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  • The Last Emperors of Vietnam
    Oscar Chapuis
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    121,85 €

  • In the Lap of Tigers
    John Cleverley
    Founded in the remote mountains of ChinaOs Jiangxi Province in 1958, the Communist Labor University introduced uneducated laborers to basic agricultural science and farming techniques through an innovative work-study program until 1980. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials, John Cleverley explores the inner workings of this unique institution and the personal involvement o...
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    48,65 €

  • A History of Inner Asia
    Soucek Svat / Svat Soucek / Svatopluk Soucek
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    41,51 €

  • A History of Inner Asia
    Svat Soucek / Svatopluk Soucek
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    136,07 €

  • Reappraising Republican China
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    115,21 €

  • Closing the Shop
    Laurie Anne Freeman
    How is the relationship between the Japanese state and Japanese society mediated by the press? Does the pervasive system of press clubs, and the regulations underlying them, alter or even censor the way news is reported in Japan? Who benefits from the press club system? And who loses? Here Laurie Anne Freeman examines the subtle, highly interconnected relationship between journ...
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    140,43 €

  • Civilization and Monsters
    Gerald Figal
    Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the 'stuff' of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern, or, at best, seen as representative of traditional beliefs that are overcome and left behind in the transformation toward modernity. In Civilization and Monsters Gerald Figal ass...
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    36,43 €

  • Science, Technology and Society in Contemporary Japan
    Hitoshi Yoshioka / Morris Low / Nakayama Shigeru
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    45,77 €

  • Copper and Bronze Metallurgy in Late Prehistoric Xinjiang
    Jianjun Mei
    Foreword by Colin Renfrew.It is only in the last couple of decades that the crucial importance of the westernmost province of China (formerly known as Chinese Turkestan) for the prehistoric period, and specifically for the bronze and iron ages, has come to be recognized. It has come to public attention through the excavation and study of the so called Xinjiang ‘mummies’, in fac...
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    91,37 €

  • Ianfu - The Comfort Women of the Japanese Imperial Army of the Pacific War Broken Silence
    David Andrew Schmidt
    Three former comfort women, Koreans, broke their silence in 1991 and sued the Japanese government and requested a formal apology and reparations. Their lawsuit made the international community aware of the ianfu issue, which had been concealed for half a century. ...
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    82,95 €

  • A Covenant in Shanghai
    David Brailovsky
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    35,99 €

  • The Silk Roads
    Towards the middle of the 20th century, scholarly research revealed that the fabled Silk Roads, far from being mere trade routes, were cultural highways that played a pivotal role in linking east and west, intermittently bringing together nomads and city dwellers, pastoral peoples and farmers, merchants and monks, and soldiers and pilgrims. The notion of movement is therefore c...
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    174,77 €

  • The Underworld of the East
    James S. Lee / James SLee
    This is the remarkable story of James Lee who, starting in 1895, spent 20 years pursuing all the pleasures and dangers that the Far East had to offer. A twilight world of ports, red light districts,drug dens and secret chambers of vice from Aden to Kyoto. ...
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    23,67 €

  • A Rice Village Saga
    Hayami / Masao Kikuchi / Yujiro Hayami
    This detailed case study explores the dramatic economic and social changes that the rice belt of Laguna Province has experienced in the last quarter-century. Besides major advances in rice technology, increasing population pressure, land reform programs, growing infrastructure, and urban economic activities have accelerated the pace of change. Utilizing a unique data set built ...
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    163,50 €

  • Indian Music and the West
    Gerry Farrell
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    110,88 €

  • Dangerous Women
    Victoria B. Cass / Victoria BCass / Victoria Cass
    Grannies, geishas, warriors, mystics, recluses, and predators-these are the dangerous women of traditional China. Through her exploration of the myth and history of the Ming, Victoria B. Cass brings their world brilliantly to life. Using new and freshly interpreted sources, the author leads us confidently into this surprising world, bolstering her erudite and engaging text with...
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    169,34 €

  • de Rome a la Chine
    Jean Noel Robert
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    21,43 €

  • Transactions, Transgressions, Transformation
    American culture has been one of the most controversial exports of the United States: greeted with enthusiasm by some, with hostility by others. Yet, few societies escape its influence. However, not all changes should be interpreted simply as "Americanization." The shaping of the postwar world has been much more complex than this term implies as is shown in this volume that exp...
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    184,04 €

  • The Japanese Education System
    Yasuhiro Nemoto
    This comprehensive study of the Japanese education system follows the Japanese child from the kindergarten, through the progressively more arduous and competitive environments of the elementary, middle and high schools, to the relative relaxation, even hedonism, of university life. Drawing on numerous surveys and on the author's personal experience, it provides a wealth of ...
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    32,99 €

  • Teachings of Sufism
    Carl W. Ernst / Carl WErnst
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    17,87 €

  • Economic Change in China, C.1800 1950
    P. J. Richardson / Philip Richardson / PJRichardson
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    40,06 €

  • Dangerous Women
    Victoria B. Cass / Victoria BCass / Victoria Cass
    Grannies, geishas, warriors, mystics, recluses, and predators-these are the dangerous women of traditional China. Through her exploration of the myth and history of the Ming, Victoria B. Cass brings their world brilliantly to life. Using new and freshly interpreted sources, the author leads us confidently into this surprising world, bolstering her erudite and engaging text with...
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    63,69 €

  • Contemporary Japanese Film
    Mark Schilling
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    26,60 €

  • Crisis and Opportunity in a Changing Japan
    William Farrell
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    121,35 €

  • The Implementation of China’s Science and Technology Policy
    Q. Yu / QYu
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    121,77 €

  • The Chinese Revolution
    Edward Lazzerini
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    79,93 €

  • Social Transformation and Private Education in China
    Jing Lin
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    121,80 €

  • Perspectives on Communication in the People’s Republic of China
    James A Schnell / James A. Schnell / James ASchnell
    China’s development from a traditional society to a technologically advanced, completely modern republic has been extraordinarily rapid. Due to developments since the mid-1980s, Chinese daily life for many has jumped directly from that constrained by an agricultural economy to that liberated by the information age. In Perspectives on Communication in the People’s Republic of Ch...
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    144,66 €

  • Historical Dictionary of Azerbaijan
    Brian C Collins / Brian C. Collins / Brian CCollins / Tadeusz Swietochowski
    Provides entries on persons, institutions and events, with some emphasis on recent periods, but with a view of the earliest history. There are other entries on the important aspects of the economy, society, religion and culture. Also useful are an introduction for context, and a helpful chronology. A select bibliography of works in English and other languages completes the volu...
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    101,80 €

  • Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates
    George Michell / Mark Zebrowski
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    243,29 €