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Sources of Chinese Tradition: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Century, Paperback - Wm Theodore de Bary

310,99 RON

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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Edge of Knowing. Dreams, History, and Realism in Modern Chinese Literature, Paperback - Roy Bing Chan

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Prototype Nation. China and the Contested Promise of Innovation, Paperback - Silvia M. Lindtner

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China: The Bubble That Never Pops, Hardcover - Thomas Orlik

144,99 RON

The Chinese economy appears destined for failure, the financial bubble forever in peril of popping, the real estate sector doomed to collapse, the ...

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HSK Standard Course 4A - Teacher s book, Paperback - Jiang Liping

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HSK Standard Course 4B - Teacher s Book, Paperback - Jiang Liping

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Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History, Hardcover - James A. Benn

492,99 RON 527,99 RON

Reducere. Tea in China explores the contours of religious and cultural transformation in traditional China from the point of view of an everyday commodity an...

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Patents and Innovation in Mainland China and Hong Kong. Two Systems in One Country Compared, Hardback - ***

872,99 RON

This is the first book to offer a detailed account of the relationship between patents and innovation in the unique political context of mainland C...

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Third Eye - Chinese Breeze Graded Reader Level 3: 750 Words Level, Paperback - Chu Chengzhi

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A Jesuit Garden in Beijing and Early Modern Chinese Culture, Paperback - Hui Zou

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Analyses historical, architectural, visual, literary, and philosophical perspectives on the Western-styled garden that formed part of the great Yua...

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Cinematic Landscapes. Observations on the Visual Arts and Cinema of China and Japan, Paperback - ***

201,99 RON

Explores the many links between the centuries-old graphic tradition of Japanese painting and scroll making and the more recent discipline of the ci...

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A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese, Paperback - Duanduan Li

465,99 RON 498,99 RON

Reducere. As the teaching of Chinese increasingly uses simplified characters, this new version of the popular A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese fill...

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Dynamic Growth of Chinese Firms in the Global Market. Challenges, Strategies and Implications, Paperback - Kineta Hung

273,99 RON

Based on original research over four decades, this book examines how Chinese multinationals (state-owned and private) navigate the socio-political ...

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Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting, Paperback - Richard Barnhart

292,99 RON

From Neolithic painted petroglyphs, early paintings on silk, and landscapes by twelfth-century literati to the traditional handscrolls being produc...

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Iron Ox: Part Four of the Marshes of Mount Liang, Paperback - Guanzhong Luo

207,99 RON 222,99 RON

Reducere. ?Iron Ox contains chapters 63-90 of the original and can be divided into four main sections. The first of these is very much concerned with the que...

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Memories of Peking: South Side Stories, Paperback - Hai-Yin Lin

163,99 RON

A portrayal of the adult world in Peking of the 1930s, as seen through the eyes of a little girl. The five sequential stories in the volume are con...

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The World Turned Upside Down: America, China, and the Struggle for Global Leadership, Hardcover - Clyde Prestowitz

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. An authority on Asia and globalization identifies the challenges China's growing power poses and how it must be confronted "Timely and thought-prov...

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Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City, Paperback - Darren Byler

219,99 RON 235,99 RON

Reducere. In Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority group in the northwe...

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Chop Suey, USA. The Story of Chinese Food in America, Paperback - Yong Chen

170,99 RON

American diners began to flock to Chinese restaurants more than a century ago, making Chinese food the first mass-consumed cuisine in the United St...

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Us Foreign Policy and China. The Bush, Obama, Trump Administrations, Paperback - Adam Bartley

139,99 RON

This book draws critical attention to the core security challenges that have defined U.S. foreign policy in relation to China and its rise on the i...

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In the Dragon's Shadow. Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century, Paperback - Sebastian Strangio

79,99 RON

A timely look at the impact of China's booming emergence on the countries of Southeast AsiaPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Sebastian Str...

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Kingdoms in Peril. A Novel of the Ancient Chinese World at War, Paperback - Feng Menglong

99,99 RON

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Feng MenglongIllustration(s): 2 mapsTranslator: Olivia MilburnNumber of pages: 344Publication d...

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The Promise and Peril of Things. Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China, Paperback - Wai-yee (Harvard University) Li

213,99 RON

Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. She considers core oppositio...

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Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia, Hardcover - David Shambaugh

191,99 RON 205,99 RON

Reducere. After the end of the Cold War, it seemed as if Southeast Asia would remain a geopolitically stable region within the American-led order for the for...

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After Eunuchs. Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China, Paperback - Howard Chiang

155,99 RON

Howard Chiang traces the genealogy of sexual knowledge in China from the demise of eunuchism to the emergence of transsexuality, showing its role i...

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Chinese Calligraphy: An Introduction to Its Aesthetic and Technique, Third Revised and Enlarged Edition, Paperback - Yee Chiang

203,99 RON 218,99 RON

Reducere. This is the classic introduction to Chinese calligraphy. In nine richly illustrated chapters Chiang Yee explores the aesthetics and the technique o...

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Future Conditional. Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China, Paperback - Eric S. Henry

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Strangers on the Western Front. Chinese Workers in the Great War, Hardback - Guoqi Xu

334,99 RON

During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single largest group of support la...

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Renewal of Buddhism in China. Zhuhong and the Late Ming Synthesis, Paperback - Chun-Fang Yu

193,99 RON

First published in 1981, Chun-fang Yu's The Renewal of Buddhism in China challenged the conventional view that Buddhism had reached its height unde...

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Mao's China and the Cold War, Paperback - Jian Chen

309,99 RON 331,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jian ChenThis comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the ori...

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The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese, Hardcover - Nathan Hill

775,99 RON

DescriptionThe discovery of sound laws by comparing attested languages is the method which has unlocked the history of European languages stretchin...

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Book of Lord Shang. Apologetics of State Power in Early China, Paperback - Yang Shang

170,99 RON

Compiled in China in the fourth-third centuries BCE, The Book of Lord Shang argues for a new powerful government to rule over society. In Yuri Pine...

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Designing Reform. Architecture in the People's Republic of China, 1970-1992, Hardback - Cole Roskam

384,99 RON

Investigating the rich architecture of post-Mao China and its broad cultural impactPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Cole RoskamNumber of ...

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Chinese Netizens' Opinions on Death Sentences. An Empirical Examination, Paperback - Jianhong Liu

292,99 RON

Provides the first in-depth examination of what Chinese netizens think about various death sentences and executions in China.Publisher: The Univers...

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My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries, Paperback - Elizabeth Chin

210,99 RON 225,99 RON

Reducere. Unconventional and provocative, My Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement...

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The Yellow Emperor's Inner Transmission of Acupuncture, Hardcover - Yang Zhenhai

783,99 RON 838,99 RON

Reducere. The book features a passionate and clinically relevant synthesis of Dr. Liu's discipleship with Yang Zhenhai ( 楊真海), one of the last remaining mast...

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Rural Origins, City Lives. Class and Place in Contemporary China, Paperback - Roberta Zavoretti

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Compensations of Plunder. How China Lost Its Treasures, Paperback - Justin M Jacobs

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Handbook of Chinese Mythology, Paperback - Lihui Yang

208,99 RON 223,99 RON

Reducere. Every year, at the Wa Huang Gong temple in Hebei Province, China, people gather to worship the great mother, Nuwa, the oldest deity in Chinese myth...

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An Introduction to Literary Chinese: Revised Edition, Paperback - Michael A. Fuller

191,99 RON

DescriptionThis textbook for beginning students contains 35 lessons of increasingly difficulty designed to introduce students to the basic patterns...

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Cadres and Corruption. The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party, Hardback - Xiaobo Lu

718,99 RON

The most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of corruption and change in the Chinese Communist Party, Cadres and Corruption reveals the long hist...

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Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China, Paperback - Craig Clunas

197,99 RON 211,99 RON

Reducere. Now in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern Ch...

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A Military History of China, Paperback - David A. Graff

232,99 RON 249,99 RON

Reducere. Gaining an understanding of China's long and sometimes bloody history can help to shed light on China's ascent to global power. Many of China's imp...

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Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations, Paperback - Zheng Wang

217,99 RON

DescriptionHow could the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) not only survive but even thrive, regaining the support of many Chinese citizens after the T...

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Hygienic Modernity. Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China, Paperback - Ruth Rogaski

209,99 RON

Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, this title reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in th...

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Songs of Chu. An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poetry by Qu Yuan and Others, Paperback - Yuan Qu

187,00 RON

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What China and India Once Were. The Pasts That May Shape the Global Future, Hardback - ***

775,99 RON

This book seek to understand modern China and India through an unprecedented comparative analysis of their long histories. Using new sources, makin...

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The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the 21st Century, Hardcover - Bruce Dickson

193,99 RON

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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Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Two. The Rivals, Paperback - ***

279,99 RON

Provides an annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of H...

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The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa, Paperback - Deborah Brautigam

288,99 RON 309,99 RON

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America's Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations, Hardcover - Warren I. Cohen

682,99 RON

America's Response to China has long been the standard resource for a succinct, historically grounded assessment of an increasingly complicated rel...

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Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Four. The Climax, Paperback - ***

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Chinese Men's Practices of Intimacy, Embodiment and Kinship. Crafting Elastic Masculinity, Hardback - Siyang Cao

684,99 RON

This book explores Chinese young men's views of manhood and develops a new concept of 'elastic masculinity' which can be stretched and forged diffe...

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The Scattered Flock: Part Five of the Marshes of Mount Liang, Paperback - Nai'an Shi

205,99 RON 220,99 RON

Reducere. "The Scattered Flock, " the last volume of this new series of translations, contains chapters 91-120 that mark the disastrous end of the 108 heroes...

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Indo-Pacific Empire. China, America and the Contest for the World's Pivotal Region, Paperback - ***

102,99 RON

This book explains why the idea of the Indo-Pacific is so strategically important and concludes with a strategy designed to help the West engage wi...

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Contesting Revisionism. China, the United States, and the Transformation of International Order, Paperback - ***

182,99 RON

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Weixing (Distinguished Professor of Politics and Public Policy, Distinguished Professor of Politic...

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China and the Geopolitics of Rare Earths, Paperback - Sophia Kalantzakos

227,99 RON 243,99 RON

Reducere. Rare earths are elements that are found in the Earth's crust, and are vital ingredients for the production of a wide variety of high tech, defense,...

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Making Meritocracy. Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present, Hardback - ***

579,99 RON

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncNumber of pages: 392Collection: Modern South AsiaPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 242 x 162 x 28Cover type: ...

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Accidental Holy Land. The Communist Revolution in Northwest China, Paperback - Joseph W. Esherick

199,99 RON

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Joseph W. EsherickIllustration(s): 6 color illustrations; 11 maps; 2 tablesNumber of pages: 346...

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Made in Censorship. The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film, Paperback - Thomas Chen

179,99 RON

Despite sweeping censorship, Chinese culture continues to engage with the history, meaning, and memory of the Tiananmen movement. Thomas Chen exami...

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The Man Awakened from Dreams: One Man's Life in a North China Village, 1857-1942, Paperback - Henrietta Harrison

119,99 RON

In this beautifully crafted study of one emblematic life, Harrison addresses large themes in Chinese history while conveying with great immediacy t...

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Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China, Hardcover - David Palmer

229,99 RON 246,99 RON

Reducere. Qigong--a regimen of body, breath, and mental training exercises--was one of the most widespread cultural and religious movements of late-twentieth...

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The Perfect Dictatorship: China in the 21st Century, Paperback - Stein Ringen

227,99 RON 243,99 RON

Reducere. The Chinese system is like no other known to man, now or in history. This book explains how the system works and where it may be moving. Drawing on...

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Recovering Histories. Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China, Paperback - Nicholas Bartlett

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Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy, Paperback - Emily Wilcox

217,99 RON

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminos...

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Spreading Buddha's Word in East Asia. The Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon, Paperback - ***

193,99 RON

This volume follows the making of the Chinese Buddhist canon from the fourth century to the digital era. Approaching the subject from a historical ...

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Where Chiang Kai-Shek Lost China: The Liao-Shen Campaign, 1948, Hardcover - Harold M. Tanner

211,99 RON 226,99 RON

Reducere. The civil war in China that ended in the 1949 victory of Mao Zedong's Communist forces was a major blow to US interests in the Far East and led to ...

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Art, Myth and Ritual: The Path to Political Authority in Ancient China, Paperback - Kwang-Chih Chang

160,99 RON

A leading scholar in the United States on Chinese archaeology challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient Ch...

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To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China, Paperback - Michael J. Puett

191,99 RON 234,99 RON

Reducere. Evidence from Shang oracle bones to memorials submitted to Western Han emperors attests to a long-lasting debate in early China over the proper rel...

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Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China, Paperback - Bret Hinsch

269,99 RON 288,99 RON

Reducere. The first detailed treatment of the Chinese homosexual tradition in any Western language, Passions of the Cut Sleeve shatters preconceptions and st...

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