a panorama of modern Chinese history through compelling biographies of the famous and obscure. Spanning five hundred years, they include a Ming dynasty medical pioneer, a Qing dynasty courtesan, a nineteenth-century Hong Kong business leader, a Manchu princess, an arsenal manager, a woman soldier, and a young maid in contemporary Beijing. Through the lives of ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Confucianism for the Contemporary World

    Global Order, Political Plurality, and Social Action

    Edited by Tze-ki Hon, Kristin Stapleton ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Discusses contemporary Confucianism's relevance and its capacity to address pressing social and political issues of twenty-first-century life.Condemned during the Maoist era as a relic of feudalism, Confucianism enjoyed a robust revival in post-Mao China as China's economy began its rapid expansion and gradual integration into the global economy. Associated with economic development, individual ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Fact in Fiction

    1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family

    by Kristin Stapleton ...
    Historical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction. Thousands have read Ba Jin's influential novel Family, but few realize how much he shaped his depiction of 1920s China to suit his story and his politics. In Fact in Fiction, Kristin Stapleton puts Ba Jin's bestseller into full historical context, both to illustrate how it ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • When China Rules the World

    The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order: Second Edition

    by Martin Jacques ...
    Greatly revised and expanded, with a new afterword, this update to Martin Jacques’s global bestseller is an essential guide to understanding a world increasingly shaped by Chinese powerSoon, China will rule the world. But in doing so, it will not become more Western.Since the first publication of When China Rules the World, the landscape of world power has shifted dramatically. In the three years ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Dogs and Demons

    Tales from the Dark Side of Japan

    by Alex Kerr ...
    The crises--and failures--of modernization in Japan, as seen up close by a resident expertJapan is a nation in crisis, and the crisis goes far beyond its well-known economic plight. In Dogs and Demons, Alex Kerr chronicles the crisis on a broad scale, from the failure of Japan's banks and pension funds to the decline of its once magnificent modern cinema. The book takes up for the first time in ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Bending Adversity

    Japan and the Art of Survival

    by David Pilling ...
    “[A]n excellent book...” —The EconomistFinancial Times Asia editor David Pilling presents a fresh vision of Japan, drawing on his own deep experience, as well as observations from a cross section of Japanese citizenry, including novelist Haruki Murakami, former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, industrialists and bankers, activists and artists, teenagers and octogenarians. Through their voices, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • A Short History of the World

    The Story of Mankind From Prehistory to the Modern Day

    by Alex Woolf ...
    Mankind has come a long way since our ancestors first stood up on two feet, but how did we get to where we are today? This book tells the story, through conflict and intrigue, power won and lost, great empires built and destroyed.With over 350 illustrations, timelines and box features, A Short History of the World is a comprehensive and entertaining look at the ways in which man has spent his time ... Read more

    $8.99 USD