"In this important and hugely ambitious book, one of the world's leading political scientists working on China demonstrates how Western views of China are flawed because the long tradition of Western scholarship studying China views China from the Western philosophical and intel…
"Oriental despotism" and its problems in China studies -- "Oriental despotism" and its origins : Europe and imperial China -- "Oriental despotism" from the ancient Greeks to the enlightenment -- "Oriental despotism" since the 19th century -- Secularism and political order -- "So…
"In this important and hugely ambitious book, one of the world's leading political scientists working on China demonstrates how Western views of China are flawed because the long tradition of Western scholarship studying China views China from the Western philosophical and intel…
"In this important and hugely ambitious book, one of the world's leading political scientists working on China demonstrates how Western views of China are flawed because the long tradition of Western scholarship studying China views China from the Western philosophical and intel…
"In this important and hugely ambitious book, one of the world's leading political scientists working on China demonstrates how Western views of China are flawed because the long tradition of Western scholarship studying China views China from the Western philosophical and intel…
In this important and hugely ambitious book, one of the world's leading political scientists working on China demonstrates how Western views of China are flawed because the long tradition of Western scholarship studying China views China from the Western philosophical and intell…
Introduction. Grassroots values : issues, questions and perspectives on local heritage / Harriet Evans & Michael Rowlands -- What and whose is local heritage? perspectives from everyday lives in an "old Beijing neighborhood" / Harriet Evans -- Encountering Virginia Woolf in Dash…
"This book includes ethnographic studies of social belonging and knowledge manifest in everyday ideas about cultural practices and their transmission in China. Intersecting with state, entrepreneurial, and transcultural interests, the contributors argue that the grassroots is wh…
"This book includes ethnographic studies of social belonging and knowledge manifest in everyday ideas about cultural practices and their transmission in China. Intersecting with state, entrepreneurial, and transcultural interests, the contributors argue that the grassroots is wh…
"China's current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but "China" as a unified country and people, Bill Hayton argues, was created far more recently by a small group of intellectuals. In this compelling account, Hayton shows how China's present-day geopolitica…
"China's current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but "China" as a unified country and people, Bill Hayton argues, was created far more recently by a small group of intellectuals. In this compelling account, Hayton shows how China's present-day geopolitica…
"China's current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but "China" as a unified country and people, Bill Hayton argues, was created far more recently by a small group of intellectuals. In this compelling account, Hayton shows how China's present-day geopolitica…
"China's current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but "China" as a unified country and people, Bill Hayton argues, was created far more recently by a small group of intellectuals. In this compelling account, Hayton shows how China's present-day geopolitica…
"Calls attention to the central role played by the body in capturing memories of the lived experiences of traditional Chinese writers during the tumultuous Manchu conquest of China"--.
"Calls attention to the central role played by the body in capturing memories of the lived experiences of traditional Chinese writers during the tumultuous Manchu conquest of China"--
"Calls attention to the central role played by the body in capturing memories of the lived experiences of traditional Chinese writers during the tumultuous Manchu conquest of China"--
