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Inheritance of Loss China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption after Empire
ISBN: PB: 9780226412139, ISBN: HB: 9780226411941, University of Chicago Press, December 2016
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 halftones
How do contemporary generations come to terms with losses inflicted by imperialism, colonialism, and war that took place decades ago? How do descendants of perpetrators and victims establish new relations in today's globalized economy? With "Inherita...
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£22,00
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£68,00
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Division of Heaven and Earth On Tibet's Peaceful Revolution
ISBN: PB: 9781849046770, Hurst Publishers, December 2016
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "The Division of Heaven and Earth" is one of the most influential and important books from Tibet in the modern era – a passionate indictment of Chinese policies and an eloquent analysis of protests that swept Tibet from March 2...
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£14,99
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Law and the Economy in Colonial India
ISBN: HB: 9780226387642, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 8 line drawings, 15 tables
Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India's economy has grown rapidly. To sustain growth and foreign investment over the long run requires a well-developed legal infrastructure for conducting business, including cheap and reliable contract enfor...
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£36,00
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Rural Modern Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China
ISBN: HB: 9780226383279, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
Discussions of China's early twentieth-century modernization efforts tend to focus almost exclusively on cities, and the changes, both cultural and industrial, seen there. As a result, the communist peasant revolution appears as a decisive historical...
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£32,00
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Neither Donkey nor Horse Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity
ISBN: PB: 9780226379401, ISBN: HB: 9780226169880, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 1 line drawing
"Neither Donkey nor Horse" tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth century into a potent symbol of and vehicle for China's exploration of its own modernity half a century later....
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£19,00
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£28,00
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Oil and Water Being Han in Xinjiang
ISBN: PB: 9780226360133, ISBN: HB: 9780226359939, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 44 halftones, 1 table
For decades, China's Xinjiang region has been the site of clashes between long-residing Uyghur and Han settlers. Up until now, scholars of China have focused primarily on state actions and Uyghur efforts to resist cultural and economic repression. Th...
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£22,50
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£63,00
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Dissenting Japan A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture, from 1945 to Fukushima
ISBN: HB: 9781849045797, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Following the March 2011 Tsunami and Fukushima nuclear crisis, the media remarked with surprise on how thousands of demonstrators had flocked to the streets of Tokyo. But mass protest movements are nothing new in Japan. The pos...
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£40,00
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Tamils and the Nation India and Sri Lanka Compared
ISBN: PB: 9781849044783, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Why are relations between politically mobilised ethnic identities and the nation-state sometimes peaceful and at other times fraught and violent? Madurika Rasaratnam's book sets out a novel answer to this key puzzle in world po...
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£22,00
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Caretaking Democratization The Military and Political Change in Myanmar
ISBN: HB: 9781849046589, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
192 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book examines the political landscape that took shape in Myanmar after the 2010 elections and the subsequent transition from direct military rule to a quasi-civilian 'hybrid' regime. Striking political, social, and economi...
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£35,00
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Visions of Development Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress, 1948-75
ISBN: PB: 9781849045711, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Visions of Development" examines the Indian state's postcolonial development ideology between Independence in 1947 and the Emergency of 1975-77. Sutoris pioneers a novel methodology for the study of development thought and its...
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£25,00
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