Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors
ISBN: 9780199734139 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors challenges readers to reconsider China's relations with the rest of Eurasia. Investigating interstate competition and cooperation between the successive Sui and Tang dynasties and Turkic states of Mongolia from 580 to 800, Jonathan Skaff upends the notion that inhabitants of China and Mongolia were irreconcilably different and hostile to each other. Rulers on both sides deployed strikingly similar diplomacy, warfare, ideologies of rulership, and patrimonial political networking to seek hegemony over each other and the peoples living in...
Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors challenges readers to reconsider China's relations with the rest of Eurasia. Investigating inte...
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531,25 zł |
Civil Society and Governance in China
ISBN: 9780230340961 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by scholars from both inside and outside China, this wide-ranging collection of essays explores the complexity of the relationship between governance and civil society by combining theoretical exploration and empirical case studies based on the governance practice in China.
Written by scholars from both inside and outside China, this wide-ranging collection of essays explores the complexity of the relationship between gov...
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194,52 zł |
Art by the Book: Painting Manuals and the Leisure Life in Late Ming China
ISBN: 9780295991764 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sometime before 1579, Zhou Lujing, a professional writer living in a bustling commercial town in southeastern China, published a series of lavishly illustrated books, which constituted the first multigenre painting manuals in Chinese history. Their popularity was immediate and their contents and format were widely reprinted and disseminated in a number of contemporary publications. Focusing on Zhou's work, Art by the Book describes how such publications accommodated the cultural taste and demands of the general public, and shows how painting manuals functioned as a form in which... Sometime before 1579, Zhou Lujing, a professional writer living in a bustling commercial town in southeastern China, published a series of lavishly... |
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292,17 zł |
Western Queers in China: Flight to the Land of Oz
ISBN: 9781442215566 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique work examines the role played by sexuality in the historical encounter between China and the West. Distinguished historian D. E. Mungello focuses especially on Western homosexuals who saw China as a place of escape from the homophobia of Europe and North America. His groundbreaking study traces the lives of two dozen men, many previously unknown to have same-sex desire, who fled to China and in the process influenced perceptions of Chinese culture to this day. Their individual stories encompass flight from homophobia in their home countries, the erotic attraction of Chinese...
This unique work examines the role played by sexuality in the historical encounter between China and the West. Distinguished historian D. E. Mungello ...
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397,69 zł |
Patriarchs on Paper: A Critical History of Medieval Chan Literature
ISBN: 9780520284067 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The truth of Chan Buddhism--better known as "Zen"--is regularly said to be beyond language, and yet Chan authors--medieval and modern--produced an enormous quantity of literature over the centuries. To make sense of this well-known paradox, Patriarchs on Paper explores several genres of Chan literature that appeared during the Tang and Song dynasties (c. 600-1300), including genealogies, biographies, dialogues, poems, monastic handbooks, and koans. Working through this diverse body of literature, Alan Cole details how Chan authors developed several strategies to evoke images of a...
The truth of Chan Buddhism--better known as "Zen"--is regularly said to be beyond language, and yet Chan authors--medieval and modern--produced an eno...
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578,87 zł |
Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographic Guide
ISBN: 9781557290434 / Angielski / Miękka / 562 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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156,98 zł |
Red Inc.: Dictatorship and the Development of Capitalism in China, 1949-2009
ISBN: 9781594517129 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Red Inc. provides a sweeping, critical account of the political and economic changes that have transformed China since 1949. Although many observers argue that Deng Xiaoping introduced capitalism to China in the late 1970s, Red Inc. demonstrates that capitalist development really began during the 1950s under Mao Zedong. But while Mao made relentless efforts to generate the capital needed to finance economic development his regime failed to promote any real growth. By contrast, Deng successfully used reforms to promote rapid growth. Importantly, China's remarkable success was assisted by U.S....
Red Inc. provides a sweeping, critical account of the political and economic changes that have transformed China since 1949. Although many observers a...
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196,40 zł |
A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman
ISBN: 9781614270942 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,87 zł |
Transformation of Taiwan's Reserve Force
ISBN: 9780833097064 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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105,92 zł |
The Light of Kailash. A History of Zhang Zhung and Tibet: Volume Three. Later Period: Tibet
ISBN: 9788878341456 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This summa of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu’s researches is dedicated first and foremost to his fellow countrymen and women and to Tibetan youth in particular. The text was originally conceived as a set of university lectures that Chögyal Namkhai Norbu was invited to give at the University of Nationalities in Beijing in 1988, forming a first abridged version of The Light of Kailash subsequently enlarged by the author after further research; the manuscript through meticulous selection and a critical use and analysis of a vast array of literary and frequently... This summa of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu’s researches is dedicated first and foremost to his fellow countrymen and women and to Tibetan youth... |
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158,63 zł |
China: Two Decades of Reform and Change
ISBN: 9789971692308 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the start of reform in the late-1970s, China's economy has experienced spectacular growth. At the close of the 20th century China has grown to become the world's seventh largest economy, and China's society and political landscape have also changed radically. This volume serves as a handbook for readers seeking an overview of China's major developments and transformations in the political, economic, legal and social spheres since 1978.
Since the start of reform in the late-1970s, China's economy has experienced spectacular growth. At the close of the 20th century China has grown to b...
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85,64 zł |
The Nanxun Legacy and China's Development in the Post-Deng Era
ISBN: 9789971692469 / Angielski / Twarda / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the spring of 1992, Deng Xiaoping made an historical tour of South China, popularly known as the "nanxun" ("southern tour"). During the tour, he boldly called for more radical economic reform and further opening up of China. The "nanxun" has become a political landmark in the history of the People's Republic of China, much like the great events such as the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the 1989 Tian'anmen crackdown. Deng Xiaoping has left his own legacy for the country. The "nanxun" belongs to Deng, just as the 1911 revolution belongs to Sun Yat-sen and the communist...
In the spring of 1992, Deng Xiaoping made an historical tour of South China, popularly known as the "nanxun" ("southern tour"). During the tour, he bo...
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544,04 zł |
New Year Celebrations in Central China in Late Imperial Times
ISBN: 9789629961039 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Keenly attuned to the play of symbols, this anthropological study explores one of the major manifestations of Chinese popular tradition: the celebration of lunar the New Year. It analyzes a multitude of folk practices within a holistic perspective on Chinese traditional society, crafting a new picture of a world in which the social rhetoric of gender, lineage continuity, and ancestry were challenged by ritual manifestations of iconic symbolism. Viewed through the lens of Chinese imagery, the traditional calendar reveals new stories about the social organization of time as an expression of...
Keenly attuned to the play of symbols, this anthropological study explores one of the major manifestations of Chinese popular tradition: the celebrati...
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105,79 zł |
Hong Kong Sar: In Pursuit of Domestic and International Order
ISBN: 9789622017856 / Angielski / Miękka / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite the fact that there are already many books on the challenges facing the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), Hong Kong SAR makes a distinct contribution by offering an analysis of the evolving political order in Hong Kong and its international role. The contributors, who have all been studying the territory for many years, focus on the plans of the Chinese authorities and the expectations of the people of Hong Kong. They analyze the gap between the priorities of decisionmakers and the populace, and assess the inherent possibilities for the development of crises, as well as...
Despite the fact that there are already many books on the challenges facing the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), Hong Kong SAR makes a d...
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132,30 zł |
Guangdong in the Twenty-First Century: Stagnation or Second Take-Off?
ISBN: 9789629370664 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the direction of future development of Guangdong at the start of the twenty-first century. Will it achieve a second take-off? Or, will its competitive edge gradually erode?Impact of Premier Zhu Rongji's reform programme and that of the Asia-Pacific region's economic crises on the development of the province are discussed. Competition from other regions in China, especially the Yangtze Delta region is examined.
This book explores the direction of future development of Guangdong at the start of the twenty-first century. Will it achieve a second take-off? Or, w...
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180,02 zł |
Dynamics of Change in East Asia: Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Development
ISBN: 9780415424882 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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186,33 zł |
A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman
ISBN: 9780804706056 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Within the common destiny is the individual destiny. So it is that through the telling of one Chinese peasant woman's life, a vivid vision of Chinese history and culture is illuminated. Over the course of two years, Ida Pruitt--a bicultural social worker, writer, and contributor to Sino-American understanding--visited with Ning Lao T'ai-ta'i, three times a week for breakfast. These meetings, originally intended to elucidate for Pruitt traditional Chinese family customs of which Lao T'ai-t'ai possessed some insight, became the foundation for an enduring friendship. As Lao T'ai-t'ai described...
Within the common destiny is the individual destiny. So it is that through the telling of one Chinese peasant woman's life, a vivid vision of Chinese ...
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498,70 zł |
Trading Cultures in the Classroom: Two American Teachers in China
ISBN: 9780824814427 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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89,88 zł |
Chinese Walls in Time and Space: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
ISBN: 9781933947143 / Angielski / Twarda / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are walls remnants of ancient and medieval societies, destined to become anachronistic in modern and post-modern times? Or will they persist, shaping as well as adjusting to new conditions? Do walls necessarily constrain and even isolate those who live within them, or can they act as a medium of support and communication for people on both sides?This volume addresses these questions. Authors from six disciplines--history, art, law, medicine, communication, and film--provide multiple perspectives on various kinds of walls: material ones around and within states, cities, and towns, as well as...
Are walls remnants of ancient and medieval societies, destined to become anachronistic in modern and post-modern times? Or will they persist, shaping ...
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584,34 zł |
History of Mathematical Sciences: Portugal and East Asia IV - Europe and China: Science and the Arts in the 17th and 18th Centuries
ISBN: 9789814390439 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Analyzes the interaction between Europe and East Asia in the 17th and 18th centuries in the field of mathematical sciences, bringing to the fore the role of Portugal as an agent of transformation in this process. This title brings together an analysis on the following themes: Portugal and the Jesuit Missions in Asia, and more.
Analyzes the interaction between Europe and East Asia in the 17th and 18th centuries in the field of mathematical sciences, bringing to the fore the r...
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604,49 zł |