wyszukanych pozycji: 17
Falun Gong and the Future of China
ISBN: 9780199738533 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. On April 25, 1999, ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside Zhongnanhai, the guarded compound where China's highest leaders live and work, in a day-long peaceful protest of police brutality against fellow practitioners in the neighboring city of Tianjin. Stunned and surprised, China's leaders launched a campaign of brutal suppression against the group which continues to this day. This book, written by a leading scholar of the history of this Chinese popular religion, is the first to offer a full explanation of what Falun Gong is and where it came from, placing the group in the...
On April 25, 1999, ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside Zhongnanhai, the guarded compound where China's highest leaders live and wor...
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136,47 zł |
Falun Gong and the Future of China
ISBN: 9780195329056 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. On April 25, 1999, ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside Zhongnanhai, the guarded compound where China's highest leaders live and work, in a day-long peaceful protest of police brutality against fellow practitioners in the neighboring city of Tianjin. Stunned and surprised, China's leaders launched a campaign of brutal suppression against the group which continues to this day. This book, written by a leading scholar of the history of this Chinese popular religion, is the first to offer a full explanation of what Falun Gong is and where it came from, placing the group in the...
On April 25, 1999, ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside Zhongnanhai, the guarded compound where China's highest leaders live and wor...
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224,92 zł |
Rethinking China's Rise: A Liberal Critique
ISBN: 9781108456586 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume is a vision of contemporary China from the inside. Eight recent essays by the prominent public intellectual Xu Jilin offer a liberal reaction to China's economic rise, critiquing China's rejection of universal values, the nation's embrace of particularism and the cult of the state.
This volume is a vision of contemporary China from the inside. Eight recent essays by the prominent public intellectual Xu Jilin offer a liberal react...
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158,58 zł |
Secret Societies Reconsidered: Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia: Perspectives on the Social History
ISBN: 9781563241994 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A discussion of the development of secret societies within China and among Chinese communities in colonial Southeast Asia in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
A discussion of the development of secret societies within China and among Chinese communities in colonial Southeast Asia in the late 18th and 19th ce...
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197,05 zł |
Secret Societies Reconsidered: Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia: Perspectives on the Social History
ISBN: 9781563241987 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A discussion of the development of secret societies within China and among Chinese communities in colonial Southeast Asia in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
A discussion of the development of secret societies within China and among Chinese communities in colonial Southeast Asia in the late 18th and 19th ce...
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803,99 zł |
Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China: The Formation of a Tradition
ISBN: 9780804726511 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This study examines the emergence and evolution in China of a tradition of popular organization generally known under the rubric of -secret society.- The author suggests that the secret society is properly understood as one variety of the -brotherhood association, - a category that encompasses a range of popular fraternal organizations that flourished in the early and mid-Qing period.
This study examines the emergence and evolution in China of a tradition of popular organization generally known under the rubric of -secret society.- ...
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280,10 zł |
Making Saints in Modern China
ISBN: 9780190494568 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "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 have succeeded in rebuilding old institutions and creating new ones despite the Chinese government's censure. This book offers a new perspective on the history of religion in modern and contemporary China by focusing on the profiles of these religious leaders from the early 20th century through the present. Edited by noted...
"Sainthood" has been, and remains, a contested category in China, given the commitment of China's modern leadership to secularization, modernization, ...
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632,84 zł |
Text and Context in the Modern History of Chinese Religions: Redemptive Societies and Their Sacred Texts
ISBN: 9789004424135 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Text and Context in the Modern History of Chinese Religions: Redemptive Societies and Their Sacred Texts is an edited volume (Philip Clart, David Ownby, and Wang Chien-chuan) offering eight essays on the modern history of redemptive societies in China and Vietnam by an international cast of scholars. The focus of the volume is on the texts produced by the various groups, examining questions of textual production (spirit-writing), textual traditions (how to “modernize” traditional discourse), textual authority (the role of texts in making a master a master), and the distribution of texts...
Text and Context in the Modern History of Chinese Religions: Redemptive Societies and Their Sacred Texts is an edited volume (Philip Clart, David Ownb...
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803,95 zł |
Globalization After the Pandemic: Thoughts on the Coronavirus
ISBN: 9789882372313 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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108,93 zł |
Rethinking China's Rise: A Liberal Critique
ISBN: 9781108470759 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A vision of contemporary China from the inside, Xu's essays offer a liberal reaction to the complexity of China's rise.
A vision of contemporary China from the inside, Xu's essays offer a liberal reaction to the complexity of China's rise.
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448,56 zł |
China and the West: A Pragmatic Confucian's View
ISBN: 9789819918843 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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500,03 zł |
China and the West: A Pragmatic Confucian’s View
ISBN: 9789819918812 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This is an authored volume of Dr. Yao's “big-picture” writings on China and the West, translated by David Ownby. Those writings are selected from his writings as a public intellectual, reflecting his thought on China’s path of modernization and the effort to rebuild a political philosophy based on Confucianism, his interpretation of China’s political system and his prescriptions to improve it. A moderate, yet influential scholar, Yao's work has had great influence on Chinese social and economic policymakers; his project of renewing China's traditional value system is an important...
This is an authored volume of Dr. Yao's “big-picture” writings on China and the West, translated by David Ownby. Those writings are selected from ...
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500,03 zł |
Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World
ISBN: 9789811949555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Despite China's rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book, available in open access, provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China's young people to think by themselves and for themselves. Consisting of three conversations between Xiang Biao, a social anthropologist, and Wu Qi, a rising journalist, the book probes how China has reached its current stage and how young people can make changes. The conversations touch on issues of...
Despite China's rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid ch...
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153,83 zł |
Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World
ISBN: 9789811949524 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Despite China's rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book, available in open access, provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China's young people to think by themselves and for themselves. Consisting of three conversations between Xiang Biao, a social anthropologist, and Wu Qi, a rising journalist, the book probes how China has reached its current stage and how young people can make changes. The conversations touch on issues of...
Despite China's rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid ch...
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192,30 zł |
Voices from the Chinese Century: Public Intellectual Debate from Contemporary China
ISBN: 9780231195225 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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409,50 zł |
Voices from the Chinese Century: Public Intellectual Debate from Contemporary China
ISBN: 9780231195232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Voices from the Chinese Century brings together a selection of essays from representative leading thinkers that open a window into public debate in China today on fundamental questions of China and the world-past, present, and future. The voices in this volume include figures from each of China's main intellectual clusters.
Voices from the Chinese Century brings together a selection of essays from representative leading thinkers that open a window into public debate in Ch...
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136,50 zł |
The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South
ISBN: 9781578064687 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With essays by Tony Badger, David L. Chappell, Elizabeth Jacoway, Richard H. King, Ralph E. Luker, Charles Marsh, Keith D. Miller, Linda Reed, and Lauren F. Winner In the 1950s and 1960s the American South was in upheaval. Brilliant thinkers and writers joined on-the-ground activists to challenge segregation and the South's long established Jim Crow society. The men and women who opposed them waged a war of words in favor of the status quo. The essays in The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South examine the interplay of thought and action in a complex and turbulent moment in... With essays by Tony Badger, David L. Chappell, Elizabeth Jacoway, Richard H. King, Ralph E. Luker, Charles Marsh, Keith D. Miller, Linda Reed, and ... |
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189,32 zł |