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  • A Far Corner

    Life and Art with the Open Circle Tribe

    by Scott Ezell ...
    In 2002, after living ten years in Asia, American poet and musician Scott Ezell used his advance from a local record company to move to Dulan, on Taiwan’s remote Pacific coast. He fell in with the Open Circle Tribe, a loose confederation of aboriginal woodcarvers, painters, and musicians who lived on the beach and cultivated a living connection with their indigenous heritage. Most members of the ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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  • The Silk Road

    A New History

    by Valerie Hansen ...
    The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality was different--and far more interesting--as revealed in this new history. In The Silk Road, Valerie Hansen describes the remarkable archeological finds ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

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  • Genghis Khan: Essential Biographies

    by James Chambers ...
    Genghis Khan, the thirteenth century emperor, was infamous for his bloodthirsty, ruthless campaigns, but he was also one of the great commanders of history. Though a master of terror – his campaigns in northern China and Iran were accompanied by a level of slaughter that was not seen again until the twentieth century – he was just and generous to his subjects and often magnanimous in victory. His ... Read more

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  • Arrested Histories

    Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War

    by Carole McGranahan ...
    In the 1950s, thousands of ordinary Tibetans rose up to defend their country and religion against Chinese troops. Their citizen army fought through 1974 with covert support from the Tibetan exile government and the governments of India, Nepal, and the United States. Decades later, the story of this resistance is only beginning to be told and has not yet entered the annals of Tibetan national ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800

    Trade, Settlement, Diplomacy, and Missions

    by John E. Wills, Jr, John Cranmer-Byng, Willard J. Peterson, Jr, John W. Witek ...
    China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection. New World silver, Chinese tea, Jesuit astronomers at the Chinese court, and merchants and marauders of all kinds play important roles here. Although pieces of these stories have been told before, these chapters provide the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Peasant in Postsocialist China

    History, Politics, and Capitalism

    by Alexander F. Day ...
    The role of the peasant in society has been fundamental throughout China's history, posing difficult, much-debated questions for Chinese modernity. Today, as China becomes an economic superpower, the issue continues to loom large. Can the peasantry be integrated into a new Chinese capitalism, or will it form an excluded and marginalized class? Alexander F. Day's highly original appraisal explores ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • China in Transformation

    1900-1949

    by Colin Mackerras ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    In the first half of the twentieth century, China moved from a millennium of imperial rule to the Communist Party-led People’s Republic of China which remains today. China in Transformation argues that this enormously significant period in Chinese history saw wrenching change throughout Chinese society amounting to a social, cultural and political transformation. This new, fully revised and ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • The Mystique of Transmission

    On an Early Chan History and Its Context

    by Wendi Adamek ...
    The Mystique of Transmission is a close reading of a late-eighth-century Chan/Zen Buddhist hagiographical work, the Lidai fabao ji (Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations), and is its first English translation. The text is the only remaining relic of the little-known Bao Tang Chan school of Sichuan, and combines a sectarian history of Buddhism and Chan in China with an account of the ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Two Crises, Different Outcomes

    East Asia and Global Finance

    Edited by T. J. Pempel, Keiichi Tsunekawa ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    Two Crises, Different Outcomes examines East Asian policy reactions to the two major crises of the last fifteen years: the global financial crisis of 2008–9 and the Asian financial crisis of 1997–98. The calamity of the late 1990s saw a massive meltdown concentrated in East Asia. In stark contrast, East Asia avoided the worst effects of the Lehman Brothers collapse, incurring relatively little ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • The Chinese Diaspora in South-East Asia

    The Overseas Chinese in IndoChina

    by Tracy C. Barrett ...
    As Qing Dynasty China disintegrated, economic hardship and civil disorder led to millions of Chinese men and women seeking their fortunes abroad, many journeying south into French Indochina. These emigres settled into tight-knit communities called huiguan: organisations which closely mirrored the religious, social and economic constitution of their own places of origin. Here, Tracy Barrett sheds ... Read more

    $199.99 CAD

  • Islands of Discontent

    Okinawan Responses to Japanese and American Power

    Edited by Laura Hein, Mark Selden ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    Exploring contemporary Okinawan culture, politics, and historical memory, this book argues that the long Japanese tradition of defining Okinawa as a subordinate and peripheral part of Japan means that all claims of Okinawan distinctiveness necessarily become part of the larger debate over contemporary identity. The contributors trace the renascence of the debate in the burst of cultural and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Puzzle of India's Governance

    Culture, Context and Comparative Theory

    by Subrata K. Mitra ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
    India no longer gets an easy ride as the world's largest democracy. Spectacular terrorist attacks on its Parliament and places of worship, communal riots of unprecedented ferocity, lingering separatist insurgency and violent caste conflict in impoverished regions have combined to cause a closer appraisal of India's capacity to sustain the rule of law.This book shows how governance is high when ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD