Global Medicine in China. A Diasporic History, Paperback - Wayne Soon

Wayne Soon tells the global health story of Overseas Chinese who transformed medicine in China and Taiwan through the practices of military medicin...

This sociological study examines the religious movement Falun Gong within the context of the contentious politics literature. Using the 1989 democr...

Reducere. A concise history of an uprising that took down a three-hundred-year-old dynasty and united the great powersThe year is 1900, and Western empires a...

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"Information" has become a core concept across the disciplines, yet it is still often seen as a unique feature of the Western world or the digital ...

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This book analyses modernity and tradition in China today and how they combine in striking ways in the Chinese school. Paul Willis - the leading et...

DescriptionJack Blackjack is ordered to eliminate a spy in Princess Elizabeth's household in this engaging Tudor mystery. June, 1554. Former cutpur...

Brian R. Dott explores how the non-native chile went from obscurity to ubiquity in China, influencing not just cuisine but also medicine, language,...

In numerous civilizations throughout world history city walls were an indispensable part of every city. In China they can be traced back to the 21t...

Publisher: Scribe PublicationsAuthor(s): Anna QuNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 209 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Chinese Diasporas provides a concise and compelling new history of internal and external Chinese migration from the sixteenth century to the presen...

Reducere. The twenty-first century is marked by mass migration. Massive population movements of the last century have radically challenged our study and prac...

We are on the brink of an ecological and political mega-crisis. Our actions over the next few years may well determine the destiny of our descendan...

Reducere. One Trip Too Many, A Pilot's Memoirs of 38 Months in Combat over Laos and Vietnam, is an autobiography about my life as a pilot in Southeast Asia d...

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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...

The Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. This title offers an account of the Scots as a 'global people', charting their forg...

A Most-Anticipated Book of the Year: Newsweek * Refinery29 "Timely and urgent . . . Pang is a dogged investigator." --The New York Times Book Revie...

Reducere. 'Early China' refers to the period from the beginning of human history in China to the end of the Han Dynasty in AD 220. The roots of modern Chines...

Reducere. An inviting history of China from the days of the ancient Silk Road to the present, this book describes a civilization more open and engaged with t...

Explores contemporary Chinese urban youth culture through analyses of three Chinese Internet subcultural artifacts - A Bloody Case of a Steamed Bun...

Giving an introduction to the political, social, and cultural development of imperial Chinese civilisation, this work introduces a number of import...

Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food - Hippocrates, ca. 460-ca. 370 BCFor millennia, the Chinese have taught that a balanced and nut...

When a sailboat disappears in the Gulf Stream during a disastrous storm, three weary sailors struggle to survive aboard a life raft in violent wave...

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

"After an Oregon mother finds an SOS letter in a box of Halloween decorations, a story unfolds about the man who wrote it: a Chinese political pris...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is about China's role in the world to come and includes the author's recent explorations of China's readiness to assume a glob...

Making the Chinese Mexican is the first book to examine the Chinese diaspora in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It presents a fresh perspective on imm...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: A. Adu BoahenForeword by: John LonsdaleIn this book, one of the pioneers of twentieth century African history examines the ...

Reducere. Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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Reducere. Traditional Chinese medicine is one of the most renowned and most controversial scientific achievements of ancient Chinese civilisation. Although W...

Publisher: Elsevier Health SciencesAuthor(s): Giovanni MaciociaIllustration(s): Approx. 950 illustrations (950 in full color)Number of pages: 1128P...

DescriptionIrish Luck, Chinese Medicine is about improbable allies: an Irish single mother and a Chinese physician. Set against the backdrop of the...

The Chinese approach to health and healing is a rich and complex tradition, encompassing disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of the full s...

Reducere. Burn Boston Burn-The Largest Arson Case in the History of the Country is an astounding true crime narration. A conspiracy of 9 men, including 3 Bos...

Explores identity formation and cultural home for generations of Chinese immigrants living in multicultural societies across the world.

Reducere. When a sailboat disappears in the Gulf Stream during a disastrous storm, three weary sailors struggle to survive aboard a life raft in violent wave...

This lively anthology explores the impact of the art, images and ideas associated with Maoism on artistic practices around the world from 1945 to t...

Publisher: Amazon PublishingAuthor(s): Selina Siak Chin YokeNumber of pages: 320Collection: The Malayan sagaPublication date: 2017Dimensions: 260 x...

This illustrated history is a comprehensive introduction to Chinese healing practices across time and cultures. Global contributions from 58 schola...

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Reducere. In Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora, Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández challenges machismo--a shorthand for racialized and heteronormative La...

Explains the general principles of infectious disease and considers a range of infectious agents - viruses, bacteria, protists and fungi - from an ...

Reducere. Bold Boys in Michigan History-a companion to Great Girls in Michigan History-explores the stories of twenty boys who did some amazing things before...

Reducere. In the last forty years, China has emerged from being a place where self-indulgence reigned to one that dominates and influences the world order. T...

This Cookbookis for the good-hearted, wonderful, independentwoman with a great sense of humor.A mix of healthy and crazy recipes, with cat food, do...

Publisher: ACLS History E-Book ProjectAuthor(s): Professor Ying-Shih (Princeton University) YuIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsNumber of...