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  • Missionary Translators

    Translations of Christian Texts in East Asia

    de Jieun Kiaer, Alessandro Bianchi, Giulia Falato, Pia Jolliffe, Kazue Mino, Kyungmin Yu ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in East Asian Translation
    Exploring the history of missionary translation of Christian texts in East Asia, Missionary Translators offers a comparative perspective between the features of East Asian languages and the historical context of the translation. Focusing on the Bible and Christian theological works, it looks at the intersection of linguistics, translation studies and history. This book discusses the real-life ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Prisons and Forced Labour in Japan

    The Colonization of Hokkaido, 1881-1894

    de Pia Jolliffe ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Asia
    Prisons and Forced Labour in Japan examines the local, national and international significance of convict labour during the colonization of Hokkaido between 1881 and 1894 and the building of the Japanese empire.Based on the analysis of archival sources such as prison yearbooks and letters, as well as other eyewitness accounts, this book uses a framework of global prison studies to trace the ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Learning, Migration and Intergenerational Relations

    The Karen and the Gift of Education

    de Pia Jolliffe ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Focusing on the Karen people in Burma, Thailand and the United Kingdom, this book analyses how global, regional and local developments affect patterns of learning. It combines historical and ethnographic research to explore the mutual shaping of intergenerational relations and children’s practical and formal learning within a context of migration and socio-political change. In this endeavour, Pia ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Southeast Asian Education in Modern History

    Schools, Manipulation, and Contest

    Edición de Pia Jolliffe, Thomas Bruce ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    How particular has Southeast Asia’s experience of educational development been, and has this led to an identifiably distinct Southeast Asian approach to the provision of education? Inquiry into these questions has significant consequences for our understanding of the current state of education in Southeast Asia and the challenges it has inherited.This book contributes to a better understanding of ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Japan in the Early Modern World

    Religion, Translation, and Transnational Relations

    Edición de Katja Triplett, Yoshimi Orii, Pia Jolliffe ...
    Series series J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)
    Early modern transnational relations and personal encounters were influenced by interactions between Japan and the regions that had become connected to it through expanding global trade and missionary networks. Translation activities linked to Christian missionary activities, overseas trade, and political upheaval in these places all contributed to shaping these interactions. Adopting an ... Leer más

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  • George Yeo On Bonsai, Banyan And The Tao

    de Asad-ul Iqbal Latif, Huay Leng Lee ...
    Since his undergraduate days in Cambridge, George Yeo has spoken and written much in and out of government. Many remember the things which he said or wrote years ago. This book is a compilation of some of his best speeches and writings which were selected by Asad Latif and Lee Huay Leng in consultation with him.The book has a rather unusual title because there are many aspects to George Yeo which ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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  • From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico

    Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire

    Edición de David Charles Wright-Carr, Francisco Marco Simón ...
    From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica, offering novel perspectives on the historical processes involved in the spread of Christianity. Combining concepts of empire and globalization with the notion of religion from a postcolonial perspective, the book proposes the method of analytical comparison as a point of ... Leer más

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  • The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

    de James C. Scott ...
    For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge ... Leer más

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  • The Chinese in Indonesia: An English Translation of Hoakiau di Indonesia

    de Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Max Lane ...
    Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925-2006) was undoubtedly Indonesia’s most significant novelist and writer. After the 1960 publication of this book, now translated for the first time, Promoedya spent some 20 years in prison often in appalling conditions. The book sets out in the form of nine letters much of the author’s humanist and deeply anti-racialist philosophy as it discussed the history and needs of ... Leer más

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  • They Flew

    A History of the Impossible

    de Carlos M. N. Eire ...
    An award-winning historian’s examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significanceAccounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era—tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft—even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a ... Leer más

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  • The Jesuits

    A History

    de Markus Friedrich ...
    Traducido por John Noël Dillon ...
    The most comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of one of the most important religious orders in the modern worldSince its founding by Ignatius of Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus—more commonly known as the Jesuits—has played a critical role in the events of modern history. From the Counter-Reformation to the ascent of Francis I as the first Jesuit pope, The Jesuits presents an intimate look ... Leer más

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  • The Medieval Invention of Travel

    de Shayne Aaron Legassie ...
    Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During a time in history when travel was often difficult, expensive, and fraught with danger, these wayfarers composed accounts of their experiences in ... Leer más

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