Asia
epub |eng | 2013-07-11 | Author:Guy, R. Kent

Accommodation: The Civilian Governors of Jiangsu Having created two provinces in the Yangzi delta, the Qing set about to create two different administrative orders, and in this endeavor, Qing accommodation ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-05 | Author:Jennifer Mitchelhill

The most common type of dry stonewall, uchikomihagi (rough cut piling). Thirteen structures at Osaka Castle are designated Important Cultural Assets: Ichibanyagura and Rokubanyagura (1628), the Kinzo storehouse (1751), Inuiyagura ...
( Category: Asia July 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1976-07-08 | Author:Qian, Sima; Dawson, Raymond; Brashier, K. E.

6 THE TREATISES This is the section of the work which comprises treatises on matters of importance to the Government; but unfortunately, although this section of dynastic histories assumed great ...
( Category: Asia July 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Flock

FIRE IN THE HEART Shahzad and Sabeena, 1999 to 2013 “On no soul doth Allah place a greater burden than it can bear.” —The Holy Quran, 2:286 It was wintertime ...
( Category: Sociology July 7,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Boye Lafayette De Mente

Komun 고문 Koh-muun Getting Good Advice Because education in pre-modern Korea was generally limited to male members of the elite upper class, the only people in the country who were ...
( Category: Asia July 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-02 | Author:James Crabtree

How to Be a Crony Capitalist Hyderabad, capital of the newly independent Telangana and home to most of the Andhrapreneurs, has long been associated with wealth. It was the largest ...
( Category: Economics July 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-02 | Author:Greg Child

WHILE KARNIENKO and the Germans examine the footprints, one of the rebels who has been holding Laemmermann and the others at gunpoint sits hidden in a bush, watching them. It ...
( Category: Mountaineering July 2,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-29 | Author:Frank Jacob [Jacob, Frank]

CHAPTER SIX POWs of the Japanese “Nobody knows what ‘Auschwitz’ is, just as nobody knows what ‘labour camp’ is. People vanish into both without a trace, and that’s the last ...
( Category: Asia July 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-29 | Author:Michael Green [Green, Michael]

The initial waves of US landing craft (seen at the top of this picture) are approaching Engebi Island, part of Eniwetok atoll, on 19 February 1944. The island, still smoking ...
( Category: Asia June 30,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Tully

In the newspaper article that first inspired me to set out on my journey to Ireland, John O’Donohue called for ‘prophetic reflection’. He had also described his country as having ...
( Category: Historical June 23,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-08-31 | Author:Hane, Mikiso [Hane, Mikiso]

WOMEN ACTIVISTS The movements for “civilization and enlightenment” and the people’s rights did not result in the improvement of women’s status. Some women were active in the populist movement from ...
( Category: Asia June 23,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gao Wenqian

ON THE DEFENSIVE Mao Zedong had hoped that his nationwide criticism of Liu Shaoqi would unify all the new mass organizations that had sprung up after he’d dismantled the formal ...
( Category: Historical June 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-15 | Author:Ross King

Cheonggyecheon Unlike Myeong-dong or the immediate back streets of Jongno, Insadonggil presents as a display of purposive urban design. Although it follows an ancient streamline, there is no attempt to ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-29 | Author:Bernard Wasserstein

Over the next few months Nathan repeatedly boasted to Japanese officials and to the Swiss consul in Tientsin that he had ‘completely discharged the responsibilities I assumed in virtue of ...
( Category: Military June 10,2018 )