Asia
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Resistance at the Edge of Empires: the Archaeology and History of the Bannu Basin (Pakistan) from 1000 BC to AD 1200 [Hardback]
C.A. Petrie (Author); P. Magee (Author)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £37.50
ISBN: 9781785703034
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Bannu Archaeological Project
Volume: 3
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From 1985 to 2001, the collaborative research initiative known as the Bannu Archaeological Project conducted archaeological explorations and excavations in the Bannu region, in what was then the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan, now... .... Learn More -
Qala'at al-Bahrain 3: The Western and Southern City Walls and Other Excavations [Hardback]
Flemming Højlund (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9788793423282
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Series: Jutland Archaeological Society Publications
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The capital of ancient Dilmun, Qala’at al-Bahrain, the most important archaeological site in East Arabia, was excavated in 1954-1978 by a Danish expedition from Moesgaard Museum. The first two volumes were published in 1994 and 1997, dealing with ... .... Learn More -
CINÉMA&CIEINTERNATIONAL FILM STUDIES JOURNALvol. XVIII, no. 30, Spring 2018: Reinventing Mao: Maoisms and National Cinemas [Paperback]
Federico Zecca (Editor); Marco Dalla Gassa (Editor); Corrado Neri (Editor)
£12.00ISBN: 9788869771705
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: CINÉMA&CIE
Volume: vol. XVIII
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The charismatic and controversial figure of Mao Zedong has left a deep mark on the history of twentieth-century. His ghostly presence still looms large over China’s new capitalist developments, and his legacy has also remarkably spread beyond nati... .... Learn More -
Memory and Agency in Ancient China: Shaping the Life History of Objects [Hardback]
Francis Allard (Editor); Yan Sun (Editor); Kathryn M Linduff (Editor)
£75.00ISBN: 9781108472579
Published by : Cambridge University Press
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Memory and Agency in Ancient China offers a novel perspective on China's material culture. The volume explores the complex 'life histories' of selected objects, whose trajectories as ginle objects ('biographies') and object types ('lineages') cut ... .... Learn More -
The Compassionate Bodhisattva: Unique Southeast Asian images of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara [Paperback]
Sofia Sundström (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9789088906176
Published by : Sidestone Press
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Southeast Asia has a long history with Buddhism that continues to the present day. Centuries ago, Buddhism spread to various areas of Southeast Asia, where some of the greatest Buddhist images and monuments were produced over 1,000 years ago. Thes... .... Learn More -
The Compassionate Bodhisattva: Unique Southeast Asian images of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara [Hardback]
Sofia Sundström (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9789088906183
Published by : Sidestone Press
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Southeast Asia has a long history with Buddhism that continues to the present day. Centuries ago, Buddhism spread to various areas of Southeast Asia, where some of the greatest Buddhist images and monuments were produced over 1,000 years ago. Thes... .... Learn More -
Liangzhu Culture: Society, Belief and Art in Neolithic China [Hardback]
Bin Liu (Editor); Qin Ling (Editor)
£115.00ISBN: 9781138557406
Published by : Routledge
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The Liangzhu culture (5,300-4,300 cal B.P.) represented the peak of prehistoric cultural and social development in the Yangtze Delta. With a wide sphere of influence centred near present day Hangzhou city, the Liangzhu Site Complex is considered o... .... Learn More -
Paul Rusch in Postwar Japan: Evangelism, Rural Development, and the Battle against Communism [Hardback]
Andrew T. McDonald (Author); Verlaine Stoner McDonald (Author)
£37.50ISBN: 9780813176079
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
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Paul Rusch first traveled from Louisville, Kentucky, to Tokyo in 1925 to help rebuild YMCA facilities in the wake of the Great Kanto earthquake. What was planned as a yearlong stay became his life's work as he joined with the Japan Episcopal Churc... .... Learn More -
Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums [Hardback]
Jenny F. So (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9780300237023
Published by : Yale University Press
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From personal ornamentation to funerary practice, from palace decoration to private devotion, jade has played a major role in Chinese social, cultural, and political life for millennia. Exploring the history of this revered stone through the estee... .... Learn More -
A Companion to South Asia in the Past [Paperback]
Gwen Robbins Schug (Author); Subhash R. Walimbe (Author)
£32.99ISBN: 9781119055211
Published by : Wiley-Blackwell
Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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A Companion to South Asia in the Past provides the definitive overview of research and knowledge about South Asia s past, from the Pleistocene to the historic era in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, provided by a truly global te... .... Learn More
