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Tokyo, Japan: Tokyo Kyoiku Daigaku, Rigakubu, 1961 186 pp. 1 plate, maps, illustrations, bibliographical notes. 6 contributions in Japanese (with English summaries); 1 contribution in English. CONTENTS: Agar-agar plant: Its distribution in the sublittoral zone and the collecting activities at the coastal communities in Japan (Shohei Birukawa). A geomorphological study of the mountain foot region at the eastern part of Nagano Basin, Central Japan: On the formation of alluvial fans and terraces with reference to volcanic activities (Tadashi Machida). Some observations on the tea industry on Makinohara Upland in Shizuoka Prefecture (Shozo Yamamoto). Local climate in the Mt. Kirishima region (Masatoshi Yoshino). Hypsometric analysis of mountain lands in Atsumi Peninsula, Aichi Prefecture, japan (Masami Ichikawa). Historical changes of trade areas of local towns in Takefu Basin, Fukui Prefecture (Kiyoshi Sawada). The concept of areal functional organization and its application to a comparative field theory [in English] (Yasuo Masai). Light overall wear to cloth covers. Interior binding partially cracked near front of book.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). 16 x 22 cm. more information

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Tokyo, Japan: Tokyo Kyoiku Daigaku, Rigakubu, 1960 139 pp. 1 plate, maps, illustrations, bibliographical notes. All contributions in Japanese (most articles have English summaries). CONTENTS: Historical changes in the trade areas of local towns in the Tedori Fan Area of Ishikawa Prefecture (Kiyoshi Sawada). The geographical distribution of spring-time city temperatures in and around Yonezawa, Yamagata in Northern Japan (Takeshi Sekiguti). Climate and vegetation of the Pescadores Islands (Eiichiro Fukui). The tea industry of mountains in the middle of Shizuoka Prefecture (Shozo Yamamoto). The local distribution of wind-shaped trees and usnea as indicators of microclimates in the sub-alpine zone (Masatoshi Yoshino). A study on the establishment of Totsuka-Shuka (post-town of Totsuka) along the Tokaido Highway in the Tokugawa Era (Yukio Asaka). The vertical distribution of temperature and wind velocity above Tokyo (Takeshi Kawamura). Light overall wear to cloth covers.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). 16 x 22 cm. more information

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Tokyo: Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai, 1959 190 pp. ; 27 cm. Color frontispiece of Karaori, three folding plates, map in rear, line drawings throughout. In excellent condition (slight offsetting to half-title page) in VG dustjacket with moderate tanning to spine area and front panel. Silk binding.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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Tokyo, Japan: Tokyo Kyoiku Daigaku, Rigakubu, 1963 240 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliographical notes. All contributions in Japanese (with English summaries). CONTENTS: Physio-geographical studies on the littoral drift along the Niigata Coast, Central Japan (Mino, Machida, Aramaki, Yamanouchi). On the landform and the ground water reservoir in the Mito Area, Aichi Prefecture (Mino, Ichikawa). Some problems on hydrology (Yokichi Mino). A form and structure of Oshi (low shinto priests) towns in Kamiyoshida and Kawaguchi on the north from which the ascent of Mt. Fuji is made: A particular type of Japanese high mountain villages in Central Honshu, Part 2 (Yuko Asaka). The local of the agricultural machine and implement industry (Ichiro Kikuchi). The industries in Amagasaki (Kiyoki Koda). Metropolitan city-region and daily traffic current in Nagoya and Osaka (Kiyoshi Sawada). City climate distribution in and around Ogaki, a medium-sized city in Central Japan (Takeshi Sekiguti). Light bumping to top of spine. Light overall wear to cloth covers.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). 16 x 22 cm. more information

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Taipei, Taiwan: China Cultural Service, 1987 iii, 776 pp. Bibliographical notes. 18 scholarly essays. CONTENTS: Chiang Kai-shek and the anti-Yuan movement [Li Shou-kung]. Divergence in strategic planning: Chiang Kai-shek's mission to Moscow, 1923 [Eugene W. Wu]. Chiang Kai-shek's visit to the Soviet Union and his observations [Wang Yu-chun]. Chiang Kai-shek and the founding of Whampoa Military Academy and Army [Hsu Lang-hsuan]. A reappraisal of the party-purification movement [Li Yun-han]. American policy toward the Northern Expedition of Chinese nationalists, 1926-1928 [Wang Kang-ling]. The military strategies and political strategies in the first period of the Northern Expedition [Lee Kuo-chi]. The Shantung battlefield during the period of the Northern Expedition [Chang Yu-fa]. The achievement of the National Government in Nanking in abolishing unequal treaties before the Mukden Incident of Sept. 18, 1931 [Lee En-han]. Inner Mongolia in 1930s: a Mongolian perspective of Chiang Kai-shek's attitutde toward the Mongols [Sechin Jagchid]. Chiang Kai-shek and major national training projects [Chou Ying-lung]. Marco Polo Bridge incident and Chiang Kai-shek's war decision [Ikuhiko Hata]. John Leighton Stuart and the Sino-Japanese War [Shaw Yu-ming]. Chiang Kai-shek's democratic thought [Lei Fei-lung]. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's war direction in the war of resistance against Japan [Chiang Wego]. Chiang Kai-shek's fundamental guideline for China's war efforts during the Sino-Japanese War: resist to the last and fight to the bitter end [Chiang Yung-ching]. The Youth Expedition forces and the war against the Communist rebellion [Liu Feng-han]. Spies and traitors: the role of espionage and treason in the defeat of the Nationalists on the Chinese mainland, 1945-1949 [Donald G. Gillin]. CONDITION: Very light overall handling wear (virtually unused). OVERSIZED.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 27 x 20 cm. more information

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Shanghai, China: Shanghai ren min mei shu chu ban she, 1991 Scarce. Unpaginated (approximately 120 pp.). Color illustrations. Text in Tibetan with Chinese translation (only the title is given in English). The majority of the book consists of 169 high-quality illustrations of modern Tibetan art works (primarily paintings). CONDITION: Light handling wear; small tear in dustjacket to edge of front flap. OVERSIZED.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 26 x 24 cm. more information

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Tokyo, Japan: Tokyo Kyoiku Daigaku, Rigakubu, 1962 244 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliographical notes. 5 contributions in Japanese (with English summaries); 1 contribution in English. CONTENTS: Land use of the Shimizu Area, Central Japan: A geographical study on the modernization of region (Yamamoto, Masai, Marui, Ota, Sasaki). The distribution of winter-time city temperature in and around Yonezawa in Northern Japan (Takeshi Sekiguti). A study of the formation of "yamahidas" (ravines) on the steep slopes in the western part of Tanzawa Mountains, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan: Shapes of bottom-cross section of yamahidas and morphological classification of yamahidas (Shingo Tanaka). Development of villages along the lower course of the Okitsu (Suruga Province) in the Edo Period (Yukio Asaka). Vegetable horticultural regions in relation to the giant urban markets in Japan (Shohei Birukawa). Recent trends of geographical research from the viewpoint of physical side in Japan [in English] (Masami Ichikawa). Light overall wear to cloth covers.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). 16 x 22 cm. more information

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Tokyo, Japan: Tokyo Kyoiku Daigaku, Rigakubu, 1964 186 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliographical notes, loose errata sheet. All contributions in Japanese (with English summaries). CONTENTS: The occurence of perched water (Soki Yamamoto). The distribution of extreme values of rainfall in June and July in and around Taiwan (Masatoshi M. Yoshino). A criticism of past studies on industrial location and an important problem for future research (Ichiro Kikuchi). On the flow of industrial materials and manufactured products and the industrial location in the Tokai District (Kiyoki Koda). A study of the Asikaga Tricot Industrial Estate in the Kanto region (Kiyoshi Sawada). City climate distribution in and around the small city of Ina in Central Japan (Takeshi Sekiguti). Changes in the bed of Katsura River near Shiotsu, Yamanashi Prefecture (Shigemi Takahama). Distribution pattern of agricultural land use intensity and crop-combination types (Birukawa, Yamamoto, Okuno, Kinto, Asano). Light overall wear to cloth covers.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). 16 x 22 cm. more information

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006 New. xix, 199 pp. Glossary, maps, footnotes, color plates, appendices, bibliography, index. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this original study presents a scholarly study of elite Muslim women in Pukhtun (Pushtun) society within the framework of "gham-khadi" (funeral-marriage) ceremonies.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 24 x 16 cm. more information

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Cambridge, MA: East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School, 2007 xi, 436 pp. Footnotes, bibliographical references, index. 10 essays examine the development of the legal profession in East and Southeast Asian countries.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 25 x 16 cm. more information

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Albany, NY: State University of New York (SUNY), 2001. xiii, 239 pp. Endnotes, bibliography, index. A scholarly study of the causes and effects of the 1989 schism within the largest Japanese teachers' union, the Japan Teachers' Union (Nikkyoso). Light wear only; text clean and free of all marks.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 23 x 15 cm. more information

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Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 1963 xii, 264 pp. Glossary. In English and Mongolian. Designed primarily as a second-year course reader. Originally published in 1956, this is a new and revised edition. Includes some advanced grammatical notes, but the book is primarily devoted to a collection of readings in modern Mongolian (in Cyrillic script; the Mongolian readings in chapters 1-6 also include a romanized transcription). CONDITION: Sewn binding. Light overall abrasion to spine, else virtually as new (with minor overall age toning).. Revised. Paperback. Very Good. 23 x 16 cm. more information

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Moskva (Moscow): Izdatel'stvo nauka, 1976 Scarce. 261 pp. Illustrations, maps (some folding), bibliographical references. Text in Russian. A catalog of 2,059 archaeological monuments in Bashkortostan. CONDITION: In Near Fine condition with very light shelfwear only.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 27 x 21 cm. more information

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Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 1996 xvi, 184 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-176) and index.. Cloth. Near Fine. more information

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New Delhi, India: Academic Foundation, 2004 337 pp. Bibliographical references, index. 12 scholarly essays address agricultural development in South Asia. CONDITION: An ex-library copy in excellent condition (library marks to title-page; call number and barcode stickers; stamped "withdrawn"). Text clean and neat. Very light shelf rubbing to covers. No dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 23 x 15 cm. more information

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Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002 xi, 471 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Part of Series: Asia--local studies/global themes ; 6. Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-459) and index. NF/NF. First Edition.. Cloth. more information

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Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1988 296 pp. Notes, index. In these 14 original, thought-provoking essays, leading scholars address various topics relating to the modernization of Japan from historical, literary and social perspectives. Sewn binding. CONDITION: Very minor handling rubbing; virtually as new.. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Paperback. Like New. 11 x 19 cm. more information

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Tucson, Ariz: University of Arizona Press, 1966 433 p. 24 cm. Conference on Nineteenth Century Japanese Elites (1963 : University of Arizona) Sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies. Includes bibliographical references and index. VG condition [copyright date written in pencil on title page]. Hard Cover. Very Good. more information

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New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2000 xi, 800 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. NF condition in like dustjacket.. Hard Cover. Like New/Like New. more information

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Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1986 XVIII, 314 pp. Selected Bibliography. Glossary. Index. (Harvard East Asian Series; 101). Hardcover. Like New/Like New. more information

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Novosibirsk: Izdatel'stvo Nauka, Sibirskoe otdelenie, 1978 300 pp. Bibliographical footnotes. Text in Russian. A lexicological study of Buriat. CONDITION: Some overall age toning and light wear; text clean and neat.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 21 x 14 cm. more information

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Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007 xi, 214 pp. Illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, index.. First Edition. Paperback. New. more information

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Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate/Variorum, 2006 xxxix, 422 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary: "This is the 10th volume in the Pacific World series, which is dedicated to bringing attention to the important, but often ignored, trans- and intra-Pacific interactions that have developed since the 16th century. Organized around the subjects of Japanese views of the Pacific, diplomatic and economic relations, and expansion and diaspora, the essays in this volume describe the dramatic opening of Japan to the larger world and the consequent, and equally dramatic, changes in the Japanese economy and society. Individual papers cover such topics as maps and metaphors of the "small eastern sea" in Tokugawa Japan; early Russo-Japanese relations; the journal of the Iwakura embassy; and Japanese prostitutes in 19th-century America." NF condition. No dustjacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Like New. more information

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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007 xvi, 515 pp. Plates, charts, appendix, bibliography, index. OVERSIZED.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 24 x 17 cm. more information

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 xvi, 342 pp. Maps, footnotes, bibliography, index. A challenging, scholarly study of the partition of 1947 and the creation and history of Bengal (modern Bangladesh).. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 24 x 16 cm. more information

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Berkeley, CA: University of Califonia Press, 2007 xvii, 307 pp. Maps, illustrations, endnotes, glossary, bibliography, index. An interdisciplinary study of peasant discourses and practices among the Dharala peasants of Gujarat during the 19th and 20th centuries. CONDITION: As new except for an "Examination copy" stamp on the bottom of the book block.. First Edition. Paperback. Like New. 23 x 15 cm. more information

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Berkeley, CA: University of Califonia Press, 2006 xiii, 331 pp. Illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, index. A scholarly, historical study of earthquakes in late Meiji Japan and their impact on Japanese society. CONDITION: As new except for an "Examination copy" stamp on bottom of book block.. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. 24 x 16 cm. more information

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Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998. xiv, 209 pp. Notes, appendix, glossary, bibliography, indexThis unique study argues that in the Qin-Han period, there arose in China a regime of textual authority-one that overlapped but did not coincide with imperial authority. Drawing on a wide range of research and theory, the author makes an original contribution to the analysis of early imperial elite culture, particularly in the fields of literature and linguistics, intellectual, and institutional history. The author provides new contexts for thinking about canonization and textual transmission systems, an innovative framework for analysis and discussion of the early imperial elite, a socio-ideological exploration of one strand of late Han "Confucian" thought, and a critique of the concepts of subjectivity and the "birth of lyricism" in China.. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/No Jacket (as issued). 24 x 16 cm. more information

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Albany, NY: State University of New York (SUNY), 1998 viii, 264 pp. Illustrations, notes, references, list of contributors, index. An important collection of ten essays (plus the editor's excellent introduction) by leading scholars of Jain culture in South Asian history. CONDITION: Very minor shelf rubbing.. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/No Jacket (as issued). 24 x 16 cm. more information

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Manila, Philippines: Solidaridad Publishing House, 1967 Scarce. vii, 169 pp. Bibliographical footnotes, loose errata slip. Contains 12 collected essays by the author. CONTENTS: 1) Precolonial Southeast Asia. 2) Outpost of empire. 3) Bishop Salazar and the colonial episcopate. 4) Patronato Real and Recurso de Fuerza. 5) Alarms and incursions. 6) The formative century, 1760-1860. 7) Muhammad Alimuddin I, Sultan of Sulu, 1735-1773. 8) Early French contacts with the Philippines. 9) Philippine economic development. 10) The Filipino lay Catholic. 11) Southeast Asia and the West. 12) The Eastern face of Christ. CONDITION: Sewn binding. Moderately light overall handling wear; minor chipping to card covers at base of spine. Text clean and neat.. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. 23 x 16 cm. more information

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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967 xiii, 702 pp. Plates, maps, illustrations, appendices, bibliography, endnotes, index. An excellent, detailed and scholarly history of the Jesuits in the Philippines by a leading historian. CONDITION: Minor red-pencil marginalia (checks and brackets only) in last 25 pages of main text only. Well-thumbed, but moderately light overall handling wear only to book. Dustjacket is heavily chipped and falling apart; it has been crudely and extensively repaired with tape.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 24 x 16 cm. more information

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003 xvii, 357 pp. Maps, footnotes, glossary, bibliography (with an extensive introdution), index. CONTENTS: 1) Introduction: Japan's internal and external worlds, 1582-1941. 2) Japan and its Chinese and European worlds, 1582-1689. 3) The Japanese economy, 1688-1789. 4) An age of stability: Japan's internal world, 1709-1783, in perspective. 5) Prosperity and crises, 1789-1853. 6) Sakoku under pressure: the "gaiatsu" of the 1850s and 1860s. 7) Fashioning a state and a foreign policy: Japan 1868-1919. 8) From peace (Versailles 1919) to war (Pearl Harbor 1941). CONDITION: Minor overall handling wear; small area blacked out on blank, front free endpaper; text clean and free of all marks.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 24 x 16 cm. more information

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Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1987 vi, [6], 211 p. ; 25 cm. (Religion in Asia and Africa series) Index. Bibliography: p. [203]-206.. First Edition. Cloth. Like New/No Dustjacket. more information

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Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Asia Center : distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007 xiv, 220 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Series: Harvard East Asian monographs ; 286. "The eleventh-century masterpiece The Tale of Genji casts a long shadow across the literary terrain of the Heian period (794-1185)." "Charo B. D'Etcheverry calls for a reevaluation of late Heian fiction by shedding new light upon this undervalued body of work. D'Etcheverry examines three representative texts - The Tale of Sagoromo, The Tale of the Hamamatsu Middle Counselor, and Nezame at Night - as legitimate heirs to the literary legacy of Genji and as valuable indexes to the literary tastes and readerly expectations that evolved over the Heian period." Includes bibliographical references and index. Fine condition in like dustjacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Like New/Like New. more information

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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984 xi, 320 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [303]-312. VG condition (scattered marginal notes and underlining through first 40 pages). First Paperback Printing 1987. Paperback. more information

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008 xii, 300 pp. Bibliographical footnotes, index.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 23 x 16 cm. more information

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Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, for the Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch, 1977 Out of print. xiv, 310 pp. Plates, endnotes, bibliography, index. Based on extensive archival research, this is a study of the diplomatic history of Korea and its unsuccessful attempts to modernize under King Kojong, from the Treaty of Kanghwa (1876) until the Convention of Tientsin (1885). This decade witnessed the "opening" of Korea (a tributary state to China) by Japan and its first contacts with Western powers. The author was a pioneer of Western scholarship in the field of Korean history. Bookmark sewn in. CONTENTS: 1) Korea on the eve of her opening. 2) Overtures to change. 3) The break with the past. 4) Victory of diplomacy. 5) Trade and the opened ports. 6) Korea on the threshold of a new age: reform and reaction. 7) Korea's opening to the west. 8) Korea between China and Japan. 9) Consolidation of positions: Korea after the opening. 10) Trade on the Korean coast. 11) The end of a decade. 12) Conclusions. Appendices. CONDITION: Cloth-covered boards in excellent condition (protected in original, acrylic jacket). Very minor handling wear to book block; mild bumping to upper tips of last several pages.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). 24 x 17 cm. more information

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Los Angeles, CA: Institute of Archaeology, University of California, 1985 xxi, pages 619-1381. Illustrations. Contains English summaries of archaeological reports published in Chinese. Out-of-print. CONDITION: Small bumps to corners and ends of spine. Light to moderate overall rubbing and wear to cloth covers. OVERSIZED.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 23 x 29 cm. more information

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New York: RoutledgeCurzon (Taylor & Francis), 2004 xiv, 220 pp. Appendix, bibliography, index. This scholarly book analyzes Japan's participation in the G7/8 summits. CONDITION: An ex-library copy in Very Good condition (library marks on title-page; call number and barcode stickers; stamped "withdrawn"). Text neat and clean. Light bumping to corners. No dustjacket, as issued.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket (as issued). 24 x 17 cm. more information

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Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996 xviii, 334 pp. Illustrations, maps, 17 scholarly essays. 7 essays address regional issues (e.g., geography, physical environment, cultural heritage, agro-economy, urbanization, national economic planning), and 10 essays discuss each nation individually, including Indonesia, Myanmar (Burma), Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. An excellent overview of modern Southeast Asia. CONDITION: Very minor handling; virtually as new.. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/No Jacket (as issued). 17 x 25 cm. more information

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Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989 xviii, 280 p. : ill., map, port. ; 25 cm. Series: Religion in Asia and Africa series. Notes. Bibliography. Index.. First Edition. Cloth. Like New/No Dustjacket. more information

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003 vi, 439 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical notes, bibliography, index, list of contributors. Reprinted in 2006. This is an important and fascinating collection of seventeen wide-ranging, original essays by leading scholars of South Asian Islamic history. CONDITION: Essentially like new except for very light shelfwear and remainder marks on bottom edge of book block.. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 23 x 15 cm. more information

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Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2003 New. Sealed in publisher's original shrinkwrap. xii, 388 pp. Map, footnotes, word index, bibliography. This is the first full-fledged critical edition and historical study of the "Erdeni Tunumal Sudur," an unique seventeenth-century Mongolian history about the sixteenth-century Mongolian ruler Altan Khan and his descendants. Elverskog provides a transcription of the Mongolian text, a word index, and a full English translation, as well as an extensive commentary on the historical events of Altan Khan's reign (especially the 1550 attack on Beijing, the 1571 peace accord with the Ming, and the 1578 meeting with the Dalai Lama and the subsequent Buddhist conversion). In particular, the author shows how Altan Khan's reformulation of the boundaries of Dayan Khan's Mongol nation and state catalyzed the political fragmentation of the Mongols with dire consequences in relation to the rising Manchu Qing state. This book is thus vital for a better understanding of Mongol history during the late Ming.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/No Jacket (as issued). 25 x 17 cm. more information

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Tokyo, Japan: Toyo Bunko, 2004. viii, 286 pp. Footnotes, bibliography, conversion tables, index. A compilation of largely independent studies addressing changes in China's domestic politics and analyzing factors affecting Chinese foreign relations. CONTENTS: PART ONE: China's Domestic Developments. 1) Wave rhythms in Chinese politics. 2) On the role of the Yang-wu-p'ai. 3) The 1911 Chinese Revolution: introductory remarks. 4) Hai-lu-feng: the first Chinese Soviet government. 5) Communist China: moderation and radicalism in the Chinese Revolution. 6) Features characteristic of the economy of China. PART TWO: China's Foreign Relations. 7) China's international relations, 1911-1931. 8) Chinese Communist assessment of the foreign relations of China in the nineteenth century. 9) The concept of "militarism" in Marxism-Leninism and Maoism. 10) The Northeast Asian situation after the conclusion of the Japan-China Treaty of Peace and Friendship. 11) Continuity and discontinuity in East Asia. 12) Trends in the international relations of East and Southeast Asia. CONDITION: Nicely bound and printed on heavy paper. Minor bumping to ends of spine. Text clean and neat.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket (as issued). 25 x 18 cm. more information

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Tokyo: Toyo Bunko, 2005 x, 300 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Series: Toyo Bunko research library ; 5. Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-277) and index. Fine condition. No dustjacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Like New. more information

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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975 xxxiii, 480 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Index. Bibliography: p. 441-456.. 2d ed., rev.. Soft Cover. Very Good. more information

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Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2008 xv, 283 pp. Illustrations, map, glossary, bibliography, index. An anthropological study of Buddhist nuns in Thailand. CONDITION: Minor shelf rubbing only to covers; virtually as new.. First Edition. Paperback. Like New. 23 x 16 cm. more information

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Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1995 xii, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Bringing local history to bear on major questions in Chinese social history and anthropology, this volume comprises a series of historical and ethnographic studies of the Pearl River Delta from late imperial times through to the 1940s. The contributors argue that local society in the Delta was integrated into the Chinese state through a series of changes that involved constant redefinition of lineages, territories, and ethnic identities. The emergence of lineages in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the deployment of deities in local alliances, and the shrewd use of ethnic labels provided terms for a discourse that reified the criteria for membership in Chinese local society. The ideology produced by these developments continued to serve as the norm for the legitimation of power in local society throughout the Republican period. The contributors emphasise the conjunction of human action, events, and cultural meaning, unveiling the intricate relations between local society, regional identities and the symbolic impact of the state. Contents: Introduction / Helen F. Siu and David Faure -- Lineage on the sands : the case of Shawan / Liu Zhiwei -- Territorial community at the town of Lubao, Sanshui County, from the Ming Dynasty / Luo Yixing -- Ordination names in Hakka genealogies : a religious practice and its decline / Chan Wing-Hoi -- Notes on the territorial connections of the Dan / Ye Xian'en -- Notes and impressions of the Cheung Chau community / James Hayes -- Reinforcing ethnicity : the Jiao Festival in Cheung Chau / Choi Chi-Cheung -- The alliance of ten : settlement and politics in the Sha Tau Kok area / Patrick Hase --Lineage socialism and community control : Tangang Xiang in the 1920s and 1930s / David Faure -- Subverting lineage power : local bosses and territorial control in the 1940s / Helen F. Siu -- Conclusion : History and anthropology / Helen F. Siu and David Faure. Near fine condition in like dustjacket. First Edition. Cloth. more information

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008 xix, 336 pp. Chronology, footnotes, bibliography, index.. Second Edition. Paperback. New. 23 x 15 cm. more information

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New York: Weatherhill, 1995 ix, 276 p., [16] p. of color plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. OVERSIZED.. Cloth. Like New/Like New. more information

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