▷▷▷cheap-books▷The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village

cheap_saving_
Listprice $16.95
Lowest Price : $16.94

You Save : Compare Prices With Sellers
Available From 15 Sellers
Click to Check Update Prices Please.
The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village
>>>> Only $16.94 Best Buy

The Unknown Cultural Revolution challenges the established narrative of China's Cultural Revolution, which assumes that this period of great social upheaval led to economic disaster, the persecution of intellectuals, and senseless violence. Dongping Han offers a powerful account of the dramatic improvements in the living conditions, infrastructure, and agricultural practices of China's rural population that emerged in this period. Drawing on extensive local interviews and records in rural Jimo County, in Shandong Province, Han shows that the Cultural Revolution helped overthrow local hierarchies, establish participatory democracy and economic planning in the communes, and expand education and public services, especially for the elderly. Han lucidly illustrates how these changes fostered dramatic economic development in rural China.

The Unknown Revolution documents a neglected side of China's Cultural Revolution, demonstrating the potential of mass education and empowerment for radical political and economic transformation. It is a bold and provocative work, which demands the attention not only of students of contemporary Chinese history but of all who are concerned with poverty and inequality in the world today.



Cheap Related Products and free shipping over 25$ with amazon or Compare Prices Best Buy

Mao's Last Revolution

The Battle for China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution

The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History

Spider Eaters: A Memoir

The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy

0 comments

▷▷▷cheap-books▷Women of the Mito Domain: Recollections of Samurai Family Life

cheap_saving_
Listprice $24.95
Lowest Price : $21.93

You Save : $3.02 Compare Prices With Sellers
Available From 5 Sellers
Click to Check Update Prices Please.
Women of the Mito Domain: Recollections of Samurai Family Life
>>>> Only $21.93 Best Buy
Based on the recollection of the author’s mother, other relatives, and family records, this is a vivid picture of the everyday life of a samurai household in the last years of the Tokugawa period.


Cheap Related Products and free shipping over 25$ with amazon or Compare Prices Best Buy

Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai

The Confessions of Lady Nijo

The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan

Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945

Hiroshima in History and Memory

0 comments

▷▷▷cheap-books▷Lost Japan (Travel Literature) (Lonely Planet Lost Japan)

cheap_saving_
Listprice $14.99
Lowest Price : $7.35

You Save : $3.79 Compare Prices With Sellers
Available From 36 Sellers
Click to Check Update Prices Please.
Lost Japan (Travel Literature) (Lonely Planet Lost Japan)
>>>> Only $7.35 Best Buy Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over thirty years. Alex Kerr takes us on a backstage tour, as he explores the ritualized world of Kabuki, retraces his initiation into Tokyo's boardrooms during the heady Bubble Years, tells how he stumbled on a hidden valley that became his home...and exposes the environmental and cultural destruction that is the other face of contemporary Japan.

Winner of Japan's 1994 Shincho Gakugei Literature Prize.


  • ISBN13: 9781741795233
  • Condition: New
  • Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed

    • Cheap Related Products and free shipping over 25$ with amazon or Compare Prices Best Buy

    Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan

    The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan

    Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan (Kodansha Globe)

    A Year in Japan

    The Inland Sea

    0 comments

    ▷▷▷cheap-books▷Haveli

    cheap_saving_
    Listprice $6.99
    Lowest Price : $3.45

    You Save : Compare Prices With Sellers
    Available From 36 Sellers
    Click to Check Update Prices Please.
    Haveli
    >>>> Only $3.45 Best Buy The world of Newbery Honor book Shabanu is vividly re-created in this novel of a young Pakistani woman's heartbreaking struggle against the tyranny of custom and ancient law. Shabanu, now a mother at 18, faces daily challenges to her position in her husband's household, even as she plans for her young daughter's education and uncertain future. Then, during a visit to the haveli, their home in the city of Lahore, Shabanu falls in love with Omar, in spite of traditions that forbid their union.

  • ISBN13: 9780679865698
  • Condition: New
  • Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed

    • Cheap Related Products and free shipping over 25$ with amazon or Compare Prices Best Buy

    Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (Readers Circle)

    The House of Djinn

    Under the Persimmon Tree

    Homeless Bird

    Pocket Reference for Writers (3rd Edition)

    0 comments

    ▷▷▷cheap-books▷The Portuguese Empire, 1415-1808: A World on the Move

    cheap_saving_
    Listprice $26.00
    Lowest Price : $13.61

    You Save : $5.20 Compare Prices With Sellers
    Available From 21 Sellers
    Click to Check Update Prices Please.
    The Portuguese Empire, 1415-1808: A World on the Move
    >>>> Only $13.61 Best Buy

    "[Russell-Wood] enumerates Portuguese contributions to other peoples' pasts and presents, especially in the contexts of the 'ebb and flow of commodities,' the 'dissemination of flora and fauna' and the 'transmission of styles, theories and ideas.' The original feature is the author's concentration on people and transport as vectors of cultural exchange... He evokes a lively picture of the highly mobile merchants, missionaries and administrators who hurried back and forth across oceans and continents to keep the enterprise going." -- Times Literary Supplement

    This is the story of the first and one of the greatest colonial empires: its birth, apotheosis, and decline. By approaching the history of the Portuguese empire thematically, A. J. R. Russell-Wood is able to pursue ideas and make connections that previously have been constrained by strict chronological approaches. Using the study of movement as a focus, Russell-Wood gains unique insight into the diversity, breadth, and balance between the competing interests and priorities that characterized the Portuguese culture and its expansion spanning four centuries' events on four different continents.

    "A. J. R. Russell-Wood realized that human and geographical factors contributed much to Portuguese success. Some practices were responses to the colonial experience itself. He therefore culled this historical literature, largely modern works in English including his own, to explore a rich variety of aspects of the Portuguese colonial empire... If geography is defined as mankind's relationship with its planet, this book is the essence of historical geography. Informative and entertaining, it is important for its new approach and insights, and because it confirms the amazing global perspective of Portugal's colonial rulers." -- Journal of Historical Geography

    "This is a book where every page bears witness to the author's fascination with the Portuguese colonial world and his deep love of his subject. It is the kind of book which results from a scholar's decision to open to the world the files he has accumulated in a lifetime's reading. As a result it is a sort of encyclopaedia of strange and recondite information, colourful detail, anecdotes and quotations. It is certainly a book that any student of Portuguese colonial activity would want to read and, indeed, to own." -- Mariner's Mirror



    Cheap Related Products and free shipping over 25$ with amazon or Compare Prices Best Buy

    Portugal: A Companion History (Aspects of Portugal S.)

    Prince Henry the Navigator

    Imperial Spain: 1469-1716

    A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire 2 Volume Paperback Set: A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire: From Beginnings to 1807 (Volume 1)

    Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830

    0 comments

    ▷▷▷cheap-books▷Look What Came from Russia

    cheap_saving_
    Listprice $6.95
    Lowest Price : $3.46

    You Save : Compare Prices With Sellers
    Available From 14 Sellers
    Click to Check Update Prices Please.
    Look What Came from Russia
    >>>> Only $3.46 Best Buy Describes many things that originally came from Russia, including inventions, sports and games, food, fashion, musical instruments, animals, arts and crafts, and words.

  • ISBN13: 9780531159675
  • Condition: New
  • Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed

    • Cheap Related Products and free shipping over 25$ with amazon or Compare Prices Best Buy

    Russia ABCs: A Book About the People and Places of Russia (Country Abcs)

    The Littlest Matryoshka

    Mishka: An Adoption Tale

    Look What Came From China!

    Look What Came from Australia

    0 comments

    ▷▷▷cheap-books▷With Respect to the Japanese: A Guide for Westerners (Interact Series)

    cheap_saving_
    Listprice $14.95
    Lowest Price : $4.98

    You Save : Compare Prices With Sellers
    Available From 10 Sellers
    Click to Check Update Prices Please.
    With Respect to the Japanese: A Guide for Westerners (Interact Series)
    >>>> Only $4.98 Best Buy Did you know there is a proper way to give and receive business cards in Japan?Americans and the Japanese communicate daily in business, education, and social settings. The two cultures, however, are vastly different, which can cause unexpected miscommunications. Readers will discover how to avoid embarrassing the Japanese, as well as how to earn their respect.In With Respect to the Japanese: A Guide for Americans, John C. Condon presents Japanese culture in simple, concise language in this essential guide for Americans. He explains Japanese collectivism in contrast to American individualism, as well as how this overriding societal characteristic affects decision-making, rhetoric, management styles, behavior in the workplace, and much more. Condon examines the critical elements of Japanese culture that affect the way Japanese and Americans perceive and react to each other, and then offers concrete guidelines for establishing effective relationships.


    Cheap Related Products and free shipping over 25$ with amazon or Compare Prices Best Buy

    Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Modern Times

    Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication: Selected Readings

    Good Neighbors: Communicating with the Mexicans (Interact Series)

    New Japan: Debunking Seven Cultural Stereotypes

    The Japanese Way : Aspects of Behavior, Attitudes, and Customs of the Japanese

    0 comments

    ▷▷▷cheap-books▷A Vietnam War Reader: A Documentary History from American and Vietnamese Perspectives

    cheap_saving_
    Listprice $19.95
    Lowest Price : $17.37

    You Save : Compare Prices With Sellers
    Available From 16 Sellers
    Click to Check Update Prices Please.
    A Vietnam War Reader: A Documentary History from American and Vietnamese Perspectives
    >>>> Only $17.37 Best Buy An essential new resource for students and teachers of the Vietnam War, this concise collection of primary sources opens a valuable window on an extraordinarily complex conflict.

    The materials gathered here, from both the American and Vietnamese sides, remind readers that the conflict touched the lives of many people in a wide range of social and political situations and spanned a good deal more time than the decade of direct U.S. combat. Indeed, the U.S. war was but one phase in a string of conflicts that varied significantly in character and geography. Michael Hunt brings together the views of the conflict's disparate players--from Communist leaders, Vietnamese peasants, Saigon loyalists, and North Vietnamese soldiers to U.S. policymakers, soldiers, and critics of the war. By allowing the participants to speak, this volume encourages readers to formulate their own historically grounded understanding of a still controversial struggle.


  • ISBN13: 9780807859919
  • Condition: New
  • Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed

    • Cheap Related Products and free shipping over 25$ with amazon or Compare Prices Best Buy

    Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War (American Empire Project)

    Crush the Cell: How to Defeat Terrorism Without Terrorizing Ourselves

    The Bridges at Toko-Ri

    Arms and Men: A Study in American Military History

    The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History

    0 comments

    ▷▷▷cheap-books▷Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy

    cheap_saving_
    Listprice $8.99
    Lowest Price : $1.80

    You Save : Compare Prices With Sellers
    Available From 27 Sellers
    Click to Check Update Prices Please.
    Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy
    >>>> Only $1.80 Best Buy

    Any person who leaves
    the country to go to another
    and later returns
    will be put to death.

    This was the law in Japan in the early 1800s. When fourteen-year-old Manjiro, working on a fishing boat to help support his family, was shipwrecked three hundred miles away from his homeland, he was heartbroken to think that he would never again be able to go home. So when an American whaling boat rescued him, Manjiro decided to do what no other Japanese person had ever done: He went to America, where he received an education and took part in events that eventually made him a hero in the Land of the Rising Sun.


  • ISBN13: 9780688174859
  • Condition: New
  • Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed

    • Cheap Related Products and free shipping over 25$ with amazon or Compare Prices Best Buy

    Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun

    Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule

    True Meaning of Smekday, The

    Kids On Strike!

    The Carpetbaggers (We the People: Civil War Era series)

    0 comments

    ▷▷▷cheap-books▷The City in Which I Love You (American Poets Continuum)

    cheap_saving_
    Listprice $14.50
    Lowest Price : $8.43

    You Save : $2.70 Compare Prices With Sellers
    Available From 23 Sellers
    Click to Check Update Prices Please.
    The City in Which I Love You (American Poets Continuum)
    >>>> Only $8.43 Best Buy
    Contents

    I.
    Furious Versionis

    II.
    The Interrogation
    This Hour And What Is Dead
    Arise, Go Down
    My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud
    For A New Citizen Of These United States
    With Ruins

    III.
    This Room And Everything In It
    The City In Which I Love You

    IV.

    The Waiting
    A Story
    Goodnight
    You Must Sing
    Here I Am
    A Final Thing

    V.
    The Cleaving

  • ISBN13: 9780918526830
  • Condition: New
  • Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed

    • Cheap Related Products and free shipping over 25$ with amazon or Compare Prices Best Buy

    Rose (New Poets of America)

    Book of My Nights: Poems (American Poets Continuum, 68)

    Behind My Eyes: Poems

    The Winged Seed: A Remembrance

    Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee (American Readers Series)

    0 comments

    ▷▷▷cheap-books▷Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present

    cheap_saving_
    Listprice $24.95
    Lowest Price : $10.99

    You Save : $6.07 Compare Prices With Sellers
    Available From 26 Sellers
    Click to Check Update Prices Please.
    Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present
    >>>> Only $10.99 Best Buy

    For its citizens, contemporary Central Asia is a land of great promise and peril. While the end of Soviet rule has opened new opportunities for social mobility and cultural expression, political and economic dynamics have also imposed severe hardships. In this lively volume, contributors from a variety of disciplines examine how ordinary Central Asians lead their lives and navigate shifting historical and political trends. Provocative stories of Turkmen nomads, Afghan villagers, Kazakh scientists, Kyrgyz border guards, a Tajik strongman, guardians of religious shrines in Uzbekistan, and other narratives illuminate important issues of gender, religion, power, culture, and wealth. A vibrant and dynamic world of life in urban neighborhoods and small villages, at weddings and celebrations, at classroom tables, and around dinner tables emerges from this introduction to a geopolitically strategic and culturally fascinating region.


  • ISBN13: 9780253219046
  • Condition: New
  • Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed

    • Cheap Related Products and free shipping over 25$ with amazon or Compare Prices Best Buy

    Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia

    Inside Central Asia: A Political and Cultural History of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tadjikistan, Turkey and Iran

    Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Central Asia

    The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea

    The New Central Asia: Geopolitics and the Birth of Nations, Revised Edition

    0 comments

    ▷▷▷cheap-books▷Borneo (Lonely Planet Travel Guides)

    cheap_saving_
    Listprice $21.99
    Lowest Price : $13.95

    You Save : $7.04 Compare Prices With Sellers
    Available From 40 Sellers
    Click to Check Update Prices Please.
    Borneo (Lonely Planet Travel Guides)
    >>>> Only $13.95 Best Buy Discover Borneo

    Wake deckside to the whoops of gibbons on your orangutan-spotting trip, Tanjung Putting National Park
    Find out what Queen Elizabeth gave the sultan who had everything at Brunei's lavish Royal Regalia Museum
    Jostle garrulous crowds at a Kuching market for some nuttle, stir-fried jungle fern

    In This Guide:

    First edition, with more research time than any other guide: 110 days in-country, 50 detailed maps, 35 jungle adventures
    National Parks color section covers where to spot elephants, monkeys and the enormous, pungent rafflesia flowers
    Specialists discuss local markets, the best Malaysian cuisine, ecotourism and conservation
    Content updated daily - visit lonelyplanet.com for up-to-the-minute reviews, updates and traveler insights


  • ISBN13: 9781740591058
  • Condition: New
  • Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed

    • Cheap Related Products and free shipping over 25$ with amazon or Compare Prices Best Buy

    Lonely Planet Malaysia Singapore & Brunei (Country Guide)

    Wild Borneo: The Wildlife and Scenery of Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, and Kalimantan

    Borneo (Bradt Travel Guide)

    Lonely Planet Indonesia (Country Guide)

    Birds of Borneo: Brunei, Sabah, Sarawak, and Kalimantan (Princeton Field Guides)

    0 comments

    ▷▷▷cheap-books▷The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia (S U N Y Series in Religious Studies)

    cheap_saving_
    Listprice $24.95
    Lowest Price : $23.52

    You Save : Compare Prices With Sellers
    Available From 17 Sellers
    Click to Check Update Prices Please.
    The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia (S U N Y Series in Religious Studies)
    >>>> Only $23.52 Best Buy This book is a remarkable synthesis and empathetic interpretation of Buddhism in Southeast Asia. No other single book matches its depth and breadth, or its balance between scholarly interpretation and sensitive first person portrayal. The author focuses his analysis on Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia as a dynamic, complex system of thought and practice imbedded in the respective cultures, societies, and histories of Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka. The book discusses three distinct but interrelated aspects of this system: the popular tradition in terms of paradigms of ideal action, rituals, festivals, and rites of passage; Buddhism as civic religion in terms of King Asoka as the paradigmatic Buddhist monarch, cosmology and kingship, and Buddhism and the modern nation state; and modern transformations of the tradition in terms of the changing roles of the monk and the laity, modern reform movements, and Buddhism in the West.

  • ISBN13: 9781438432502
  • Condition: New
  • Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed

    • Cheap Related Products and free shipping over 25$ with amazon or Compare Prices Best Buy

    The Zen Monastic Experience

    Introducing Buddhism (World Religions)

    Forest Recollections: Wandering Monks in Twentieth-Century Thailand

    Burma's Mass Lay Meditation Movement: Buddhism and the Cultural Construction of Power (Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series)

    The Experience of Buddhism: Sources and Interpretations (Religious Life in History)

    0 comments
    Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)