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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
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Springer
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Télécharger le livre :  China's Great Wall of Debt
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China's Great Wall of Debt


Dinny Mcmahon


'One of the clearest and most thorough statements of an argument often made about the country: that its government has relied on constant stimulus to keep growth strong, an addiction that is bound to backfire. Second, he comes closer than any previous writer to covering...

Parution : 2018-03-13
Format(s) : ePub
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Télécharger le livre :  China in the 21st Century
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China in the 21st Century


Maura Elizabeth Cunningham , Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom


In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world's newest superpower and offer a...

Parution : 2018-03-12
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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
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Languages, scripts, and Chinese texts in East Asia
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Languages, scripts, and Chinese texts in East Asia


Peter Francis Kornicki


Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia is a wide-ranging study of vernacularization in East Asia - not only China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, but also societies that no longer exist, such as the Tangut and Khitan empires. Peter Kornicki takes the...

Parution : 2018-01-19
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Languages, scripts, and Chinese texts in East Asia
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Languages, scripts, and Chinese texts in East Asia


Peter Francis Kornicki


Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia is a wide-ranging study of vernacularization in East Asia - not only China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, but also societies that no longer exist, such as the Tangut and Khitan empires. Peter Kornicki takes the...

Parution : 2018-01-11
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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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 :  Guan Yu
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Guan Yu


Barend J. Ter Haar


Guan Yu was a minor general in the early third century CE, who supported one of numerous claimants to the throne. He was captured and executed by enemy forces in 219. He eventually became one the most popular and influential deities of imperial China under the name Lord...

Parution : 2017-10-06
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Guan Yu
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Guan Yu


Barend J. Ter Haar


Guan Yu was a minor general in the early third century CE, who supported one of numerous claimants to the throne. He was captured and executed by enemy forces in 219. He eventually became one the most popular and influential deities of imperial China under the name Lord...

Parution : 2017-09-29
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
Offre spéciale 102,23€
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Télécharger le livre :  Asia's Reckoning
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Asia's Reckoning


Richard Mcgregor


'Stunningly good' Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 2017The dramatic story of the relationship between the world's three largest economies, one that is shaping the future of us all, by one of the foremost experts on east AsiaFor more than half a...

Parution : 2017-09-05
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Interpreting Islam in China
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Interpreting Islam in China


Kristian Petersen


During the early modern period, Muslims in China began to embrace the Chinese characteristics of their heritage. Several scholar-teachers incorporated tenets from traditional Chinese education into their promotion of Islamic knowledge. As a result, some Sino-Muslims...

Parution : 2017-09-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Anarchy in the Pure Land
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Anarchy in the Pure Land


Justin Ritzinger


Anarchy in the Pure Land investigates the twentieth-century reinvention of the cult of Maitreya, the future Buddha, conceived by the reformer Taixu and promoted by the Chinese Buddhist reform movement. The cult presents an apparent anomaly: It shows precisely the kind...

Parution : 2017-08-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Reinventing the Methodology of Studying Contemporary China
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Reinventing the Methodology of Studying Contemporary China


Peter Kien-Hong Yu


This book illustrates how the one-dot theory, which is a dialectical study, is well suited to describing, explaining and inferring contemporary China’s past, present and future. It argues that since October 1949, the field of contemporary China studies has been...

Parution : 2017-07-03
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Éditeur : Springer
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Télécharger le livre :  Stalk Divination
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Stalk Divination


C. A. Cook , Zhao Lu


This book presents for the first time a full translation and analysis of a newly discovered bamboo divination manual from the fourth century BCE China, called the Stalk Divination Method (Shifa). It was used as an alternative to the better-known Zhouyi (popularly known...

Parution : 2017-06-20
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ghost Marriage
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The Ghost Marriage


Peter May


THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OFTHE LEWIS TRILOGY ANDTHE ENZO FILESAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OFTHE CWA DAGGER INTHE LIBRARY 2021'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.' Undiscovered Scotland 'No one can create a more eloquently written...

Parution : 2017-03-31
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Riverrun
Collection : China Thrillers
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Télécharger le livre :  Out of China
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Out of China


Robert Bickers


SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEThe extraordinary and essential story of how China became the powerful country it is today.Even at the high noon of Europe's empires China managed to be one of the handful of countries not to succumb. Invaded, humiliated...

Parution : 2017-03-30
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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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 :  Once Upon A Time in the East
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Once Upon A Time in the East


Xiaolu Guo


'This generation's Wild Swans' Daily TelegraphXiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her.When she is born in 1973, her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the mountains. Aged two, and suffering...

Parution : 2017-01-26
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  A Paradise Lost
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A Paradise Lost


Young-Tsu Wong


This book is aimed at readers and researchers who are interested in Chinese garden architecture, the rise and fall of Yuanming Yuan and the history of the Qing dynasty. It is the first comprehensive study of the palatial garden complex in a Western language, and is...

Parution : 2016-11-25
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Springer
Collection : China Academic Library
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Télécharger le livre :  Making Saints in Modern China
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Making Saints in Modern China


Vincent Goossaert , David Ownby , Ji Zhe


"Sainthood" has been, and remains, a contested category in China, given the commitment of China's modern leadership to secularization, modernization, and revolution, and the discomfort of China's elite with matters concerning religion. However, sainted religious leaders...

Parution : 2016-11-01
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