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The Road to the Throne
Algora Publishing 2011; US$ 22.95The stories of the Chinese great emperors reflect the ancient Chinese philosophy, ideology, their wisdom and their ways of administration. Liu Bang is an outstanding example. Rising from a peasant background to become Emperor, he founded the Han Dynasty which lasted for about four hundred years and essentially laid the foundations of China as we know... more...
Raum und Zeit der Städte
Campus Verlag 2011; US$ 26.95Hauptbeschreibung Städte sind in einer spezifischen Landschaft angesiedelt, welche sich mit ihnen verändert und sie ihrerseits prägt. Ihre Bewohner durchleben eine eigene Geschichte durch die Jahrhunderte, in denen sich verschiedene Formen der Vergesellschaftung, des Handels und des kulturellen Lebens herausbilden. In diesem Band fragen Historiker,... more...
Access - Das Verschwinden des Eigentums
Campus Verlag 2007; US$ 10.77Hauptbeschreibung Rifkin analysiert die gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Umwälzungen in gewohnter Schärfe und entwirft ein eindrucksvolles Bild der Access-Gesellschaft: Aus Märkten werden Netzwerke, wir streben nicht mehr nach Eigentum, sondern nach Verfügbarkeit. Ein neuer Kapitalismus entwickelt sich, kulturelle Ressourcen werden in käufliche... more...
China and the Open Door Policy
Bitingduck Press 2012; US$ 9.99The areas of foreign trade, foreign investment, economic aid, and special economic zones are examined in detail and the rapid improvement in the economy after the adoption of the Open Door policy is explained. After Maos death in 1976, followed by the rapid overthrow of the Gang of Four, the way was open for his successors to choose which path... more...
The Morality of China in Africa
Zed Books 2013; US$ 24.95This unique volume, edited with authority by the influential and respected Stephen Chan, gathers together for the first time both African and Chinese perspectives on Chinas place in Africa, analysing the moral aspects of Chinas policies and ensuing migration. The resulting collection touches the issue of racism but also moments of pure... more...
Twentieth-Century China
Routledge 2002; US$ 32.95An important revisionist study of China's recent past that takes into account the historical shape of the century, local perspectives on national history, and reflections on cultural history. more...
Chinese Hsinhai Revolution
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 195.00The Chinese Hsinhai Revolution explores and explains for the first time the important role of G. E. Morrison in great power diplomacy in China from the end of the Russo-Japanese War to the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty. The work is based on a wide range of multinational scholarly sources and in order to develop the context in which Morrison carried... more...
A Tibetan Revolutionary
University of California Press 2004; US$ 25.95This is the as-told-to political autobiography of Phüntso Wangye (Phünwang), one of the most important Tibetan revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. Phünwang began his activism in school, where he founded a secret Tibetan Communist Party. He was expelled in 1940, and for the next nine years he worked to organize a guerrilla uprising against... more...
Becoming Chinese
University of California Press 2000; US$ 15.95This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of twentieth-century Chinese identity. The contributors, all leading researchers, argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of twentieth-century Chinese history. more...
Spymaster
University of California Press 2003; US$ 15.95The most feared man in China, Dai Li, was chief of Chiang Kai-shek's secret service during World War II. This sweeping biography of "China's Himmler," based on recently opened intelligence archives, traces Dai's rise from obscurity as a rural hooligan and Green Gang blood-brother to commander of the paramilitary units of the Blue Shirts and of the... more...









