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Buddhism

Asia

Gazing Eastwards Of Buddhist Monks and Revolutionaries in China, 1957

Thapar Romila

ISBN: HB: 9780857428165, Seagull Books, March 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 12 halftones

In 1957, renowned Indian historian Romila Thapar visited China, where, together with Sri Lankan art historian Anil de Silva, she worked at two cave sites that were the locations of Buddhist monasteries and shrines from the first millennium CE. The fi...

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Business & Economics

Asia

Geocultural Power China's Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century

Winter Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780226658353, ISBN: HB: 9780226658216, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 maps, 11 line drawings

Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious strategy places China at the center of a geography of...

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Culture Studies

Asia

Ganges The Many Pasts of an Indian River

Sen Sudipta

ISBN: HB: 9780300119169, Yale University Press, February 2019
456 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 66 black&white illus.

Originating in the Himalayas and flowing into the Bay of Bengal, the Ganges is India's most important and sacred river. In this unprecedented work, historian Sudipta Sen tells the story of the Ganges, from the communities that arose on its banks to t...

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Europe

Asia

Georgia A Cultural History Through the Wardrop Collection

Aleksidze Nikoloz

ISBN: HB: 9781851244959, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2018
160 pp., 25x21 cm, 75 illus.

When Marjory Wardrop joined her diplomat brother, Oliver, in Georgia in 1894, they found themselves witnessing the birth pangs of a modern nation. Recognising the significance of these transformative years, they actively participated in the work of I...

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Asia

Political Science

Great Perhaps? Colombia: Conflict and Convergence

Mills Greg, Kilcullen David, Davis Dickie, Spencer David

ISBN: HB: 9781849046282, Hurst Publishers, October 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! No country has managed as rapid and positive a turnaround in governance and security conditions this century as Colombia. In 1999, FARC and ELN rebels were literally at the gates of Bogota, and Colombia was a country synonymous...

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Asia

Great Game East India, China, and the Struggle for Asia's Most Volatile Frontier

Lintner Bertil

ISBN: HB: 9780300195675, Yale University Press, June 2015
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 34 black&white illus.

Since the 1950s, China and India have been locked in a monumental battle for geopolitical supremacy. Chinese interest in the ethnic insurgencies in northeastern India, the still unresolved issue of the McMahon Line, the border established by the Brit...

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Asia

Great Famine in China, 1958-1962 A Documentary History

Zhou Xun

ISBN: HB: 9780300175189, Yale University Press, July 2012
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Beginning soon after the implementation of the policies of the Great Leap Forward of 1958-1961, when the drive to collectivize and industrialize undermined the livelihoods of the vast majority of peasant workers, China's Great Famine was the worst fa...

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Asia

Gao Village

Gao Mobo C. F.

ISBN: PB: 9781850654278, Hurst Publishers, March 1999
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! An insider's account of life in Gao village in Jiangxi province in China, the author of this text was born and brought up in the village, before leaving at the age of twenty one to study English at Xiamen University. He still r...

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