Empire and the Meaning of Religion in Northeast Asia Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 25 June 2024

This book reveals how religion shaped ideas and propelled the lightning-quick development of Manchuria at the start of the twentieth century.

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 24 December 2016

Manchuria entered the twentieth century as a neglected backwater of the dying Qing dynasty, and within a few short years became the focus of intense international rivalry to control its

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 06 March 2017

In War and Geopolitics in Interwar Manchuria Kwong Chi Man revisits the National Revolution of 1925-1928 by revealing the central importance of geopolitics in the civil wars in China during

• Publisher : Central European University Press
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• Release Date : 01 January 2005

The "war on terror" has generated a scramble for expertise on Islamic or Asian "culture" and revived support for area studies, but it has done so at the cost of

• Publisher : Cornell University Press
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• Release Date : 15 February 2013

Developing a framework to study "what makes a region," Amitav Acharya investigates the origins and evolution of Southeast Asian regionalism and international relations. He views the Association of Southeast Asian

• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
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• Release Date : 07 December 2016

As a result of the Aigun (1858) and Beijing Treaties (1860) Russia had become a participant in international relations of Northeast Asia, but historiography has underestimated the presence of Russia and the

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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• Release Date : 20 September 2018

Asia was the principle focus of empire-builders from Alexander and Akbar to Chinggis Khan and Qianlong and yet, until now, there has been no attempt to provide a comprehensive history

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 01 August 2019

Explores the growth of Christianity in inland Roman Asia, as cities and rural communities moved away from polytheistic Greco-Roman religion.

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 21 April 2016

This book charts the history of Confucianism in Japan to offer new perspectives on the sociology of Confucianiam across East Asia.

• Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
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• Release Date : 07 February 2017

A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as