The Rise of Tea Culture in China: The Invention of the Individual, Paperback - Bret Hinsch

DescriptionThis distinctive and enlightening book explores the invention and development of tea drinking in China, using tea culture to explore the...

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Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldAuthor(s): Bret HinschIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; Tables; Halftones, Black & White including Black ...

From the invention of the alphabet to the explosion of the internet, Dominic Wyse takes us on a unique journey into the process of writing. Startin...

Long before the age of "Big Data" or the rise of today's "self-quantifiers, " American capitalism embraced "risk"--and proceeded to number our days...

China's rapid rise is doubtless the most significant economic and geopolitical event in the 21st century. What has led to its rise? What does it me...

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A provocative account showing that "China"-and its 5, 000 years of unified history-is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political ...

China has become the powerhouse of the world economy, its incredible boom overseen by the elite members of the secretive and all-powerful communist...

Li reveals how the Chinese Communist Party runs the Chinese state like an organisation that can act as swiftly and flexibly as a firm. The Rise of ...

Analysing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, the author argues that the emerging understa...

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Examines tea's origins and development from the eighth century to the Heian and medieval eras. This volume illustrates that modes of thinking and p...

Hawkins and Turner argue that coaching needs to step up to deliver value to all the stakeholders of the coachee, including those they lead, colleag...

The Book of Tea, written in English in 1906 for a Western audience, celebrates the secular art of the Japanese tea ceremony and linking its importa...

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DescriptionA historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Je...

This co-authored book examines the implications of the global ascent of China on cross-Strait relations and the identity of Taiwan as a democratic ...

This book brings together studies conducted by researchers in East Asian countries who seek to better understand the impact of China's rise and the...

DescriptionA fascinating journey through the origins of American tourism In the early nineteenth century, thanks to a booming transportation indust...

Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games - Michael Llewellyn

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This book explores the clash between antitrust, a body of law designed to address market failures in Western democracies, and China, an economic su...

The scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccu...

Authoritative and fully up-to-date account by leading China expert on China's economic rise and how it will affect the world

DescriptionThis study tells the epic story of how a routed group of Chinese Communists marched tens of thousands of miles with Mao on a journey tha...

Contributor(s): Author: Tonio AndradeThe Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries befo...

The Role of the Individual in History was first published in 1898, and occupies a very prominent place among those of Plekhanov's works in which he...

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The forces of globalization have transformed the world economically, but in the West politics is becoming increasingly fractured as living standard...

The vivid historical story of Robert Fortune, engaged by the East India Company in 1848, to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China to s...

A code-cracking mission to decipher the hidden truths and histories of our greatest invention - the art of writing.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s...

Reducere. Now known to the Chinese as the ten years of chaos, the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76) brought death to thousands of Chinese and persecution...