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  • Selves in Time and Place
    Recently anthropology has turned to accounts of persons-in-history/history-in-persons, focusing on how individuals and groups as agents both fashion and are fashioned by social, political, and cultural discourses and practices. In this approach, power, agency, and history are made explicit as individuals and groups work to constitute themselves in relation to others and within ...
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    189,53 €

  • Who Was Who in British India
    John F. Riddick / John FRiddick
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    109,98 €

  • Hojoki
    Kamo no Chomei
    An extraordinary literary work from the 12th century, a meditation on nature and mortality. ...
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    11,37 €

  • Basho’s Narrow Road
    Matsuo Basho / Hiroaki Sato
    Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan’s greatest haiku poet. Narrow Road to the Interior (Oku no Hosomichi) is his masterpiece. Ostensibly a chronological account of the poet’s five-month journey in 1689 into the deep country north and west of the old capital, Edo, the work is in fact artful and carefully sculpted, rich in literary and Zen allusion and filled with great in...
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    16,75 €

  • Regional Security and the Future of Central Asia
    Hooman Peimani
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    122,14 €

  • China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Inc.
    Willem Van Kemenade / William Van Kemenade
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    17,09 €

  • Modern Japanese Thought
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    121,12 €

  • Modern Japanese Thought
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    54,53 €

  • How India Wrought for Freedom
    Annie Besant
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    50,60 €

  • Nationalism
    Rabindranath TAGORE / Sir Rabindranath Tagore
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    18,94 €

  • Great Wall and the Empty Fortress
    Andrew J. Nathan / Andrew JNathan / Robert S. Ross / Robert SRoss
    Today China is considered a threat by many in the United States and the rest of the world. But the authors argue that those who subscribe to this alarmist view are mistaking the Great Wall for a symbol of strength, and falling for the deception of the Empty Fortress. Despite its sheer size, economic vitality, and drive to upgrade its military forces, China remains a vulnerable ...
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    19,12 €

  • Rise of Asia
    Frank B. (Associate Professor Tipton / K. Ed Tipton / K. Ed. Tipton
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    225,11 €

  • The Culture of Japan as Seen through Its Leisure
    Provides a wealth of information about leisure activities in Japan including sports, travel, theater, music, games, and gambling. ...
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    44,05 €

  • The Untouchables
    Marika Vicziany / Mendelsohn Oliver / Oliver Mendelsohn
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    168,59 €

  • The Untouchables
    Marika Vicziany / Oliver Mendelsohn
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    65,42 €

  • A Korean Nationalist Entrepreneur
    Choong Soon Kim
    During the period of Japanese domination, Kim Songsu emerged as one of Korea’s leading cultural nationalists. This life history details his contribution to the self-strengthening programs moderate nationalists advocated as the foundation for Korea’s independence. ...
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    43,38 €

  • Muscovy and the Mongols
    Donald Ostrowski
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    144,91 €

  • Demystifying Tibet
    Lee Feigon
    The author of China Rising here describes Tibet’s long and independent history, focusing on its politics and culture, and shows how its future now lies largely in China’s hands. 'An impeccably researched, spirited history of the forces that shaped today’s Tibet, right down to the way tea is prepared.' -Kirkus Reviews. ...
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    17,40 €

  • From Family to Market
    Fei-Ling Wang
    Analyzing Chinese history, politics, and economic development through the lens of labor allocation, Fei-Ling Wang examines the segmented nature of the worldOs largest workforce. He points to the rare coexistence of four ’labor allocation patterns:’ the traditional family-based system, authoritarian state allocation, community-based labor markets, and the emerging national labor...
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    52,50 €

  • Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching
    Examines the traditional and modern Western interpretations of the Tao-te-ching, and its author, Lao-tzu. ...
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    43,00 €

  • The Opium War, 1840-1842
    Peter Ward Fay
    This book tells the fascinating story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irreversible the process that for almost a century thereafter distinguished western relations with this quarter of the globe-- the p...
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    60,32 €

  • Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Cold War, 1945 1950
    Nicholas Tarling
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    204,31 €

  • The Art of Balance in Health Policy
    John Campbell / Naoki Ikegami
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    145,35 €

  • What Is in a Rim?
    Arif Dirlik
    This pathbreaking, multidisciplinary work challenges our unthinking acceptance of such terms as ’Asia Pacific’ and ’Pacific Rim.’ Revealing the hidden power relationships and hegemonic struggles that are disguised by ideological constructions of the region, the contributors uncover fundamental contradictions that underlie the much-celebrated economic boom. The book shifts our f...
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    98,04 €

  • An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China
    James Stuart Olson
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    105,02 €

  • The Invisibles
    Jaffrey / Zia Jaffrey
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    15,68 €

  • Echoes from the Orient
    William Q. Judge / William QJudge
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    15,07 €

  • India and Her People
    Swami Abhedananda
    India and Her People is a book written by Swami Abhedananda, a renowned philosopher and spiritual leader of India. This book is an insightful exploration of the history, culture, and spirituality of India, and it aims to introduce readers to the essence of Indian philosophy and its people.The book is divided into several chapters, each of which delves into a different aspect of...
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    36,10 €

  • In Search of Personal Welfare
    Mu-chou Poo
    The first major reassessment of ancient Chinese religion to appear in recent years, this book presents the religious mentality of the period through personal and daily experiences. ...
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    42,99 €

  • Tales of the Turquoise
    Corneille Jest
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    20,70 €