Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2008

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• The Adaptable Peasant

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: N.R. Dewasiri
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  • This study analyses how in early colonial times, the peasant society of Sri Lanka underwent fundamental changes in the land tenure system as it faced the arrival of the Dutch East India Company administration's merchant capitalism.

• Animals in Stone

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  • Author: A.A.E. Van Der Geer
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  • This magnificently illustrated study of a vast amount of South Asian animal stone sculptures provides an art history covering almost four and a half thousand years, analyzing the art historical, archeological and cultural context of animals in society.

• The China Economy Yearbook, Volume 2

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editor Jiagui Chen
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  • This second English volume of The China Economy Yearbook provides an in-depth analysis of China’s economy during the initial year of China’s 11th 5-Year Plan. Written by leading economic researchers from China’s leading economic research institutions, the articles in the yearbook examine key aspects of China’s economic performance, including macroeconomic adjustment, inflation control, the financial system, public finance, foreign trade, agriculture, industry, and real estate.

• The China Environment Yearbook, Volume 2

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editor Dongping Yang
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  • This volume of The China Environment Yearbook is the second in a series of annual records written, commissioned, produced, and edited by Friends of Nature, China’s premier environmental citizens’ group. It is the signature annual research publication of China’s non-governmental environmental sector.

• The China Legal Development Yearbook, Volume 2

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  • Editor Yuwen W. Li
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  • This volume of the China Legal Development Yearbook is the second in a series of annual reports written by leading Chinese law and legal policy scholars and judges. It is edited by the Institute of Law at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The Yearbook contains reports on law reform priorities, major legal policy debates and an account of legislation proposed and passed in 2006. This Yearbook provides a valuable insight into contemporary debates in China about the substance, direction and priorities of legal reform.

• The China Society Yearbook, Volume 2

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  • Editors Xin Ru; Xueyi Lu; Peilin Li
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  • The 2007 volume of The China Society Yearbook, the second volume in the annual China Society Blue Book series to be translated into English, contains important facts and analysis from Chinese scholars on a wide array of issues in China. Along with analysis, this volume offers recommendations and insight into the daunting issues and opportunities facing China as it moves towards a free-market system.

• Chinese Capitalisms

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  • Editors Kwok-bun Chan; Tak-sing Cheung; Agnes Ku
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  • The annual is a venue of publication for sociological studies of Chinese societies and the Chinese all over the world. The main focus is on social transformations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the mainland, Singapore and Chinese overseas.

• Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money

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  • Author: M. Van Crevel
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  • Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money is a groundbreaking study covering a range of contemporary authors and issues, from Haizi to Yin Lichuan and from poetic rhythm to exile-bashing. Its rigorous scholarship, literary sensitivity and lively style make it eminently fit for classroom use.

• The Chinese Translation of Russian Literature

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  • Author: M. Gamsa
  • Editor Barend J. Haar
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  • A history of the translation, transmission and interpretation of modernist Russian literature in China during the first half of the 20th century, this book views modern Chinese literary culture from an original and revealing perspective. It is the first English-language study of the subject to draw on sources in both Russian and Chinese, and it also shows the crucial role of English, German and Japanese translations in mediating knowledge of Russian literature in China.

• Christ in Japanese Culture

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  • Author: E. Mase-Hasegawa
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  • Shedding light on a wide range of cross-cultural concerns and encounters, going far beyond narrow theological specialisation, the author argues that any successful process of missiological inculturation demands a serious antholopological consideration of indigenous faith.

• Cinema and Television in Singapore

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  • Author: K.P. Tan
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  • Through close readings of contemporary made-in-Singapore films (by Jack Neo, Eric Khoo, and Royston Tan) and television programs (Singapore Idol, sitcoms, and dramas), this book analyzes the prospects of resistance in an advanced capitalist-industrial society with “global city” aspirations.

• The Colonial 'Civilizing Process' in Dutch Formosa, 1624-1662

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  • Author: H.H. Chiu
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  • Focusing on Formosan agency in the encounter with Dutch colonialism and Chinese encroachment, this book reveals a fascinating picture of Taiwan in the early modern era.

• Community Matters in Xinjiang: 1880-1949

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  • Author: I. Bellér-Hann
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  • Drawing on a wide range of historical sources presenting both emic and etic views, this book offers an insight into aspects of social life among the Uyghur in pre-socialist Xinjiang and substantiates the concept of tradition which modern Uyghurs draw upon to construct their ethnic identity.

• Conflict and Social Order in Tibet and Inner Asia

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  • Editors Fernanda Pirie; Toni Huber
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  • Assessing the legacies of revolution, social upheaval and reform among minorities in communist Asia, the case studies in this volume analyse the experience of conflict and social disruption, while providing an original comparative perspective on Tibet and Inner Asia.

• The Crisis of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Film

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  • Author: T. Iles
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  • A concise, textually analytical study of the ways in which works of contemporary Japanese cinema have explored and reflected a 'crisis' in Japan's changing conceptions of individuality and identity approaching the central issue from a range of aspects.

• Different Worlds of Discourse

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  • Editors Nanxiu Qian; Grace Fong; Richard Smith
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  • Different Worlds of Discourse explores the late Qing reform era (c. 1895–1912) from three interrelated and comparatively neglected perspectives: the construction of gender roles, the development of literary genres, and the emergence of new forms of print media.

• Divine Knowledge

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: B.G. Baumann

• Early Christian Remains of Inner Mongolia

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  • Author: T.H.F. Halbertsma
  • Editor Barend J. Haar
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  • Drawing on recent discoveries, this study reconstructs the material culture of the Christian Öngüt in Inner Mongolia. As much of this material no longer survives in the field, it provides an insight into the rise and disappearance of a Christian culture in Asia.

• The Emperors of Modern Japan

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  • Editor Ben-Ami Shillony
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  • The book offers a fascinating picture of the four emperors of modern Japan, their institution, their personalities and their impact on the history of their country. Leading scholars from Japan and other countries have contributed essays which treat this subject from various angles.

• Enlightened Rainbows

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  • Author: J.-L. Achard
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  • Within the tradition of the Great Perfection, the Works of Shardza Tashi Gyeltsen stand as textual references of an exceptional erudition. As a sign of realization, the author manifested the Rainbow Body, the ultimate fruit of Dzogchen, in 1934.