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Télécharger le livre :  World Heritage in China
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World Heritage in China


Zhou Jian , Shan Li , Shao Yong


This book delves deep into China's World Heritage - listed urban sites: Pingyao, Lijiang, Macao, and Kulangsu (Gulangyu), which cities, as living cultural heritage, offer a rich vein of research material. The book uncovers how these cities have evolved over time,...

Parution : 2025-10-03
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Origin of the Rice Culture
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The Origin of the Rice Culture


Xia Gan , Zheng Yunfei


This book undertakes an in-depth exploration of the pivotal role of rice, which is the world's most essential food crops, sustaining over half of the global populace. It meticulously analyzes how rice cultivation constitutes the material bedrock and defining...

Parution : 2025-09-30
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Hierarchical Structure of the Qing Dynasty
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Hierarchical Structure of the Qing Dynasty


Junjian Jing , Zou Siyu


This book analyzes the inferiors in the Qing Dynasty society, offering a comprehensive examination of their place within the feudal hierarchy. In autocratic eras, the distinction between nobility and inferiors was a cornerstone of social order, and the existence of...

Parution : 2025-08-28
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Mei Lanfang's American Journey
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Mei Lanfang's American Journey


Cunfa Dong , Zhaohui Hong


This groundbreaking study examines Peking Opera legend Mei Lanfang’s 1930 U.S. visit through extensive primary sources and a cross-cultural lens. It meticulously chronicles his 76 performances over 182 days, reconstructing his daily itinerary, highlighting key...

Parution : 2025-07-30
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Discovering Heavenly Mandate
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Discovering Heavenly Mandate


Yi-Long Huang , Kai Xiao


This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach, incorporating knowledge and techniques from disciplines such as astronomy and history. The purpose of astrological divination is to discern the will of the heavens, and its subjects are the ruling class or the entire social...

Parution : 2025-05-19
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Eastern Learning Background of Liang Qichao's Enlightenment Thought
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The Eastern Learning Background of Liang Qichao's Enlightenment Thought


Fang Li , Kuangmin Zheng


This book provides an in-depth exploration of how Liang Qichao's political and intellectual thought was shaped by Japanese influences during his exile, offering a fresh perspective on modern Chinese intellectual history. It examines Liang’s engagement with Japan’s...

Parution : 2025-04-30
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Prehistoric Modernization
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Prehistoric Modernization


Shengqian Chen , Huifang Li


This book explores the origins of agriculture in China, and the transformation from hunter-gatherer to agriculture producer. Therefore, it reveals the ancient genes of China as an agricultural country and digs into questions like what turning events occurred during the...

Parution : 2025-02-28
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  A Brief History of Chinese Imperial Porcelain
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A Brief History of Chinese Imperial Porcelain


Chongnian Yan , Yuan Zhang


This book provides a unique history of the Porcelain Road against the backdrop of Chinese and Western cultural exchanges. Written by one of China’s most influential scholars, it introduces the history of Chinese Porcelain, especially the history of the imperial...

Parution : 2024-11-01
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Making of the Chinese Civilization
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The Making of the Chinese Civilization


Jianye Han , Jian Hou , Zequan Liu , Bing Mei


This book involves collection of papers primarily focused on the origin and development of Chinese civilization in the concept of archaeological context from the 6000 BCE to 1300 BCE through archaeological cultural perspectives. It systematically illustrates the...

Parution : 2024-02-03
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  China's Art Market since 1978
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China's Art Market since 1978


Li Ma


This book examines the rising global prominence of China’s art market throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. To understand the far-reaching impact of Chinese art on global consumption, this book traces the shift from regional markets to global markets. It...

Parution : 2023-09-30
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Télécharger le livre :  War Memory and East Asian Conflicts, 1930–1945
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War Memory and East Asian Conflicts, 1930–1945


Eveline Buchheim , Jennifer Coates


This book explores how narratives, exhibitions, media representations, and cultural heritage sites that communicate memories of conflicts in East Asia between 1930 and 1945 spread, interact, and are re-packaged for post-war audiences across national divisions. The...

Parution : 2023-06-29
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Macau in the Second World War, 1937-1945
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Macau in the Second World War, 1937-1945


Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo


This book offers a re-interpretation of the political history of Macau from 1937 to 1945, during which Japan and China were engulfed in the Second World War. Using an array of English and Chinese sources, the author explores the diplomatic and social landscape of...

Parution : 2022-07-15
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Western Technology and China's Industrial Development
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Western Technology and China's Industrial Development


Hsien-Ch'un Wang


This book explores how steam engine technology was transferred into nineteenth-century China in the second half of the nineteenth century by focusing on the transmission of knowledge and skills. It takes on the long-term problem in historiography that puts too much...

Parution : 2022-04-22
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Wang Fuzhi's Reconstruction of Confucianism
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Wang Fuzhi's Reconstruction of Confucianism


Mingran Tan


Wang Fuzhi (1619-1692), a Ming loyalist, was forced to find solutions for both cultural and political crises of his time. In this book Mingran Tan provides a comprehensive review ofWang Fuzhi’s understanding of historical events and his interpretation of the Confucian...

Parution : 2021-09-17
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Telling the Truth: China's Great Leap Forward, Household Registration and the Famine Death Tally
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Telling the Truth: China's Great Leap Forward, Household Registration and the Famine Death Tally


Baohui Xie , Songlin Yang


This book discusses what is often called the “Great Leap Famine”, which occurred in China during the years from 1959 to 1961. Scholarly consensus suggests that 30 million Chinese perished. Yang Songlin’s book provides an evidence-based, systematic and substantial...

Parution : 2021-05-25
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary History of Cantonese Migrants in Yokohama Chinatown
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Contemporary History of Cantonese Migrants in Yokohama Chinatown


Tai Wei Lim , Yee Lam Elim Wong


This book vividly portrays the past, current, and future development of Yokohama Chinatown through the context of its Cantonese residents, grounded through a family history. It is useful for both academic and non- academic readers who are interested in migration...

Parution : 2021-01-11
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Communication, Civilization and China
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Communication, Civilization and China


Benjamin Orion Landauer , Bin Li , Shixi Wu , Yuting Zheng


Referencing more than 40 ancient works as well as 70 books and papers of contemporary scholars, this book opens up the civilization, society, culture and communication of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang period represented unprecedented prosperity in the ancient world....

Parution : 2020-11-11
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Xiangsheng and the Emergence of Guo Degang in Contemporary China
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Xiangsheng and the Emergence of Guo Degang in Contemporary China


Shenshen Cai , Emily Dunn


This book explores xiangsheng, one of the most popular folk art performance genres in China, its enlistment by official propaganda machine after the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and its revival in popularity under Guo Degang and his Deyun Club. Just...

Parution : 2020-10-17
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Télécharger le livre :  The League of Nations and the East Asian Imperial Order, 1920–1946
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The League of Nations and the East Asian Imperial Order, 1920–1946


Harumi Goto-Shibata


Well-grounded on abundant Japanese language sources which have been underused, this book uncovers the League of Nations’ works in East Asia in the inter-war period. By researching the field of social and other technical issues, namely, the trade in narcotics, the...

Parution : 2020-07-02
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Currencies of the Indian Ocean World
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Currencies of the Indian Ocean World


Gwyn Campbell , Steven Serels


This book is the first to trace the unique monetary history of the Indian Ocean World. Long-distance trade across the region was facilitated by a highly complex multi-currency system undergirded by shared ideas that transcended ethno-linguistic, religious and class...

Parution : 2019-08-24
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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