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Red Flags Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy
ISBN: PB: 9780300246636, Yale University Press, August 2019
248 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
<p>Under President Xi Jinping, China has become a large and confident power both at home and abroad, but the country also faces serious challenges. In this critical take on China's future, economist George Magnus explores four key traps that Chin...
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£11,99
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Songs for Dead Parents Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest China
ISBN: PB: 9780226481005, ISBN: HB: 9780226483382, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 8 tables
In a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continuity and meaning? In "Songs for Dead Parents", Erik Mueggler shows how in contemporary China death and the practice...
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Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan
ISBN: PB: 9780226479033, ISBN: HB: 9780226251905, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 75 halftones, 2 tables
Between the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline of medicine, produced knowledge that questioned the traditional religious and philosophical understandings of the...
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£26,50
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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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Great Perhaps? Colombia: Conflict and Convergence
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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£40,00
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Fragments of an Unfinished War Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and the Partition of China
ISBN: HB: 9781849044707, Hurst Publishers, August 2015
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Republic of China that retreated to Taiwan in 1949 maintains its de facto, if not de jure, independence yet Beijing has consistently refused formally to abandon the idea of reunifying Taiwan with China. As well as growing m...
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£45,00
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Hungry Bengal War, Famine and the End of Empire
ISBN: HB: 9781849044318, Hurst Publishers, August 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The years leading up to the independence and accompanying partition of India mark a tumultuous period in the history of Bengal. Representing both a major front in the Indian struggle against colonial rule, as well as a crucial...
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Revolutionary History of Interwar India Violence, Image, Voice and Text
ISBN: PB: 9781849043328, Hurst Publishers, March 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Focussing on the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA), "A Revolutionary History" delivers a fresh perspective on the ambitions, ideologies and practices of this influential organisation, formed by Chandrashekhar Azad and...
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Central Asia in International Relations The Legacies of Halford Mackinder
ISBN: HB: 9781849042437, Hurst Publishers, April 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The republics of Central Asia re-emerged as independent actors in the global interstate system in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, their varied histories and geographies offering many different possible opportuniti...
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China or Japan Which Will Lead Asia?
ISBN: PB: 9781849042154, ISBN: HB: 9781849041720, Hurst Publishers, December 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The twenty-first century will doubtless be that of Asia, which by 2030 will be home to three of the world's four mightiest economies, including India. This stimulating book aims to open a debate on the question of leadership in...
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