This book chronicles the history of Chinese miners in one of the largest mines in Northeast Asia from 1900 to 1948, situating this emergent working class at the nexus of industrial capitalism, imperial expansion, and nation-state construction.
Das Mogulreich war eines der prachtigsten Imperien seiner Zeit - ein Reich der Palaste, Garten und Gelehrten, in dem Machtpolitik und kulturelle Blute nebeneinander existierten.
Die Ming-Dynastie (1368-1644) war eine Ara der Widerspruche: China erlebte unter ihrer Herrschaft maritime Groexpeditionen bis nach Afrika, den Bau der Verbotenen Stadt und eine kulturelle Blute - doch zugleich zog es sich hinter die Groe Mauer zuruck und verschloss sich der Welt.
"e;En el relato historico, las mujeres han estado representadas desde el discurso de los hombres, digamos que han sido 'habladas', en tanto que su voz 'brilla por su ausencia'.
Bringing together nine chapters penned by experts in different area studies, From Empire to Federation in Eurasia investigates how empires and postimperial regimes - including the Ottoman, Russian, Habsburg, Qing/Republican Chinese, Japanese, and Siamese polities - grappled with the challenges of diversity, decentralization, and self-determination.
Bringing together nine chapters penned by experts in different area studies, From Empire to Federation in Eurasia investigates how empires and postimperial regimes - including the Ottoman, Russian, Habsburg, Qing/Republican Chinese, Japanese, and Siamese polities - grappled with the challenges of diversity, decentralization, and self-determination.
This book systematically reviews the over 100-year history of Shanghai's trade, tells the legend of Shanghai's century-old trade, summarizes the development of Shanghai's trade, extracts its trade characteristics, and promotes the urban spirit of Shanghai.
This book systematically reviews the over 100-year history of Shanghai's trade, tells the legend of Shanghai's century-old trade, summarizes the development of Shanghai's trade, extracts its trade characteristics, and promotes the urban spirit of Shanghai.
This book offers a critical historical analysis of the People’s Health Movement in West Bengal, India, situating it within the broader context of health policy and public health developments in the region.
This book offers a critical historical analysis of the People’s Health Movement in West Bengal, India, situating it within the broader context of health policy and public health developments in the region.
This book is an examination of the globalization of the Yijing from cross-cultural and comparative perspectives, with a special focus on the Yijing encounters with world religions and thoughts over the past centuries.
ENGThis incisive intellectual history of Japanese social science from the 1890s to the present day considers the various forms of modernity that the processes of development or rationalization have engendered and the role social scientists have played in their emergence.
This book utilizes postcards as a historical and visual lens to consider the built environment of the Philippines after the governmental regime change in 1898.
This book utilizes postcards as a historical and visual lens to consider the built environment of the Philippines after the governmental regime change in 1898.
Alexander Akin examines how the expansion of publishing in the late Ming dynasty prompted changes in the nature and circulation of cartographic materials in East Asia.
Offering the most comprehensive analysis of Korean cinema from its early history to the present, and including the films of Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho and Kim Ki-young, Korean Cinema in Global Contexts: Postcolonial Phantom, Blockbuster and Trans-Cinema situates itself in the local, Inter-Asian, and transnational contexts by mobilizing the critical frameworks of feminism, postcolonial critique and comparative film studies.
Western commentators have often criticized the state of press freedom in China, arguing that individual speech still suffers from arbitrary restrictions and that its mass media remains under an authoritarian mode.
Alexander Akin examines how the expansion of publishing in the late Ming dynasty prompted changes in the nature and circulation of cartographic materials in East Asia.
Western commentators have often criticized the state of press freedom in China, arguing that individual speech still suffers from arbitrary restrictions and that its mass media remains under an authoritarian mode.
This book advances the understanding and process of community participation in cultural heritage management within the Chinese context of rapidly urbanising development.
This book presents a new theoretical model for mapping how populist leaders construct “the people”, using simultaneous processes of inclusion and exclusion.
Offering the most comprehensive analysis of Korean cinema from its early history to the present, and including the films of Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho and Kim Ki-young, Korean Cinema in Global Contexts: Postcolonial Phantom, Blockbuster and Trans-Cinema situates itself in the local, Inter-Asian, and transnational contexts by mobilizing the critical frameworks of feminism, postcolonial critique and comparative film studies.
This book advances the understanding and process of community participation in cultural heritage management within the Chinese context of rapidly urbanising development.
This book presents a new theoretical model for mapping how populist leaders construct “the people”, using simultaneous processes of inclusion and exclusion.
As part of the growing scholarship on family and empire, this study examines Britain's presence in China through the lens of one family, arguing that, as the physical embodiment of the imperial project, it provided a social and cultural mechanism for mediating Britain's imperial power, authority and presence, and forging connections and networks throughout the expanding British world.
Unani Medicine in the Making examines the institutions and practices of Unani medicine, the Graeco-Islamic healing practice based on the humoral theory attributed to Hippocrates and officially recognized as a system of medicine in India.
