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Author
Series
Asia local studies/global themes volume 16
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xxiv, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xi, 377 page ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The United States and China offers the first comprehensive synthesis of the history of U.S.-Chinese relations from initial contact to the present. Balancing the modern (1784-1949) and contemporary (1949- ) periods, Dong Wang retraces centuries of interaction between two of the world's great powers from the perspective of both sides. She examines state-to-state diplomacy, as well as economic, social, military, religious, and cultural interplay within...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
ix, 342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A major new work in modern Tibetan history, this book follows the evolution of Tibetan Buddhism's trülku (reincarnation) tradition from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, along with the Emperor of China's efforts to control its development. By illuminating the political aspects of the trülku institution, Schwieger shapes a broader history of the relationship between the Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China, as well as a richer understanding...
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (353 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Journey across China from the peaks of the Himalayas to the barren steppe, the sub-Arctic to the tropical islands, through deserts both searingly hot and mind-numbingly cold and see a dazzling array of mysterious, beautiful, wild and rare creatures.
Author
Series
Story of civilization volume pt. 1
Pub. Date
1954
Physical Desc
xxxii, 1049 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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