Catálogo de libros: Historia de Asia

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  • Hearn’s Japan
    Lafcadio Hearn
    'Finally the treatment these true classics deserve: thoroughly re-edited and modernized texts, with glossary, index...and beautiful layout to boot.'Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), the son of an Irish Surgeon-Major and a Greek woman of noble lineage, who settled in Japan after a checkered career in journalism in Cincinnati and New Orleans, is still considered by many the most astute...
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    25,13 €

  • CHINA THROUGH AMERICAN EYES
    WENXIAN ZHANG
    Cultural understanding between the United States and China has been a long and complex process. The period from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century is not only a critical era in modern Chinese history, but also the peak time of illustrated news reporting in the United States. Besides images from newspapers and journals, this collection also contains pictur...
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    165,78 €

  • Rain Falling on Tamarind Trees
    C. L. Hoang
    Finalist (Travel category), 2019 San Diego Book Awards Former Amazon #1 New Release in Vietnam Travel Guides 5-Star Rating from Amazon Hall-of-Fame Top Reviewer Have you ever wondered what Vietnam is like some forty years after the war has ended? Then come along with the author as he returns to visit his ancestral homeland for the first time after a decades-long absence.Retrace...
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    13,47 €

  • MEEGOOK
    Jeanhee Kang
    In November, 1982, Jesus asked Kang on the darkest night of her life, 'Why aren't you going to church?' Kang who had broken almost all of the Ten Commandments by age 25, questioned God in disbelief, 'Why me?', ' You must not know of my dark Past...'      Three years after the Korean War ends, Jeanhee Kang is born to poor rice farmers in a predominantly Buddhist culture. A b...
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    11,03 €

  • An Artist in Japan
    John La Farge
    “Finally the treatment these true classics deserve: thoroughly re-edited and modernized texts, with glossary, index…and beautiful layout to boot.”John la Farge (1835–1910), traveling Japan’s interior in the summer of 1886, sees Japan in a way only he can: through the eyes of a painter, observing a vast canvas in which he discerns every color, every shade, every nuance, every re...
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    25,45 €

  • Understanding Aikido
    Jan J Sunderlin
    Understanding Aikido: Essential Information and Perceptions (Special Edition) presents an historical, cultural, and philosophical look at the development of the Japanese martial art of Aikido. Sunderlin focuses on the influences brought to bear on Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of Aikido, and the subsequent cultivation of the latter's martial art as a vessel of Budo. The author a...
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    63,06 €

  • Life and Death in the Korean Bronze Age (c. 1500-400 BC)
    Sunwoo Kim
    This research focuses on the Bronze Age in selected areas of Korea; Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi province. Two forms of evidence - settlements and monuments - are taken into account to identify their relationship with landscape and the social changes occurring between ca. 1500 to 400 cal BC. Life and death in the Bronze Age in Korea has not been synthetically investigated befor...
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    108,34 €

  • Not by Love Alone
    Margaret Mehl
    Suzuki Shin'ichi, the Tokyo String Quartet, Midori - How did Japanese violinists manage to revolutionize violin teaching, win international competitions, conquer Western concert stages, study at world-famous conservatoires and take up positions in leading orchestras and prestigious music faculties? What enabled the Japanese to master Western classical music within a few decades...
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    29,32 €

  • Pictures in Transformation
    Luca Maria Olivieri
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    54,79 €

  • South Asian Archaeology 2007
    Proceedings of the 19th Meeting of the European Association of South Asian Archaeology in Ravenna, Italy, July 2007.                     ...
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    182,04 €

  • Living Dangerously in Korea
    Donald N. Clark
    Korea was “discovered” by the West after World War II when it became a flashpoint in the Cold War. Before the war, however, it was home to many hundreds of Westerners who experienced life there under Japanese colonial rule. These included missionaries who opened Korea as a field for evangelism, education, and medicine; speculators who risked much and reaped riches from mining c...
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    27,92 €

  • Name Construction in Mediæval Japan
    Solveig Throndardottir
    Name Construction in Mediæval Japan examines Japanese names from earliest records to the close of the medieval period in 1600. Like ancient Greek or Latin names or Arabic names, ancient and medieval Japanese names express the social role of the individual in Japanese society. The main text and accompanying notes provide a guide to the origin and social role of formal names, com...
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    47,55 €

  • The Moon Year - A Record of Chinese Customs and Festivals
    Igor Mitrophanow / Juliet Bredon
    The Moon Year is a facinating recording the mysterious and somewhat elusive traditions of the Chinese. Juliet Bredon and Igor Mitrophanow trace their way through the intimate life of Chinese religion, superstitions, philosophies, customs, and society. Only after a year’s residence in China are the authors able to gather an intimate perspective on this age-old civilization that ...
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    22,63 €

  • HISTORICAL STUDIES ON COMFORT WOMEN IN SHANGHAI
    Fei Yao / Lifei Chen / LIFEI CHEN FEI YAO & XIE’ ZHILIANG SU / Zhiliang Su
    This book examines the history of the military comfort women system in China. It aims to give readers a deeper insight into the origin, establishment, and operations of comfort stations, as well as tell the sufferings of comfort women, many of whom were coerced into service. It does so by providing historical evidence gathered over 25 years of field studies from 172 comfort sta...
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    190,39 €

  • China Demise of a Civilization
    Peter Thalheim
    Read the demise of what was once the leading civilization in the world into a base rule-of-man dictatorship, where the government fears her own people. How strong can she be if she lies to her own people; cheats on her international agreements; and, steals the technology and intellectual property of the rest of the world? Shouldn’t a great civilization be a fount of creation in...
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    13,78 €

  • Mysterious Japan
    Julian Street
    Mysterious Japan, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies ...
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    20,02 €

  • Central Asian Cultures, Arts, and Architecture
    Ardi Kia
    This book documents the prehistoric and ancient cultural accomplishments influencing the Golden Ages of Inner Eurasia in the medieval era. ...
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    54,66 €

  • Confucian Iconoclasm
    Philippe Major
    Confucian Iconoclasm proposes a novel account of the emergence of modern Confucian philosophy in Republican China (1912-1949), challenging the historiographical paradigm that modern (or New) Confucianism sought to preserve traditions against the iconoclasm of the May Fourth Movement. Through close textual analyses of Liang Shuming’s Eastern and Western Cultures and Their Philos...
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    44,52 €

  • The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya
    Steven E. Lindquist
    A literary and historical investigation into an ancient Indian religious thinker, tracing his rise in importance in the Hindu tradition. ...
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    44,29 €

  • Myth and the Making of History
    Sheds new light on the relationship between myth and history in ancient China and the central role they have played in shaping early Chinese thought. ...
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    126,81 €

  • Mao’s Hijacked Generation
    Mao’s Hijacked Generation. Sarasota, FL: New Knowledge Press, 2024According to Ai Weiwei, the renowned Chinese artist and human rights activist, '[t]his rare book is a true record of the dark history...of the Zhiqing Movement in China that destroyed rationality, severed people’s historical memory and rational thinking, and deeply affected the way Chinese people think and behave...
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    19,12 €

  • The Way of the Samurai
    Inazo Nitobe
    'The Way of the Samurai: Unveiling the Heart of Ancient Warriors'When you hear the word 'samurai,' you might imagine fierce fighters wearing masks and wielding long swords. But there’s more to samurai culture than just battles. Inazo Nitobe’s classic text reveals that samurai were not only warriors but also part of an aristocratic class. They balanced their martial skills with ...
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    8,02 €

  • The Mortal God
    Milinda Banerjee
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    144,10 €

  • Breeze & Storm
    Isenbike Togan
    Nomadic people have been associated with storm rather than breeze in terms of their activities across Asia. The collection of essays in this volume however emphasizes both, but gives more space to breeze in terms of cultural interaction and mutual influence with sedentary societies. In general, cultural influence is perceived as coming from sedentary societies as a civilizing p...
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    51,19 €

  • To Lhassa at Last
    Powell Millington
    To Lhassa at Last, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies...
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    15,60 €

  • Mutiny Memoirs
    A. R. D. Mackenzie
    Mutiny Memoirs: Being Personal Reminiscences of the Great Sepoy Revolt of 1857, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, ret...
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    15,51 €

  • My Experiences at Nan Shan and Port Arthur with the Fifth East Siberian Rifles
    Nikolaĭ Aleksandrovich Tret’iakov
    My Experiences at Nan Shan and Port Arthur with the Fifth East Siberian Rifles, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, ret...
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    19,55 €

  • Writing Early China
    Edward L. Shaughnessy
    Considers what unearthed documents reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China. ...
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    47,87 €

  • The Public Library Movement in India
    Aditya Gupta / Lawrence Liang
    This book details the history of librarians and libraries in India, including state and union government legislation. The book is also available at https://archive.org/details/public.library.movement.india ...
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    12,04 €

  • Unlocking the Chinese Gate
    Galia Dor
    Offers an innovative analysis of gates-as architectural components, visual images, and mental constructs-in early Chinese thought and material culture. ...
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    126,52 €


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