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On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet

The Nyemo Incident of 1969

By: Melvyn C. Goldstein,Ben Jiao,Tanzen Lhundrup

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On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet

The Nyemo Incident of 1969

By: Melvyn C. Goldstein,Ben Jiao,Tanzen Lhundrup

This resource revisits the Nyemo incident, which has long been romanticised as the epitome of Tibetan nationalist resistance against China. The authors show that far from being a spontaneous battle for independence, this event was actually part of a struggle between rival revolutionary groups and was not ethnically based.

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Univ of California Press

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0520267907

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9780520267909

Viet Nam

A History from Earliest Times to the Present

By: Ben Kiernan

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Viet Nam

A History from Earliest Times to the Present

By: Ben Kiernan

For many Westerners, the name Vietnam evokes images of a bloody televised American war that generated a firestorm of protest and brought conflict into their living rooms. In his sweeping account, Ben Kiernan broadens this vision by narrating the rich history of the peoples who have inhabited the land now known as Viet Nam over the past three thousand years. Despite the tragedies of the American-Vietnamese conflict, Viet Nam has always been much more than a war. Its long history had been characterized by the frequent rise and fall of different political formations, from ancient chiefdoms to imperial provinces, from independent kingdoms to divided regions, civil wars, French colonies, and modern republics. In addition to dramatic political transformations, the region has been shaped by its environment, changing climate, and the critical importance of water, with rivers, deltas, and a long coastline facilitating agricultural patterns, trade, and communications. Kiernan weaves together the many narrative strands of Viet Nam's multi-ethnic populations, including the Chams, Khmers, and Vietnamese, and its multi-religious heritage, from local spirit cults to Buddhism, Confucianism, and Catholicism. He emphasizes the peoples' interactions over the millennia with foreigners, particularly their neighbors in China and Southeast Asia, in engagements ranging from military conflict to linguistic and cultural influences. He sets the tumultuous modern period--marked by French and Japanese occupation, anticolonial nationalism, the American-Vietnamese war, and communist victory--against the continuities evident in the deeper history of the people's relationships with the lands where they have lived. In contemporary times, he explores this one-party state's transformation into a global trading nation, the country's tense diplomatic relationship with China and developing partnership with the United States in maintaining Southeast Asia's regional security, and its uncertain prospects for democracy. Written by a leading scholar of Southeast Asia, Viet Nam presents an authoritative history of an ancient land.

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657

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Oxford University Press

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0190627298

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9780190627294

Heel Print

A centenarian’s journey in rural China

By: Ailiang Xie, MD, PhD; Ben Dempsey

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Heel Print

A centenarian’s journey in rural China

By: Ailiang Xie, MD, PhD; Ben Dempsey

Heel Print is a biographic novel based on the story of the life of an ordinary rural Chinese woman, Yi-qing Dong. Yi-qing was betrothed to a village boy at the age of seven. Her parents bound her feet to please her future husband, just as he was beginning to discover the modern values developing beyond the countryside. Against great odds, this blind marriage turned out to be a fortuitous match of kindred spirits. Unfortunately, Yi-qing’s husband, a patriotic military officer, was killed at the age of thirty-one, leaving her alone to raise five children on a barren land where she faced various physical, financial, political, and social challenges. Yi-qing’s personal experience during these turbulent times in China provides a glimpse into the mystery and complexities of human nature.

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290

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Xlibris Corporation

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1450096417

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9781450096416

Climate and Crises

Magical Realism as Environmental Discourse

By: Ben Holgate

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Climate and Crises

Magical Realism as Environmental Discourse

By: Ben Holgate

Climate and Crises: Magical Realism as Environmental Discourse makes a dual intervention in both world literature and ecocriticism by examining magical realism as an international style of writing that has long-standing links with environmental literature. The book argues that, in the era of climate change when humans are facing the prospect of species extinction, new ideas and new forms of expression are required to address what the novelist Amitav Gosh calls a "crisis of imagination." Magical realism enables writers to portray alternative intellectual paradigms, ontologies and epistemologies that typically contest the scientific rationalism derived from the European Enlightenment, and the exploitation of natural resources associated with both capitalism and imperialism. Climate and Crises explores the overlaps between magical realism and environmental literature, including their respective transgressive natures that dismantle binaries (such as human and non-human), a shared biocentric perspective that focuses on the inter-connectedness of all things in the universe, and, frequently, a critique of postcolonial legacies in formerly colonised territories. The book also challenges conventional conceptions of magical realism, arguing they are often influenced by a geographic bias in the construction of the orthodox global canon, and instead examines contemporary fiction from Asia (including China) and Australasia, two regions that have been largely neglected by scholarship of the narrative mode. As a result, the monograph modifies and expands our ideas of what magical realist fiction is.

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384

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Routledge

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1351372939

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9781351372930

The Dao of Muhammad

A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China

By: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

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The Dao of Muhammad

A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China

By: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

This book documents an Islamic–Confucian school of scholarship that flourished, mostly in the Yangzi Delta, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Drawing on previously unstudied materials, it reconstructs the network of Muslim scholars responsible for the creation and circulation of a large corpus of Chinese Islamic written material—the so-called Han Kitab. Against the backdrop of the rise of the Manchu Qing dynasty, The Dao of Muhammad shows how the creation of this corpus, and of the scholarly network that supported it, arose in a context of intense dialogue between Muslim scholars, their Confucian social context, and China’s imperial rulers. Overturning the idea that participation in Confucian culture necessitated the obliteration of all other identities, this book offers insight into the world of a group of scholars who felt that their study of the Islamic classics constituted a rightful “school” within the Confucian intellectual landscape. These men were not the first Muslims to master the Chinese Classics. But they were the first to express themselves specifically as Chinese Muslims and to generate foundation myths that made sense of their place both within Islam and within Chinese culture.

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315

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BRILL

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1684174120

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9781684174126

Culinary Herbs & Spices of the World

By: Ben-Erik van Wyk

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Culinary Herbs & Spices of the World

By: Ben-Erik van Wyk

For centuries herbs and spices have been an integral part of many of the world’s great cuisines. But spices have a history of doing much more than adding life to bland foods. They have been the inspiration for, among other things, trade, exploration, and poetry. Priests employed them in worship, incantations, and rituals, and shamans used them as charms to ward off evil spirits. Nations fought over access to and monopoly of certain spices, like cinnamon and nutmeg, when they were rare commodities. Not only were many men’s fortunes made in the pursuit of spices, spices at many periods throughout history literally served as currency. In Culinary Herbs and Spices of the World, Ben-Erik van Wyk offers the first fully illustrated, scientific guide to nearly all commercial herbs and spices in existence. Van Wyk covers more than 150 species—from black pepper and blackcurrant to white mustard and white ginger—detailing the propagation, cultivation, and culinary uses of each. Introductory chapters capture the essence of culinary traditions, traditional herb and spice mixtures, preservation, presentation, and the chemistry of flavors, and individual entries include the chemical compounds and structures responsible for each spice or herb’s characteristic flavor. Many of the herbs and spices van Wyk covers are familiar fixtures in our own spice racks, but a few—especially those from Africa and China—will be introduced for the first time to American audiences. Van Wyk also offers a global view of the most famous use or signature dish for each herb or spice, satisfying the gourmand’s curiosity for more information about new dishes from little-known culinary traditions. People all over the world are becoming more sophisticated and demanding about what they eat and how it is prepared. Culinary Herbs and Spices of the World will appeal to those inquisitive foodies in addition to gardeners and botanists.

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321

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University of Chicago Press

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022609183X

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9780226091839

The Great Brain Race

How Global Universities are Reshaping the World

By: Ben Wildavsky

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The Great Brain Race

How Global Universities are Reshaping the World

By: Ben Wildavsky

Reveals how international competition for university students is impacting higher education and explains the benefits of this competition, which allows students to choose from diverse educational settings and programs.

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266

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Princeton University Press

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0691154554

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9780691154558

On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet

The Nyemo Incident of 1969

By: Melvyn C. Goldstein,Ben Jiao,Tanzen Lhundrup

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The Nyemo Incident of 1969

By: Melvyn C. Goldstein,Ben Jiao,Tanzen Lhundrup

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On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet

On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet

Viet Nam

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Heel Print

Heel Print

Climate and Crises

Climate and Crises

The Dao of Muhammad

The Dao of Muhammad

Culinary Herbs & Spices of the World

Culinary Herbs & Spices of the World

The Great Brain Race

The Great Brain Race

On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet

On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet

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