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Tibetan Studies in Comparative Perspective
Politics, history, and religion have long lent Tibet a glamorous air, particularly in the West. But Tibet can be understood in an astonishingly wide variety of other ways, including linguistic, ecological, environmental and climatological, geographical, geological, economic, biologic, sociologic,...
Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
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Civilization, Nation and Modernity in East Asia
Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies
This book explores the crisis of cultural identity which has assaulted Asian countries since Western countries began to have a profound impact on Asia in the nineteenth century. Confronted by Western 'civilization' and by 'modernity', Asian countries have been compelled to rethink their identity,...
Published June 17th 2012 by Routledge
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Ergonomics in Asia: Development, Opportunities and Challenges
Proceedings of the 2nd East Asian Ergonomics Federation Symposium (EAEFS 2011), National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan,4 - 8 October 2011
For the past decade, the rapid development of the ergonomics disciplines as well as the fast growing economy in the Asian region have been attracting the attention of the international ergonomics community. Although East Asia has been changing from a traditional agriculture-oriented society into a...
Published April 10th 2012 by CRC Press
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Negotiating Ethnicity in China
Citizenship as a Response to the State
Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition
This challenging study brings together anthropology and political science to examine how ethnic minorities are constructed by the state, and how they respond to such constructions.Disclosing endless mini negotiations between those acting in the name of the Chinese state and those carrying the...
Published May 15th 2002 by Routledge