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三國演義 第五卷
Romance of the Three Kingdoms Vol 5
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
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Twenty-First Century Seapower
Cooperation and Conflict at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
This book offers an assessment of the naval policies of emerging naval powers, and the implications for maritime security relations and the global maritime order.
Since the end of the Cold War, China, Japan, India and Russia have begun to challenge the status quo with the acquisition of advanced...
I Too Have Some Dreams
N.M. Rashed and Modernism in Urdu Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
I Too Have Some Dreams explores the work of N. M. Rashed, Urdu's renowned modernist poet, whose career spans the last years of British India and the early decades of postcolonial South Asia. A. Sean Pue argues that Rashed’s poetry carved out a distinct role for literature in the maintenance of doubt,...
by Sun Tzu
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2018
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The Art of War is a 6th Century BC Chinese treatise on war and military strategy known for its timeless examples of strategy and planning. There is intense interest in this ancient work since...
by Reiko Shinno
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Under the rule of the descendants of Chinggis Khan (1167-1227), China saw the development of a new culture in which medical practice came to be considered a highly respected occupation for elite men. During this period, further major steps were also taken towards the codification of medical knowledge...
How the Market Is Changing China's News
The Case of Xinhua News Agency
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This book provides a critical account of the transformations, both structural and in terms of journalism practice, undergone by Xinhua, the top Party organ of the Communist regime in China, since the start of the reform age in the late 1970s. It sets out to answer a number of key questions:
How...
Strong Borders, Secure Nation
Cooperation and Conflict in China's Territorial Disputes
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2008
As China emerges as an international economic and military power, the world waits to see how the nation will assert itself globally. Yet, as M. Taylor Fravel shows in Strong Borders, Secure Nation, concerns that China might be prone to violent conflict over territory are overstated. The first comprehensive...
Globalization and Security Relations across the Taiwan Strait
In the shadow of China
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This book presents an interdisciplinary examination of cross-Taiwan Strait relations and the complex dynamics at play in the region.
Since the election of Ma Ying-jeou as Taiwan’s president in 2008, the relationship across the Taiwan Strait—long viewed as one of Asia’s most volatile potential...
Civility and Empire
Literature and Culture in British India, 1821-1921
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian romances of 1880-1900, E.M. Forster's The Life to Come and Leonard Woolf's writings show how the appeal...
A Great Place to Have a War
America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
The untold story of how America’s secret war in Laos in the 1960s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy.
January, 1961: Laos, a tiny nation few Americans have heard of, is at risk of falling to communism...
by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This collection, first published in 1993, presents some of Spivak’s most engaging essays on works of literature such as Salman Rushdie's controversial Satanic...
Memory, Identity and the Colonial Encounter in India
Essays in Honour of Peter Robb
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
This book sheds new light on the dynamics of the colonial encounter between Britain and India. It highlights how various analytical approaches to this encounter can be creatively mobilised to rethink entanglements of memory and identity emerging from British rule in the subcontinent. This volume reevaluates...
by Christopher G. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
The Testimony of Aliens is a compelling cross cultural story set in the heart of the chiangmai Mai expat community. It is a love story across the ethnic divide and a moral lesson between two generations. Moore's humor and insight are brilliantly realized in this story.
by R.S. Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2006
This book presents a complete and accessible description of the history of early India. It starts by discussing the origins and growth of civilizations, empires, and religions. It also deals with the geographical, ecological, and linguistic backgrounds, and looks at specific cultures of the Neolithic,...