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Water Politics and Religious Practices in Kangding [PDF]
, 2017 This case study examines the use of water in Kangding, China. Kangding is a location in the Kham Himalaya which for centuries served as a strategic border area between Tibetan and Chinese worlds.
Yang, Nyimatashi Gongwei
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Robert Morrison's Missionary Work in the Qing Empire
Genesis: исторические исследованияThe subject of the study is the activity of Robert Morrison and his role in Protestant missionary activity. The author offers a description of the beginning of this missionary activity in the 19th century in the person of Robert Morrison. The study attempts to determine the characteristics of Morrison in this field and his motivation.
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Method and Meaning: Selections from the Gettysburg College Collection
, 2014 What is art historical study and how it should be carried out are fundamental questions the exhibition Method and Meaning: Selections from the Gettysburg College Collection intends to answer.
Callahan, Shannon +7 more
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Historic Conditions of Mongolia’s Loss of Independence in 17-18th Сenturies
Oriental Studies, 2018 The article focuses on studying the Mongol-Manchu’s struggle which resulted in loss of independence of Mongols. There are some main factors in the process of the conquest of Mongolia. The first one is political and feudal disruption of Mongols. Since the
G. Khishigjargal
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Review of William T. Rowe, 'China’s Last Empire: The Great Qing' [PDF]
, 2010 Janku, Andrea
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Law and Economic Change in Traditional China: A Comparative Perspective [PDF]
This article offers a critical review of recent literature on Chinese legal tradition and argues that some subtle but fundamental differences between the Western and Chinese legal traditions are highly relevant to our explanation of the economic ...
Ma, Debin
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Educational Content, Educational Institutions and Economic Development: Lessons from History [PDF]
Individuals’ choices of educational content are often shaped by the political economy of government policies that determine the incentives to acquire various skills.
Cantoni, Davide, Yuchtman, Noam
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Seeing the wood for the trees: empire, nation-making and forest management [PDF]
, 2008 Seemingly operating in an inverse relationship to the declining area of actual forest, the vast wood of publications on the topic continues to grow (thereby likely adding to the deforestation of the books’ subject).
Beattie, James John
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Távol-keleti TanulmányokThe Manchu source Jun gar-i ba-be necihiyeme toktobuha bodogon-i bithe ‘Strategy Book for the Pacification of the Dzüüngarian Territory’, appeared in print in 1770 and Chinese block print in 1772 before being included in si ku quan shu 四庫全書 ‘Complete ...
Lkhagvasuren Enkhsaruul
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Wages, prices, and living standards in China, 1738-1925: in comparison with Europe, Japan, and India [PDF]
The paper develops data on the history of wages and prices in Beijing, Canton, Suzhou/Shanghai in China from the eighteenth century to the twentieth and compare them with leading cities in Europe, Japan and India in terms of nominal wages, the cost of ...
Allen, Robert C. +4 more
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