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  • Intellectuals in Between

    Koreans in a Changing World, 1850 to 1945

    by Eun-Jeung Lee, Eun-Jeung Lee, Marion Eggert, Vladimir Tikhonov ...
    Series Book 11 - Research on Korea
    During the decades around 1900, Koreans experienced a world falling apart and the need to quickly build a new one. Intellectuals naturally took centre stage in this era of epistemic paradigm change. This book is devoted to the study of the life and ideas of some of these intellectuals, focussing on how they dealt with the challenges of their times. Where did their respective moral and intellectual ... Read more

    $50.59 CAD

  • Space and Location in the Circulation of Knowledge (1400–1800)

    Korea and Beyond

    Edited by Marion Eggert, Felix Siegmund, Dennis Würthner ...
    Series Book 1 - Research on Korea
    In response to the recent surge of interest in studying epistemic transfers and changes, this volume assembles an interdisciplinary range of articles that look at the production, consumption and dissemination of knowledge in East Asia, centering on Korea, under the paradigm of knowledge circulation. Applying this heuristic tool offers new perspectives on pre-modern Korea and beyond. It allows for ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Integration Processes in the Circulation of Knowledge

    Cases from Korea

    Edited by Marion Eggert, Florian Pölking ...
    Series Book 6 - Research on Korea
    Korea, geographically situated at cultural crossroads, has a long history of creative engagement with knowledge from outside sources. This volume discusses processes of knowledge integration – of interpretive adaptation, dissection, selection and re-assemblage, of reduction and amplification, as well as of blending with existing cognitive structures – in pre-modern and early modern times. The ... Read more

    $88.79 CAD

  • The Dynamics of Knowledge Circulation

    Cases from Korea

    Edited by Eun-Jeung Lee, Marion Eggert ...
    Series Book 5 - Research on Korea
    The book is about the evolution and transformation of knowledge and knowledge systems in the context of cultural contact. The articles take Korea as an example and deal with the configuration, dissemination and consolidation of knowledge in certain contexts of the past and present. Combining philological and social scientific approaches, this book is the result of a joint research project of the ... Read more

    $94.19 CAD

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  • Mapping China and Managing the World

    Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times

    by Richard J. Smith ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
    From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the notion of ordering their world. Efforts to create and maintain order are expressed not only in China’s bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also in Chinese philosophy, religious and secular ritual, and comprehensive systems of classifying all natural ... Read more

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  • The Great Enterprise

    Sovereignty and Historiography in Modern Korea

    by Henry Em ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific
    In The Great Enterprise, Henry H. Em examines how the project of national sovereignty shaped the work of Korean historians and their representations of Korea's past. The goal of Korea attaining validity and equal standing among sovereign nations, Em shows, was foundational to modern Korean politics in that it served a pedagogical function for Japanese and Western imperialisms, as well as for ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • From the Soil

    The Foundations of Chinese Society

    by Xiaotong Fei ...
    This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil describes the contrasting organizational principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the essential ... Read more

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  • The Discourse of Race in Modern China

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    Series series State & Society in East Asia
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  • What Remains

    Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China

    by Tobie Meyer-Fong ...
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  • Masculinities in Chinese History

    by Bret Hinsch ...
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    Masculinities in Chinese History is the first historical survey of the many ways men have acted, thought, and behaved throughout China’s long past. Bret Hinsch introduces readers to the basic characteristics of historical Chinese masculinity while highlighting the dynamic changes in male identity over the centuries. He covers the full span of Chinese history, from the Zhou dynasty in distant ... Read more

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