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Cambridge University Press Ability and Difference in Early Modern China
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Cambridge University Press Eyes and Ears
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Legare Street Press John E. Clough Missionary to the Telugus of South
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Creative Media Partners, LLC The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the West
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LIGHTNING SOURCE UK LTD Report of the Medical Missionary Society in China
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LIGHTNING SOURCE UK LTD A Journey From Madras Through the Countries of
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Legare Street Press The Land of the Blue Poppy Travels of a
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LIGHTNING SOURCE UK LTD Underwood of Korea microform Being an Intimate
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Legare Street Press The Arya Samaj a Political Body. Being an Open
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Legare Street Press Fire and Sword in Shansi the Story of the
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Legare Street Press Young Japan. Yokohama and Yedo. A Narrative of
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Legare Street Press The Changing Chinese
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LIGHTNING SOURCE UK LTD The Druses of the Lebanon
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LIGHTNING SOURCE UK LTD The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the West
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Legare Street Press The Loochoo Islands
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Legare Street Press A First Century Message to Twentieth Century
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Legare Street Press Siam in the Malay Peninsula
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LEGARE STREET PR The Political Philosophy of Modern Shinto a Study
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Legare Street Press Notes On The District Of Gaya
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LEGARE STREET PR The Status of Aliens in China
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Legare Street Press FortyOne Years in India From Subaltern to
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Legare Street Press Reflexions sur Letude des Langues Asiatiques
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Taylor & Francis The Turkic Peoples in World History
Book SynopsisThe Turkic Peoples in World History is a thorough and rare introduction to the Turkic world and its role in world history, providing a concise history of the Turkic peoples as well as a critical discussion of their identities and origins.The Turks stepped on to the stage of history by establishing the TÃrk Qaghanate, the first trans-Eurasian empire in history, in 552 CE. In the following millennium, they went on to create empires that had a profound impact on world history such as the Uyghur, Khazar, and Ottoman empires. They also participated in building the Mongol empire, and these Turko-Mongol empires are credited with shaping the destinies of pre-modern China, the Middle East, and Europe. By treating the history of the Turkic peoples as a process of amalgamation and integration, rather than simply categorizing the Turkic peoples chronologically or geographically, this book offers new insights into Turkic history.This volume is a comprehensive guide for stuTrade ReviewLee’s book is an outstanding contribution, an important introduction to the Turkic-speaking world and its role in world history. It is a very convenient, readable introduction to a highly complicated area of study (the Central Asian and Middle Eastern Turkic world). Halford Mackinder (1861-1947), one of the founders of modern geographical studies, termed Central Asia "the pivot" of Eurasia, a role it is again playing in modern affairs. For those seeking background knowledge of the Central Asian/Central Eurasia states, Lee’s book offers a very solid introduction. This is an excellent introduction to the history of the Turkic peoples.Dr. Peter B. Golden, Professor Emeritus of History, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, Rutgers University (and Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Lee’s book is an excellent piece of scholarship which gives a well-proportioned introduction to the theme. The author yields an in-depth narrative which is readable nonetheless. The book is useful for both undergraduate and graduate students.István Vásáry m.p. Emeritus Professor, Eötvös Loránd University, BudapestThe movement of Turkic peoples into western Eurasia represents one of the major world historical events during more than half a millennium that stretched between the ninth and sixteenth centuries. It culminated with the establishment of the Ottoman Empire by Oghuz Turks. Joo-Yup Lee’s book The Turkic Peoples in World History offers readers a lucid guide to the complex process of Turkic migration, settlement and empire-building. Dr. Lee is the author of the widely praised work, Qazaqliq or Ambitious Brigandage, and the Formation of the Qazaqs: State and Identity in Post-Mongol Central Eurasia, as well important scholarly articles on the history and identity of Turks and Mongols. His work is informed by an ability to utilize sources in half a dozen languages of the Eurasian region as well as by a specialized knowledge of the genetic relationships of Central Asian peoples. His new book is, quite simply, the best new introduction to the broad geographical and historical expanse of Turkic history.Stephen Frederic Dale, author of The Garden of the Eight Paradises, Babur and the Culture of Empire in Central Asia, Afghanistan and India (1483-1530) and The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids and MughalsThis survey is an excellent addition to the study of world history. Joo-Yup Lee provides a concise study with depth and substance that demonstrates the importance of the Turkic peoples in world history, while lucidly connecting the past with the present that both student and specialist will appreciate.Timothy May, Professor of Central Eurasian History, University of North GeorgiaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Earliest, Nomad Turkic Peoples of the Mongolian Steppe: Tiele, Türks, and Uyghurs 2. The Various Turkic Peoples of South Siberia, Central Asia, and the Qipchaq Steppe: Qirghiz, Khazars, Bulghars, Qarakhanid Türks, and Qipchaqs 3. The Oghuz Turkic Peoples of West Asia and the Middle East: Seljuks, Ottomans, and Other Turkmen Groups 4. The Turko-Mongols (or "Mongol Turks") of the Qipchaq Steppe and Central Asia Epilogue
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Taylor & Francis Chinese Government Leaders in Manchukuo 19311937
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Taylor & Francis Ltd China and Europe Relations in the TwentyFirst
Book SynopsisThis book argues that although relations between China and Europe are strained in many areas, including trade, human rights and views about political systems, nevertheless established linkages, especially when considered in the context of long-term historical linkages, development trajectories and intellectual cultures, offer good prospects for future progressive collaborative exchanges. Approaching the subject in a balanced way, giving equal weight to the perspectives of both sides, the book examines China and Europe's shared experiences of age-old civilizations, of the disorienting effects of the economic, social and political upheavals triggered by the late eighteenth century creation of the modern world, and of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries era of European empires, warfare and the Cold War. It contends that although China and Europe appear superficially to have followed different paths, with many problems in their relationship resulting, they in fact have a very gTable of ContentsList of figuresList of tablesPrefaceAcknowledgements[1] Introduction: Changing perceptions of the relationship between China and Europe[2] China, Europe and the creation of the modern world [3] China and Europe in the twenty-first century: New linkages[4] China: The structure of government and the role of the law [5] The EU: Politics, law and decision-making [6] China and the EU: Peaceful rising [7] The EU and China: Evolving policy towards China [8] China: Recent problems[9] The EU: Managing recent problems AfterwordIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mahasthan Record Revisited
Book SynopsisThis book attempts a re-reading of this inscription and also provides a fresh interpretation. It tries to situate this record in a broader canvas by interrogating the record along with several other evidence.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd History of the Climate Change on the Coromandel
Book SynopsisThis book offers a deeper historical context to the interplay between the physical fortunes of climate and weather and the ways in which the Tamil society experienced it in the medieval and early modern ages.
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Manohar Publishers & Distributors Landscape and the Bengali Diaspora
Book SynopsisDrawing on ethnographic accounts of over 300 skilled Bengalis, the book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of diaspora studies, urban studies, ethnic studies, migration studies, geography, sociology, history, and political studies.
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Manohar Publishers & Distributors Breaking Barriers in Postindependence India
Book SynopsisThe book is a unique and significant addition to the literature on Manipur; it deepens our understanding of the northeastern states and the complex interactions of the people of the region with the rest of India.
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Taylor & Francis Group Japan in the 1960s
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Cambridge University Press Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies
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Cambridge University Press Conjuring Asia
Book SynopsisThe promise of magic has always commanded the human imagination, but the story of industrial modernity is usually seen as a process of disenchantment. Drawing on the writings and performances of the so-called ''Golden Age Magicians'' from the turn of the twentieth century, Chris Goto-Jones unveils the ways in which European and North American encounters with (and representations of) Asia - the fabled Mystic East - worked to re-enchant experiences of the modern world. Beginning with a reconceptualization of the meaning of ''modern magic'' itself - moving beyond conventional categories of ''real'' and ''fake'' magic - Goto-Jones'' acclaimed book guides us on a magical mystery tour around India, China, and Japan, showing us levitations and decapitations, magic duels and bullet catches, goldfish bowls and paper butterflies. In the end, this mesmerizing book reveals Orientalism as a kind of magic in itself, casting a spell over Western culture that leaves it transformed, even today.Trade Review'If magic is the art of accomplishing the impossible, Goto-Jones emerges as a scholar-magician: a wonder-full book!' Derren Brown, mentalist and illusionist'Goto-Jones opens with a surprise: far from killing magic, modern science made it better. But his main trick is to follow magicians on a cross-cultural chase to India, China and Japan; what began as a celebration of the Golden Age of Magic becomes a treatise on global modernity. This is performance research at its finest.' Martin Puchner, Harvard University, Massachusetts'A flying carpet of brilliant colors; a work of great originality and charm, dexterity, and verve. Not only concerned with magic per se, its deepest interest lies in the way that a focus on magic reveals the course of Western rationality and moderization.' Julia Adeney Thomas, University of Notre Dame, Indiana'Unpicking the role of Orientalism in the Western cultural imagination in a highly readable account that is ultimately a treatise on modernity, [Goto-Jones] argues that, far from killing magic, modern science made it better.' Karen Shook, Times Higher Education'The book Conjuring Asia explores four major themes in the development of what we call magic: white or black magic, and Oriental or Western magic. … This is not a how-to-do-magic book but a historical treatise. It is exceedingly well researched and footnoted, with the footnotes allowing for easy additional study. The book gives the reader a great fundamental understanding of what and why magic is what it is today.' Ralph Peterson, San Francisco Book Review'It is very rare that I read a book three times but this was one of those rare books. … Jones has gone to incredible length to do search out the top magical scholars and thinkers and piece together a modern view on magic. This is definitely a book written by a scholar and is an extremely intelligent and well written look at not just Asian magic but an educated look at modern magic. … The book is at the same time a history of magic in its Golden Age, an exploration of the imagination of the East and of our passion for exoticism, and a fair analysis of political issues connected with ethnicity, representation and perception and discrimination. … A Must Read for Every Single Magician.' Paul Romhany, Vanish Magazine'… thoroughly probes another largely neglected component of Orientalism - magic, especially with reference to India, China and Japan. …Moreover, it studies energetically and effectively various facets of Oriental(ist) magic. The author's presentation is strikingly fresh, rather captivating.' Abdur Raheem Kidway, The Muslim World Book Review'Modernity and magic are usually seen in opposition to one another, as in early modern Europe. In Chris Goto-Jones's extraordinary book, we see that they were in fact intricately intertwined as modern Asia came into being. By combining ideas about illusion and reality with the discourse of progress in China, Japan, and India, Goto-Jones gives us a wholly original, deeply thoughtful, and innovative approach to the history of colonial and semi-colonial Asia, as well as representations of Asia in the West.' Rana Mitter, University of Oxford'Conjuring Asia is a wonderful book - yes, full of wonders - at once erudite and entertaining, dazzling. It is full of marvelous material gleaned from hard-to-come-by and all-too-overlooked popular sources. This stupendous research has been judiciously organized into Goto-Jones' eloquent, articulate, insightful and engaging critical analysis of a historical and modern transnational culture of magic.' Lee Siegel, University of Hawaii'With Chris Goto-Jones's Conjuring Asia, the academic study of secular magic comes of age. Surprisingly enough, that is because the book itself is so formally inventive and such fun to read. For scholars, yes indeed. But for all magic fans too.' Simon During, University of Queensland'Modernity is often seen as superseding magic and the occult, but this survey of Orientalist stage magic seeks to show modernity was less opposed to enchantment than is generally thought, and that their intertwined existence was revitalized by the idea of the East as the source of wonders … Demonstrating Orientalism as 'a kind of magic itself', Goto-Jones's enthusiastic and generous book is an engaging performance.' Phil Baker, The Times Literary Supplement'What is magic? What is good magic? What is modern magic? In what ways is modern magic racist and chauvinistic? What is the role of magic in the history of knowledge? How does magic fit in the academic world? [These] are just some of the questions Conjuring Asia approaches … And if you are prepared to put some effort in, then I suspect you will finish reading provoked to think in new ways about a number of really fundamental questions about conjuring … the effort you put in with Chris Goto-Jones's work will be well rewarded.' Will Houstoun, The Magic Circular'If you have ever wondered about the performance magic of India, China or Japan this is the book to read. It is a thoroughly engaging study, with approachable scholarship and fascinating notes; it considers these 'Oriental' magics not only historically but also philosophically, culturally and politically. A truly wonderful book.' Eugene Burger, magician and authorTable of ContentsIntroduction: magic in the world; Part I: 1. Modern magic in history and theory; 2. A theory of modern magic; 3. Oriental(ist) magic; Part II: 4. Indian magic and magic in India; 5. Chinese magic and magic in China; 6. Japanese magic and magic in Japan; Conclusion: magic in the world.
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Cambridge University Press How the East Was Won
Book SynopsisHow did upstart outsiders forge vast new empires in early modern Asia, laying the foundations for today''s modern mega-states of India and China? In How the East Was Won, Andrew Phillips reveals the crucial parallels uniting the Mughal Empire, the Qing Dynasty and the British Raj. Vastly outnumbered and stigmatised as parvenus, the Mughals and Manchus pioneered similar strategies of cultural statecraft, first to build the multicultural coalitions necessary for conquest, and then to bind the indigenous collaborators needed to subsequently uphold imperial rule. The English East India Company later adapted the same ''define and conquer'' and ''define and rule'' strategies to carve out the West''s biggest colonial empire in Asia. Refuting existing accounts of the ''rise of the West'', this book foregrounds the profoundly imitative rather than innovative character of Western colonialism to advance a new explanation of how universal empires arise and endure.Trade Review'Andrew Phillips has done it again - this book will completely change how you think about empires, as well the competition between the East and the West.' Ayşe Zarakol, Reader in International Relations, University of Cambridge'How the East was Won brilliantly shows how peripheral groups overcame more powerful polities to create universal empires. Andrew Phillips demonstrates how these groups created such empires not by assimilating subject peoples but by a strategic process of cultural differentiation. They established diversity regimes that maintained the unique identity of the dominant elite, while simultaneously yoking culturally diverse indigenous elites to the conquest elite. In comparing the British Raj to Manchu and Mughal rule, he challenges the preconception that Western colonial empires differed fundamentally from the Asian empires. Instead of displacing indigenous practices, the British layered on to existing practices. Rather than see the current international order, as propelled by “the Rise of the West,” we might thus conclude that order has been infused with the hybridization of West and East from its infancy.' Hendrik Spruyt, Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations, Northwestern University, Illinois'A sweeping and beautifully-written explanation of how the Mughals, Manchus and British created vast and powerful empires and left lasting legacies for world order. This book is a definitive contribution to the creation of modernity and the study of global historical International relations.' Amitav Acharya, American University, Washington DC, and co-author (with Barry Buzan) of The Making of Global International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2019)'In this magnificent book Andrew Phillips takes us on a fascinating and deeply insightful journey beyond IR's Eurocentric frontier to challenge many of the continuing theoretical/conceptual assumptions of the discipline. He reveals the near-ubiquity of hierarchical Asian empires in the early modern period and how these shared many similarities in their origins and modalities of rule with the British empire as well as how international politics was forged through the interweaving of Western and Asian agency.' John M. Hobson,, Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield, UK'Phillips' masterful book on the Mughal Empire (c.1526-1858), the Qing Empire (c.1644-1912), and the British Raj (c.1765-1947) ambitiously challenges the received wisdom about early modern Asia. The author highlights that the West was initially backward so that Western colonialism could succeed only because it was built on Asian precedents of imperial emergence, expansion and consolidation. The winning formula was a 'define-and-conquer' and 'define-and-rule' strategy that curated identities to facilitate cultural appropriation and local collaboration. The resulting mega-states of 'India' and 'China' are modern inventions rather than the manifest destiny of supposedly unified and ancient civilizations. This book is a must read for students of international relations, comparative history, East Asia, India and China.' Victoria Tin-bor Hui, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame'A provocative read … Highly recommended.' Q. E. Wang, Choice ConnectTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. From the rise of the west to how the east was won; 2. The Eurasian transformation; 3. The rise of Asia's terrestrial empires; 4. European infiltration and Asian consolidation in maritime Asia; 5. The great Asian divergence – Mughal decline and Manchu consolidation in the eighteenth century; 6. The East India Company and the rise of British India, 1740-1820; 7. Crises of empire and the reconstitution of international orders in south and East Asia, 1820-1880.
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Cambridge University Press Ayeen Akbery Or The Institutes Of The Emperor
Book SynopsisAkbar the Great (1542â1605) is often regarded as the Mughal Empire's most accomplished ruler. This document on the workings of his empire was produced by Akbar's vizier, Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551â1602). Between 1783 and 1786, the scholar Francis Gladwin (1744/5â1812) produced an English translation from the original Persian. Reissued here is the two-volume edition that appeared in 1800. As the work's dedicatee and Governor-General of Bengal, Warren Hastings had seen the translation as illuminating the Mughal Empire's 'original constitution' and believed it would educate and inform Britain's colonial administrators. Gladwin's text would not be superseded for many decades, and it testifies to the quality of his scholarship and the contemporary concerns of the East India Company. Volume 1 explains the workings of the royal household and military offices, including details of the mint, treasury and harem, as well as building regulations.Table of ContentsTranslator's preface; Part I. Regulations for the Different Offices: The household; Royal treasuries; Jewel office; The mint; Some account of the immortal coins; Of dirhems and dinars; An account of the profit which merchants make; Of the production of metals; Of the specific gravity of metals; Haram, or seraglio; Of the equipage for journeys; Regulations for the encampment of the army; Regulations for the illuminations; Ensigns of royalty; Of the royal seals; Of the camp equipage; Abdar Khaneh; Kitchen; Sufyaneh; Current prices of provisions; Fruitery; Perfume office; Flowers; Wardrobe; Shawls; Current prices of manufactures; Tusweer Khaneh; Painting gallery; Kowr Khaneh; A table of warlike weapons; Artillery; Rules observed in making fire-arms; Barghu; Ranks of the royal Bundooks; Pay of the Bundookchyan; Feel Khaneh, or elephants' stables; Khaseh elephants; Horse stables; Suter Khaneh, or camel stables; Gaw Khaneh, or ox stables; Of mules; Manner in which his majesty spends his time; Bar, or times of admission to the royal presence; Koornish and Tusleem; Of spiritual guidance; Of musters; Pow Gosht; Regulations for the public fights of animals; Regulations for buildings; Part II. Regulations for the Military Department: Army; Regulations for the cattle; Munsubdars; Ahdy; Other cavalry; Infantry; Cheelah; Kahars, or bearers; Pyadeh Dakhely; Dagh, or mark; Kushek, or military commands; Office of Wakyahnavees; Of sunnuds, or grants; Ranks of seals; Manner of receiving pay; Musa-adet, or aids granted to military officers; Donations; Alms; Ceremony of weighing the royal person; Seyurghal; Of machines; Of the ten seers of grain exacted from every beegah of land; Of festivals; Khushroz, or days of diversion; Of marriages; Regulations for teaching in the public schools; Office of Meer Behry; Of hunting; Of hawking; Of games; Part III. Regulations for the Revenue Department: Of aeras; A table of months; Of tribute and taxes; Ilahee Guz; Tenab; Beegah, or Jereeb; Of the division of the lands; Of the nineteen years collections; Of the ten years settlement; Instructions for the officers.
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Cambridge University Press Shaping Modern Shanghai
Book SynopsisShaping Modern Shanghai provides a new understanding of colonialism in China through a fresh examination of Shanghai''s International Settlement. This was the site of key developments of the Republican period: economic growth, rising Chinese nationalism and Sino-Japanese conflict. Managed by the Shanghai Municipal Council (18541943), the International Settlement was beyond the control of the Chinese and foreign imperial governments. Jackson defines Shanghai''s unique, hybrid form of colonial urban governance as transnational colonialism. The Council was both colonial in its structures and subject to colonial influence, especially from the British empire, yet autonomous in its activities and transnational in its personnel. This is the first in-depth study of how this unique body functioned on the local, national and international stages, revealing the Council''s impact on the daily lives of the city''s residents and its contribution to the conflicts of the period, with implications for Trade Review'Isabella Jackson has written a superb study of one of the most important cities in both Chinese history and British imperial history. Her meticulous study of the way that colonial and sovereign China interacted shows the complexity of the interaction between foreign and Chinese during the Republican era. This book is a major achievement.' Rana Mitter, University of Oxford'Isabella Jackson provides a richly detailed and fluidly written account of treaty-port era Shanghai via a close look at one of its most influential institutions. This alone makes Shaping Modern Shanghai a valuable book. The author also shines in providing an astute analytical framework for making sense of the distinctive sorts of colonial forces in play in this fascinating metropolis.' Jeffrey Wasserstrom, University of California, Irvine'Shaping Modern Shanghai is a long overdue work that will help fill a major gap in the study of modern Shanghai … Jackson's study is an important work, not only for the history of Shanghai or modern China but also for the history of colonialism, the British Empire and urban history. It deserves to be widely read.' Hanchao Lu, The China Quarterly'Shaping Modern Shanghai is undoubtedly an innovative piece of scholarship and essential reading for any scholar interested in the history of Shanghai and of municipal governance and urban history in modern China and also in the broader issues of colonialism and nationalism in China and beyond.' Cécile Armand, Journal of Twentieth-Century China'Jackson's description throughout the book of how this organization [the Shanghai Municipal Council] navigated competing Shanghai, Chinese and imperial interests is a compelling story: global history at its best.' Toby Lincoln, Urban History'Jackson's 'transnational colonialism' persuasively captures the diverse and far-reaching ways that foreign settlers governed in the International Settlement … an impressive and thorough analysis … timely and well written, … this meticulous study deserves a wide readership for those interested not just in the history of Shanghai or modern China, but also those who are more broadly interested in colonialism and imperialism.' Emily Whewell, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History'The book is written in elegant and accessible prose and, in a fascinating epilogue detailing the fate of the SMC's former employees, Jackson displays her skills as a raconteur. This book should be read by anyone with a serious interest in the Western presence in modern China, the nature of colonialism in China, or the history of 'China's global city'.' Jeremy E. Taylor, The Journal of Asian Studies'This is an extremely valuable book for those seeking to understand the inner workings of colonialism in Shanghai and its complex legacies … Scholars of imperial and international history will also find a useful theoretical contribution, which complicates our current understanding of colonialism.' Jennifer Bond, Family & Community HistoryTable of ContentsList of figures; Acknowledgements; Note on the text; Introduction: the transnational colonialism of the Shanghai Municipal Council; 1. Funding transnational colonialism; 2. Electing and serving: the municipal councillors and staff; 3. Policing and conflict in Shanghai; 4. Public health and hygiene; 5. Industry, welfare and social reform; Epilogue. Dismantling and remembering transnational colonialism; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Economic History of China Volume 1
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive synthesis of Chinese economic history, past and present, in English. Volume I, which covers the period from 1000 BCE to 1800 CE in eighteen thematically organized chapters, introduces the main institutions, ideas, technologies, and social and political forces that shaped the world's largest economy in the premodern era.Trade Review'I enjoyed reading the first volume of The Cambridge Economic History of China and highly recommend it to others who want to go a bit beyond short surveys on this area without getting too tangled in the weeds. While not intending to be 'revisionist' per se, it is sure to challenge some preconceived beliefs about the world's largest nation - and its dynamic, vibrant, and rich history.' Jamin Andreas Hübner, EH.net (Economic History Association)Table of ContentsIntroduction to Volume I Debin Ma and Richard von Glahn; Part I. Before 1000: 1. The economy of late pre-imperial China: archaeological perspectives Lothar von Falkenhausen; 2. Agriculture and its environmental impact Motoko Hara; 3. State and economy: production, extraction, and distribution Richard von Glahn; 4. Markets, money, and merchants Yōhei Kakinuma; 5. Economic philosophy and political economy Richard von Glahn; 6. Silk Road trade and foreign economic influences Xinru Liu; Interlude. The Tang-Song transition in Chinese economic history Richard von Glahn; Part II. 1000 to 1800: 7. Ecological change and resource constraints David A. Bello; 8. Population change Shuji Cao; 9. Public finance Christian Lamouroux and Richard von Glahn; 10. Political economy Helen Dunstan; 11. Law and the market economy Billy K. L. So and Sufumi So; 12. Property rights and factor markets Mio Kishimoto; 13. The rural economy Kenneth Pomeranz; 14. Cities and the urban economy Harriet Zurndorfer; 15. The monetary system Akinobu Kuroda; 16. Merchants and commercial networks Joseph P. McDermott; 17. Foreign trade Angela Schottenhammer; 18. Production, consumption, and living standards Zhiwu Chen and Kaixiang Peng.
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Cambridge University Press Capitalism Inequality and Labour in India
Book SynopsisJan Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India''s changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. When, in a remote past, tribal and low-caste communities were attached to landowning households, their lack of freedom was framed as subsistence-oriented dependency. Breman argues that with colonial rule came the intrusion of capitalism into India''s agrarian economy, leading to a decline in the idea of patronage in the relationship between bonded labour and landowner. Instead, servitude was reshaped as indebtedness. As labour became transformed into a commodity, peasant workers were increasingly pushed out of agriculture and the village but remained adrift in the wider economy. This footloose workforce is subjected to exploitation when their labour power is required and is left in a state of exclusion when it is surplus to demand. The outcome is progressive inequality that is thoroughly capitalist in nature.Trade Review'From Jan Breman's lifetime of research with labour in Gujarat have come original concepts of patronage and exploitation, circular migration, footloose labour, neo-bondage, exclusion and expulsion from social rights and habitat - all now essential to our understanding of India's labour-force. In this tour-de-force, Breman synthesises the history of coercive debt, bondage and servitude, tracing its persistence from colonial roots to the present where tied and contingent labour underpins capitalism with Indian characteristics. Shabash.' Barbara Harriss-White, Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford'A masterful summing up of the six decades-long research of Jan Breman in and on India. The deep changes in the mode and manner of social exploitation and the failed promises of a sovereign state have been pursued by the author with a relentless critique of India's capitalist path while retaining a deep empathy for the labouring poor.' K. P. Kannan, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum'In sum, this book makes some valuable points about the capitalist nature of progressive inequality.' A. A. Batabyal, Choice'… Jan Breman's work will certainly stand the test of time not only as evidence to the sufferings and fights of the dispossessed laboring, but also as an exercise in academic excellence, fueled by empathy that ultimately generated profound and intricate scholarly insights.' Nikolay Kamenov, H-Soz-KultTable of ContentsPart I. Labour as Codified in Annals of the State: 1. The country liberated; 2. An end to servitude?; Part II. Constrained in Decrepitude: 3. The commodification of agricultural labour; 4. The class struggle launched and suppressed; 5. The Gandhian road to inclusion; Part III. The Political Economy of Boundless Dispossession: 6. The Agrarian Question posed as the social question; 7. Labour migration: going off and coming back; 8. Indebtedness as labour attachment; Part IV. Conclusion: 9. Capitalism, labour bondage and the social question.
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Cambridge University Press After the Korean War
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Cambridge University Press Recentering the World
Book SynopsisThis book provides valuable new information to those interested in Chinese history, international legal history, and international relations. Its new explorations of archives and other primary sources are helpful for researchers in these fields. It also appeals to general readers eager to learn more about China's role in world affairs.Trade Review'China's engagement with Western international law, Ryan Martínez Mitchell shows in this field-defining study, is neither recent nor rejectionist. Instead, starting in the 19th century, Chinese actors interacted with once foreign concepts and terms in light of local imaginaries, and Chinese engagement reshaped international law in turn. The results are a tour de force of research and reconceptualization of how the legal order of the contemporary world came about, and where alternative global internationalisms might one day lead.' Samuel Moyn, Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History, Yale University'Recentering the World is a wonderful book that should re-center how we think about not only China but international law itself. Running from the late Qing through WTO accession, Ryan Mitchell's singular blend of deep historical research in Chinese, Japanese and western archival materials, deft legal analysis, and love of ideas is an exemplar of superb cross-disciplinary scholarship.' William P. Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School'An excellent conceptual history of how China engaged with Western-made international law in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Mitchell moves fluidly between domestic and transnational spheres of thought, and between different layers of conceptual meaning as they are constantly reconstructed during this era.' Taisu Zhang, Professor of Law, Yale Law School and author of The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation (2022)Table of ContentsIntroduction: 'In the Nineteenth Century, There was No International Law'; Part I. Preserving Stateliness, 1850–1894: 1. Universal Prosperity; 2. Synarchy; 3. Vast Imperium; Part II. Asserting Sovereignty, 1895–1921: 4. The Public Law of Planet Earth; 5. The Problem of Equality; 6. Reconstituted Hierarchies; Part III. Internationalisms, 1922–2001: 7. Changing Circumstances; 8. New Orders; 9. Perpetual Peace; Conclusion: From Object to Subject? – China in a World of Institutions; Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Names; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning
Book SynopsisThe Foundations of Celestial Reckoning gives the reader direct access to the foundational documents of the tradition of calculation created by astronomers of the early Chinese empire between the late second century BCE and the third century CE. The paradigm they established was to shape East Asian thought and practice in the field of mathematical astronomy for centuries to come. It was in many ways radically different from better known traditions of astronomy in other parts of the ancient world. This book includes full English translations of the first three systems of mathematical astronomy adopted for use by imperial astronomical officials, together with introductory material explaining the origin and nature of each system, and a general introduction to the work as a whole. The translations, which are accompanied by the original Chinese text, give a consistent rendering of all technical terms, and include detailed explanatory notes. The text in which the second of Trade ReviewChristopher Cullen's expert translations and commentaries provide long-needed access to three foundational texts of Chinese astronomy, and an opening to a much wider understanding of an ancient scientific tradition comparable in richness and sophistication to that of the Mesopotamians and Greeks.- Alexander Jones, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, USA"This book stands out as one of the notable landmarks in the progress of researching on Chinese systems. I highly recommend this important and well-written book for historians of science and all who are interested in Chinese mathematical astronomy."- Tang Quan, Xianyang Normal University, Journal for the History of Astronomy, August 2017"Cullen has provided another excellent contribution toward making Chinese astronomical texts available to a wider audience and giving the history of Chinese mathematical astronomy its well-deserved place within the general history of non-Western and premodern astronomy."- Benno van Dalen, Isis journal, March 2018 "This volume will be a fundamental for the study of the history of ancient astronomy, not only Chinese, but also Arabic and, because of the transmission of Arabic astronomy to Byzantium in the late period Byzantine." - Touwaide, Byzantinische Zeitschrift issue 110 (= 2017/4). Alexander Jones, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU "This is an ideal volume for the new series Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World. The tradition of scientific astronomy in China rivals that of Mesopotamia and the Classical world in complexity and sophistication, but whereas almost all the central documents of Greek astronomy and a large part of those from Babylonia are accessible in good translations and commentaries, only a tiny fraction of the abundant Chinese astronomical literature can be consulted by scholars who do not read Chinese." Michael Loewe, University of Cambridge "It will form a most valuable contribution both for specialist readers in the sciences and in Chinese studies, by providing access to primary source material not easily known or readily understood. It will fill a deficiency in secondary writing that concerns both the history of science and China’s own science and technology. The book is to be welcomed."Table of ContentsChapter 1. General IntroductionA. The world of early imperial ChinaB. What was a li 曆, and what did it do?C. How did a li work?D. DatesE. How was a li calculated?F. How were the data of a li determined?G. A note on translating computational proceduresH. Arrangement of the textI. Works consultedChapter 2. The Triple Concordance astronomical system: San tong li 三統曆I. IntroductionA. An astronomical system and its creatorB. Structure of the systemC. Organisation of the textD. Text usedII. Text, translation and commentsA. Concordance constantsB. Sequence ConstantsC. The Five PacersD. Concordance WorkingsE. Sequence WorkingsF. Year WorkingsG. [The Twelve Stations]H. The 28 LodgesI. [The Nine Roads]J. [Concordances and Rule Heads]K. APPENDIX 1: Intercalations in theory and practiceChapter 3. The Han Quarter Remainder system: Han si fen li 漢四分曆I. IntroductionA. The system and its backgroundB. Authorship of the textC. Structure of the systemD. Organisation of the textE. Methods of calculationF. Text usedII. Text, translation and commentsA. Methods for [astronomical] systemsB. Basic solar and lunar constantsC. [Lunar eclipse constants]D. Procedures for sun and moonE. Planetary constantsF. Planetary ProceduresG. Planetary MotionsH. [Months, qi and lodges]I. [The solar table]J. The system originK. DiscussionChapter 4. The Uranic Manifestation astronomical system: Qian xiang li乾象曆I. IntroductionA. Liu Hong and his workB. The historical background of Liu Hong’s workC. The structure of the systemD. Organisation of the textE. The question of ‘months’ and the finding of true lunar motionF. Text usedII. Text, translation and commentsA. [System Origin]B. [Basic solar and lunar constants]C. [Predicting times of lunar and solar events]D. [Predicting positions of sun and moon]E. [Lunar eclipses]F. [Predicting hexagrams and phases in effect]G. [Finding times of day of events]H. Advance and retardationI. [Retardation and acceleration of lunar motion]J. [Lunar speed sequence]K. [Lunar speed constants]L. [Calculating true lunar motion]M. [Lunar latitude]N. [Constants for lunar latitude]O. [Calculating lunar latitude]P. [Epoch; repeated]Q. Predictions for the Five Stars [sc. planets]R. [Constants for the Five Planets]S. Predictions for the Five PlanetsT. [Planetary Phases]U. [Planetary Motions]Chapter 5. Han discussions of astronomical systems and their development: two texts I. IntroductionII. Ban Gu 班固 on li c. 90 CEA. [Astronomical systems from High Antiquity to Qin]B. [The Grand Inception reform]C. [Zhang Shouwang]D. [Liu Xiang and Liu Xin]III. The Documentary Collection of Cai Yong 蔡邕 and Liu Hong 劉洪, 178 CEA. [Materials presented]B. [Failure of the Grand Inception system in early Eastern Han; proposals for revision deferred.]C. [Observed errors in lunar eclipse predictions in 62 - 69 CE lead to experiments in partial use of Quarter Remainder methods.]D. [The fruitless discussions of 66 CE; increased divergence of prediction from observation; Zhangdi’s commission of 85 CE to Bian Xin and Li Fan.]E. [The edict of March 18th 85 CE reviews the imperative need for revision, and commands use of the Quarter Remainder system.]F. [Bian Xin and Deng Fan propose use of an initial long month; Jia Kui successfully controverts this.]G. [The memorial of Jia Kui, 92 CE]H. [103 CE: The edict to construct Jia Kui’s instrument; failure of officials to use it.]I. [Jia Kui on the varying speed of lunar motion]J. [Editorial note on two late Eastern Han attempts to reconstruct a ‘Nine Roads’ procedure for the moon]K. [Seasonal changes in clepsydra graduations]L. [Eastern Han disputes on system origin: introduction.]M. [Lunar eclipses: Eastern Han discussions.]BibliographyIndex
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