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Korean Treasures, Volume 1 Rare Books, Manuscripts and Artefacts in the Bodleian Libraries and Museums of Oxford University

Chung Minh

ISBN: HB: 9781851242870, Bodleian Library Publishing, December 2011
112 pp., 25x21 cm, 82 colour illus.

Many important and valuable manuscripts, rare books, and artefacts related to Korea have been acquired by donations throughout the long history of the Bodleian Library and the museums of the University of Oxford. However, due to an early lack of spec...

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Political Science

China or Japan Which Will Lead Asia?

Meyer Claude

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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Political Science

Anti-Marcos Struggle Personalistic Rule and Democratic Transition in the Philippines

Thompson Mark R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300184150, Yale University Press, November 2011
274 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

The Philippine dictatorship of Ferdinand E. Marcos was characterized by family-based rule and corruption. This sultanistic regime-in which the ruler exercised power freely, without loyalty to any ideology or institution-had to be brought down because...

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Libertine's Friend Homosexuality and Masculinity in Late Imperial China

Vitiello Giovanni

ISBN: HB: 9780226857923, University of Chicago Press, August 2011
312 pp., 23x16 cm, 18 halftones

Delving into three hundred years of Chinese literature, from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth, "The Libertine's Friend" uncovers the complex and fascinating history of male homosexual and homosocial relations in the late imperial era....

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Middle East

Asia

Imagining Zion Dreams, Designs, and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement

Troen S. Ilan

ISBN: PB: 9780300178531, Yale University Press, April 2011
360 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This timely book tells the fascinating story of how Zionists colonizers planned and established nearly 700 agricultural settlements, towns, and cities from the 1880s to the present. This extraordinary activity of planners, architects, social scientis...

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Asia

History

Mixed Medicines Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia

Au Sokhieng

ISBN: PB: 9780226031644, ISBN: HB: 9780226031637, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 2 tables, 19 halftones, 4 line illus.

During the first half of the twentieth century, representatives of the French colonial health services actively strove to expand the practice of Western medicine in the frontier colony of Cambodia. But as the French physicians ventured beyond their c...

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Military

Asia

Dead Reckoning Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War

Bose Sarmila

ISBN: PB: 9781849040495, ISBN: HB: 9781849040488, Hurst Publishers, April 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This ground-breaking book chronicles the 1971 war in South Asia by reconstituting the memories of those on opposing sides of the conflict. 1971 was marked by a bitter civil war within Pakistan and war between India and Pakista...

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From Mao to Market China Reconfigured

Porter Robin

ISBN: PB: 9781849040839, Hurst Publishers, February 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Over the past thirty years, China has been entering inexorably onto the world stage, and into the world's imagination. From now on, there will be a 'China dimension' to almost everything we do. "From Mao to Market" is intended...

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Art of Not Being Governed An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

Scott James C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300169171, Yale University Press, January 2011
464 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 7 maps, 2 black&white illus.

For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them – slavery, co...

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