The Four Little Dragons: The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia, Paperback - Ezra F. Vogel

Reducere. Japan and the four little dragons--Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore--constitute less than 1 percent of the world's land mass and less ...

Perhaps no one in the 20th century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. This title provides a biography of his life....

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ezra F. VogelNumber of pages: 318Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 139 x 210 x 22Cover type: Pa...

Through theoretically-grounded case studies and comparative analysis of consolidating, low quality, and failed democracies in East Asia, this volum...

Heritage and Religion in East Asia examines how religious heritage, in a mobile way, plays across national boundaries in East Asia and, in doing so...

Global supply chains connect the world in unprecedented and complex ways. The US-China trade and technology war, economic nationalism, and Covid-19...

Rozman shows how East Asia's international relations can be best understood through the lens of triangles, analyzing relations between the key nati...

This book looks at external economic strategies that North Korea will show much interest in and are related with East Asian economic integration pr...

This book discusses how East Asia has introduced school and curricular reform to reflect democratic citizenship and globalized skills and competenc...

Examines core Confucian legacies and their impacts on civic and political orientations in six Confucian countries: China, Japan, South Korea, Singa...

Mushroom Clouds: Ecocritical Approaches to Militarization and the Environment in East Asia examines the growing significance of the eco-implication...

This edited collection examines the fundamental role East Asians played in reshaping the world order during the interwar period. The contributors a...

This volume discusses the significance of learning and teaching of second language (L2) pragmatics in language education for learners who use Engli...

Morgan and his contributors develop the concept of the Information Regime as a way to understand the use, abuse, and control of information in East...

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 ...

Numerous studies have suggested that more peaceful relations are likely only if countries submerge or paper over existing national identities by pr...

Reducere. The first comprehensive study of Chinese popular music in a Western language. Drawing on extensive interviews with singers, songwriters and critics...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Little Need of Divine Intervention presents a fundamental revision of the thirteenth-century Mongol Invasions of Japan by revealing t...

This study focuses on the spread of print in colonial India towards the middle and end of the nineteenth century. This Element will look at this ph...

Publisher: Books of Africa LtdIllustration(s): 49 colour and 35 mono photographsNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 158 x 232 x 2...

A new omnibus in the highly acclaimed Sir Robert Carey Mysteries, full of roguish courtiers, rival gangs, border raiders, treason, realpolitik and ...

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

The causes of war - why people fight - is one of the big questions of human existence. Azar Gat's book, ranging from the beginning of prehistory to...

With the Via crucis en mexicano as a starting point, John Schwaller explores the history of the development and spread of the Stations of the Cross...

* A heartwarming memoir of working-class life in the East End in the early 1900s

DescriptionThe Companion is a major contribution to the literary evaluation of Pound's great, but often bewildering and abstruse work, The Cantos. ...

DescriptionAlthough the Japanese empire rapidly dissolved following the end of World War II, the memories, mourning, and trauma of the nation's imp...

A popular history of the Arab invasions that carved out an empire from Spain to China

Reducere. Through a child's eyes, the world may seem chaotic with coronavirus (COVID19), masks, and social distancing. Masked Ninja explains what's going on ...

Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings is the first complete translation of the well-known document produced at the court of Emperor Huizong (r. 1100-1125)....

The top courts in Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea have reshaped constitutional law on non-discrimination, criminal due process, and free speech. ...