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Study on Overseas Chinese and Ethnic Chinese of Yunnan Origin in Southeast Asia
Jun ChenCurrent price €70.19Original price €77.99This book is concerned with the historical fact of overseas Chinese and ethnic Chinese living in Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and Laos before 1949. A...
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Changing Japanese Attitudes Toward Modernization
Princeton University PressCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99The results of the process of modernization which started in Japan in the 19th century and continues today are remarkable in history. This volume c...
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Sunflowers and Stars: The Ideological Role of Chinese Childrens Rhymes and Poems in the Twentieth Century
Valerie PellattCurrent price €61.19Original price €67.99This book traces a hundred years of the development of Chinese nursery rhymes, childrens rhymes and childrens poems from the early twentieth centur...
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Les Pionniers de la Nouvelle Peinture En Iran: Oeuvres Méconnues, Activités Novatrices Et Scandales Au Tournant Des Années 1940
Alice BombardierCurrent price €37.83Original price €43.99Current price €37.83Original price €43.99Save 14% -
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Trajectories: Excursions with the Anthropology of E. Douglas Lewis
Peter Lang Publishing IncCurrent price €101.69Original price €112.99This volume engages with the work of E. Douglas Lewis, who has made major contributions to the understanding of Eastern Indonesia, ethnography, cul...
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The Unfortunate Endeavours of Charles Henry Brown: Aeronaut 18271870
Terence FitzSimonsCurrent price €61.19Original price €67.99This is the biography of a pioneer aeronaut, Charles Henry Brown, whose life-long obsession with aerostation took him from his native Great Britain...
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The Unfortunate Endeavours of Charles Henry Brown: Aeronaut 18271870
Terence FitzSimonsCurrent price €61.19Original price €67.99This is the biography of a pioneer aeronaut, Charles Henry Brown, whose life-long obsession with aerostation took him from his native Great Britain...
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The Unfortunate Endeavours of Charles Henry Brown: Aeronaut 18271870
Terence FitzSimonsCurrent price €61.19Original price €67.99This is the biography of a pioneer aeronaut, Charles Henry Brown, whose life-long obsession with aerostation took him from his native Great Britain...
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A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Lo-Yang
Hsüan-chih YangCurrent price €118.79Original price €131.99A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Lo-yang (the Lo-Yang ch'ieh-lan chi) is a major document of Chinese history and literature. This translation of...
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A History of Qing Economy Studies
Zhu HuCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99This book is a historiographical study of the economic history of the Qing dynasty that systematically examines the research paradigms underlying t...
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Confucianism and Enlightenment: Contemporary Chinese Thought from the Perspective of Philosophical Understanding and Mergence
Yun DingCurrent price €101.69Original price €112.99This book presents twelve of the authors selected essays on subjects related to contemporary Chinese thought and examines other significant works o...
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Save 10% Contested Civil Society in Myanmar: Local Change and Global Recognition
Maaike MatelskiCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99ePDFs of chapters 4, 5 and 7 are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence This book centres on various contestations in Myanmar society and...
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The Four Gods Figurines as Tomb Guardians: Their Function, Circulation, and Disappearance in Tang China (618907 AD)
Lok Man YangCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99This book employs a biographical approach to comprehensively study a set of Tang era-tomb guardian figurines, known as the Four Gods (Sishen), comp...
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Save 10% A New Deal for Chinas Workers?
Cynthia EstlundCurrent price €53.99Original price €59.99Chinas labor landscape is changing, and it is transforming the global economy in ways that we cannot afford to ignore. Once-silent workers have fou...
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Save 15% Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyshi of Edo Japan, Second Edition, With a New Preface
Adam L. KernCurrent price €79.04Original price €92.99Manga from the Floating World is the first full-length study in English of the kibyshi, a genre of woodblock-printed comic book widely read in late...
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Save 15% A Path Twice Traveled: My Journey as a Historian of China
Paul A. CohenCurrent price €29.74Original price €34.99The Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies collaborated on publishing this memoir by Paul A. Cohen, one of the ...
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Save 10% Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation
Jürgen P. MelzerCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99The history of Japanese aviation offers countless stories of heroic achievements and dismal failures, passionate enthusiasm and sheer terror, brill...
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Jürgen P. MelzerCurrent price €57.59Original price €63.99The history of Japanese aviation offers countless stories of heroic achievements and dismal failures, passionate enthusiasm and sheer terror, brill...
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Save 10% Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture
Seth JacobowitzCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Writing Technology in Meiji Japan boldly rethinks the origins of modern Japanese language, literature, and visual culture from the perspective of m...
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Save 15% Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo
Janet BorlandCurrent price €54.39Original price €63.99Japan, as recent history has powerfully illustrated, is one of the worlds most earthquake-prone countries. Today it is also one of the best prepare...
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Save 13% Printing Landmarks: Popular Geography and Meisho Zue in Late Tokugawa Japan
Robert GoreeCurrent price €59.15Original price €67.99Printing Landmarks tells the story of the late Tokugawa periods most distinctive form of popular geography: meisho zue. Beginning with the publicat...
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Save 15% Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo
Janet BorlandCurrent price €28.89Original price €33.99Japan, as recent history has powerfully illustrated, is one of the worlds most earthquake-prone countries. Today it is also one of the best prepare...
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Save 10% The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187
Nicholas MortonCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99The Crusader States and their Neighbours (Winner, The Verbruggen Prize, The Society for Medieval Military History) explores the military history of...
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Save 10% Voyager from Xanadu: Rabban Sauma and the First Journey from China to the West
Morris RossabiCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Toward the end of the thirteenth century, at about the time Marco Polo was being received by the great Khubilai Khan, a Nestorian Christian monk fr...
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