Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia
By: Eric Schluessel
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
At the close of the nineteenth century, near the end of the Qing empire, Confucian revivalists from…
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3.78
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
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2. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
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Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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4. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
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Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
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5. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
By: Tahir Hamut Izgil
4.31
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A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a f… read more
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6. Mao Cult: Rhetoric and Ritual in China's Cultural Revolution
By: Daniel Leese
3.55
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Mao Zedong's political and cultural legacy remains potent even in today's China. There have been ma… read more
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7. Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China (Volume 18) (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes)
By: Thomas S. Mullaney
4.35
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own lang… read more
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8. Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia
By: Eric Schluessel
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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9. The Chinese Sultanate: Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873
By: David G. Atwill
4.25
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
The Muslim-led Panthay Rebellion was one of five mid-nineteenth-century rebellions to threaten the … read more
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10. Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities, and Other Subaltern Subjects
By: Dru C. Gladney
4.00
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Until quite recently, Western scholars have tended to accept the Chinese representation of non-Han … read more
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11. Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic
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