Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century, Hardcover - Yunxiang Gao

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Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong's life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader's personal ...

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Erik J. Hammerstrom recasts the history of twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism by examining how Huayan Buddhism was imagined, taught, and practiced ...

Reducere. Japan's lacquerware craftsmen work today much as they did centuries ago. Is there a place for their time-honored artistry in this fast-paced world?

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For four decades Sources of Chinese Tradition has served to introduce Western readers to Chinese civilization as it has been seen through basic wri...

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A safety pin was all that kept Spectacular Bid from becoming the eleventh Thoroughbred to take the Triple Crown. This work examines Spectacular Bid...

Provides an engaging study of American racialization of Chinese and Asians, Asian American writing, and contemporary Chinese cultural production, s...

Originally published in Chinese by Horizon Media Co., Ltd., 2014.

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This epic novel of a wide-eyed missionary and a rebellious woman thrust into China's Communist revolution is "an excellent read, panoramic in scope...

DescriptionA dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American ...

Contributor(s): Editor: David KaldeweyEditor: D. Schauz The distinction between basic and applied research was central to twentieth-century science...

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Publisher: World CenturyAuthor(s): Lifang (Shanghai Univ Of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China) QuNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2018Dimens...

Renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik extends and expands the epic exploration he began in Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I. This second volume amplifies how ...

A global future in the history of a single village After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and lite...

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How the Chinese Communist Party maintains its power by both repressing and responding to its people Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) h...

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The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century - Mark Philip Bradley

An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one.At the beginning of the twentieth century, poetry, music, and paint...

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An eye-opening analysis of how China is transforming Africa's information space, and the consequences for geopolitics, security and Africa's relati...

Shows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London's rich social and cultural history, masterfully weaving together the sto...

A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the politicalAll complex and large-scale societies are org...

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

Reducere. Enjoy the sensational adventure of Olivia, an outgoing ox growing up to discover her true character. The revised edition features a bilingual Chine...

An investigation of the creation and circulation of Western medical discourses linking ideas about disease to Chinese identity, beginning in the ei...

"[This book] charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonizat...

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DescriptionHan-centrism, a virulent form of Chinese nationalism, asserts that the Han Chinese are superior to other peoples and have a legitimate r...

This book makes a novel contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalization by examining language and social change in the tourism destination of...

Shows that foreign policy encounters between rising powers and Global South states do not necessarily exhibit the same logics, behaviors, or invest...

Confucianism is the guiding creed for a quarter of mankind, yet hardly anyone has explained it in plain terms -- until now. Written in a style both...

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The dynamic relationship between the individual and society has been a central concern of Taoism from its ancient beginnings--which is perhaps why ...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder's lessons for surviving and resisting America's arc toward authoritariani...