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Selden Map of China A New Understanding of the Ming Dynasty

Hongping Annie

ISBN: HB: 9781851245246, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2019
96 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 40 colour illus.

Dating from the seventeenth century at the height of the Ming Dynasty, the Selden Map of China reveals a country very different from popular conceptions of the time, looking not inward to the Asian landmass but outward to the sea. Discovered in the s...

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Singapore, Singapura From Miracle to Complacency

Walton Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9781787380103, Hurst Publishers, August 2018
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Modern Singapore is a miracle. Half a century ago, it was thrown out of the Malay Federation and unwillingly became an independent nation. It was tiny, poor, almost devoid of resources, and in a hostile neighbourhood. Now, this...

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Sacred Mandates Asian International Relations since Chinggis Khan

Brook Timothy, van Walt van Praag Michael, Boltjes Miek

ISBN: PB: 9780226562766, ISBN: HB: 9780226562629, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Contemporary discussions of international relations in Asia tend to be tethered in the present, unmoored from the historical contexts that give them meaning".Sacred Mandates", edited by Timothy Brook, Michael van Walt van Praag, and Miek Boltjes, red...

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Songs for Dead Parents Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest China

Mueggler Erik

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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South China Sea The Struggle for Power in Asia

Hayton Bill

ISBN: PB: 9780300216943, Yale University Press, October 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

China's rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing's backyard: the South China Sea. For decades tensions have smouldered in the region, but today the threat of a direct confrontation among superpower...

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Slaves of One Master Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age of Empire

Hopper Matthew S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300192018, Yale University Press, August 2015
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Matthew S. Hopper's wide-ranging history of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries examines the interconnected themes of enslavement, globalization, and empire, and challenges previously held conven...

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Shanghai Future Modernity Remade

Greenspan Anna

ISBN: PB: 9781849043601, ISBN: HB: 9781849043274, Hurst Publishers, September 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! China is in the midst of the fastest and most intense process of urbanisation the world has ever known, and Shanghai – its biggest, richest and most cosmopolitan city – is positioned for acceleration into the twenty-first centu...

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State in Myanmar

Taylor Robert H.

ISBN: PB: 9781850659099, ISBN: HB: 9781850658931, Hurst Publishers, January 2009
540 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The State in Myanmar" is a totally revised and expanded and updated version of "The State in Burma" (1987), with additional chapters covering the last twenty years of Myanmar's political history. It attempts to explain the cou...

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Sex, Culture and Modernity in Modern China Medical Science and the Construction of Racial Identities in the Early Republican Period

Dikotter Frank

ISBN: HB: 9781850651666, Hurst Publishers, March 1995
232 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Sex' emerged as an independent field of study during the New Culture Movement (1915-21). The anatomy of the reproductive system, the physiology of internal secretions, the nature of sex, the determination of sexual differences,...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

South Asian Civilizations A Bibliographic Synthesis

Patterson Maureen L. P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226649108, University of Chicago Press, December 1981
894 pp., 28.8x22.8 cm, 2 maps

Indispensable Patterson, the preeminent bibliographer in the area of South Asian studies, has here devised an indispensible reference tool. She has drawn together over 28,000 periodical and monographic references to humanistic, social-science, and no...

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