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Leadership and Authority in China examines the "constitutional" conflict in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Chinese society over two diametrically opposed concepts of leadership and authority.

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Provides a unique longitudinal study of women in colonial India, examining their life experiences and how their position changed, both personally and professionally, over more than a century of British rule. -- .

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Provides a unique longitudinal study of women in colonial India, examining their life experiences and how their position changed, both personally and professionally, over more than a century of British rule. -- .

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After a distinguished career as a jurist in Germany, Alfred Oppler came to the United States in 1939, and in 1946 was invited to Tokyo, where he was SCAP's authority on reform of the Japanese legal order to implement the principles of the new Constitution. Here is his account of the legal reforms and the methods used to achieve them. The author des

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of triads, syndicates, kingmakers, merchants, emperors, generals, spies and pirates.

In telling this masterful and entertaining history, Seagrave provides the reader with a cautionary tale: that Chinese strategies so effective for centuries are just as succesful today.

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Examining the strengths and weaknesses of European and Chinese military techniques during the period, this title provides a balanced perspective on long-held assumptions about Western power, Chinese might, and the nature of war.

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Selectively drawing on the vast literature on Gandhi since the 1920s, this bibliography covers his life, political campaigns, philosophy of nonviolence, and strategy of nonviolence, or satyagraha.

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From colonialism to independent statehood, the extent of Malaysias capitalist development has been dramatically limited by its position in the world economy. This book combines macro- and micro-theoretical approaches in analyzing the relationship between capitalist development in Malaysia within a comparative-historical and world-systemic context.

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From colonialism to independent statehood, the extent of Malaysias capitalist development has been dramatically limited by its position in the world economy. This book combines macro- and micro-theoretical approaches in analyzing the relationship between capitalist development in Malaysia within a comparative-historical and world-systemic context.

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Paints a multi-dimensional picture of the hunt for bin Laden over the years, as well as the campaign that gradually tightened the noose around him. This book also includes an account of Obama's decision-making process throughout the final weeks and days during which the raid was planned, as well as what NSC cabinet members were advising him.

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Charts Taylorism's Japanese incarnation, from the "efficiency movement" of the 1920s, through Depression-era "rationalization" and wartime mobilization, up to postwar "productivity" drives and quality-control campaigns. This book compels readers to rethink what implications Japanese-style management has for Western industries.

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This study provides a comprehensive examination of the breaking of political relations between China and the Soviet Union. Based on archival materials from several countriesparticularly Chinathe authors analyze the split from 1959, when visible cracks in the relationship appeared, to Chinas foreign policy shift toward the United States in 1973.

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This study provides a comprehensive examination of the breaking of political relations between China and the Soviet Union. Based on archival materials from several countriesparticularly Chinathe authors analyze the split from 1959, when visible cracks in the relationship appeared, to Chinas foreign policy shift toward the United States in 1973.

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This study examines the SinoSoviet alliance from the end of the World War II through 1959, when the alliance ended as a result of foreign and domestic policies. It reevaluates the history of this alliance and offers the first comprehensive account of it from a Chinese perspective.

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In this much anticipated revision, Maurice Meisner again provides piercing insight and comprehensive coverage of China's fascinating and turbulent modern history.

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This study examines the Indonesian martial arts pencak silat as media practices. The author delineates embodied and disembodied media practices to analyze the dynamics of mediatization in pencak silat and Indonesian society at large.

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Using extensive documentation, this book examines how President Jimmy Carter's troop withdrawal and human rights policies conceived in abstraction from East Asian realities contributed to the demise of Korean President Park Chung Hee.

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Matteo Ricci (15521610) is widely considered the most outstanding cultural mediator of all time between China and the West. This engrossing and fluid book offers a thorough, knowledgeable biography of this fascinating and influential man, telling a deeply human and captivating story that still resonates today.

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Covers the history of the Chinese army from the accession of the great Mongol Khan, Kublai, to the time when European weaponry was introduced. This volume details the equipment and uniforms during the Yuan dynasty, the civil wars of the 14th century, and the campaigns to expel the Mongols.

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The medieval period was probably the most varied in military history when it came to the development of non-gunpowder military machines. This work looks at the stone throwing machines that used assorted sources of power from torsion "energy storage" systems, to manpowered sling devices.