China and Inner Asia – July 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 16, 2013|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

朱舜水與近世日本儒學的發展 / 徐興慶編 遊藝翰墨 : 滿清愛新覺羅家族書畫藝術 / 王淑珍著 中國史畫100幅 : 《倫敦新聞畫報》1854-1912 國朝閨秀詩柳絮集校補 / 黄秩模編輯 ; 付瓊校補. 二十世纪中国小说理论资料 / 陈平原, 夏晓虹编 千峰翠色 : 中国越窑青瓷 / 李军编著 雲南氣候與災異資料輯錄 / 李德龍主編 中古汉语词汇复音化的多视角研究 / 邱冰著 屈原及其诗歌研究 / 常森著 近代日本人对上海的认识 : 1862-1945年 / 徐青著 上海租界研究 = Shanghai zujie yanjiu / 吴志伟著 中国近现代史辨疑与释读 = Zhongguo jinxiandaishi bianyi yu shidu / 邵雍著 The Purple phoenix : poems of Li Shangyin = [紫鳳 : 李商隱詩集] / translated by

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China and Inner Asia – September 2012 to May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 24, 2013|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

Migration, prostitution, and human trafficking : the voice of Chinese women / Min Liu. Taiwan and the rise of China : cross-strait relations in the twenty-first century / edited by Baogang Guo and Chung-chian Teng. Taiwanese identity in the 21st century : domestic, regional, and global perspectives / edited by Gunter Schubert and Jens Damm. Tibet : a history / Sam Van Schaik. Harmony and war : Confucian culture and

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History – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 30, 2013|History|0 comments

Women and slavery in the late Ottoman Empire: the design of difference / Madeline C. Zilfi.  Japan since 1945: from postwar to post-bubble / edited by Christopher Gerteis and Timothy S. George. [Also available as an e-book from Dawsonera] Chefferie coloniale et égalitarisme diola: les difficultés de la politique indigène de la France en basse-Casamance (Sénégal), 1828-1923 / Philippe Méguelle. Coming of age in nineteenth-century India: the girl-child and the

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 29, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Perché il male? : il problema della Mesopotamia antica / Claudio Saporetti ; con un contributo bibliografico di Giovanna Matini. Wissenskultur im Alten Orient Weltanschauung, Wissenschaften, Techniken, Technologien : 4. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 20.-22. Februar 2002, Münster Im Auftrag des Vorstands der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft / unter Mitarbeit von Susanne Paulus [and] Hans Neumann. A manual of Hurrian / by Arnaud Fournet. La collezione orientale

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Religions – March 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 5, 2013|Religions|0 comments

e-books The Tibetan assimilation of Buddhism: conversion, contestation, and memory / Matthew T. Kapstein [Available as an e-book from Dawsonera] Violence, desire, and the sacred: Girard’s mimetic theory across the disciplines / edited by Scott Cowdell, Chris Fleming, and Joel Hodge [Available as an e-book from ebrary] Books Before religion: a history of a modern concept / Brent Nongbri The Caliphate’s soldiers: the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba’s long war / Wilson John ; foreword by

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China and Inner Asia – January 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|February 21, 2013|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

Is China a responsible developing country? : climate change diplomacy and national image building / Sanna Kopra. Modalities of change : the interface of tradition and modernity in East Asia / James Wilkerson and Robert Parkin, editors. [Also available as an e-book via Dawsonera] Cybercrime in the Greater China Region : regulatory responses and crime prevention across the Taiwan Strait / Yao-Chung Chang. 二十世紀中國文學圖志 / 楊義, 中井政喜, 張中良著. 經濟史、都市文化與物質文化 :

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History – January 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 30, 2013|History|0 comments

“Socialism is great!”: a worker’s memoir of the new China / by Lijia Zhang. Road to Manzikert : Byzantine and Islamic warfare, 527-1071 / Brian Todd Carey. Maghreb-Italie : des passeurs médiévaux à l’orientalisme moderne, XIIIe-milieu XXe siècle / études réunies par Benoît Grévin.  Journeys to empire: enlightenment, imperialism, and the British encounter with Tibet, 1774-1904 / Gordon T. Stewart. The Enlightenment / Roy Porter. (2nd edition) Intercultural transmission in

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History – October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 2, 2012|History|0 comments

E-books Egypt in the reign of Muhammad Ali / Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot [Available from Cambridge Books Online]. Wars of imperial conquest in Africa, 1830-1914 / Bruce Vandervort [Available from ebrary] South Africa: a modern history / T.R.H. Davenport and Christopher Saunders; foreword by Desmond Tutu (5th edition) [Available from Dawsonera] Books Representing Israel in modern Egypt: ideas, intellectuals and foreign policy from Nasser to Mubarak / Ewan Stein In

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China and Inner Asia – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 3, 2012|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

Database updates China Academic Journals (CAJ) 中国期刊全文数据库 now includes masters theses and doctoral dissertations The popular Chinese language database now includes access to masters theses (1999-2012) and doctoral dissertations (2000-2012). These can be searched or browsed individually or cross searched with all of our other CAJ packages. A small percentage of the articles are images which can be converted to text-based articles by using the OCR button. http://oversea.cnki.net/ [On-campus] http://bit.ly/CAJTheses

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Art and Archaeology – Jan to May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 15, 2012|Art and Archaeology|0 comments

Ragamala : paintings from India / Anna L. Dallapiccola, Catherine Glynn, Robert Skelton. Kalighat paintings / Suhashini Sinha. Shanghai : a history in photographs, 1842 – today / Liu Heung Shing, Karen Smith. Interlacing / Ai Weiwei ; eds. Urs Stahel, Daniela Janser ; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Jeu de Paume. Architettura himalayana : architettura tradizionale nella valle di Kathmandu = Himalayan architecture : traditional architecture in the Kathmandu Valley / Valerio

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