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Beyond Borders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

Beyond Borders

The Yunnanese from southwestern China have for millennia traded throughout upland Southeast Asia. Burma in particular has served as a "back door" to Yunnan, providing a sanctuary for political refugees and economic opportunities for trade explorers. Since the Chinese Communist takeover in 1949 and subsequent political upheavals in China, an unprecedented number of Yunnanese refugees have fled to Burma. Through a personal narrative approach, Beyond Borders is the first ethnography to focus on the migration history and transnational trading experiences of contemporary Yunnanese Chinese migrants (composed of both Yunnanese Han and Muslims) who reside in Burma and those who have moved from Burma...

Chinese Circulations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 553

Chinese Circulations

This collection of twenty essays provides an unprecedented overview of Chinese trade through the centuries, highlighting its scope, diversity, complexity, and the commodities that have linked it with Southeast Asia.

Beyond Borders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Beyond Borders

The Yunnanese from southwestern China have for millennia traded throughout upland Southeast Asia. Burma in particular has served as a "back door" to Yunnan, providing a sanctuary for political refugees and economic opportunities for trade explorers. Since the Chinese Communist takeover in 1949 and subsequent political upheavals in China, an unprecedented number of Yunnanese refugees have fled to Burma. Through a personal narrative approach, Beyond Borders is the first ethnography to focus on the migration history and transnational trading experiences of contemporary Yunnanese Chinese migrants (composed of both Yunnanese Han and Muslims) who reside in Burma and those who have moved from Burma...

Burmese Lives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Burmese Lives

This volume explores the life stories of ordinary Burmese by drawing on the narratives of individual subjects and using an array of interdisciplinary approaches. The constituted stories highlight the protagonists' survival strategies in everyday life that demonstrate their constant courage and frustration in dealing with numerous social injustices and adversities.

Appearances and Activities of Leading Personalities of the People's Republic of China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 968

Appearances and Activities of Leading Personalities of the People's Republic of China

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1976
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Appearances and Activities of Leading Personalities of the People's Republic of China, 1 January-31 December 1973
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 442

Appearances and Activities of Leading Personalities of the People's Republic of China, 1 January-31 December 1973

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1974
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Landscapes Clear and Radiant
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

Landscapes Clear and Radiant

"Wang Hui, the most celebrated painter of late-seventeenth-century China, played a key role both in reinvigorating past traditions of landscape painting and in establishing the stylistic foundations for the imperially sponsored art of the Qing court. Drawing upon his protean talent and immense ambition, Wang developed an all-embracing synthesis of historical landscape styles that constituted one of the greatest artistic innovations of late imperial China." "This comprehensive study of the painter, the first published in English, features three essays that together consider his life and career, his artistic achievements, and his masterwork - the series of twelve monumental scrolls depicting t...

Underground Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 873

Underground Asia

An Economist Best Book of the Year A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A major historian tells the dramatic and untold story of the shadowy networks of revolutionaries across Asia who laid the foundations in the early twentieth century for the end of European imperialism on their continent. This is the epic tale of how modern Asia emerged out of conflict between imperial powers and a global network of revolutionaries in the turbulent early decades of the twentieth century. In 1900, European empires had not yet reached their territorial zenith. But a new generation of Asian radicals had already planted the seeds of their destruction. They gained new energy and recruits after the First Wor...

Appearances and Activities of Leading Personalities of the People's Republic of China, 1 January-31 December 1974
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 414

Appearances and Activities of Leading Personalities of the People's Republic of China, 1 January-31 December 1974

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1975
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Directory of Officials of the People's Republic of China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Directory of Officials of the People's Republic of China

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1978
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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