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  • East Asia Beyond the History Wars

    Confronting the Ghosts of Violence

    by Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Morris Low, Leonid Petrov, Timothy Y. Tsu ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    East Asia is now the world’s economic powerhouse, but ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region, particularly between Japan, China and the two Koreas. Unhappy legacies of Japan’s military expansion in pre-war Asia prompt on-going calls for apologies, while conflicts over ownership of cultural heritage cause friction between China and Korea, and no ... Read more

    $77.99 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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  • War, Politics and Society in Early Modern China, 900-1795

    by Peter Lorge ...
    Series series Warfare and History
    This comprehensive survey of Chinese military history is the only book in English to span the significant years from 900 – 1795. Peter Lorge questions current theories on China’s relationship to war, and argues that war was the most important tool used by the Chinese in building and maintaining their empire.Emphasizing the relationship between the military and politics, chapters are organised ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Guan Yu

    The Religious Afterlife of a Failed Hero

    by Barend J. ter Haar ...
    Guan Yu was a minor general in the early third century CE, who supported one of numerous claimants to the throne. He was captured and executed by enemy forces in 219. He eventually became one the most popular and influential deities of imperial China under the name Lord Guan or Emperor Guan, of the same importance as the Buddhist bodhisattva Guanyin. This is a study of his cult, but also of the ... Read more

    $115.19 USD

  • Mao

    The Man Who Made China

    by Philip Short ...
    One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution, a communist who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, an aggressive and distrustful leader, and a man responsible for more civilian deaths than perhaps any other historical figure. Now, four decades after Mao's death, acclaimed ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Rise of Political Intellectuals in Modern China

    May Fourth Societies and the Roots of Mass-Party Politics

    by Shakhar Rahav ...
    The May Fourth movement (1915-1923) is widely considered a watershed in the history of modern China. This book is a social history of cultural and political radicals based in China's most important hinterland city at this pivotal time, Wuhan. Current narratives of May Fourth focus on the ideological development of intellectuals in the seaboard metropoles of Beijing and Shanghai. And although ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • History and Popular Memory

    The Power of Story in Moments of Crisis

    by Paul Cohen ...
    When people experience a traumatic event, such as war or the threat of annihilation, they often turn to history for stories that promise a positive outcome to their suffering. During World War II, the French took comfort in the story of Joan of Arc and her heroic efforts to rid France of foreign occupation. To bring the Joan narrative more into line with current circumstances, however, popular ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Korean Diaspora in Post War Japan

    Geopolitics, Identity and Nation-Building

    by Myung Ja Kim ...
    The indistinct status of the Zainichi has meant that, since the late 1940s, two ethnic Korean associations, the Chongryun (pro-North) and the Mindan (pro-South) have been vying for political loyalty from the Zainichi, with both groups initially opposing their assimilation in Japan. Unlike the Korean diasporas living in Russia, China or the US, the Zainichi have become sharply divided along ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • North Korea’s New Diplomacy

    Challenging Political Isolation in the 21st Century

    by Virginie Grzelczyk ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines how North Korea has managed to weather an uncertain political future and catastrophic economic system since the end of the Cold War. Emerging as a state that has successfully developed and tested missiles and nuclear weapons, North Korea has consolidated the Kim family dynasty through the appointment of Kim Jong Un as Pyongyang’s latest strongman. The author provides an ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Globalization and Security Relations across the Taiwan Strait

    In the shadow of China

    Edited by Ming-chin Monique Chu, Scott L. Kastner ...
    Series series Asian Security Studies
    This book presents an interdisciplinary examination of cross-Taiwan Strait relations and the complex dynamics at play in the region.Since the election of Ma Ying-jeou as Taiwan’s president in 2008, the relationship across the Taiwan Strait—long viewed as one of Asia’s most volatile potential flashpoints—has experienced a remarkable détente. Whether the relationship has been truly transformed, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Herbert A. Giles’s Works

    by Zhuang Zi, Herbert Allen Giles ...
    Herbert A. Giles’s Works  contained 4 works written by Zhuang Zi  (365 BCE–290 BCE) and Herbert Allen Giles (/dʒaɪlz/; Chinese: 翟理斯; pinyin: Zhái Lǐsī; Wade–Giles: Chai2 Li3 Ssu1; 8 December 1845 – 13 February 1935) was a British diplomat, sinologist, and professor of Chinese language. Giles was educated at Charterhouse School before becoming a British diplomat in China. He modified a Mandarin ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Legal Transplantation in Early Twentieth-Century China

    Practicing law in Republican Beijing (1910s-1930s)

    by Michael H. K. Ng ...
    "Practicing law"has a dual meaning in this book. It refers to both the occupational practice of law and the practicing of transplanted laws and institutions to perfect them.The book constitutes the first monographic work on the legal history of Republican Beijing, and provides an in-depth and comprehensive account of the practice of law in the city of Beijing during a period of social ... Read more

    $72.99 USD