From early Tang court debates to China's peaceful rise /
"This volume presents new topics from Chinese history of the last 1400 years from a broad range of fields such as politics, religion, society, economy and culture. The refreshing eight articles give new insights on events as different as the inter-religious court debates of the Tang, the Jiaqin...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2009]
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| Series: | ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ;
7. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This volume presents new topics from Chinese history of the last 1400 years from a broad range of fields such as politics, religion, society, economy and culture. The refreshing eight articles give new insights on events as different as the inter-religious court debates of the Tang, the Jiaqing reform of the Qing, the China display on the Chicago World Fair in 1893, Christianity and state-building in Chaozhou, the Taiwan salt trade, Chinese indentured labour in World War I in France, China's rise and current internet regulation. This book highlights the complexity of multi-level interaction of different agents in the center and periphery of China, inside and outside China, contributing to intellectual debates, political and social dynamics, economy structure, modernization, identity building and interaction with the outside"--Publisher's description. |
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| Item Description: | "This volume offers a selection of papers that were presented at the International Convention of Asian Scholars 2005 in Shanghai and in 2007 in Kuala Lumpur"--Page [9]. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (158 pages) : illustrations, chart. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789048501458 9048501458 |