A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Ola Hanson (1864-1927) was a Swedish-American missionary from Minnesota, posted to northern Burma in 1890. He lived with the Kachin people and became fluent in their language, compiling a word-list and eventually producing a Kachin-English dictionary. Their own culture and complex belief system were orally transmitted: Hanson therefore devised an alphabetical transcription for his translation of the Bible into Kachin, and this writing system later bec... View More...
Condition: Dust jacket has slight tear Tibet exerts a powerful fascination far beyond its borders. Given its very remoteness and the all-encompassing character of Tibetan Buddhism, it has been the setting for countless works of romance, adventure and fantasy. Yet relatively few writers have studied Tibet as an evolving, contemporary society, despite the fact that for the last forty years this nation of over 5 million people has been confronting a dual challenge more critical than any other since the 'dark ages' of the tenth century: surviving Chinese Communism and confronting modernity. This b... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Covering the past three centuries of Thai history, this book reveals how a landscape of sparsely populated forest and jungle was transformed into villages and paddy fields, with a rural society of smallholder peasants and an urban society populated mainly by migrants from southern China. It demonstrates how throughout the twentieth century, Thailand has been drawn into the international system, the American camp in the Cold War, the economic gambit of... View More...
This richly illustrated volume takes the reader on a journey through the co mplexities of dragon lore: the evolution of the Chinese dragon, the differe nt types of dragons and their uses, the diverse art inspired by dragons, an d dragon legends and sightings. View More...
The extraordinary and essential story of how China became the powerful coun try it is today. Even at the high noon of Europe's empires China managed to be one of the ha ndful of countries not to succumb. Invaded, humiliated and looted, China no netheless kept its sovereignty. Robert Bickers' major new book is the first to describe fully what has proved to be one of the modern era's most impor tant stories: the long, often agonising process by which the Chinese had by the end of the 20th century regained control of their own country. Out of China uses a brilliant array of unusual, strange and v... View More...
This book provides a thorough introduction of five thousand years of Chines e civilization history. It introduces the basic knowledge in all aspects in cluding the general natural picture, national multiplying, culture formatio n, inventions and creations, scientific and technological archives, philoso phy and ideology, economic impact, artistic achievement, life customs, and so on. At the same time, it also objectively introduces the achievement in various fields since the founding of the new China. View More...
A wonderful tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscri ptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. A veteran British journalist examines the history, culture, and economy of North and (principally) South Korea, where he lives for half of each year. Realizing that most readers know Korea only because of the war (1950-53) or because of the communist North's nuclear potential and noisy aggressiveness, Breen limns with patience and perspicuity an engaging portrait of this least-known of the major Asian economic powers. He describes, for example, ... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Prior to the nineteenth century, the independent kingdom of Lanna flourished in Northern Thailand. Lanna stretched as far north from Phitsanulok to Chiang Rai, as far east as present day Laos and as far west as Burma. Over the centuries, Lanna developed a distinctive art, architecture, language, and culture. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Lifestyle in China presents the largest country in the world not as a political and economic superpower but simply as a country, with a long, storied history and complex culture. More important than the China of today's international news is its people: what does the everyday life of a Chinese family look like? This book explores the leisure activities and rich food culture of the Chinese that has continued throughout the ages since ancient China. Und... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A comprehensive study on Japanese rule of Korea with intention how one civilized race ruled another civilized race. View More...
A wonderful tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper dj unclipp ed, not an ex-lib; Kamm, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for the New York Times who has been reporting from Southeast Asia for more than a quarter century, here e xplores Vietnam, its resilient people, its history and its likely future. T he men and women he introduces us to include General Tran Cong Man, unoffic ial spokesman for the Communist Party; Duong Thu Huong, a dissident whose d efiance of unjust authority landed her in solitary confinement; Duong Quynh Hoa, one of the founders of the National Liberatio... View More...
"A brilliant, coherent social and political overview spanning three turbule nt centuries."--San Francisco Chronicle Stanley Karnow won the Pulitzer Prize for this account of America's imperia l experience in the Philippines. In a swiftly paced, brilliantly vivid narr ative, Karnow focuses on the relationship that has existed between the two nations since the United States acquired the country from Spain in 1898, ex amining how we have sought to remake the Philippines "in our image," an exp eriment marked from the outset by blundering, ignorance, and mutual misunde rstanding. "Stanley Karnow ha... View More...
