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Cultural Logic of Politics in Mainland China and Taiwan
Tianjian Shi shows how cultural norms affect political attitudes and behavior through two causal pathways, one at the individual level and one at the community level. Focusing on …
China's Borderlands under the Qing, 1644–1912
This book explores new directions in the study of China’s borderlands. In addition to assessing the influential perspectives of other historians, it engages innovative approaches …
Revival: The Highlanders of Central Asia: A History, 1895-1937(1993)
Examining the importance of regional differences in China's history, this text details the social, economic and political conditions of the central highlands at the end of the 19th …
Trans-Himalayan Borderlands
Trans-Himalayan study, Zomia, modernity, livelihood reconstruction, migration, landscape transformation
Ancient Highlands of Southwest China
Although long considered to be a barren region on the periphery of ancient Chinese civilization, the southwest massif was once the political heartland of numerous Bronze Age …
Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands
Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place is an ethnography of culture and politics in Monyul, a Tibetan Buddhist cultural region in west …
Conflict in India and China's Contested Borderlands
For a long time, India and China have been seen as the rising economic giants on the Asiatic mainland. Studies of the conflicts which have plagued the borderlands of India and …
Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming
"e;I've seen the Sudan, traveled in South and Central America and been all over Europe, but I've never seen what I've been able to see on this tour [of the Loess Plateau, …
Public Diplomacy in Ireland and Japan
Public diplomacy enables private citizens to be involved in international relations either through initiatives sponsored by governments or through direct people-to-people contacts …
Inchon Landing
A history of this dramatic and risky amphibious invasion, with photos included. In the previous two volumes in the author's series on battles of the Korean War, North Korean …
Invention of China in Early Modern England
The Invention of China in Early Modern England describes how several different English communities became aware of China. It begins by describing how early modern intellectuals …
Chinese Americans in the Heartland
The term "Heartland" in American cultural context conventionally tends to provoke imageries of corn-fields, flat landscape, hog farms, and rural communities, along with ideas of …