The Way of the Barbarians: Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China, Paperback - Shao-Yun Yang

Shao-yun Yang challenges assumptions that the cultural and socioeconomic watershed of the Tang-Song transition (800-1127 CE) was marked by a xenoph...

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Examines how ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese constructed a civilized sense of Self and a 'barbarian' Other, and how these notions held up in cr...

Probing the intersection of music and racial politics in CaliforniaPublisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Mina YangIllustration(s): 9 ph...

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

Despite competing with much larger imperialist neighbors in Southeast Asia, the Kingdom of Thailand--or Siam, as it was formerly known--has succeed...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Haun SaussyIllustration(s): 4 b/w illus.Number of pages: 192Collection: Translation/TransnationPubl...

Publisher: North Atlantic Books, U.S.Author(s): Yun ZhangIllustration(s): 1, 000 B&W PHOTOSNumber of pages: 464Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 20...

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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 ...

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Publisher: PicadorAuthor(s): Yang JishengTranslator: Guo JianNumber of pages: 768Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 209 x 36Cover type: Paperb...

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This book exposes Unit 731 as being the largest bacterial warfare force in the history of the Second World War. Manufacture and the use of biologic...

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Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.Publisher: ...

Julian Romane examines the military events behind the emergence of the Sui and Tang dynasties in the period 581-626 AD. Narrating the campaigns and...

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China's transition from a planned economy to a market economy has succeeded in producing more than a decade of phenomenal growth. How the difficult...

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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...

Yang Chia-Hsien (Taiwan) was born in Kaohsiung. Her oeuvre includes poetry collections Breathtaking Civilisation, Your Voice is Full of Time, Werth...

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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...

Reducere. Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang examines one of the least understood migrations in modern East Asia - the human exodus from China to Taiwan when Chiang Kai...

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Historical fantasy adventure, transporting readers back to an accurate representation of China in AD 960. Following a fall in the Shanghai market, ...

Publisher: ABC-CLIOAuthor(s): Jiawen YangNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 222 x 141 x 20Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmec...

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Independent and resourceful, rabbits represent balance, rebirth, speed, fertility, resurrection, abundance, creativity, magic, and harmony. Yet the...

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The first book for the western market on the ancient Chinese medicine that is Yang sheng (meaning 'nourished life')Publisher: Hardie Grant Books (U...