Asia
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Revolutionary Times: A Comparative View of the Long 1960s in Japan and Italy [Paperback]
Christopher Craig (Editor); Marco Del Bene (Editor); Enrico Fongaro (Editor)
£9.99ISBN: 9788869773952
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Hasekura League Studies
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The ‘long 1960s’, beginning in the mid-1950s and continuing into the mid-1970s, was an epoch defined by social and political upheaval and an international scope that challenged established orders across the globe. The period demonstrated its full ... .... Learn More -
The Entrepreneurship of GF Securities in China's Capital Markets [Paperback]
Yunxian CHEN (Author); Qingquan MA (Author); Xiaohua TONG (Translator); Yanan SHAO (Translator)
£55.00ISBN: 9781626430815
Published by : Bridge 21 Publications
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This book describes the entrepreneurial of a Chinese securities firm from the early 1990s, and reviews the 30-year history of China’s capital markets with a panoramic and coherent view of the birth and development of a securities institution. It h... .... Learn More -
Yonaoshi: Visions of a Better World [Paperback]
Christopher Craig (Editor); Enrico Fongaro (Editor); Luca Milasi (Editor); James Tink (Editor)
£14.99ISBN: 9788869774034
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Hasekura League
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Yonaoshi (世直し、
face="MS PGothic">よなおし, world renewal/repair/remaking) is a Japanese term that first appeared in the context of peasant uprisings in the mid-nineteenthth c... .... Learn More -
Chinese Museums: Strategies and Promotion of Contemporary Chinese Art [Paperback]
Ornella De Nigris (Author)
£22.00ISBN: 9788869771439
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Art
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Over the last 30 years, the Chinese system of art museums has enjoyed an unprecedented pace of development. Following a general and ongoing renovation of China’s entire system of national art institutions, there has been an impressive proliferatio... .... Learn More -
Asian Philosophers and Their Discontents [Paperback]
Takeshi Morisato (Editor); Roman Pașca (Editor)
£14.99ISBN: 9788869773341
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Asian Philosophical Texts
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The present volume brings together translations of hitherto neglected texts from Asian philosophical traditions, along with critical essays dealing with the philosophical issues of translating these texts into Western languages. As the third volum... .... Learn More -
Communities at Work: The Making of Çatalhöyük [Hardback]
Ian Hodder (Editor); Christina Tsoraki (Editor)
£65.00ISBN: 9781912090488
Published by : British Institute at Ankara
Series: Çatalhöyük Research Project Series
Volume: 15
The Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük has been world famous since the 1960s when excavations conducted by Mellaart revealed the large size and dense occupation of the settlement, as well as spectacular wall paintings and reliefs in the houses. This vol... .... Learn More -
People of Nanjing: A Cultural Perspective on a Historic Chinese City [Paperback]
Zhaoyan YE (Author); David Charles East (Translator)
£20.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781626430648
Published by : Bridge 21 Publications
Nanjing has a prominent place in Chinese culture and history as having been a capital city for ten times throughout the history. The city of Nanjing is a fine history textbook. If one pores over this city, one will evoke the history of China itsel... .... Learn More -
The Story of Xinjiang Revealed through Old Maps (1759-1912) [Paperback]
Yao Wang (Author); Lewis James Wright (Translator)
£30.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781626430747
Published by : Bridge 21 Publications
Xinjiang, named in 1759 by Emperor Qianlong (乾隆 1711-1799) of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty of China, was ruled by the Qing from the final phase of the Dzungar-Qing Wars when the Dzungar Khanate was conquered, and lasted until the fall of the imperi... .... Learn More -
Precious Treasures from the Diamond Throne: Finds from the Site of the Buddha’s Enlightenment [Paperback]
Sam van Schaik (Editor); Daniela De Simone (Editor); Gergely Hidas (Editor); Michael Willis (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9780861592289
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 228
The Mahābodhi temple at Bodhgayā in eastern India has long been recognised as the place where the Buddha sat in meditation and attained enlightenment. The site, soon identified as the ‘Diamond Throne’ or vajrāsana, became a destination for pilgrim... .... Learn More -
Images, Philosophy, Communication: Aesthetics and Thought in Japan and the World [Paperback]
Christopher Craig (Editor); Enrico Fongaro (Editor); Raffaele Milani (Editor); James Tink (Editor)
£19.99ISBN: 9788869773303
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Hasekura League Intercultural Studies Editions
Images represent a fusion of creativity, imagination, and symbolism and are crucial to the human quest to discover, invent, and experiment with ever-new visions. Philosophy plays a vital role in interpreting change in an era of rapid and dramatic ... .... Learn More