THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITIONA comprehensive and up-to-date guide on the basic problems encountered in researching traditional Chinese civilization and history, this manual includes discussions of over 1,000 primary sources as well as...

In The Unfinished Quest, T.V. Paul charts India's checkered path toward higher regional and global status, and sheds important light on its significance as the "swing power" that can mitigate China's aggressive rise in the Indo-Pacific region.In 2022,...

These essays represent an attempt to understand the Chinese mind through its philosophy. The first volume of its kind, the collection demonstrates how Chinese philosophy can be understood in light of techniques and categories taken from Western...

How China used a network of surveillance to intern over a million people and produce a system of control previously unknown in human historyNovel forms of state violence and colonization have been unfolding for years in China’s vast northwestern region,...

In Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority group in the northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang. He shows that the mass detention of over one million Uyghurs in...

The author of The New York Times best-seller, The Search for Modern China, explores the West's views of China over the course of seven centuries, from Marco Polo's depiction to that of Franz Kafka. 20,000 first printing. Tour.

Is both a religious novel (about a decaying Brahmin colony in a south Indian village) and a contemporary poetic reworking of ancient Hindu themes and myths. Its central event is a death, which brings in its wake a plague, moral chaos, and a rebirth.

A work unique in the sweep of its design and scope, intended expressly for the general reader interested in human history and culture, this is a vivid panoramic survey of the vast course of Chinese civilization from prehistory to 1850, when the old China...

Review "Specialists will find these articles most useful, while students of ancient China will find the contributors' mastery of their subjects makes for engrossing study." ― Journal of Asian Studies Product Description Perhaps no aspect...

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