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This open access book explores how China had already established political and economic dualisms—political by the Common Era and economic by the 10th century—long before the West developed its dualism of state and society in the 17th and 18th centuries. In...
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Springer
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2025-07-22
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This book draws attention to the importance of theoretical problems in archaeological research in China. At present, Chinese archaeology has adoped the traditional culture-historical paradigm, with research themes has mainly focused on chronology and cultural...
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Springer
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2025-05-05
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This book presents a factual analysis of the history of population policy, especially the fertility policy, mainly the reproduction of the policy since the founding of New China, especially the promotion of one child per couple, including the background of the policy's...
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Springer
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2024-12-31
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This book makes an insightful investigation of historical agrotechnical geography in West China in the Qing Dynasty from the perspective of historical geography and the history of agricultural technology.This study first divides West China into four regions, i.e., the...
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Springer
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2024-08-28
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What did Mao Zedong bring to China? Mao Zedong, a rare leader who is still regarded as a great hero on the Chinese continent, despite the large number of victims caused by the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. He called himself "Qin Shi Huang (First...
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Springer
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2024-05-11
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This book examines social transformation during the Tang-Song period by focusing on the emergence and development of the "society of moneyed elite" in ancient China. Specifically, the author tries to shed light on three important theoretical questions. First, how to...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-02-09
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This book studies the academic history of the humanities of Southwestern Associated University from the following aspects: the general situation of academic research, research institutions and academic journals, philosophical research, historical research, literary...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2023-10-30
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The southwestern borderland in imperial China covers the area encompassing present-day Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou, southwestern Sichuan, and the northern part of the Indochina Peninsula, once under the Central Plains dynasty’s rule. For more than two millennia, China...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2023-10-16
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This innovative volume provides insight into the vast changes in societies now and in the near future, and highlights the need for a new sociological approach to analyse these changes. It particularly reviews and critiques existing theories of globalization and analyses...
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Springer
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2023-08-04
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Focusing on the integration of the Chinese civilization over the last four millennia, this book outlines the history of clashes, interactions, and fusion between the Huaxia civilization and the Grassland civilization, the two major powers shaping the history of China,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2023-06-27
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The thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they paid for in this Murder on the Orient Express–style adventure, set in China’s republican era. In May 1923, when Shanghai publisher and reporter John...
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PublicAffairs
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2023-04-04
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This book offers the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the origins and development of China’s genealogy, as well as its fundamental role in eugenics, ethics, politics and culture throughout China’s history. This book is divided into two parts:...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-03-22
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This book presents an archeological interpretation of the history of Chinese civilization. Tracing back from recent history to the distant past, it explores the breadth of Chinese civilization. Using archeological remains and cultural relics as starting points and...
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Springer
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2023-02-24
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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY THE NEW YORKERWOMEN'S NATIONAL BOOK ASSOCIATION 2023 Great Group Read This extraordinary memoir shares an insight into the lives of the Uyghurs, a people and culture being systematically destroyed by China—and a woman who...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2023-02-21
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This book examines the origins and basic concepts of sociology in China and traces the discipline’s evolutionary trajectory. Building on the premise that qunxue, which goes back to Xunzi, is essentially the Chinese antecedent of...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-11-14
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This book analyzes the drawing data and methods of the Chinese ancient maps that are neglected by the previous researches, and reevaluates the drawing theories and methods, the influences, and accuracy of the maps that represents the scientificity of Chinese ancient...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-08-23
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This book presents a collection of annotated English translations of German diplomatic documents—including telegrams, dispatches and reports—sent to the Foreign Office in Berlin and the German Ambassador in Hankou, China, by German diplomatic officials in...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-08-02
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Through case studies of pilot conservation projects launched by the Yunnan Provincial Archives in recent years, this book comprehensively and systematically discusses issues in the conservation of ethnic oral history material and the development of ethnic oral history...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-05-18
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A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable. The relationship between the US and China, the world’s two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault—of...
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PublicAffairs
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2022-03-22
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This book studies the judicial evolution of the Qing Dynasty. It sums up the changes from six major aspects: 1. Banfang(??)emerged in the late Qianlong period; 2. The opening of capital appeals(??)early in Jiaqing’s reign; 3. The consular jurisdiction was...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-01-17
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