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  • Defectors from the PRC to Taiwan, 1960-1989

    The Anti-Communist Righteous Warriors

    Series series The Cold War in Asia
    Defections from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were an important part of the narrative of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan during the Cold War, but their stories have previously barely been told, less still examined, in English.During the 1960s, 70s and 80s, the ROC government paid much special attention to these anti-communist heroes (fangong yishi). Their choices to leave behind the ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Farming across Borders

    A Transnational History of the North American West

    Series series Connecting the Greater West Series
    Farming across Borders uses agricultural history to connect the regional experiences of the American West, northern Mexico, western Canada, and the North American side of the Pacific Rim, now writ large into a broad history of the North American West. Case studies of commodity production and distribution, trans-border agricultural labor, and environmental change unite to reveal new perspectives on ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Visualizing Modern China

    Image, History, and Memory, 1750–Present

    Series series AsiaWorld
    Visualizing Modern China: Image, History, and Memory, 1750–Present offers a sophisticated yet accessible interpretation of modern Chinese history through visual imagery. With rich illustrations and a companion website, it is an ideal textbook for college-level courses on modern Chinese history and on modern visual culture. The introduction provides a methodological framework and historical ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • Colonial Project, National Game

    A History of Baseball in Taiwan

    Series Libro 6 - Asia Pacific Modern
    In this engrossing cultural history of baseball in Taiwan, Andrew D. Morris traces the game’s social, ethnic, political, and cultural significance since its introduction on the island more than one hundred years ago. Introduced by the Japanese colonial government at the turn of the century, baseball was expected to "civilize" and modernize Taiwan’s Han Chinese and Austronesian Aborigine ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Crime and Violence in the Caribbean

    Lessons from Jamaica

    This volume provides an overview of the Caribbean countries, its colonial history, causes, costs and consequences of crime and violence in the Caribbean. The contributors pull from primary research and the available data from multiple sources including national and country specific reports to assess the magnitude, characteristics, and the changing nature of crimes in various Caribbean countries. ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • Atlantic Environments and the American South

    Series series
    There is clear overlap in interests and influences for the fields of Atlantic, environmental, and southern history, but scholarship in them has often advanced on parallel tracks. This anthology places itself at the intersection, pushing for a new confluence. Editors Thomas Blake Earle and D. Andrew Johnson provide a lucid introduction to this collection of essays that brings these disciplines ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • Japanese Taiwan

    Colonial Rule and its Contested Legacy

    Edición de Andrew D. Morris ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
    Colonial agents worked for fifty years to make a Japanese Taiwan, using technology, culture, statistics, trade, and modern ideologies to remake their new territory according to evolving ideas of Japanese empire. Since the end of the Pacific War, this project has been remembered, imagined, nostalgized, erased, commodified, manipulated, idealized and condemned by different sectors of Taiwan's ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Movies in the Age of Obama

    The Era of Post-Racial and Neo-Racist Cinema

    The historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States had a significant impact on both America and the world at large. By voting an African American into the highest office, those who elected Obama did not necessarily look past race, but rather didn’t let race prevent them for casting their ballots in his favor. In addition to reflecting the changing political climate, Obama ... Leer más

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  • Tiananmen

    25th Anniversary Edition

    de Morgan Chua ...
    The events that took place at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China on 4 June 1989 attracted international attention and sparked outrage at the Chinese government’s military advance on student demonstrators. Twenty-five years on, a new generation of Chinese has grown up in a country that continues to grapple with issues of political liberalisation, democracy and censorship.First published in 1989, ... Leer más

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  • The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China

    de Guobin Yang ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966, but then split into warring factions. Investigating the causes of this fracture, Guobin Yang argues that Chinese youth engaged in an imaginary revolution from 1966 to 1968, enacting a ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Fact in Fiction

    1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family

    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 ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD