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Presents the stories of individual entrepreneurs and presents economic data gleaned from fieldwork in Liangshan. This book documents... Læs mere
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Contains stories from a historic period of national American politics, portraying brilliant and not-so-brilliant leaders and ideas, and also illuminate politics' darker side.
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Examines the life and work of Chinese born painter Yun Gee and his Chinese American daughter Li-lan in the context of trans-nationalism and hybridity, race, identity, and globalization.
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Examines the cities of Algeria and Tunisia under French colonial rule and those of the Ottoman Arab provinces. By shifting the emphasis from the 'centers' of Paris and Istanbul to the 'peripheries', this title presents a more nuanced look at cross-cultural exchanges.
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Demonstrates the interweaving of Chinese and European ritual practices at different levels of interaction in seventeenth-century China. This book explores the role of rituals - specifically rites related to death and funerals - in cross-cultural exchange.
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Presents a glimpse into Chinese folk literature through translated verses secretly written by the oppressed village women of Hunan, who bravely scribed their stories, in their own words.
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Looks at black women artists and video art. This survey examines an intriguing and unbounded scope of work, including experimental... Læs mere
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Highlights an urgent problem for indigenous communities around the world--repeated displacement from their lands
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Shows how a world of social meaning is evident in the literary subgenre of painting manuals, and provides insight into the links between art history, print culture, and social history
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Tells the story of a tribe whose members waged a painful and sometimes bitter twenty-year struggle among themselves about whether to give up their status as a sovereign nation
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Imperial tombs, Buddhist architecture, palaces, and art treasures in Korea and Japan have attracted scholars, collectors,... Læs mere
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Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this book examines the impact of economic development on ethnic minority people living along the upper-middle reaches of the Nu (Salween) River in Yunnan.