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This book examines the development of wartime culture in the Chinese city of Guilin during the Japanese invasion between 1938 and 1944. Controlled by a nationally powerful Guangxi warlord group, Guilins liberal atmosphere attracted intellectuals who engaged in various forms of literary production, making the city a new wartime cultural center.

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Using the framework of Edward Saids Orientalism, this work examines how Western rock and pop artistsparticularly during the age of album rock from the 1970s through the 1990sperpetuated long-held stereotypes of Japan in their direct encounters with the country and in songs and music videos with Japanese content.

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Using the framework of Edward Saids Orientalism, this work examines how Western rock and pop artistsparticularly during the age of album rock from the 1970s through the 1990sperpetuated long-held stereotypes of Japan in their direct encounters with the country and in songs and music videos with Japanese content.

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This wide-ranging collection examines the relationship among Islam, civil society, and the state. The contributorsincluding both Muslims and non-Muslimsinvestigate how radical Islamists can be distinguished from moderate Muslims, analyze the potential for moderate Islamic governance, and challenge monolithic conceptions of Islam.

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This wide-ranging collection examines the relationship among Islam, civil society, and the state. The contributorsincluding both Muslims and non-Muslimsinvestigate how radical Islamists can be distinguished from moderate Muslims, analyze the potential for moderate Islamic governance, and challenge monolithic conceptions of Islam.

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How Asia's great civilization spread when its traveling merchants, scholars, and holy men brought their shining civilization to Europe's Dark Ages

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This study examines William Franklin Sands, the high-ranking US advisor in the Korean government during the final years of the Choson dynasty. The author argues that his efforts to institute reform and achieve Korean neutrality were scuttled by Korean, Japanese, Russian, and US officials.

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During the more than four decades that he spent in China at the end of the Qing dynasty, William Nelson Lovatt participated in four wars, served in its maritime customs service, and experienced treaty port society. This book provides a rare new insider look at China at the end of the nineteenth century.

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By focusing on such controversies and conflicts as the status of women, relations between the sexes, class antagonisms and the growth of a commercial mass culture, this book offers a new interpretation of the key decade of the 1920s and its significance for contemporary Thailand.

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This book complements previous scholarship on Chinese women and gender by expanding our investigative lens beyond Han patriarchy and providing images of the multi-ethnic landscape of China. By identifying the Han as an ethnically marked category and by bringing to the forefron...

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This important study provides the only comprehensive survey of Chinese women during the early medieval period of disunion known as the Six Dynasties, which lasted from the fall of the Eastern Han dynasty in AD 220 to the reunification of China by the Sui dynasty in AD 581.

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Gives an account of the Afghan War and its aftermath as told by the women who were caught up in it and became its innocent victims.

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It is a little known fact that a women's army of 3,000 participated and 30 women marched with the elite leaders. Women of the Long March tells the story of three of these through their early revolutionary fervour, to the ordeal of the Long March and to the reality they faced after the communist revolution.

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A handbook of literature and research.

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Providing an analysis of tactical warfare, this book explains the early successes of the Japanese and highlights how the Allies overcame many physical and psychological impairments, to master the art of jungle warfare and finally conquer the strange and claustrophobic jungle environment.

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This study provides a political and economic examination of the impact of the silk trade on nineteenth-century Japan. It analyzes the role of Japans eastern interior region and the port of Yokohama and argues that the growth of the silk industry was largely responsible for the integration of Japan into the global economy.

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Amin Saikal, a distinguished Afghan-born scholar of international affairs, provides a sweeping new understanding of the complex contemporary political and social instability encompassing the region.

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