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  • Splendors of Quanzhou, Past and Present

    This open access book explores the past and present of Quanzhou (Zayton) and the rich diversity and tolerance that kindled Quanzhou’s innovativeness and helped it prosper both commercially and culturally—values that are today being embraced by China’s global trade partners.Quanzhou (Zayton), Marco Polo’s port of departure and Columbus’ goal in China, was not only the start of the Maritime Silk ... Read more

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  • A Political Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi

    A Hybrid Politician

    Series series Politics in Asia
    This book is the first political biography of Aung San Suu Kyi covering both her years in opposition and all her years in power from 2016 onwards. It offers a new interpretation of Aung San Suu Kyi by presenting a balanced and thorough account of Suu Kyi’s policies.In the last 30 years there has not been a person in global politics who has risen so high and fallen so low – and so quickly – as Aung ... Read more

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  • Emerging States and Economies

    Their Origins, Drivers, and Challenges Ahead

    Series series Emerging-Economy State and International Policy Studies
    This open access book asks why and how some of the developing countries have “emerged” under a set of similar global conditions, what led individual countries to choose the particular paths that led to their “emergence,” and what challenges confront them. If we are to understand the nature of major risks and uncertainties in the world, we must look squarely at the political and economic dynamics ... Read more

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  • Political Reform Reconsidered

    The Trajectory of a Transformed Japanese State

    Translated by Tobias S. Harris ...
    This Open Access book provides a comprehensive analysis of political reforms in Japan since the 1990s, emphasizing the role of ideas in shaping their goals and outcomes.For more than fifteen years following the collapse of Japan’s economic bubble, politicians, business people and academics tackled a range of institutional reforms. The sweeping changes they enacted—covering almost all facets of the ... Read more

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  • Russian Hajj

    Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca

    by Eileen Kane ...
    In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a crossroads of the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The first book in any language on the hajj under tsarist and Soviet rule, Russian Hajj tells the story of how tsarist officials struggled to control and co-opt Russia's mass hajj traffic, seeing it as not only a liability ... Read more

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  • The Story of Shih Jiangnan 施江南傳

    by Cosette Wu ...
    "You are too afraid of death. If all Taiwanese were as afraid of death as you, then what would we do?" The second Taiwanese to receive a doctorate in medicine, Dr. Shih Jiangnan dedicated himself to helping his fellow Taiwanese. He promoted public health education, fought against discrimination and the infringement of human rights by the post-WWII Republic of China government in Taiwan, and ... Read more

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  • Jesuit and English Experiences at the Mughal Court, c. 1580–1615

    Series series New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800
    This open access book reconstructs and examines a crucial episode of Anglo-Iberian diplomatic rivalry: the clash between the Portuguese-sponsored Jesuit missionaries and the English East India Company (EIC) at the Mughal court between 1580 and 1615. This 35-year period includes the launch of the first Jesuit mission to Akbar’s court in 1580 and the preparation of the royal embassy led by Sir ... Read more

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  • Order and Security in Southeast Asia

    Essays in Memory of Michael Leifer

    Edited by Ralf Emmers, Joseph Liow ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    Michael Leifer, who died in 2001, was one of the leading scholars of Southeast Asian international relations. He was hugely influential through his extensive writings and his contacts with people in government and business in the region.In this book, many of Leifer’s students, colleagues and friends come together to explore the key themes of his work on Southeast Asia, including the notion of ... Read more

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  • Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities

    Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities is the first book to reflect on the power of film in representing medical and health discourse in China in both the past and the present, as well as in shaping its future.Drawing on both feature and documentary films from mainland China, the chapters each engage with the field of medicine through the visual arts. They cover themes such as the history of ... Read more

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  • Chinese Working-Class Lives

    Getting By in Taiwan

    by Hill Gates ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    Taiwan’s working class has been shaped by Chinese tradition, by colonialism, and by rapid industrialization. This book defines that class, explores that history, and presents with sensitive honesty the life experiences of some of its women and men. Hill Gates first provides a solid and informative introduction to Taiwan’s history, showing how mainland China, Japan, the convulsions of twentieth ... Read more

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  • Bang Chan

    Social History of a Rural Community in Thailand

    Series series Cornell Studies in Anthropology
    Bang Chan traces the changing cultural characteristics of a small Siamese village during the century and a quarter from its founding as a wilderness settlement outside Bangkok to its absorption into the urban spread of the Thai capital. Rich in ethnographic detail, the book sums up the major findings of a pioneering interdisciplinary research project that began in 1948. Changes in Bang Chan's ... Read more

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  • How the World Hunger Problem Was not Solved

    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    The world food crisis (1972–1975) gave rise to new development concepts. To eradicate world hunger, small peasants were supposed to use ‘modern’ inputs like high-yielding seeds, fertilizer, pesticides and irrigation. This would turn subsistence producers into business owners, transform rural areas, invigorate national economies and the crisis-stricken world economy and thus stabilize capitalism ... Read more

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  • Stalin, Japan, and the Struggle for Supremacy over China, 1894–1945

    Series series Routledge Open History
    Stalin was a master of deception, disinformation, and camouflage, by means of which he gained supremacy over China and defeated imperialism on Chinese soil. This book examines Stalin’s covert operations in his hunt for supremacy.By the late 1920s Britain had ceded place to Japan as Stalin’s main enemy in Asia. By seducing Japan deeply into China, Stalin successfully turned Japan’s aggression into ... Read more

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  • Making Uzbekistan

    Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR

    by Adeeb Khalid ...
    In Making Uzbekistan, Adeeb Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution. He explores the complex interaction between Uzbek intellectuals, local Bolsheviks, and Moscow to sketch out the flux of the situation in early-Soviet Central Asia. His focus on the Uzbek intelligentsia allows him to recast our understanding of Soviet nationalities policies. ... Read more

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  • Narrating China's Governance

    Stories in Xi Jinping's Speeches

    This open access book captures and elaborates on the skill of storytelling as one of the distinct leadership features of Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and the President of the People’s Republic of China. It gathers the stories included in Xi’s speeches on various occasions, where they conveyed the essence of China’s history and culture, its reform and ... Read more

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  • Eisaku Sato, Japanese Prime Minister, 1964-72

    Okinawa, Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics and the Nobel Prize

    by Ryuji Hattori ...
    Translated by Graham B. Leonard ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This book is a biography of Eisaku Satō (1901-75), who served as prime minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972, before Prime Minister Abe the longest uninterrupted premiership in Japanese history. The book focuses on Satō’s management of Japan’s relations with the United States and Japan’s neighbours in East Asia, where Satō worked to normalize relations with South Korea and China. It also covers ... Read more

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  • The Barter Economy of the Khmer Rouge Labor Camps

    by Scott Pribble ...
    Pribble investigates the barter economies that developed in many of the labor camps established under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.When the Khmer Rouge abolished currency and markets in 1975, starving Cambodians created underground exchanges in labor camps throughout the country, bartering luxury items for food and other necessities, while simultaneously undermining the regime’s ideological goals ... Read more

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  • Asian Anthropology

    Series series Anthropology of Asia
    Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia. Instead of assuming a universal standard or trajectory for the development of anthropology in Asia, the contributors to this volume begin with the appropriate premise that anthropologies in different Asian countries have developed ... Read more

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  • The Evolution of China’s Anti-Poverty Strategies

    Cases of 20 Chinese Changing Lives

    This open access book presents the findings of the author’s 3 decades of studying China’s evolving anti-poverty strategies. It argues that much of the billions that nations spend yearly on economic aid is used inefficiently or to treat the symptoms but not the root causes of poverty. China, however, has evolved an effective sustainable alternative by providing the means for self-reliance to not ... Read more

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  • Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century

    Saints, Books and Empires in the Muslim Deccan

    by Nile Green ...
    Series series Routledge Sufi Series
    Sufism is often regarded as standing mystically aloof from its wider cultural settings. By turning this perspective on its head, Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century reveals the politics and poetry of Indian Sufism through the study of Islamic sainthood in the midst of a cosmopolitan Indian society comprising migrants, soldiers, litterateurs and princes.Placing the mystical traditions of ... Read more

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  • Global History and New Polycentric Approaches

    Europe, Asia and the Americas in a World Network System

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.Rethinking the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries such as China, Japan, Mexico or Spain, this collections considers how global issues are connected with our local and national communities. It examines how the discipline had evolved in various historiographies, from Anglo Saxon to southern European, and its ... Read more

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  • Global History with Chinese Characteristics

    Autocratic States along the Silk Road in the Decline of the Spanish and Qing Empires 1680-1796

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History
    This open access book considers a pivotal era in Chinese history from a global perspective. This book’s insight into Chinese and international history offers timely and challenging perspectives on initiatives like “Chinese characteristics”, “The New Silk Road” and “One Belt, One Road” in broad historical context. Global History with Chinese Characteristics analyses the feeble state capacity of ... Read more

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  • Documenting the Armenian Genocide

    Essays in Honor of Taner Akçam

    Series series Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide
    This open access book brings together contributions from an internationally diverse group of scholars to celebrate Taner Akçam’s role as the first Turkish intellectual to publicly recognize the Armenian Genocide. As a researcher, lecturer, and mentor to a new generation of scholars, Akçam has led the effort to utilize previously unknown, ignored, or under-studied sources, whether in Turkish, ... Read more

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  • The Return of the Buddha

    Ancient Symbols for a New Nation

    The Return of the Buddha traces the development of Buddhist archaeology in colonial India, examines its impact on the reconstruction of India’s Buddhist past, and the making of a public and academic discourse around these archaeological discoveries.The bookdiscusses the role of the state and modern Buddhist institutions in the reconstitution of national heritage through promulgation of laws for ... Read more

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