"Manila, 1645 reconstructs what the city of Manila was like before the earthquakes of the mid-seventeenth century. The book demonstrates the importance of addressing the history of Southeast Asia as a multi-layered framework, rather than a series of entangled histories. In doing…
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"In 1937, Japan blundered into a debilitating war with China, beginning with a minor incident near Peking (now Beijing) that quickly escalated. The Japanese won significant battles and captured the capital, Nanking, after a horrific massacre of its citizens. Chiang Kai-shek, Chi…
"In 1937, Japan blundered into a debilitating war with China, beginning with a minor incident near Peking (now Beijing) that quickly escalated. The Japanese won significant battles and captured the capital, Nanking, after a horrific massacre of its citizens. Chiang Kai-shek, Chi…
This short book predicts-contrary to the prevailing consensus-that China's leader Xi Jinping will very soon be removed from office in a coup d'etat mounted by rivals in the top leadership. The leaders of the coup will then end China's one-party dictatorship and launch a transiti…
"[The author] examines the social and cultural significance of Chinese revolutionary legal practice in the construction of marriage and gender relations. Her book is an empirically rich investigation of the ways in which a 1943 legal dispute over an arranged marriage in a Chines…
"[The author] examines the social and cultural significance of Chinese revolutionary legal practice in the construction of marriage and gender relations. Her book is an empirically rich investigation of the ways in which a 1943 legal dispute over an arranged marriage in a Chines…
Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue is the first complete English translation of Wu Yue Chunqiu, a chronicle of two neighboring states during China's Spring and Autumn period. This collection of political history, philosophy, and fictional accounts depicts the rise and fall o…
"Founded in 1676 during a cosmopolitan early modern period, Mindröling monastery became a key site for Buddhist education and a Tibetan civilizational center. Its founders sought to systematize and institutionalize a worldview rooted in Buddhist philosophy, engaging with contemp…
"In CULTURAL REVOLUTION AND REVOLUTIONARY CULTURE, Alessandro Russo argues that the Cultural Revolution in China should be understood as a mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the tenets of communism itself. Arguing that each political revolution must conten…
Ideas of the City in Asian Settings
by Charles Goldblum, Adèle Esposito, Henco Bekkering
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