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Hardpress Publishing Narrative of the Earl of Elgins Mission to China and Japan in the Years 857 58 59 1
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Hardpress Publishing An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava in the Year 795 to Which Is Now Added a Narrative of the Late Military and Political Operations in the Birmese Empire in Two Volumes 1
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Hardpress Publishing The Tanjore Mahratta Principality in Southern India the Land of the Chola the Eden of the South 1
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Hardpress Publishing The Chinese Family System 1
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Hardpress Publishing Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan or the Mogul Empire With an Introduction and a Map of the Countries Statuated Between the Heads of the Indian Rivers and Geography of the Countries Contiguous 1
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Hardpress Publishing Zigzagging in the Orient 192122 1
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Hardpress Publishing TiPing TienKwoh the History of the TiPing Revolution 1
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Hardpress Publishing Researches and Missionary Labours Among the Jews Mohammedans and Other Sects
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Hardpress Publishing A Journal of the First French Embassy to China 16981700 1
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Hardpress Publishing Central India During the Rebellion of 1857 and 1858 1
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Hardpress Publishing An Historical and Descriptive Account of Persia from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Etc 1
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Hardpress Publishing Essays on Indian Antiquities Historic Numismatic and Palographic of the Late James Prinsep to Which Are Added His Useful Tables Illustrative of Modern Coinages Weights Measures Etc 1
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Hardpress Publishing Twelve Years in China the People the Rebels and the Mandarins 1
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Hardpress Publishing Journal De La Campagne De Chine 85986086 1
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Hardpress Publishing Syria the Holy Land Asia Minor Illustrated in a Series of One Hundred and Twenty Views Drawn from Nature 1
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Hardpress Publishing Geschichte Des Englischen Reiches in Asien 1
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Hardpress Publishing The History of Protestant Missions in India from Their Commencement in 1706 to 1871 1
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Hardpress Publishing An Account of the Proceedings of the Government Metropolitan Police in the City of Canton 1
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Hardpress Publishing Voyage En Chine Et En Mongolie De M De Bourboulon Ministre De France Et De Madame De Bourboulon 18601861 1
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Hardpress Publishing A History of the Mahrattas 1
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Hardpress Publishing Oude Question Stated and Considered
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Hardpress Publishing English Governess at the Siamese Court
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Forgotten Books The Emergency in China Classic Reprint
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Forgotten Books Japan Vol 1 Nach Reisen und Studien im Auftrage der Kniglich Preussischen Regierung Dargestellt Natur und Volk des Mikadoreiches Classic Reprint
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Editorial Anagrama La Eliminacion
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Editorial Kairos Pintura Zen: Método y arte del Sumi-e
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El infierno de los jemeres rojos
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Editorial Kairos La India: Retrato de Una Sociedad
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Legerum AB Historia de Asia Oriental
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OUP USA Deng Xiaoping
Book SynopsisDeng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of Mao''s from the 1930s onward. Two years after Mao''s death in 1976, Deng became the de facto leader of the Chinese Communist Party and the prime architect of China''s post-Mao reforms. Abandoning the Maoist socio-economic policies he had long fervently supported, he set in motion changes that would dramatically transform China''s economy, society, and position in the world. Three decades later, we are living with the results. China has become the second largest economy and the workshop of the world. And while it is essentially a market economy (socialism with Chinese characteristics), Deng and his successors ensured the continuation of CCP rule by severely repressing the democratic movement and maintaining an iron grip on power. When Deng died at the age of 92 in 1997, he had set China on the path it is following to this day.Alexander Pantsov and Steven Levine''s neTrade ReviewThe best biography of the man who, along with Mao, was China's dominant statesman of the 20th century. * Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Week *Like the heroes of a Hollywood Western riding into town to clean up a mess, Pantsov and Levine have swept into the unruly genre of contemporary Chinese biography. Pantsov contends with Soviet archives, while Levine wrangles Chinese-language materials and secondary sources in English. Both bring prodigious energy and research firepower to their work." -Foreign AffairPantsov and Levine do well to highlight Deng's studied indifference to the endemic and flagrant corruption that his reforms occasioned... Commendable work. * Jeffrey Crean, Journal of American-East Asian Relations *Table of ContentsCast of Characters Note on the Spelling of Chinese Words Introduction PART ONE - THE BOLSHEVIK 1 Born in the Year of the Dragon 2 From Paris to Moscow: The Lessons of Bolshevism 3 From Xi'an to Shanghai 4 The Guangxi Experiment PART TWO - THE MAOIST 5 'The Spirit of Five Fearlessness' 6 Master of the Taihang Mountains 7 At the Forefront of the New Democratic Revolution 8 Chief of the Southwest Region 9 The Beijing Hippodrome 10 'Critique of the Cult of Personality' and Its Consequences 11 'A Great Growing Force' 12 Being and Consciousness 13 'Yellow Cat, Black Cat' 14 'No. 2 Capitalist Roader' 15 Arrest and Exile PART THREE - THE PRAGMATIST 16 'Soft as Cotton, Sharp as a Needle' 17 New Trials 18 Practice as the Criterion of Truth 19 The Cardinal Principles 20 'Let Some Families Get Rich First' 21 One Country, Two Systems 22 Reforms and Democracy 23 The Tiananmen Tragedy 24 A Retired Patriarch Epilogue Acknowledgments Illustration Credits Bibliography Appendix 1: Deng Xiaoping's Chronology Appendix 2: Deng Xiaoping's Genealogy Notes Index
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Oxford University Press, USA The Turks in World History
Book SynopsisBeginning in Inner Asia two thousand years ago, the Turks have migrated and expanded to form today''s Turkish Republic, five post-Soviet republics, other societies across Eurasia, and a global diaspora. For the first time in a single, accessible volume, this book traces the Turkic peoples'' trajectory from steppe, to empire, to nation-state. Cultural, economic, social, and political history unite in these pages to illuminate the projection of Turkic identity across space and time and the profound transformations marked successively by the Turks'' entry into Islam and into modernity.Trade Reviewa magisterial account of the history of the Turks from their origins to the 20th century. It is written by a scholar in total command of the material and the sources but in a style that brings specialist knowledge to the general reader. It is a book that asks and answers big questions with assurance and authority. * Noel Brehony, President of BRISMES *
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Oxford University Press POWERPOLITTRAD IN MONG EMP ILKHAN C
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Oxford University Press LANG SCRIP CHIN TEXTS EAST ASIA C
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Oxford University Press Vedic Voices
Book SynopsisFor countless generations families have lived in isolated communities in the Godavari Delta of coastal Andhra Pradesh, learning and reciting their legacy of Vedas, performing daily offerings and occasional sacrifices. They are the virtually unrecognized survivors of a 3,700-year-old heritage, the last in India who perform the ancient animal and soma sacrifices according to Vedic tradition. In Vedic Voices, David M. Knipe offers for the first time, an opportunity for them to speak about their lives, ancestral lineages, personal choices as pandits, wives, children, and ways of coping with an avalanche of changes in modern India. He presents a study of four generations of ten families, from those born at the outset of the twentieth century down to their great-grandsons who are just beginning, at the age of seven, the task of memorizing their Veda, the Taittiriya Samhita, a feat that will require eight to twelve years of daily recitations. After successful examinations these young men willTrade Review"Knipe (emer., South Asian studies, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) provides an essential work of anthropological scholarship, a product of his more than 35 years of field research as well as careful textual analysis. It is a rare resource for anyone interested in India's Vedic traditions, their continued embodiment in living practice, and their potential loss... It is a model work of contemporary Indology that surely will be widely cited long into the future... Essential." --CHOICES "With Knipe s book, personal narratives cohere into a rich portrait of the struggle to preserve Vedic heritage in modern Indian society, and a vibrant tradition comes into bold relief. In bearing witness to the diverse experiences of these multi-generational families, Vedic Voices offers a corrective to the perception that Vedic traditions have vanished entirely from the subcontinent or else survive only as scattered relics without relevance to the modern religious landscape. Knipe s elegant synthesis of ethnography, philology, and history results in an accessible and compelling book, one that should command the attention of Indologists, anthropologists, and historians of religion alike."--Journal of the American Oriental SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ; List of Tables, Maps, and Illustrations ; Preface ; 1) The Godavari Delta ; 2) Vedamlo, "Living in the Veda" ; 3) A Selection of Ahitagnis and Other Veda Pandits ; 4) Becoming a Veda ; 5) Becoming a Householder ; 6) Becoming Agni ; Epilogue: Becoming "Modern" ; Glossary ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
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OUP USA Japan and the Shackles of the Past
Book SynopsisA concise yet penetrating overview of Japan, from a historical, social, political, economic, and cultural perspective.Trade ReviewMurphy is very persuasive in building a case for his solutions for bringing real change to Japanese politics and foreign relations ... The most fundamental of his prescriptions, though, is undeniably necessary: the Japanese government and people must, for their own sake "confront what put their country in the hands of those who destroyed its independence and made it a byword abroad for brutal, inhuman fanaticism. Trying to bury accounts of what actually happened with fables of a pure and virtuous land, as Abe seeks to do, is simply a way of making it more likely that something similar will happen again soon". * Morgan Giles, Times Literary Supplement *Without doubt, this is the most important book on Japan by a non-Japanese writer to have appeared in the last two decades. It should be required reading for anyone professing to know Japan or wishing to teach others about it. * BCCJ Acumen, Ian de Stains OBE *[An] insightful analysis of what ails Japan. * Economist *Taggart Murphy knows his Japanese history. His theories about Japan's political economy shed interesting light on the country. * Financial Times, David Pilling *Japan and the Shackles of the Past is an excellent -- and engagingly written -- introduction to Japan, and a thought-provoking work of political and economic analysis (with quite a few lessons for America and other nations, too). * Complete Review *Murphy sheds much light on Japans current dependence upon the U.S. for maintenance of its political system and its future prospects, closing with an in-depth analysis of the current administration. * Publishers Weekly *Taggart Murphy has crafted a precise and highly critical analysis of Japan's problems. * Satyajit Das, Naked Capitalism *Table of ContentsTable of Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction: Does Japan Still Matter? ; Part One: Past ; Chapter One: Japan Before the Edo Period. ; Chapter Two: The Incubation of the Modern Japanese State. ; Chapter Three: Restoration to Occupation ; Chapter Four: The Miracle ; Chapter Five: The Institutions of High-speed Growth ; Chapter Six: Consequences (Intended and Otherwise) ; Part Two: Present ; Chapter Seven: Economy and Finance ; Chapter Eight: Business ; Chapter Nine: Social and Cultural Change ; Chapter Ten: Politics ; Chapter Eleven: Japan and the World ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; Notes
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Early English Intercourse with Burma 1587 1743
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Excavating the Power of Memory in Japan
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Indigenous Identity in South Asia
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