Women in Song and Yuan China, Paperback - Bret Hinsch

Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldAuthor(s): Bret HinschIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; Tables; Halftones, Black & White including Black ...

DescriptionThis distinctive and enlightening book explores the invention and development of tea drinking in China, using tea culture to explore the...

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This volume completes Keith McMahon's acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Avoiding the stereotype of the emperor's plu...

A variety of Chinese writings from the Song period (960-1279)--medical texts, religious treatises, fiction, and anecdotes--depict women who were co...

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This book analyses China's approach to tackling air pollution over the past two decades. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of C...

The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire--a millennium and a half in the making--was suddenly t...

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This book forges a link between residential CO2 emissions and time use, focussing on China as a key case study. Residential Electricity Consumption...

Exploring online privacy, cyber-nationalism, and the network market, this book details the crucial and evolving role played by the Internet in pres...

Accessible and scholarly, this classic book considers the underlying philosophy and the aesthetics of Chinese art and poetry, the expression of the...

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Reducere. ONE OF THE AWARD-WINNING ARI ARA SERIES A wild ride full of danger and adventure Exiled to the desert, Ari Ara is thrust between the warriors tryin...

Folosind un limbaj usor de int­eles, cartea de fata prezinta diverse modele de bun augur intalnite in tablouri, ustensile de uz zilnic, piese de mo...

Reducere. ``A great way to learn about China's vast history ``--Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club Excels at clarifying the often-confusing transitional pe...

'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the g...

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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This book provides an in-depth comparative exploration of gender diversity in corporate leadership roles in China and India. Set in the context of ...

Chinese Refugee Law and Policy, 1949–2017 - Lili Song

This volume will look into some macro factors that have an impact on gender conceptualizations in China. First, China is a highly-centralized state...

Reducere. This book examines how gender enables the globalization of markets and how emerging forms of service labor are changing women's social status in Ch...

Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad, between expectations of fulfill...

Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly...

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

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Bret Gustafson examines the centrality of natural gas and oil to the making of modern Bolivia and the contradictory convergence of fossil-fueled ca...

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Autorul bestsellerului American Psycho Bestseller The New York Times Romanul urmareste destinele unui grup de elevi privilegiati de la un liceu pri...

Reducere. They were the most famous women in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the thre...