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Series: Asia's Transformations
Around 18 million young Chinese people were sent to the countryside between 1966 and 1976 as part of the Cultural Revolution. Mao's Children in the New China allows some of them to tell their moving stories in their own voices for the first time. In this inspiring collection of interviews with...
Published May 17th 2000 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
New interpretations of the central teachings of early Buddhism, mainly the relationship between identity and perception in early Buddhism....
Published May 15th 2000 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
There is no doubt that the triads have become recognized as a sophisticated and international criminal force and, following the handover of Hong Kong to China, there have been increasing fears that their influence will spread to the West through emigration. This book investigates the reality behind...
Published November 17th 1999 by Routledge
This text examines elite-insecurity perceptions in India, Pakistan and the USA in the 1950s. The book highlights the consequent linkages in alliance-building efforts and the subsequent triangular covert collaboration against Communist China, especially along Tibet's Himalayan frontiers. This...
Published August 24th 1999 by Routledge
Written by a number of expert scholars from around the world, including China itself, with the aim of extending knowledge and taking the cross-cultural study of PE and sport beyond the descriptive level, this book provides unique and up to date material.Subjects covered include:*ancient and modern...
Published July 21st 1999 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
Emptiness means that all entities are empty of, or lack, inherent existence - entities have a merely conceptual, constructed existence. Though Nagarjuna advocates the Middle Way, his philosophy of emptiness nevertheless entails nihilism, and his critiques of the Nyaya theory of knowledge are shown...
Published June 21st 1999 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
Demonstrates how the four noble truths are used thorughout the Pali canon as a symbol of Buddha's enlightenment and as a doctrine within a larger network of Buddha's teachings. Their unique nature rests in their function as a proposition and as a symbol in the Theravada canon....
Published June 10th 1999 by Routledge
Traditionally, political scientists and economists have seen China as a single entity and business people have seen China as a single market. This book challenges the notion of a centralised and unified China, and outlines how provinces are taking on new economic and political roles, forced upon...
Published April 28th 1999 by Routledge
After the end of the cold war, economic security has become the most important issue to guarantee a peaceful world, and especially the Asian crisis since the middle of 1997 is proof of this. For a country like China, with more than one billion inhabitants, economic security is the key issue for the...
Published March 24th 1999 by Routledge
Contains all 71,000 entries in the original 1996 edition, but in a portable format on thinner paper. Already established as the market leader. 'A most happy combination of judgement and scholarship' - Times Higher Education Supplement. 'Nothing short of wonderful' - Journal of the Royal Asiatic...
Published February 2nd 1999 by Routledge
