Elite Theatre in Ming China, 1368-1644

By Grant Guangren Shen

Theatre occupied a particularly important place in the life of the elite, for whom owning a theatre troupe was highly fashionable and for whom theatre...

Published March 15th 2005 by Routledge.

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Political Philosophy in Japan

Nishida, the Kyoto School and co-prosperity

By Christopher Jones

Political Philosophy in Japan focuses on the politics of Japan's pre-eminent philosophical school - the Kyoto School - and particularly that of its founder, Nishida...

Published March 9th 2005 by Routledge.

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A Colonial Economy in Crisis

Burma's Rice Cultivators and the World Depression of the 1930s

By Ian Brown

The book challenges the orthodox argument that rural populations which abandoned self-sufficiency to become single commodity producers, and were supposedly very vulnerable to the commodity...

Published March 9th 2005 by Routledge.

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Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-1963

A Medicine of Revolution

By Kim Taylor

Using original sources, this significant text looks at the transformation of Chinese medicine from a marginal, side-lined medical practice of the early twentieth century, to an...

Published December 9th 2004 by Routledge.

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Textiles in Indian Ocean Societies

Edited by Ruth Barnes

Textiles in Indian Ocean Societies considers the importance of trade, and the transformation of the meaning of objects has the move between different cultures. It...

Published December 2nd 2004 by Routledge.

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Kings Countries & Constitutions - SEA NIP

By Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian

Providing a detailed analysis of Thailand's political development since 1932, when Thailand became a constitutional monarchy, until the present, this book examines the large number of different...

Published November 11th 2004 by Routledge.

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The Origins of Himalayan Studies

Brian Houghton Hodgson in Nepal and Darjeeling

By David Waterhouse

Brian Hodgson lived in Nepal from 1820 to 1843 during which time he wrote and publisged xtensively on Nepalese culture, religion, natural history, architecture, ethnography...

Published October 28th 2004 by Routledge.

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Defending Japan's Pacific War

The Kyoto School Philosophers and Post-White Power

By David Williams

This book puts forward a revisionist view of Japanese wartime thinking. It seeks to explore why Japanese intellectuals, historians and philosophers of the time insisted...

Published October 28th 2004 by Routledge.

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Five Letters 1519-1526

By Hernando Cortés

First published in 1928.
'These letters, well edited tell of a great conqueror, fighting for God and his king, and reveal the might proportions of the...

Published October 21st 2004 by Routledge.

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Akbar and the Jesuits

An Account of the Jesuit Missions to the Court of Akbar

By Father Pierre du Jarric Jarric

First published in 1926.
'These documents are full of intimate interest' Times Literary Supplement
'A serious and intensely interesting piece of work' The Guardian
The Jesuit missionaries were...

Published October 21st 2004 by Routledge.

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