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  • The Uyghurs

    Strangers in Their Own Land

    par Gardner Bovingdon ...
    For more than half a century many Uyghurs, members of a Muslim minority in northwestern China, have sought to achieve greater autonomy or outright independence. Yet the Chinese government has consistently resisted these efforts, countering with repression and a sophisticated strategy of state-sanctioned propaganda emphasizing interethnic harmony and Chinese nationalism. After decades of struggle, ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

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  • The Horse that Leaps Through Clouds

    A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road, and the Rise of Modern China

    par Eric Enno Tamm ...
    On July 6, 1906, Baron Gustaf Mannerheim boarded the midnight train from St. Petersburg, charged by Czar Nicholas II to secretly collect intelligence on the Qing Dynasty's sweeping reforms that were radically transforming China. The last czarist agent in the so–called Great Game, Mannerheim chronicled almost every facet of China's modernization, from education reform and foreign investment to ... En savoir plus

    $18.39 CAD

  • Everything Under the Heavens

    How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power

    par Howard W. French ...
    From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy.For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role, reports Howard French, has been set ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Peking Story

    The Last Days of Old China

    par John Lanchester, David Kidd ...
    For two years before and after the 1948 Communist Revolution, David Kidd lived in Peking, where he married the daughter of an aristocratic Chinese family. "I used to hope," he writes, "that some bright young scholar on a research grant would write about us and our Chinese friends before it was too late and we were all dead and gone, folding into the darkness the wonder that had been our lives." ... En savoir plus

    $11.19 CAD

  • A Bitter Revolution : China's struggle with the modern world

    China's Struggle with the Modern World

    par Rana Mitter ...
    Collections series Making of the Modern World
    China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world. Mitter takes us through the resulting social turmoil and political promise, the devastating war ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Shanghai Lalas

    par Hong Kong University Press ...
    This is the first ethnographic study of lala (lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) communities and politics in China, focusing on the city of Shanghai. Based on several years of in-depth interviews, the volume concentrates on lalas’ everyday struggle to reconcile same-sex desire with a dominant rhetoric of family harmony and compulsory marriage, all within a culture denying women’s active and ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • New Masters, New Servants

    Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China

    par Hairong Yan ...
    On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China’s Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station. Dressed in fashionable new winter coats and carrying luggage printed with Latin letters, the women were returning home from their jobs in one of China’s large cities. As the photo caption indicated, the image represented the ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Case for Left Wing Nationalism

    par Stephen Maxwell ...
    Collections Livre 12 - Viewpoints
    Spanning four politically and socially tumultuous decades, Stephen Maxwell's writings explore the origins and development of the modern Scottish Nationalist movement. As an instrumental member of the SNP and a life-long socialist, Maxwell's work provides an engaging contemporary insight into the debate over Scottish independence, setting out a clear ideological and practical arguments for a ... En savoir plus

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  • Down with Traitors

    Justice and Nationalism in Wartime China

    par Yun Xia ...
    Throughout the War of Resistance against Japan (1931–1945), the Chinese Nationalist government punished collaborators with harsh measures, labeling the enemies from within hanjian (literally, “traitors to the Han Chinese”). Trials of hanjian gained momentum during the postwar years, escalating the power struggle between Nationalists and Communists. Yun Xia examines the leaders of collaborationist ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Feeling Canadian

    Television, Nationalism, and Affect

    par Marusya Bociurkiw ...
    Collections series Film and Media Studies
    “My name is Joe, and I AM Canadian!” How did a beer ad featuring an unassuming guy in a plaid shirt become a national anthem? This book about Canadian TV examines how affect and consumption work together, producing national practices framed by the television screen. Drawing on the new field of affect theory, Feeling Canadian: Television, Nationalism, and Affect tracks the ways that ideas about the ... En savoir plus

    $36.79 CAD

  • ‘This Culture of Ours’

    Intellectual Transitions in T’ang and Sung China

    par Peter K. Bol ...
    This book traces the shared culture of the Chinese elite from the seventh to the twelfth centuries. The early T'ang definition of 'This Culture of Ours' combined literary and scholarly traditions from the previous five centuries. The late Sung Neo-Confucian movement challenged that definition. The author argues that the Tang-Sung transition is best understood as a transition from a literary view ... En savoir plus

    $49.99 CAD

  • Social Ethics in a Changing China

    Moral Decay or Ethical Awakening?

    par Huaihong He ...
    Collections series The Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series
    Over the past half-century, China has experienced some incredible human dramas, ranging from Red Guard fanaticism and the loss of education for an entire generation during the Cultural Revolution, to the Tiananmen tragedy, the economic miracle, and its accompanying fad of money worship and the rampancy of official corruption. Social Ethics in a Changing China: Moral Decay or Ethical Awakening? ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD