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The "one China" Dilemma
ISBN: 9781349539505 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The new developments across the Taiwan Strait have illuminated the dilemma of the 'One China' policy, which could mislead to inconsistent or even contradictory policies, and result in devastating military confrontation between China and the U.S. and possibly Japan.
The new developments across the Taiwan Strait have illuminated the dilemma of the 'One China' policy, which could mislead to inconsistent or even cont...
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402,53 |
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Of Tripod and Palate: Food, Politics, and Religion in Traditional China
ISBN: 9781349527465 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Attitudes toward food and commensality constituted a central fiber in the social, religious, and political fabric of ancient Chinese society.
Attitudes toward food and commensality constituted a central fiber in the social, religious, and political fabric of ancient Chinese society.
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402,53 |
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Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period
ISBN: 9781349526314 / Angielski / Miękka / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection examines the cultural and intellectual dimensions of war and its resolution between Han Chinese and the various ethnically dissimilar peoples surrounding them during the crucial 'middle period' of Chinese history.
This collection examines the cultural and intellectual dimensions of war and its resolution between Han Chinese and the various ethnically dissimilar ...
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201,24 |
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Catholicism in China, 1900-Present: The Development of the Chinese Church
ISBN: 9781349472383 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is the product of scholars of various backgrounds, specialties and agendas bringing forth their most treasured findings regarding the Chinese Catholic Church. The chapters in this book covering the church from 1900 to the present trace the development of the Church in China from many historical and disciplinary vantage points.
This volume is the product of scholars of various backgrounds, specialties and agendas bringing forth their most treasured findings regarding the Chin...
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201,24 |
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Japan and China: Mutual Representations in the Modern Era
ISBN: 9781349626595 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The study of modern China and Japan have separately become major arenas of scholarship over the past three decades in the west, but little work has been done that brings these two histories together for the period prior to the twentieth century.
The study of modern China and Japan have separately become major arenas of scholarship over the past three decades in the west, but little work has be...
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201,24 |
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Leadership in a Changing China: Leadership Change, Institution Building, and New Policy Orientations
ISBN: 9781349530045 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scholars from China, Singapore and the U.S. use the opportunity of the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party to explore the issue of leadership change in China, and its impact on institution building and foreign policy there.
Scholars from China, Singapore and the U.S. use the opportunity of the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party to explore the issue of l...
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201,24 |
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Literature the People Love: Reading Chinese Texts from the Early Maoist Period (1949-1966)
ISBN: 9781349455355 / Angielski / Miękka / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the production of 'people's literature' in China, this study provides a new interpretive framework with which to understand socialist literature and presents a sympathetic understanding of culture from a period in China's history in which people's lives were greatly and obviously affected by political events.
Examining the production of 'people's literature' in China, this study provides a new interpretive framework with which to understand socialist litera...
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201,24 |
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Providing Public Goods in Transitional China
ISBN: 9781349376056 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China's leaders areconfronted with building a new support system in the countryside, shifting the burden in urban China from the factory to the local state, and integrating new social groups into existing systems. This book comprises a detailed study of healthcare, disease control, social insurance and social relief."
China's leaders areconfronted with building a new support system in the countryside, shifting the burden in urban China from the factory to the local ...
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201,24 |
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The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa
ISBN: 9780226340838 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China has recently emerged as one of Africa's top business partners, aggressively pursuing its raw materials and establishing a mighty presence in the continent's booming construction market. Among major foreign investors in Africa, China has stirred the most fear, hope, and controversy. For many, the specter of a Chinese neocolonial scramble is looming, while for others China is Africa's best chance at economic renewal. Yet, global debates about China in Africa have been based more on rhetoric than on empirical evidence. Ching Kwan Lee's The Specter of Global China is the first...
China has recently emerged as one of Africa's top business partners, aggressively pursuing its raw materials and establishing a mighty presence in the...
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132,95 |
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Paint Feet on a Snake (Full Form Edition): An Intermediate Mandarin Reader
ISBN: 9789087282332 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, available in both a simplified and a full-form character edition, is designed to help low-intermediate students of Mandarin improve their vocabulary and grammar competence, reading strategies, and translation skills. It uses Chinese idiomatic proverbs as the foundation of the instructional material, which allows the authors to present their lessons in a more dynamic fashion than the typical grammar-and-translation approach.
This book, available in both a simplified and a full-form character edition, is designed to help low-intermediate students of Mandarin improve their v...
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184,60 |
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The Art of War
ISBN: 9781509827954 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a new translation of The Art of War for the 21st century. As well as its historical importance it is one of the most influential political and business books of our era. This edition rediscovers the essential clarity of the ancient masterpiece, cited by generals from a dozen Chinese dynasties, international business leaders, and modern military field manuals. It also contains a full commentary on Sun Tzu, the man and his ideas, contemporary of Confucius and Buddha; and a critical guide to further reading. This is the perfect introduction to one of the world's best-known... This is a new translation of The Art of War for the 21st century. As well as its historical importance it is one of the most influential pol... |
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55,31 |
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The Zoomorphic Imagination in Chinese Art and Culture
ISBN: 9780824846763 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China has an age-old zoomorphic tradition. The First Emperor was famously said to have had the heart of a tiger and a wolf. The names of foreign tribes were traditionally written with characters that included animal radicals. In modern times, the communist government frequently referred to Nationalists as "running dogs," and President Xi Jinping, vowing to quell corruption at all levels, pledged to capture both "the tigers" and "the flies." Splendidly illustrated with works ranging from Bronze Age vessels to twentieth-century conceptual pieces, this volume is a wide-ranging look at... China has an age-old zoomorphic tradition. The First Emperor was famously said to have had the heart of a tiger and a wolf. The names of foreign tr... |
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306,04 |
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Unravelling Modern China
ISBN: 9789813200272 / Angielski / Twarda / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book provides a comprehensive view on the main transformations that are happening in China today. The balanced view has been developed by using unique primary data based on more than 200 interviews and numerous survey results, in additional to mainstream literature by academia and consultancy companies.The general view on China is often either black or white. Global markets are generally guided by euphoria or fear. Academia are optimistic or pessimistic about China's longer term growth potential. People believe or distrust Chinese data. These black and white pictures are in many cases...
The book provides a comprehensive view on the main transformations that are happening in China today. The balanced view has been developed by using un...
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947,28 |
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Bitter and Sweet: Food, Meaning, and Modernity in Rural Chinavolume 63
ISBN: 9780520293519 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Less than a half century ago, China experienced a cataclysmic famine, which was particularly devastating in the countryside. As a result, older people in rural areas have experienced in their lifetimes both extreme deprivation and relative abundance of food. Young people, on the other hand, have a different relationship to food. Many young rural Chinese are migrating to rapidly industrializing cities for work, leaving behind backbreaking labor but also a connection to food through agriculture. Bitter and Sweet examines the role of food in one rural Chinese community as it has...
Less than a half century ago, China experienced a cataclysmic famine, which was particularly devastating in the countryside. As a result, older people...
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511,83 |
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Bitter and Sweet: Food, Meaning, and Modernity in Rural Chinavolume 63
ISBN: 9780520293526 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Less than a half century ago, China experienced a cataclysmic famine, which was particularly devastating in the countryside. As a result, older people in rural areas have experienced in their lifetimes both extreme deprivation and relative abundance of food. Young people, on the other hand, have a different relationship to food. Many young rural Chinese are migrating to rapidly industrializing cities for work, leaving behind backbreaking labor but also a connection to food through agriculture. Bitter and Sweet examines the role of food in one rural Chinese community as it has...
Less than a half century ago, China experienced a cataclysmic famine, which was particularly devastating in the countryside. As a result, older people...
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153,41 |
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Taming the Wild Horse: An Annotated Translation and Study of the Daoist Horse Taming Pictures
ISBN: 9780231181266 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In thirteenth-century China, a Daoist monk named Gao Daokuan (1195-1277) composed a series of illustrated poems and accompanying verse commentary known as the Daoist Horse Taming Pictures. In this annotated translation and study, Louis Komjathy argues that this virtually unknown text offers unique insights into the transformative effects of Daoist contemplative practice. Taming the Wild Horse examines Gao's illustrated poems in terms of monasticism and contemplative practice, as well as the multivalent meaning of the "horse" in traditional Chinese culture and the consequences for both...
In thirteenth-century China, a Daoist monk named Gao Daokuan (1195-1277) composed a series of illustrated poems and accompanying verse commentary know...
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317,04 |
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Paisanos Chinos: Transpacific Politics Among Chinese Immigrants in Mexico
ISBN: 9780520290198 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paisanos Chinos tracks Chinese Mexican transnational political activities in the wake of the anti-Chinese campaigns that crossed Mexico in 1931. Threatened by violence, Chinese Mexicans strengthened their ties to China--both Nationalist and Communist--as a means of safeguarding their presence. Paisanos Chinos illustrates the ways in which transpacific ties helped Chinese Mexicans make a claim to belonging in Mexico and challenge traditional notions of Mexican identity and nationhood. From celebrating the end of World War II alongside their neighbors to carrying out an annual...
Paisanos Chinos tracks Chinese Mexican transnational political activities in the wake of the anti-Chinese campaigns that crossed Mexico in 1931...
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511,83 |
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Paisanos Chinos: Transpacific Politics Among Chinese Immigrants in Mexico
ISBN: 9780520290204 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paisanos Chinos tracks Chinese Mexican transnational political activities in the wake of the anti-Chinese campaigns that crossed Mexico in 1931. Threatened by violence, Chinese Mexicans strengthened their ties to China--both Nationalist and Communist--as a means of safeguarding their presence. Paisanos Chinos illustrates the ways in which transpacific ties helped Chinese Mexicans make a claim to belonging in Mexico and challenge traditional notions of Mexican identity and nationhood. From celebrating the end of World War II alongside their neighbors to carrying out an annual...
Paisanos Chinos tracks Chinese Mexican transnational political activities in the wake of the anti-Chinese campaigns that crossed Mexico in 1931...
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127,84 |
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China and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen: A Report
ISBN: 9781138929296 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This report, first published in 1985, was compiled by members of the People s Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) and is an interesting historical document. Because of the PDRY s own political orientation the leadership, when it came to power, sought help, advice and assistance from other Communist governments. Among these was China. By historical coincidence that country at the time of the PDRY s delegation visit was engulfed in what we know as the Cultural Revolution. Very few official foreign delegations were received by the Chinese at the time and so this report becomes doubly... This report, first published in 1985, was compiled by members of the People s Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) and is an interesting hist... |
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223,41 |
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China's Soft Power Diplomacy in South Asia: Myth or Reality?
ISBN: 9780739193396 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China's Soft Power Diplomacy: Myth or Reality? examines the Chinese version of soft power both in conceptual and operational terms, and explores its myriad implications for India, in particular, and South Asia in general. The book investigates how the institutionalization of cultural soft power would help China project its image as a benign and responsible stakeholder in order to reshape the current international system with its notion of "harmonious world order," based on Chinese characteristics. This book traces the origin of China's engagement with South Asian states from historical,...
China's Soft Power Diplomacy: Myth or Reality? examines the Chinese version of soft power both in conceptual and operational terms, and explores its m...
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437,21 |
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