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From frontier policy to foreign policy the question of India and the transformation of geopolitics in Qing China / by Mosca, Matthew W.

Table of Contents: “…A wealth of Indias : India in Qing geographic practice, 1644-1755 -- The conquest of Xinjiang and the emergence of "Hindustan," 1756-1790 -- Mapping India : geographic agnosticism in a cartographic context -- Discovering the "Pileng" : British India seen from Tibet, 1789-1800 -- British India and Qing strategic thought in the early nineteenth century -- The discovery of British India on the Chinese coast, 1800-1837 -- The Opium War and the British Empire -- Emergence of a foreign policy : Wei Yuan and the reinterpretation of India in Qing strategic thought.…”
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Re-balancing China : essays on the global financial crisis, industrial policy and international relations / by Nolan, Peter, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- List of tables -- Introduction -- China and the global financial crisis -- Re-balancing in the face of the global financial crisis (1) : November 2008 -- Re-balancing in the face of the global financial crisis (2) : November 2011 -- Industrial policy and the global business revolution -- China's industrial policy at the crossroads -- Globalization and competition in financial services -- International relations -- China, western colonialism and the UN Convention on the Law Of the Sea (unclos) -- A new Peloponnesian war? : China, the West and the South China Sea -- Notes -- Bibliography.…”
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Spymaster Dai Li and the Chinese secret service / by Wakeman, Frederic E.

Table of Contents: “…Images of Dai Li -- Living off the land -- Touben -- The league of ten -- "Vigorous Practice" : the Chiang freemasonry -- The founding of the Lixingshe -- The Lixingshe and the blue shirts -- The blue shirts' "Fascism" -- Ideological rivalries : the blue shirts and the "CC" clique -- The blue shirts in the provinces -- The Shanghai station, 1932-1935 -- Death squads -- Assassinations -- Police academies -- Sleeping in their coffins -- Skirts and sashes -- War and the special movement corps -- The training camps -- Codes 000 -- Dai li, Milton Miles, and the foundation of Saco -- Saco training camps -- Spying -- Dai Li's wartime smuggling networks -- Juntong in wartime Chongqing -- Falling star.…”
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China its environment and history / by Marks, Robert, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Problems and perspectives -- China's natural environment and early human settlement to 1000 BCE -- States, wars, and farms: environmental change in ancient and early imperial China, 1000 BCE-300 CE -- Deforesting the north and colonizing the south in the middle imperial period, 300-1300 CE -- Empire and environment: China's borderlands, islands, and inner peripheries in the late imperial period, 1300-1800 CE -- Environmental degradation in modern China, 1800-1949 -- Controlling nature in the People's Republic of China, 1949-present -- China and its environment in world historical perspective.…”
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The rebel den of Nùng Trí Cao loyalty and identity along the Sino-Vietnamese frontier / by Anderson, James, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…The great King Nùng Trí Cao : a rebel's role in shaping regional identity along the modern Sino-Vietnamese border -- The legacy of the Chinese imperial tribute system in the south : balancing ritual harmony with frontier stability -- Examples of negotiated autonomy : Sino-Vietnamese relations before the eleventh century -- Gaining legitimacy at the empire's edge : indigenous Tai-speaking communities along the Sino-Vietnamese frontier through the early Song period -- The specter of southern power : Nùng Trí Cao's insurrection, court reaction, and the legacy of Nam Việt -- Tempting "treacherous factions" : the manipulation of frontier alliances on the eve of the 1075 Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands War -- Monumental pride : Sino-Vietnamese cross-border commemorations of Nùng Trí Cao.…”
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Rising China and world order by Zhang, Yunling, 1945-

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Places of memory in modern China history, politics, and identity /

Table of Contents: “…: the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall / Daniel Leese -- A rock, a text, and a tablet : making the Song Emperor's terrace a lieu de memoire / Hon Tze-ki -- "This is how the Chinese people began their struggle" : Humen and the Opium War as a site of memory / James Flath -- The ruins of Yuanmingyuan, or, How to enjoy a national wound / Lee Haiyan -- Yan'an as a site of memory in socialist and postsocialist China / Kirk A. …”
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The romance of the three kingdoms and Mao's global order of tripolarity by Lam, Lai Sing

Table of Contents: “…The political role of classical Chinese literature in Mao's fight against the twin superpowers -- Chronological events of the Three Kingdoms period -- Mao and theme of The romance of the three kingdoms -- The romance of the three kingdoms and the origins of Mao's global order of tripolarity -- Mao's tripolar methodology: from theory to praxis -- From post-war bipolarity to Mao's global order of tripolarity -- 1954-1964 period of tripolarity: Sino-Soviet break up and dismissal of Soviet-backed Peng Dehuai -- 1965-1969 period of tripolarity: Cultural Revolution as part of Sino-US hostility -- 1969-1976 period of tripolarity: Sino-US courtship and Mao's modernization initiatives in western economic style -- 1979-1990 period: collapse of Mao's global order of tripolarity.…”
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India China : Rethinking Borders and Security / by Ling, L. H. M.

Table of Contents: “…Trans-Himalayas: From the Silk Road to World War II / Adriana Erthal Abdenur; Chapter 2. Borders as Opportunities: Changing Matrices in Northeast India and Southwest China / Mahendra P. …”
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Civil-military relations in today's China swimming in a new sea /

Table of Contents: “…/ Joseph Fewsmith -- The PLA in the new economy : plus Ça change, plus C'est la même chose / James Mulvenon -- The challenge of conscription in an era of social change / Sijin Cheng -- Demobilization and resettlement: the challenge of downsizing the People's Liberation Army / Maryanne Kivlehan-Wise -- People's war in the twenty-first century : the militia and the reserves / Dennis J. …”
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China's naval modernization background, implications and issues /

Table of Contents: “…Peter Dutton, Associate Professor, U.S. Naval War College -- A Chinese anti-ship ballistic missile : implications for the USN / Paul S. …”
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Demystifying China new understandings of Chinese history /

Table of Contents: “…Imperial China -- China's Age of Seafaring / Ruth Mostern -- Civil Service Examinations / Elif Akcetin -- Xinjiang at the Center / Judd Kinzley -- Tibet / Elliott Sperling -- Modern China's Borders / Andres Rodriguez -- The Opium War and China's "Century of Humiliation" / Julia Lovell -- Part IV. …”
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Islamic Shangri-La : Inter-Asian Relations and Lhasa's Muslim Communities, 1600 to 1960 / by Atwill, David G.

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The inner quarters and beyond women writers from Ming through Qing /

Table of Contents: “…McLaren -- Retrieving the past: women editors and women's poetry, 1636-1941 / Ellen Widmer -- The unseen hand: contextualizing Luo Qilan and her anthologies / Robyn Hamilton -- From private life to public performances: the constituted memory and (re)writings of the early-Qing woman Wu Zongai / Wei Hua -- Women writers and gender boundaries during the Ming-Qing transition / Wai-yee Li -- Chan friends: poetic exchanges between gentry women and Buddhist nuns in seventeenth-century China / Beata Grant -- War, violence, and the metaphor of blood in Tanci narratives by women authors / Siao-chen Hu -- The lady and the state: women's writings in times of trouble during the nineteenth century / Susan Mann -- Imagining history and the state: Fujian guixiu (genteel ladies) at home and on the road / Guotong Li -- Xue Shaohui and her poetic chronicle of late Qing reforms / Nanxiu Qian -- Conclusion: Literary authorship by late imperial governing-class Chinese women and the emergence of a "minor literature".…”
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Thirty years of China-U.S. relations analytical approaches and contemporary issues /

Table of Contents: “…-China policy after the Cold War / De-Yuan Kao.…”
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China's role in the Arctic : observing and being observed / by Hong, Nong

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Re-globalisation : when China meets the world again / by Wang, Dong, 1977-, Cao, Dejun

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The Art of Neighbouring : Making Relations Across China's Borders /

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China's maritime boundaries in the South China Sea : historical and international law perspectives / by Li, Jinming, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…-- A critical review of research on the legal status of the dotted line in the South China Sea -- China's struggle for sovereignty over Xisha and Nansha Islands before and after the Second Sino-Japanese War -- China's dispute with the Philippines over the Nansha Islands : perspective of international law -- Sino-French border demarcation disputes and maritime boundary delimitation in the Gulf of Tonkin -- UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the South China Sea disputes -- Latest developments in the South China Sea and China's responses -- Current situation in the South China Sea and Vietnamese policy.…”
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The world of a tiny insect : a memoir of the Taiping rebellion and its aftermath / by Zhang, Daye, 1854-

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