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This book addresses the historical relationship that has arisen between the concept of capitalism...

The concept of civil society was borrowed from 18th-century Europe to provide a framework for und...

The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned...

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Die Ära der Gesetzlosigkeit geht in Deadwood langsam zu Ende. Der Termin der ersten Wahlen nähert...

In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeath...

The last eight centuries of China's relationship with the world told through the eyes of traders,...

The Tang dynasty is often called Chinäs ¿golden age.¿ Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which ...

This collection of essays reexamines the role of opium throughout East Asia's history and in doin...

This is a riveting, day-by-day, hour-by-hour reconstruction of the massacre in Tiananmen Square o...

In 17th and 18th century China, Buddhists and Confucians alike flooded local Buddhist monasteries...

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In this critical darling Vermeer's captivating and enigmatic paintings become windows that reveal...

The world-renowned scholar and author of Vermeer's Hat does for China what Mary Beard did for Rom...

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The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire - a ...

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China, la nación más grande de la tierra, es uno de los Estados más antiguos del mundo. Prácticam...

'In 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty c...

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In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese em...