The Poetics of Early Chinese Thought

Michael Hunter

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The modern imagination of classical Chinese thought has long been dominated by Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, and other so-called “Masters” of the Warring States period. Michael Hunter argues that this

Qigong Fever

David Palmer

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The Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang

John Christopher Hamm

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Xiang Kairan, who wrote under the pen name “The Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang,” is remembered as the father of modern Chinese martial arts fiction, one of the most distinctive forms of twentieth-

The Naqab Bedouins

Mansour Nasasra

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The Ethics of Opting Out

Mari Ruti

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Centrifugal Empire

Jae Ho Chung

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Despite the destabilizing pull of a vast territory and a large multicultural population, the centralized government of the People's Republic of China has held together for decades, resisting effort

Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes

Li Chen

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How did American schoolchildren, French philosophers, Russian Sinologists, Dutch merchants, and British lawyers imagine China and Chinese law? What happened when agents of presumably dominant Weste

The Metamorphoses of Fat

Georges Vigarello

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Georges Vigarello maps the evolution of Western ideas about fat and fat people from the Middle Ages to the present, paying particular attention to the role of science, fashion, fitness crazes, and

Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon

Michael Bourdaghs

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From the beginning of the American Occupation in 1945 to the post-bubble period of the early 1990s, popular music provided Japanese listeners with a much-needed release, channeling their desires, f

Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed

Claire Magone

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On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has published a book exploring the practical

The Most Important Thing

Howard Marks

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"This is that rarity, a useful book."--Warren Buffett Howard Marks, the chairman and cofounder of Oaktree Capital Management, is renowned for his insightful assessments of market opportunity

Between Winds and Clouds

Yang Bin

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Between Winds and Clouds tells the two-thousand-year history of Yunnan, an ethnic frontier bordered by Tibet, mainland Southeast Asia, and southwest China. Yunnan's prime geographic location turned

Insurmountable Simplicities

Roberto Casati

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"Perhaps not all the stories that follow are true. They could, however, be true, and the Reader is invited to ponder this." So begins Insurmountable Simplicities, Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi

Dialogues in Arab Politics

Michael N. Barnett

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For decades, Arab states and societies have been involved in an ongoing conflict over the goals and norms of Arabism. In this comprehensive study, Michael Barnett explores the relationships between

Deadly Imbalances

Randall Schweller

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Scholars frequently portray World War II as an epic morality play driven by a villain (Hitler) and a sinner (Chamberlain). This book offers a fresh approach, combining both the attributes of states

Writing Women in Modern China

Dooling, Amy D. (EDT)/ Torgeson, Kristina M. (EDT)

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Writing Women in Modern China is the first major anthology in English to highlight the contributions of women to modern literary culture with respect to the heated gender debates of early twentieth

Chuang Tzu

BURTON WATSON

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The basic writings of Chuang Tzu have been savored by Chinese readers for over two thousand years. And Burton Watson's lucid and beautiful translation has been loved by generations of readers. Chu

The Culture of National Security

Katzenstein, Peter J. 编

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Contributors ask whether it is more useful to conceive of the world as arrayed in regional, cultural, institutional complexes or organized along the conventional dimensions of power, alliance, and

China's Road to the Korean War

Jian Chen

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Exploring the reasons why Mao Tse-tung decided to assist North Korea in fighting a coalition of Western powers, this study argues that China's entry into the Korean War was brought about by its fea

Fictional Realism in 20th Century China

David Der-Wei Wang

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David Der-wei Wang is Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. His works include The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional

The Writing of History

Michel de Certeau

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Powers of Horror

Julia Kristeva

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Powers of Horror is an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on para-philosophical modes

Learning to Labor

Paul Willis

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Hailed by the "New Society" as the "best book on male working class youth," this classic work, first published in 1977, has been translated into several foreign languages and remains the authority

The Unfolding of Neo-Confucianism

Wm. Theodore de Bary (Editor)

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Trade and Nation

Emily Erikson

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In the seventeenth century, English economic theorists lost interest in the moral status of exchange and became increasingly concerned with the roots of national prosperity. This shift marked

Amboina, 1623

Adam Clulow

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In 1623, a Japanese mercenary called Shichizō was arrested for asking suspicious questions about the defenses of a Dutch East India Company fort on Amboina, a remote set of islands in what is now e

Minjian

Sebastian Veg

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Who are the new Chinese intellectuals? In the wake of the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement and the rapid marketization of the 1990s, a novel type of grassroots intellectual emerged. Instead

Malebranche

Alain Badiou

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Alain Badiou is perhaps the world's most significant living philosopher. In his annual seminars on major topics and pivotal figures, Badiou developed vital aspects of his thinking on a range of sub

How Did Lubitsch Do It?

Joseph Mcbride

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Orson Welles called Ernst Lubitsch (1892–1947) “a giant” whose “talent and originality are stupefying.” Jean Renoir said, “He invented the modern Hollywood.” Celebrated for his distinct style and c

Speculative Taxidermy

Giovanni Aloi

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