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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 :  The Establishment and Reconstruction of the Academician System in China
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The Establishment and Reconstruction of the Academician System in China


Weizhen Gu , Jinhai Guo , Xiaoxuan Zhou


This book is the first monograph to study the processes of establishing and reconstructing the academician system, and the landmark events in the history of science and technology in 20th century China. It also provides new insights to help us understand the...

Parution : 2020-11-30
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Éditeur : Springer
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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 :  The Oxford Handbook of Early China
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The Oxford Handbook of Early China


Elizabeth Childs-Johnson


The Oxford Handbook on Early China brings 30 scholars together to cover early China from the Neolithic through Warring States periods (ca 5000-500BCE).The study is chronological and incorporates a multidisciplinary approach, covering topics from archaeology,...

Parution : 2020-10-23
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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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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Heaven Has Eyes
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Heaven Has Eyes


Xiaoqun Xu


Heaven Has Eyes is a comprehensive but concise history of Chinese law and justice from the imperial era to the post-Mao era. Never before has a single book treated the traditional Chinese law and judicial practices and their modern counterparts as a coherent history,...

Parution : 2020-10-13
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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 :  Legendary Port of the Maritime Silk Routes
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Legendary Port of the Maritime Silk Routes


Qiang Wang


Legendary Port of the Maritime Silk Routes: Zayton (Quanzhou) is a book of Asian premodern maritime history from global perspectives. The book is targeted at learners and students of China study in the field of literature relating to the knowledge of premodern maritime...

Parution : 2020-04-03
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Télécharger le livre :  New Perspectives on China’s Late Imperial Period
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New Perspectives on China’s Late Imperial Period


Patrick Leung


The book offers new perspectives on the history of China’s late imperial period and presents a much-needed novel explanation for China’s stagnation and decline in recent centuries. It begins by questioning all the conventional wisdom on the factors behind China’s...

Parution : 2020-03-31
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Télécharger le livre :  An Outline of the History of Chinese Thought by Hu Shih
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An Outline of the History of Chinese Thought by Hu Shih


Hu Shih , Hao Wu


This book presents the syllabus of Hu Shih’s course on the History of Chinese Thought, which he taught at Harvard University from 1944 to 1945, and has been transcribed from his (more than 1500) hand-written notes.This book focuses on Hu Shih’s in-depth study and...

Parution : 2020-01-14
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Éditeur : Springer
Collection : China Academic Library
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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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Télécharger le livre :  Trade Relations between Qing China and Tokugawa Japan
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Trade Relations between Qing China and Tokugawa Japan


Hao Peng


This book explains compellingly that, despite common belief, in the early modern period, the intra-East Asian commercial network still functioned sustainably, and within that network, the Sino-Japanese trade can be seen as the most significant part which not only...

Parution : 2019-06-08
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Éditeur : Springer
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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
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Collection : Mapping Global Racisms
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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 :  Mapping Asia: Cartographic Encounters Between East and West
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Mapping Asia: Cartographic Encounters Between East and West


Mario Cams , Imre Josef Demhardt , Ferjan Ormeling , Martijn Storms


This proceedings book presents the first-ever cross-disciplinary analysis of 16th–20th century South, East, and Southeast Asian cartography. The central theme of the conference was the mutual influence of Western and Asian cartographic traditions, and the focus was on...

Parution : 2018-06-27
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Éditeur : Springer
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Télécharger le livre :  The Confucian Four Books for Women
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The Confucian Four Books for Women


Ann A. Pang-White


This volume presents the first English translation of the Confucian classics, Four Books for Women, with extensive commentary by the compiler, Wang Xiang, and introductions and annotations by translator Ann A. Pang-White. Written by women for women's education, the...

Parution : 2018-04-02
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Télécharger le livre :  130 Years of Medicine in Hong Kong
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130 Years of Medicine in Hong Kong


Frank Ching


This book reviews the medical history of Hong Kong, beginning with its birth as a British colony. It introduces the origins of Hong Kong’s medical education, which began in 1887 when the London Missionary Society set up the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese....

Parution : 2018-03-14
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Éditeur : Springer
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