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Télécharger le livre :  A History of War Crimes Trials in Post 1945 Asia-Pacific
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A History of War Crimes Trials in Post 1945 Asia-Pacific


Zhaoqi Cheng , Jun He , Fangbin Yang


Written by the Director of the Tokyo Trial Research Centre at China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University, this book provides a unique analysis of war crime trials in Asia-Pacific after World War II. It offers a comprehensive review of key events during this period,...

Parution : 2019-06-06
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  China's Economic Engagement in North Korea
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China's Economic Engagement in North Korea


Bo Gao


This book addresses growing tensions in Northeast Asia, notably between North Korea and China. Focusing on China’s economic participation in North Korea’s minerals and fishery industries, the author explores the role of China’s sub-state and non-state actors in...

Parution : 2019-02-20
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Discourses of Race and Rising China
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Discourses of Race and Rising China


Yinghong Cheng


This book is a critical study of the development of a racialised nationalism in China, exploring its unique characteristics and internal tensions, and connecting it to other forms of global racism. The growth of this discourse is contextualised within the party-state’s...

Parution : 2019-02-06
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Elderly Care, Intergenerational Relationships and Social Change in Rural China
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Elderly Care, Intergenerational Relationships and Social Change in Rural China


Fang Cao


This book investigates how rapid socio-political-economic change in China since 1949 has affected intergenerational relationships and practices in rural areas, specifically the care provided to elderly parents by their adult children. It focuses on the lived experiences...

Parution : 2018-12-20
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Public Order Policing in Hong Kong
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Public Order Policing in Hong Kong


Kam C. Wong


This book examines the Hong Kong Mongkok Riot (MKR) of 2016 to offer a clear and objective account of the events as they unfolded, to dispel the myths, and to explore what can be learned from it. It draws on multiple sources including: public survey data,...

Parution : 2018-11-30
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Meaning and Controversy within Chinese Ancestor Religion
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Meaning and Controversy within Chinese Ancestor Religion


Paulin Batairwa Kubuya


Chinese practices related to ancestors have long been the subject of conflicting interpretations. These practices are rooted in the lived experience of practitioners, and therefore need to be considered as embodied expressions of the quest for existential meaning. For...

Parution : 2018-01-25
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Hong Kong 20 Years after the Handover
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Hong Kong 20 Years after the Handover


Brian C.H. Fong , Tai-Lok Lui , Tai-Lok Lui


This book examines the socio-political conflicts which have arisen since Hong Kong’s return to China and confronts the fundamental problems in the design of the One Country, Two Systems (OCTS) Model.  It considers not only the issue of democratization, but also the...

Parution : 2017-10-10
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Chinese in Colonial Burma
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Chinese in Colonial Burma


Yi Li


Using previously unexplored archives from colonial institutions and individuals, and primary materials produced by the Burmese Chinese, this comprehensive study investigates over a century of history of the Burmese Chinese under British colonial rule. Due to the...

Parution : 2017-02-25
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Making of China's War with Japan
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The Making of China's War with Japan


Mayumi Itoh


This cutting edge study examines the career of Chinese politician and diplomat Zhou Enlai (1898–1976) and assesses his leadership role in the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) strategy against the Japanese invasion of China which established the foundation for post-World...

Parution : 2016-10-03
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Gongyang Commentary on The Spring and Autumn Annals
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The Gongyang Commentary on The Spring and Autumn Annals


H. Miller


This book is a full translation of the Gongyang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals, a history of the Chinese state of Lu from 722 to 481 BCE, annotated so as to highlight the moral philosophy of its supposed writer, Confucius.

Parution : 2015-03-18
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Tiananmen Exiles
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Tiananmen Exiles


Rowena Xiaoqing He


In the spring of 1989, millions of citizens across China took to the streets in a nationwide uprising against government corruption and authoritarian rule. What began with widespread hope for political reform ended with the People's Liberation Army firing on unarmed...

Parution : 2014-04-09
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Italy's Encounters with Modern China
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Italy's Encounters with Modern China


G. Andornino , M. Marinelli


Developed by an international team of historians, sociologists, political scientists and economists, this collection is the most comprehensive reader of the history of Sino-Italian relations currently available in the English language.

Parution : 2013-11-07
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  State versus Gentry in Early Qing Dynasty China, 1644-1699
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State versus Gentry in Early Qing Dynasty China, 1644-1699


H. Miller


Continuing the argument developed in the author's previous book, this exhaustively researched study describes the humiliation of the Chinese gentry at the hands of the statist Oboi regents in the 1660s and the Kangxi emperor's self-declared Confucian sagehood in the...

Parution : 2013-07-24
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Transgender China
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Transgender China


H. Chiang


This volume brings together experts with diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the China field, from cultural studies to history to musicology, to make a timely intervention—from the historical demise of enuchism to male cross-dressing shows in contemporary Taiwan—to...

Parution : 2012-12-23
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Zhang Xueliang
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Zhang Xueliang


A. Shai


The first book to tell the strange and fascinating story of General Zhang Xue-liang, the Chinese-Manchurian 'Young Marshall' - a man who left an indelible mark on the history of modern China, but few know his story. Unlocking the mystery of this man's life, Aron...

Parution : 2012-01-17
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Critical Discourse Analysis in Historiography
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Critical Discourse Analysis in Historiography


J. Flowerdew


The book shows how the study of the evolving discourse employed during a political process spanning more than a decade can provide insights for critical discourse analysis, on the one hand, and understanding of a real world political process on the other, thereby...

Parution : 2011-12-01
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading Shenbao
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Reading Shenbao


W. Tsai


Through a study of the readership of the most popular commercial daily newspaper in China during the early twentieth century, Reading Shenbao investigates ideas of nationalism, consumerism and individuality, looking at the relationship between advertising, modern...

Parution : 2009-11-30
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Trans-Pacific Interactions
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Trans-Pacific Interactions


V. Künnemann , R. Mayer


This book explores particular facets of the history and representation of the Pacific Rim region, fo­cusing on the interactions between the United States and China at the beginning of the twentieth century. It critically examines contemporary discourses on such...

Parution : 2009-10-26
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Asian Empire and British Knowledge
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Asian Empire and British Knowledge


U. Hillemann


British knowledge about China changed fundamentally in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather than treating these changes inBritish understanding as if Anglo-Sino relations were purely bilateral, this study looks at howBritish imperial networks in India and...

Parution : 2009-10-15
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Marginalization in China
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Marginalization in China


Joseph Tse-Hei Lee , Lida V. Nedilsky


Bringing together historians, sociologists, and political scientists, this volume documents persistent prejudices against consistently marginal groups in China, and the moral claims they have mustered in response.

Parution : 2009-06-22
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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