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Modern East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History
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Modern East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History
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by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Anne Walthall, and James Palais
Sales Rank : 267707
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Paperback: 333 pages
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing; 1 edition August 9, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0618133852
ISBN-13: 978-0618133857
Product Dimensions:
8.9 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
Product Description
Designed for the East Asian history course, these texts feature the latest scholarship on the region and offer a range of cultural, political, economic, and intellectual history. Coverage is balanced among East Asian regions, with approximately 20 percent of the complete volume focused on Korea, an area that has become increasingly important in East Asian courses and in world politics.Special attention is devoted to coverage of gender and material culture, themes that are reinforced through the text's pedagogical features. Color inserts illustrate the rich artistic heritage of East Asia and bolster the coverage of material culture.
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About The Author
Patricia B. Ebrey, Professor with Joint Appointment: Early Imperial China, Song Dynasty, at the University of Washington in Seattle, received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1975. She has published numerous journal articles and published The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Cambridge University Press, 1996). Her monographs include The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period (University of California Press, 1993) and Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China: A Social History of Writing about Rites (Princeton University Press, 1991). She is a co-author of East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History and author of China: A Cultural, Social, and Political History (both Houghton Mifflin, 2006).
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