Category: Asia

Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation: The Relentless Invention of Modern India

By: Adam Roberts

Price: $7.95

Publisher: PublicAffairs : April 2017

Seller ID: 366227

ISBN-13: 9781610396691

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Who can foretell India's future? Mr. Joshi is a fortune teller in a slum in south Delhi who uses a soothsaying green parrot to make predictions. When Adam Roberts visited him in 2012, Joshi's parrot declared that India was destined to become the most powerful nation under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The parrot also foretold that India would win the soccer World Cup. Parrots may not be the preeminent political authority, but many Indians were just as confident. So Adam Roberts spent five years traveling the length and breadth of the country from Kerala to the Himalayas, Bengal to Gujarat. As...
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Approaches to Modern Chinese History

By: Albert Feuerwerker

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Univ. of California Press : January 1967

Seller ID: 315836

ISBN-13: 9780520004108

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China (Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture)

By: Bianca Bosker

Price: $7.95

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press : January 2013

Seller ID: 366204

ISBN-13: 9780824836061

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A 108-meter high Eiffel Tower rises above Champs Elys es Square in Hangzhou. A Chengdu residential complex for 200,000 recreates Dorchester, England. An ersatz Queen's Guard patrols Shanghai's Thames Town, where pubs and statues of Winston Churchill abound. Gleaming replicas of the White House dot Chinese cities from Fuyang to Shenzhen. These examples are but a sampling of China's most popular and startling architectural movement: the construction of monumental themed communities that replicate towns and cities in the West. Original Copies presents the first definitive chronicle of this remark...
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Politics, Economy, and Society in Contemporary China

By: Brugger, Bill,Reglar, Stephen

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Stanford University Press : April 1994

Seller ID: 430208

ISBN-13: 9780804723497

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This analytic overview of contemporary Chinese politics focuses on six major themes: agriculture, urban life and industry, law and policing, intellectuals, women and the family, and minority nationalities.
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The new politics of Communist China;: Modernization process of a developing nation

By: Chai, Winberg

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Goodyear Pub. Co : January 1972

Seller ID: 430199

ISBN-13: 9780876206195

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The communist conquest of China: A history of the civil war 1945-1949

By: Chassin, Lionel Max

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson : January 1966

Seller ID: 430593

ISBN: B0000CMW6D

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Living with Reform: China since 1989 (Global History of the Present)

By: Cheek, Timothy

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Zed Books : October 2006

Seller ID: 430562

ISBN-13: 9781842777237

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

China is huge. China is growing more powerful. Yet China remains a great mystery to most people in the West. This contemporary history, based on the latest scholarly research, offers a balanced perspective of the continuing legacy of Maoism in the lives not only of China's leaders but China's working people. It outlines the ambitious economic reforms taken since the 1980s and shows the complex responses to the consequences of reform in China today. Cheek shows the domestic concerns and social forces that shape the foreign policy of one of the worlds great powers. His analysis will equip the re...
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The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China

By: Chiang

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : November 2010

Seller ID: 444144

ISBN-13: 9781439148945

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

With a beautiful, powerful, and sexy Madame Chiang Kai-Shek at the center of one of the great dramas of the twentieth century, this is the story of the founding of modern China. With the beautiful, powerful, and sexy Madame Chiang Kai-Shek at the center of one of the great dramas of the twentieth century, this is the story of the founding of modern China, starting with a revolution that swept away more than 2,000 years of monarchy, followed by World War II, and ending in eventual loss to the Communists and exile in Taipei. Praised by China scholar Jonathan Spence for "an impressive amount of t...
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The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life

By: Clark, Doug Bock

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company : January 2019

Seller ID: 562241

ISBN-13: 9780316390620

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this "immersive, densely reported, and altogether remarkable first book with] the texture and color of a first-rate novel" (New York Times), journalist Doug Bock Clark tells the epic story of the world's last subsistence whalers and the threats posed to a tribe on the brink.A New York Times Notable BookA New York Times Editors' ChoiceWinner of Lowell Thomas Travel Book Award Silver MedalFinalist for William Saroyan International Writing PrizeLonglisted for Mountbatten Award for Best BookTelegraph Best Travel Books of the YearHampshire Gazette Best Books of 2019One of the favorite bo...
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History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth

By: Cohen, Paul A.

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Columbia University Press : April 1998

Seller ID: 461014

ISBN-13: 9780231106511

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A comprehensive look at the Boxer Rebellion of 1898-1900, a bloody uprising in north China against native Christians and foreign missionaries.
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People's China: A Brief History

By: Dietrich, Craig

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA : March 1994

Seller ID: 430203

ISBN-13: 9780195081862

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Now substantially revised and updated, this balanced and lively history of the People's Republic of China offers a narrative and interpretive appraisal of this great nation since its post-World War II beginnings. Examining first the historical circumstances of the Chinese revolution and the cast of characters who seized power in 1949 after decades of national disintegration and defeat, the author then goes on to illuminate such epic events as the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the post-Mao reforms. Addressing the bold economic reform of the 1980s, this new edition critically ...
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China's Quest for National Identity

By: Dittmer, Lowell

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Cornell University Press : May 1993

Seller ID: 430214

ISBN-13: 9780801480645

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

How to define a Chinese national identity remains as hotly contested a question among today's Chinese citizens as it has been among foreign observers. This volume brings together ten new essays by an interdisciplinary group of leading sinologists and offers a comprehensive framework for understanding the nature of Chinese national identity in past and contemporary settings.

China's Political System (9th Edition)

By: Dreyer, June Teufel

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Pearson : March 2014

Seller ID: 430565

ISBN-13: 9780205981816

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A concise introduction to the political, economic, and social factors that determine China's government Highly respected specialist June Teufel Dreyer offers expert analysis of the challenges facing China's economic, legal, military, social, and cultural institutions while examining the historical context and current trends. China's Political System asks readers to think about the broader problem of governance in China by comprehensively showing how the past and present impact leaders, citizens, ethnic minorities, and policies. Note: This is just the standalone book.
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An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions

By: Drèze, Jean,Sen, Amartya

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Princeton University Press : August 2013

Seller ID: 510078

ISBN-13: 9780691160795

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Why India's problems won't be solved by rapid economic growth alone When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial rule, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech, and extensive political rights. The famines of the British era disappeared, and steady economic growth replaced the economic stagnation of the Raj. The growth of the Indian economy quickened further over the last three decades and became the second fastest among large economies. Despite a recent dip, it is still one of the highest in the world. Mainta...
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Streetlife China (Cambridge Modern China Series)

By: Dutton, Michael

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : January 1999

Seller ID: 430350

ISBN-13: 9780521637190

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This imaginative and incisive collection of pieces about life in contemporary China reveals, like a series of snapshots, a picture of the lives of ordinary people and the rules and rituals that govern their daily existence. Key themes surface: in particular, the emergence of a consumer culture driven by the market, and the way in which this intersects with the "floating population" of vagrants, prostitutes and liumang (hooligans). We see how, in turn, the official strategies of the state deal with this perceived social disorder and how the street responds. Underlying much of the discussion of ...
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of China

By: Ebrey, Patricia Buckley

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : February 2010

Seller ID: 564876

ISBN-13: 9780521124331

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

More populous than any other country on earth, China also occupies a unique place in our modern world for the continuity of its history and culture. In this sumptuously illustrated single-volume history, now in its second edition, noted historian Patricia Buckley Ebrey traces the origins of Chinese culture from prehistoric times to the present. She follows its development from the rise of Confucianism, Buddhism, and the great imperial dynasties to the Mongol, Manchu, and Western intrusions and the modern communist state. Her scope is phenomenal - embracing Chinese arts, culture, economics, soc...
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Warlords, Artists and Commoners

By: Elison

Price: $7.95

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press : March 1987

Seller ID: 506301

ISBN-13: 9780824811099

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

China since Tiananmen: The Politics of Transition (Cambridge Modern China Series)

By: Fewsmith, Joseph

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : July 2001

Seller ID: 429984

ISBN-13: 9780521001052

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

China Since Tiananmen is the first book to evaluate the intellectual and political trends and to assess how China has changed since the Tiananmen Incident in 1989. Fewsmith looks at intellectual trends to capture the way China's elite has assessed the social, political, economic, and intellectual trends of the past decade. Similarly, he examines the conduct of elite politics to see how the political system has, and has not, evolved over the past decade. Fewsmith puts the rise of neo-conservatism and nationalism into historical context, evaluating the changes of the past decade to the changes a...
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