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Maritime Taiwan

Historical Encounters with the East and the West

By: Shih-Shan Henry Tsai

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Maritime Taiwan

Historical Encounters with the East and the West

By: Shih-Shan Henry Tsai

For centuries the island of Taiwan, 100 miles off the Asian mainland, has been a crossroads for traders and settlers, pirates and military schemers from around the world. Unlike China, with its long tradition of keeping foreigners out, Taiwan has a long history of interaction, both hostile and friendly, with other seafaring nations near and far. "Maritime Taiwan" captures the full drama and details of this remarkable history. It's filled with fascinating stories of foreign adventurers and echoes the bitter songs of Taiwan's aboriginal population, confronted by the convergence of different maritime cultures and values on the island.Here are accounts of the legendary pirate Koxinga, the Chinese junk trade, the mighty Dutch East India Company, British opium traders and Scottish tea merchants, Jesuit priests and Presbyterian missionaries, A French fleet commander, a Japanese colonial administrator, an American aid official, and many more. Here too is an extraordinary view of Taiwan over the centuries, as its distinct identity, culture, and values were shaped by its unique history. Today, with a population of only 23 million, Taiwan is the world's nineteenth largest economy, a vibrant, relatively free society on the strategic route between China and Southeast Asia. Maritime Taiwan also discusses the significant impact of American military, economic, educational, and technological aid on Taiwan's developments and addresses the island's continued importance in maintaining the U.S. hegemony in East Asia.

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266

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Routledge

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1317465164

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9781317465164

Nonlinear Operator Theory in Probablistic Metric Spaces

By: Shih-sen Chang,Yeol Je Cho,Sin-min Kang

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Nonlinear Operator Theory in Probablistic Metric Spaces

By: Shih-sen Chang,Yeol Je Cho,Sin-min Kang

The purpose of this book is to give a comprehensive introduction to the study of non-linear operator theory in probabilistic metric spaces. This book is introduced as a survey of the latest and new results on the following topics: Basic theory of probabilistic metric spaces; Fixed point theorems for single-valued and multi-valued mappings in probabilistic metric spaces; Ekeland's variational principle and Caristi's fixed point theorem in probabilistic metric spaces; Coincidence point theorems, minimisation and fixed degree theorems in probabilistic metric spaces; Probabilistic contractors, accretive mappings and topological degree in probabilistic normed spaces; Nonlinear semigroups and differential equations in probabilistic metric spaces; KKM theorems, minimax theorems and variational inequalities.

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358

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Nova Publishers

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1560729805

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9781560729808

Relations and Roles in China's Internationalism

Rediscovering Confucianism in a Pluriversal World

By: Chih-yu Shih

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Relations and Roles in China's Internationalism

Rediscovering Confucianism in a Pluriversal World

By: Chih-yu Shih

Pluriversalism within International Relations and the literature on Chinese international relations each embrace ideas of relation and difference. While they similarly strive for recognition by Western academics, they do not seriously engage with each other. To the extent that either succeeds in winning recognition, it ironically reproduces Western centrism and the binary of the Western versus the non-Western. In Relations and Roles in China's Internationalism, author Chih-yu Shih demonstrates, through a critical translation exercise, that Confucian themes enable both the critique and realignment of liberal thought, allowing all of us, including the members of Confucianism and the neo-liberal order, to understand how we adapt to and coexist with each another. In the end, Confucianism not only informs the pluriversal necessity that all are bound to be related but also de-nationalizes China's internationalism.

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376

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State University of New York Press

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1438498896

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9781438498898

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Maritime Taiwan

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Nonlinear Operator Theory in Probablistic Metric Spaces

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