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Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth

by Barry Naughton The MIT Press
Pub Date:
01/2007
ISBN:
9780262640640
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Pb+ 544 pages

This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a quality and...

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China Breakthrough: Whitlam in the Middle Kingdom, 1971

by Billy Griffiths Monash University Publishing
Pub Date:
11/2012
ISBN:
9781921867644
Format:
Pbk 180 pages

When Australian Opposition Leader Gough Whitlam left Sydney in June 1971, the People’s Republic of China was a forbidding unknown...

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China's Ascent: Power, Security, and the Future of International Politics

by Robert S Ross and Zhu Feng Cornell University Press
Pub Date:
09/2008
ISBN:
9780801474446
Format:
Pb+ 336 pages

Assessments of China's importance on the world stage usually focus on a single dimension of China's increasing power, rather than...

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"If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die": How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor

by Geoffrey Robinson Princeton University Press
Pub Date:
11/2009
ISBN:
9780691135366
Format:
Hb+ 344 pages

This is a book about a terrible spate of mass violence. It is also about a rare success in bringing such violence to an end. If...

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88 Secrets of Chinese Medicine: How to Cultivate Lifelong Health, Wisdom and Happiness 2ed

by Angela Hicks How To Books
Pub Date:
11/2010
ISBN:
9781845284305
Format:
Pbk 256 pages

-New updated edition -Retitled to reflect the popularity of Chinese Medicine -Expert practitioner Angela Hicks delivers profound,...

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Politics of Timor-Leste: Democratic Consolidation after Intervention

by Michael Leach and Damien Kingsbury SEAP
Pub Date:
12/2012
ISBN:
9780877277590
Format:
Pb+ 292 pages

The Politics of Timor-Leste explores the critical issues facing the Asia-Pacific's youngest nation as it seeks to consolidate...

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Making them Indonesians: Child Transfers out of East Timor

by Helene van Klinken Monash University Publishing
Pub Date:
01/2012
ISBN:
9781876924805
Format:
Pbk 200 pages

One Indonesian soldier was particularly nice to me. He gave me pretty clothes and sweets and used to take me for walks and to...

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Zen and Japanese Culture

by Daisetz T Suzuki Princeton University Press
Pub Date:
10/2010
ISBN:
9780691144627
Format:
Pbk 608 pages

Zen and Japanese Culture is one of the twentieth century's leading works on Zen, and a valuable source for those wishing to understand...

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Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami

by Irfan Ahmad Princeton University Press
Pub Date:
09/2009
ISBN:
9780691139203
Format:
Pb+ 328 pages

Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is the most influential Islamist organization in India today. Founded in 1941 by Syed Abul Ala Maududi with...

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Knowing Indonesia: Intersections of Self, Discipline and Nation

by Jemma Purdey Monash Asia Institute
Pub Date:
10/2012
ISBN:
9781921867484
Format:
Pbk 200 pages

This is the first book in almost two decades to bring together scholars of Indonesia from the Australian academy in a single volume...

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Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia

by Ronit Ricci University of Chicago Press
Pub Date:
04/2011
ISBN:
9780226710884
Format:
Hbk 312 pages

The spread of Islam eastward into South and Southeast Asia was one of the most significant cultural shifts in world history. As...

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China's New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society

by Daniel A Bell Princeton University Press
Pub Date:
05/2010
ISBN:
9780691145853
Format:
Pb+ 280 pages

What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing...

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'If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die': How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor

by Geoffrey Robinson Princeton University Press
Pub Date:
02/2011
ISBN:
9780691150178
Format:
Pb+ 344 pages

This is a book about a terrible spate of mass violence. It is also about a rare success in bringing such violence to an end. 'If...

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Musical Journeys in Sumatra

by Margaret Kartomi University of Illinois Press
Pub Date:
06/2012
ISBN:
9780252036712
Format:
Hbk 472 pages

Despite being the sixth largest island in the world and home to an estimated 44 million Indonesians, Sumatra's musical arts and...

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East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute

by David C Kang Columbia University Press
Pub Date:
10/2010
ISBN:
9780231153188
Format:
Hb+ 240 pages

From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two large-scale...

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