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Studies in the Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan

By: Maruyama, Masao

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Princeton University Press / University of Tokyo: March 1975

Seller ID: 315671

ISBN: 0691075662

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A comprehensive study of changing political thought during the Tokugawa period, the book traces the philosophical roots of Japanese modernization. Professor Maruyama describes the role of Sorai Confucianism and Norinaga Shintoism in breaking the stagnant confines of Chu Hsi Confucianism, the underlying political philosophy of the Tokugawa feudal state. He shows how the new schools of thought created an intellectual climate in which the ideas and practices of modernization could thrive.

Originally published in 1975.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-dem...
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Taiheiki a Chronicle of Medieval Japan

By: McCullough, Helen Craig

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Tuttle Pub: June 1979

Seller ID: 345456

ISBN: 0804813221

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic, Third Edition

By: Meisner, Maurice

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Free Press: April 1999

Seller ID: 273432

ISBN: 0684856352

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this much-anticipated revision, Maurice Meisner again provides piercing insight and comprehensive coverage of China's fascinating and turbulent modern history. In addition to new information provided throughout this classic study, the new Part Six, "Deng Xiaoping and the Origins of Chinese Capitalism: 1976-1998," analyzes the country's uneasy relationships with democracy, socialism, and capitalism. Meisner incisively displays the contrasts between China's speech and actions regarding these subjects. Retaining the elegance, lucidity, fairness, insightfulness, and comprehensiveness he is know...
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The Japanese Have a Word for It: The Complete Guide to Japanese Thought and Culture

By: Mente, Boye Lafayette De

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Passport Books: October 1997

Seller ID: 341683

ISBN: 0844283169

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This is an ideal introduction to Japanese th ought and culture and a practical guide, both for anticipati ng Japanese behaviour and avoiding cultural faux pas. The co mpanion will interest tourists, students and business travel lers to Japan. '
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1421: The Year China Discovered America

By: Menzies, Gavin

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harper Perennial: January 2004

Seller ID: 308587

ISBN: 006054094X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. Its mission was "to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony.

When it returned in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost in China's long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Colu...
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1421: The Year China Discovered America

By: Menzies, Gavin

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harper Perennial: January 2004

Seller ID: 328273

ISBN: 006054094X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia

By: Meyer, Karl E.,Brysac, Shareen Blair

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Basic Books: October 1999

Seller ID: 296427

ISBN: 158243106X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The original Great Game (1800-1917), the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. The prize, control of the vast Eurasian heartland, was believed by some to be key to world dominion. Teeming with improbable drama and exaggerated tensions, the conflict featured soldiers, mystics, archeologists, and spies, among them some of history's most colorful characters.While the original Great Game ended with the Russian Revolution, the geopolitical struggles in Central Asia continue to the...
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The Far East in the modern world [by] Franz H. Michael [and] George E. Taylor

By: Michael, Franz H.

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Holt: January 1956

Seller ID: 339868

ISBN: B007E2L6DW

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

By: Millward, James A.

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: April 2013

Seller ID: 332042

ISBN: 0199782865

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The phrase "silk road" evokes vivid scenes of merchants leading camel caravans across vast stretches to trade exotic goods in glittering Oriental bazaars, of pilgrims braving bandits and frozen mountain passes to spread their faith across Asia. Looking at the reality behind these images, this Very Short Introduction illuminates the historical background against which the silk road flourished, shedding light on the importance of old-world cultural exchange to Eurasian and world history.

On the one hand, historian James A. Millward treats the silk road broadly, to stand in for the cross-cult...
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Talking to High Monks in the Snow: An Asian American Odyssey

By: Minatoya, Lydia

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Harper Perennial: February 1993

Seller ID: 362733

ISBN: 0060923725

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Winner of the 1991 PEN/Jerard Fund Award, Talking to High Monks in the Snow captures the passion and intensity of an Asian-American woman's search for cultural identity.
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Introduction To Japanese History: Before The Meiji Restoration

By: Mitsusada, Inoue

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai: January 1968

Seller ID: 315705

ISBN: B0095ZDYLS

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Hong Kong

By: Morris, Jan

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Vintage: December 1989

Seller ID: 194457

ISBN: 0679724869

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei

By: Mura, David

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Anchor: May 1992

Seller ID: 341681

ISBN: 0385423446

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

India Waits

By: Myrdal, Jan

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press: January 1986

Seller ID: 226041

ISBN: 0941702073

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Jan Myrdal, the son of Nobel Laureates Gunnar and Alva Myrdal, has become widely regarded as Sweden's most important writer and intellectual, with a national importance possible only in a country like Sweden. When he had a heart attack a few years ago, the largest daily newspaper, a sensational tabloid, Expressen, had its front page completely filled with a headline about it. On his 60th birthday cabinet ministers, labor leaders, religious leaders as well as writers and artists came to his door with gifts (he lives two hours from Stockholm).
In this country, he is known mainly for his writi...
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A Panorama of 5000 Years: Korean History

By: Nahm, Andrew C.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Hollym International Corp.: December 2005

Seller ID: 340754

ISBN: 093087868X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Chinaâ€™s Dance with the Foreign Devils

By: Nanto PhD, Dick K.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: iUniverse: July 2016

Seller ID: 315702

ISBN: 1491797312

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Since 1978 in China, foreign direct investment has served as a driver of change that has brought the country into the modern economic world.

Mao Zedong had shut out the "foreign devils"--Europeans, Japanese, Americans and other outsiders. He created chaos in an economy that was long on suffering but short on foreign currency, technology and capital.

In this detailed account, Dick K. Nanto explores how foreign companies came in to fill the gaps in China's economy and...
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The Troubled Encounter: The United States and Japan (America and the World Series)

By: Neu, Charles E.

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Wiley: January 1975

Seller ID: 315824

ISBN: 0471631914

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

American Encounters Japan

By: Neumann, William

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Harper Colophon Books: January 1965

Seller ID: 315821

ISBN: B002NISWVQ

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Four Hundred Million, A Short History of the Chinese

By: Nourse, Mary A.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company: January 1938

Seller ID: 298126

ISBN: B001AG5G6Q

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time (Princeton Paperbacks)

By: Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Princeton University Press: November 1994

Seller ID: 317268

ISBN: 0691021104

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Are we what we eat? What does food reveal about how we live and how we think of ourselves in relation to others? Why do people have a strong attachment to their own cuisine and an aversion to the foodways of others? In this engaging account of the crucial significance rice has for the Japanese, Rice as Self examines how people use the metaphor of a principal food in conceptualizing themselves in relation to other peoples. Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney traces the changing contours that the Japanese notion of the self has taken as different historical Others--whether Chinese or Westerner--have ...
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