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Châu Á Tóm tắt sách

China's Gilded Age

của Yuen Yuen Ang • 2021

Why did China boom for 40 years amid vast corruption? Because not all graft kills growth.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🌏 Comparative Politics 💼 Crony Capitalism 📊 Institutional Economics 🗿 Developmental State

China's Gilded Age

Why did China boom for 40 years amid vast corruption? Because not all graft kills growth.

của Yuen Yuen Ang 2021 274 trang

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🏛️ Political Economy 🌏 Comparative Politics 💼 Crony Capitalism 📊 Institutional Economics 🗿 Developmental State

Comfort Women

của Yoshimi Yoshiaki • 1995

Japan built the comfort stations itself, then spent decades claiming it did not.

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🚨 Wartime Sexual Violence 🇯🇵 Imperial Japan ⚖️ State Accountability 📚 Feminist Historiography 🕊️ Transitional Justice

Comfort Women

Japan built the comfort stations itself, then spent decades claiming it did not.

của Yoshimi Yoshiaki 1995 262 trang

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🚨 Wartime Sexual Violence 🇯🇵 Imperial Japan ⚖️ State Accountability 📚 Feminist Historiography 🕊️ Transitional Justice

Little Angels

của Phra Peter Pannapadipo • 2005

Most Thai novice monks did not choose the monastery. Hunger chose for them.

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🧘 Thai Buddhism 🏯 Buddhist Monasticism 📿 Monastic Life 🎙️ Oral History ☸️ Theravada Tradition

Little Angels

Most Thai novice monks did not choose the monastery. Hunger chose for them.

của Phra Peter Pannapadipo 2005 320 trang

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135 đánh giá

🧘 Thai Buddhism 🏯 Buddhist Monasticism 📿 Monastic Life 🎙️ Oral History ☸️ Theravada Tradition

The Accidental Malay

của Karina Robles Bahrin • 2022

A Chinese-Malaysian heiress learns she was born Muslim, and her pork empire hangs in the balance.

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🧬 Mixed-Race Identity 🏢 Family Business Saga 🔐 Family Secrets 💔 Forbidden Love 💼 Women In Business

The Accidental Malay

A Chinese-Malaysian heiress learns she was born Muslim, and her pork empire hangs in the balance.

của Karina Robles Bahrin 2022 232 trang

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🧬 Mixed-Race Identity 🏢 Family Business Saga 🔐 Family Secrets 💔 Forbidden Love 💼 Women In Business

Gladys Aylward

của Gladys Aylward • 1970

A British parlormaid rejected by every missionary society saves her money and walks to China anyway.

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🎒 Missionary Memoirs 🌏 Cross-Cultural Ministry 🔥 Enduring Persecution 👩‍🦰 Women Missionaries ⚔️ Wartime Faith

Gladys Aylward

A British parlormaid rejected by every missionary society saves her money and walks to China anyway.

của Gladys Aylward 1970 135 trang

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🎒 Missionary Memoirs 🌏 Cross-Cultural Ministry 🔥 Enduring Persecution 👩‍🦰 Women Missionaries ⚔️ Wartime Faith

The Elephant, The Tiger, And the Cell Phone

của Shashi Tharoor • 2007

A billion people, 23 languages, one democracy: what holds India together when nothing should.

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🇮🇳 Indian Democracy 🌏 Postcolonial India 📈 Indian Economic Reform 🌐 Diaspora Studies 📝 Essay Collections

The Elephant, The Tiger, And the Cell Phone

A billion people, 23 languages, one democracy: what holds India together when nothing should.

của Shashi Tharoor 2007 498 trang

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🇮🇳 Indian Democracy 🌏 Postcolonial India 📈 Indian Economic Reform 🌐 Diaspora Studies 📝 Essay Collections

The Karate Way

của Dave Lowry • 2009

Black belt is a learner's permit. Real karate is daily, invisible work on who you become.

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🥋 Traditional Martial Arts ☯️ Martial Arts Philosophy 🛤️ Lifelong Practice 🧠 Mind-Body Practice 🪷 Zen Buddhism

The Karate Way

Black belt is a learner's permit. Real karate is daily, invisible work on who you become.

của Dave Lowry 2009 194 trang

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🥋 Traditional Martial Arts ☯️ Martial Arts Philosophy 🛤️ Lifelong Practice 🧠 Mind-Body Practice 🪷 Zen Buddhism

Beyond the Sky and the Earth

của Jamie Zeppa • 1999

Teaching in a Himalayan village, she learns Buddhism, political danger, and the slow art of arrival.

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🏔️ Bhutan 😵‍💫 Culture Shock 🧑‍🏫 Teaching Abroad 🧘 Buddhist Practice 🌄 Himalayan Memoirs

Beyond the Sky and the Earth

Teaching in a Himalayan village, she learns Buddhism, political danger, and the slow art of arrival.

của Jamie Zeppa 1999 321 trang

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🏔️ Bhutan 😵‍💫 Culture Shock 🧑‍🏫 Teaching Abroad 🧘 Buddhist Practice 🌄 Himalayan Memoirs

The Third Revolution

của Elizabeth C. Economy • 2018

Deng opened China. Xi reversed it: the party now decides what gets built, read, and believed.

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🏛️ Chinese Politics ⚡ Authoritarian Governance 🐉 Xi Jinping Era 🏭 State Capitalism 🌐 Internet Censorship

The Third Revolution

Deng opened China. Xi reversed it: the party now decides what gets built, read, and believed.

của Elizabeth C. Economy 2018 359 trang

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🏛️ Chinese Politics ⚡ Authoritarian Governance 🐉 Xi Jinping Era 🏭 State Capitalism 🌐 Internet Censorship

The Billionaire Raj

của James Crabtree • 2018

Two decades. Two billionaires became 100. The hidden cost of India's economic miracle.

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🇮🇳 Indian Economy 💰 Crony Capitalism ⚖️ Economic Inequality 🗳️ Political Corruption 🔍 Investigative Journalism

The Billionaire Raj

Two decades. Two billionaires became 100. The hidden cost of India's economic miracle.

của James Crabtree 2018 416 trang

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🇮🇳 Indian Economy 💰 Crony Capitalism ⚖️ Economic Inequality 🗳️ Political Corruption 🔍 Investigative Journalism

India's Wars

của Arjun Subramaniam • 2016

Four wars forged modern India. The military history its own universities still don't teach.

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🇮🇳 Modern Indian History 🕌 South Asian History ⚔️ Military Statecraft 🌍 Postcolonial Conflicts 🗺️ Border Wars

India's Wars

Four wars forged modern India. The military history its own universities still don't teach.

của Arjun Subramaniam 2016 576 trang

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🇮🇳 Modern Indian History 🕌 South Asian History ⚔️ Military Statecraft 🌍 Postcolonial Conflicts 🗺️ Border Wars

Thailand - Culture Smart!

của Roger Jones • 2003

Navigate Thailand without losing face: the cultural codes that turn visitors into welcome guests.

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🏯 Thai Culture 📚 Cultural Guidebooks 🌏 Cross-Cultural Communication 💼 Business Etiquette 🏠 Expatriate Life

Thailand - Culture Smart!

Navigate Thailand without losing face: the cultural codes that turn visitors into welcome guests.

của Roger Jones 2003 168 trang

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🏯 Thai Culture 📚 Cultural Guidebooks 🌏 Cross-Cultural Communication 💼 Business Etiquette 🏠 Expatriate Life

A Beginner's Guide to Japan

của Pico Iyer • 2019

Why 32 years in Japan taught Pico Iyer less than his first week.

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🗾 Travel Essays 🎭 Japanese Culture 🔬 Cultural Anthropology 🤫 Indirect Communication 👥 Social Conformity

A Beginner's Guide to Japan

Why 32 years in Japan taught Pico Iyer less than his first week.

của Pico Iyer 2019 240 trang

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🗾 Travel Essays 🎭 Japanese Culture 🔬 Cultural Anthropology 🤫 Indirect Communication 👥 Social Conformity

Death of a Red Heroine

của Qiu Xiaolong • 2000

A Shanghai poet-detective pursues a model worker's killer while the Party buries the truth.

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🔍 Literary Mystery ✒️ Poet Detective 🏛️ Political Cover-Up 💰 Corrupt Political Elite 👥 Secret Double Life

Death of a Red Heroine

A Shanghai poet-detective pursues a model worker's killer while the Party buries the truth.

của Qiu Xiaolong 2000 482 trang

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🔍 Literary Mystery ✒️ Poet Detective 🏛️ Political Cover-Up 💰 Corrupt Political Elite 👥 Secret Double Life

The Bible of Karate

của Patrick McCarthy • 1995

The secret Chinese manual that taught Okinawa's masters to fight, heal, and know themselves.

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🛡️ Martial Arts History 🌊 Okinawan Karate 🌿 Chinese Medicine ⚔️ Combat Strategy 🎯 Vital Point Striking

The Bible of Karate

The secret Chinese manual that taught Okinawa's masters to fight, heal, and know themselves.

của Patrick McCarthy 1995 214 trang

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🛡️ Martial Arts History 🌊 Okinawan Karate 🌿 Chinese Medicine ⚔️ Combat Strategy 🎯 Vital Point Striking

Has the West Lost It?

của Kishore Mahbubani • 2018

China and India ran the global economy for 1,800 years. The West's brief interruption is ending.

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🌍 Global Power Shifts 🇨🇳 China's Rise ♟️ Realpolitik 🕊️ Non-Interventionism 🏛️ Multilateralism

Has the West Lost It?

China and India ran the global economy for 1,800 years. The West's brief interruption is ending.

của Kishore Mahbubani 2018 112 trang

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🌍 Global Power Shifts 🇨🇳 China's Rise ♟️ Realpolitik 🕊️ Non-Interventionism 🏛️ Multilateralism

Flawless

của Elise Hu • 2023

Korea's beauty industry perfected skincare and the feeling you will never stop fixing yourself.

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🧴 Korean Beauty Culture 💄 Beauty Standards 👁️ Lookism 🪞 Body Image 🛒 Consumerism Critique

Flawless

Korea's beauty industry perfected skincare and the feeling you will never stop fixing yourself.

của Elise Hu 2023 310 trang

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🧴 Korean Beauty Culture 💄 Beauty Standards 👁️ Lookism 🪞 Body Image 🛒 Consumerism Critique

Crouching Tiger

của Peter Navarro • 2015

China's military buildup is a calculated plan to dominate Asia and choke off American power.

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🌏 Us-China Relations 🇨🇳 Chinese Military 🏯 Asian Geopolitics ⚓ Naval Strategy ☢️ Deterrence Theory

Crouching Tiger

China's military buildup is a calculated plan to dominate Asia and choke off American power.

của Peter Navarro 2015 336 trang

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219 đánh giá

🌏 Us-China Relations 🇨🇳 Chinese Military 🏯 Asian Geopolitics ⚓ Naval Strategy ☢️ Deterrence Theory

The Great Wall

của Julia Lovell • 1981

The Great Wall was many walls, built for conquest as much as defense, and it failed.

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🏯 Imperial China 🇨🇳 Sinocentrism 📖 Revisionist History 🏰 Fortress Mentality 🗺️ Symbolic Landscapes

The Great Wall

The Great Wall was many walls, built for conquest as much as defense, and it failed.

của Julia Lovell 1981 432 trang

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🏯 Imperial China 🇨🇳 Sinocentrism 📖 Revisionist History 🏰 Fortress Mentality 🗺️ Symbolic Landscapes

Abroad in Japan

của Chris Broad • 2023

He went to rural Japan to teach English. A missile alert at dawn changed everything.

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🏞️ Rural Japan 📚 Teaching Abroad 🍜 Japanese Food 😳 Culture Shock 🌏 Expat Life

Abroad in Japan

He went to rural Japan to teach English. A missile alert at dawn changed everything.

của Chris Broad 2023 320 trang

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🏞️ Rural Japan 📚 Teaching Abroad 🍜 Japanese Food 😳 Culture Shock 🌏 Expat Life

Daughters of the Samurai

của Janice P. Nimura • 2015

Japan sent three girls to America for a decade. They came home unable to speak Japanese.

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⛩️ Meiji Japan 📚 Women's Education 🔄 Reverse Culture Shock 🌏 Cultural Exchange 👥 Group Biography

Daughters of the Samurai

Japan sent three girls to America for a decade. They came home unable to speak Japanese.

của Janice P. Nimura 2015 336 trang

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⛩️ Meiji Japan 📚 Women's Education 🔄 Reverse Culture Shock 🌏 Cultural Exchange 👥 Group Biography

The Ends of the Earth

của Robert D. Kaplan • 1996

Rivers and soil shape nations more than constitutions. A journey to the frontiers where states fail.

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🗺️ Political Travelogue 🌍 Geopolitical Analysis 🌱 Environmental Determinism 🏚️ Fragile States 🏭 Modernization Critique

The Ends of the Earth

Rivers and soil shape nations more than constitutions. A journey to the frontiers where states fail.

của Robert D. Kaplan 1996 496 trang

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🗺️ Political Travelogue 🌍 Geopolitical Analysis 🌱 Environmental Determinism 🏚️ Fragile States 🏭 Modernization Critique

Korean Made Simple

của Billy Go • 2014

Korean isn't English with different words. The verb goes last, and politeness has two settings.

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🗣️ Korean Language 🌱 Korean For Beginners 📚 Korean Grammar ✍️ Hangul 🔊 Korean Pronunciation

Korean Made Simple

Korean isn't English with different words. The verb goes last, and politeness has two settings.

của Billy Go 2014 348 trang

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🗣️ Korean Language 🌱 Korean For Beginners 📚 Korean Grammar ✍️ Hangul 🔊 Korean Pronunciation

Invaders and Infidels

của Sandeep Balakrishna • 2020

Islamic armies invaded India for 500 years. Hindu kingdoms fought back hard but never united.

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🏰 Medieval India ⚔️ Islamic Invasions 🕌 Delhi Sultanate 🛡️ Hindu Resistance 🔨 Iconoclasm

Invaders and Infidels

Islamic armies invaded India for 500 years. Hindu kingdoms fought back hard but never united.

của Sandeep Balakrishna 2020 224 trang

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🏰 Medieval India ⚔️ Islamic Invasions 🕌 Delhi Sultanate 🛡️ Hindu Resistance 🔨 Iconoclasm

خون و نفت خاطرات یک شاهزاده ایرانی

của Manoucher Farmanfarmaian • 1997

A Qajar prince's childhood in a seven-hundred-person harem. Forty years in oil. Then the revolution.

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🇮🇷 Iranian History 👑 Royal Memoir 🛢️ Oil Politics 🌍 Cultural Collision ✈️ Exile Narratives

خون و نفت خاطرات یک شاهزاده ایرانی

A Qajar prince's childhood in a seven-hundred-person harem. Forty years in oil. Then the revolution.

của Manoucher Farmanfarmaian 1997 576 trang

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185 đánh giá

🇮🇷 Iranian History 👑 Royal Memoir 🛢️ Oil Politics 🌍 Cultural Collision ✈️ Exile Narratives

Supreme Commander

của Seymour Morris Jr. • 2014

Eleven million lives saved, a constitution written in nine days: the occupation that remade Japan.

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🏛️ Postwar Occupation 🏗️ Nation Building 🪖 Military Governance 📜 Constitutional Design ❄️ Cold War Strategy

Supreme Commander

Eleven million lives saved, a constitution written in nine days: the occupation that remade Japan.

của Seymour Morris Jr. 2014 384 trang

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🏛️ Postwar Occupation 🏗️ Nation Building 🪖 Military Governance 📜 Constitutional Design ❄️ Cold War Strategy

The Upstairs Wife

của Rafia Zakaria • 2015

A family memoir that is also the history of Pakistan, seen from the women's quarters.

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🧳 Partition Of India 🧕 Muslim Women 🏡 Family Memoir 🗳️ Women In Politics 🏛️ Pakistani Politics

The Upstairs Wife

A family memoir that is also the history of Pakistan, seen from the women's quarters.

của Rafia Zakaria 2015 264 trang

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🧳 Partition Of India 🧕 Muslim Women 🏡 Family Memoir 🗳️ Women In Politics 🏛️ Pakistani Politics

Some Girls

của Jillian Lauren • 2010

At 18, she joined a harem. The pay was lavish; the real cost took years.

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💋 Sex Work Memoirs 👑 Royal Insider Accounts 🪞 Objectification ✊ Female Agency 🍽️ Body Image

Some Girls

At 18, she joined a harem. The pay was lavish; the real cost took years.

của Jillian Lauren 2010 336 trang

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💋 Sex Work Memoirs 👑 Royal Insider Accounts 🪞 Objectification ✊ Female Agency 🍽️ Body Image

Strong Men Armed

của Robert Leckie • 1961

The Marine Corps' Pacific campaign stripped of myth: chaos that no map could prepare them for.

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🏝️ Pacific Theater 🦅 Marine Corps History ⚓ Amphibious Warfare 🔐 Codebreaking 🎖️ Wartime Leadership

Strong Men Armed

The Marine Corps' Pacific campaign stripped of myth: chaos that no map could prepare them for.

của Robert Leckie 1961 576 trang

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🏝️ Pacific Theater 🦅 Marine Corps History ⚓ Amphibious Warfare 🔐 Codebreaking 🎖️ Wartime Leadership

Lo que sabe la señorita Kim

của Cho Nam-Joo • 2021

Korean women push back against the roles that erase them, one small defiance at a time.

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📚 Interlinked Stories 🇰🇷 Contemporary Korea 👩‍💼 Invisible Labor 🧬 Generational Trauma 🏠 Caregiving Burden

Lo que sabe la señorita Kim

Korean women push back against the roles that erase them, one small defiance at a time.

của Cho Nam-Joo 2021 232 trang

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📚 Interlinked Stories 🇰🇷 Contemporary Korea 👩‍💼 Invisible Labor 🧬 Generational Trauma 🏠 Caregiving Burden

Eastward to Tartary

của Robert D. Kaplan • 2001

From Budapest to the Caspian, a journey through lands where history refuses to end.

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🗺️ Travel Writing 🌍 Geopolitical Analysis 🏚️ Post-Communist States 🕌 Ottoman Legacy ✂️ Artificial Borders

Eastward to Tartary

From Budapest to the Caspian, a journey through lands where history refuses to end.

của Robert D. Kaplan 2001 385 trang

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🗺️ Travel Writing 🌍 Geopolitical Analysis 🏚️ Post-Communist States 🕌 Ottoman Legacy ✂️ Artificial Borders

The Orphan Master's Son

của Adam Johnson • 2012

An orphan in North Korea steals a hero's identity and his wife, gambling everything on escape.

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🏴 Totalitarian State 🎭 Assumed Identity 📢 State Propaganda 💔 Forbidden Love 🌫️ Bleak Atmosphere

The Orphan Master's Son

An orphan in North Korea steals a hero's identity and his wife, gambling everything on escape.

của Adam Johnson 2012 443 trang

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🏴 Totalitarian State 🎭 Assumed Identity 📢 State Propaganda 💔 Forbidden Love 🌫️ Bleak Atmosphere

The Man Who Remade India

của Vinay Sitapati • 2016

P.V. Narasimha Rao: a silent, marginal prime minister who dismantled India's closed economy.

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🇮🇳 Indian Politics 📉 Economic Reform 📜 Political Biographies 🦊 Political Maneuvering 🏭 Economic History

The Man Who Remade India

P.V. Narasimha Rao: a silent, marginal prime minister who dismantled India's closed economy.

của Vinay Sitapati 2016 408 trang

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🇮🇳 Indian Politics 📉 Economic Reform 📜 Political Biographies 🦊 Political Maneuvering 🏭 Economic History

The Shadow of the Great Game

của Narendra Singh Sarila • 2006

India's partition was engineered by Britain to secure a Cold War foothold, not just communal strife.

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🇮🇳 Partition Of India 🇬🇧 British Imperialism 🗺️ Great Game 📜 Decolonization 🌏 South Asian Geopolitics

The Shadow of the Great Game

India's partition was engineered by Britain to secure a Cold War foothold, not just communal strife.

của Narendra Singh Sarila 2006 320 trang

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🇮🇳 Partition Of India 🇬🇧 British Imperialism 🗺️ Great Game 📜 Decolonization 🌏 South Asian Geopolitics

The Tunnels of Cu Chi

của Tom Mangold • 1985

A hand-dug city beneath the jungle survived the heaviest bombing; the fighting went underground.

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🇻🇳 Vietnam War 🕳️ Tunnel Warfare 🌿 Guerrilla Warfare ⚙️ Military Engineering ⚔️ Asymmetric Warfare

The Tunnels of Cu Chi

A hand-dug city beneath the jungle survived the heaviest bombing; the fighting went underground.

của Tom Mangold 1985 302 trang

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🇻🇳 Vietnam War 🕳️ Tunnel Warfare 🌿 Guerrilla Warfare ⚙️ Military Engineering ⚔️ Asymmetric Warfare

Lửa Trong Hồ

của Frances FitzGerald • 1972

The Vietnam War was lost in the chasm between American optimism and Vietnamese reality.

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🪖 Vietnam War 🦅 U.S. Foreign Policy 🇻🇳 Vietnamese History 📜 Postcolonialism 🏗️ Nation Building

Lửa Trong Hồ

The Vietnam War was lost in the chasm between American optimism and Vietnamese reality.

của Frances FitzGerald 1972 500 trang

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🪖 Vietnam War 🦅 U.S. Foreign Policy 🇻🇳 Vietnamese History 📜 Postcolonialism 🏗️ Nation Building

A History of the Philippines

của Luis H. Francia • 2010

How Spanish friars, American teachers, and Japanese occupiers accidentally created a nation.

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📜 Philippine History 🌏 Southeast Asian History 🏴 Imperialism 🇵🇭 National Identity ✊ Nonviolent Revolution

A History of the Philippines

How Spanish friars, American teachers, and Japanese occupiers accidentally created a nation.

của Luis H. Francia 2010 352 trang

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📜 Philippine History 🌏 Southeast Asian History 🏴 Imperialism 🇵🇭 National Identity ✊ Nonviolent Revolution

The Bengalis

của Sudeep Chakravarti • 2017

Language bound them; religion and borders broke them: a portrait of 250 million Bengalis.

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🐅 Bengali Identity 🗺️ South Asian History ✂️ Partition Of India 🔍 Cultural Ethnography 🗣️ Language Politics

The Bengalis

Language bound them; religion and borders broke them: a portrait of 250 million Bengalis.

của Sudeep Chakravarti 2017 496 trang

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215 đánh giá

🐅 Bengali Identity 🗺️ South Asian History ✂️ Partition Of India 🔍 Cultural Ethnography 🗣️ Language Politics

Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World

của Rebecca E. Karl • 2009

He freed a nation, starved a generation, and the Party still carries his portrait.

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🏮 Modern Chinese History 🚩 Maoist China 👤 Political Biography 📢 Revolutionary Ideology 🌾 Peasant Movements

Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World

He freed a nation, starved a generation, and the Party still carries his portrait.

của Rebecca E. Karl 2009 216 trang

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🏮 Modern Chinese History 🚩 Maoist China 👤 Political Biography 📢 Revolutionary Ideology 🌾 Peasant Movements

Revolusi

của David Van Reybrouck • 2020

One in 27 humans lives there, yet its revolution launched the Third World.

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🗺️ Decolonization 🇮🇩 Indonesian History 🇳🇱 Dutch Colonialism 🌿 Guerrilla Warfare 🌏 Cold War In Asia

Revolusi

One in 27 humans lives there, yet its revolution launched the Third World.

của David Van Reybrouck 2020 656 trang

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🗺️ Decolonization 🇮🇩 Indonesian History 🇳🇱 Dutch Colonialism 🌿 Guerrilla Warfare 🌏 Cold War In Asia

Japan Story

của Christopher Harding • 2018

Modern Japan was built on a story about itself. Every crisis forced a rewrite.

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🏯 Modern Japanese History 🎌 Japanese Identity 📜 Cultural History 🏗️ Nation Building 🌱 Grassroots Movements

Japan Story

Modern Japan was built on a story about itself. Every crisis forced a rewrite.

của Christopher Harding 2018 504 trang

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🏯 Modern Japanese History 🎌 Japanese Identity 📜 Cultural History 🏗️ Nation Building 🌱 Grassroots Movements

Becoming Kim Jong Un

của Jung H. Pak • 2020

Why Kim Jong Un won't denuclearize: a CIA officer on his ruthless survival strategy.

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🔴 North Korean Politics 🏛️ Authoritarian Regimes ☢️ Nuclear Proliferation 💻 Cyber Warfare 👑 Personality Cults

Becoming Kim Jong Un

Why Kim Jong Un won't denuclearize: a CIA officer on his ruthless survival strategy.

của Jung H. Pak 2020 336 trang

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1.000+ đánh giá

🔴 North Korean Politics 🏛️ Authoritarian Regimes ☢️ Nuclear Proliferation 💻 Cyber Warfare 👑 Personality Cults

엄마를 부탁해

của Kyung-Sook Shin • 2008

After a mother disappears at Seoul Station, her family's search uncovers the woman they never knew.

3.92

48.000+

📖 Korean Family Drama 👤 Mother's Hidden Life 🔒 Family Secrets 🌸 Sacrificial Mother 👁️ Multiple Perspectives

엄마를 부탁해

After a mother disappears at Seoul Station, her family's search uncovers the woman they never knew.

của Kyung-Sook Shin 2008 320 trang

3.92

48.000+ đánh giá

📖 Korean Family Drama 👤 Mother's Hidden Life 🔒 Family Secrets 🌸 Sacrificial Mother 👁️ Multiple Perspectives

I Stand Corrected

của Eden Collinsworth • 2014

When a Western etiquette expert tried to teach China about manners, China politely corrected her.

3.20

188

🏢 Business Etiquette 🇨🇳 Modern China 📖 China Memoir 🗣️ Cultural Fluency 📜 Confucian Values

I Stand Corrected

When a Western etiquette expert tried to teach China about manners, China politely corrected her.

của Eden Collinsworth 2014 272 trang

3.20

188 đánh giá

🏢 Business Etiquette 🇨🇳 Modern China 📖 China Memoir 🗣️ Cultural Fluency 📜 Confucian Values

Enemy of All Mankind

của Steven Johnson • 2020

His 1695 heist of a Mughal treasure ship nearly toppled an empire. Then Henry Every disappeared.

3.89

4.000+

🚢 Maritime History 🏴‍☠️ Piracy And Empire 🏛️ East India Company 🌏 Early Globalisation 🕌 Mughal Empire

Enemy of All Mankind

His 1695 heist of a Mughal treasure ship nearly toppled an empire. Then Henry Every disappeared.

của Steven Johnson 2020 286 trang

3.89

4.000+ đánh giá

🚢 Maritime History 🏴‍☠️ Piracy And Empire 🏛️ East India Company 🌏 Early Globalisation 🕌 Mughal Empire

Shōgun, Volume 1

của James Clavell • 1975

An English pilot shipwrecked in Japan becomes the ultimate pawn in a clash of ambitious warlords.

4.50

16.000+

🏯 Feudal Japan 🐟 Fish Out Of Water ⚔️ Samurai Honor 💕 Cross-Cultural Romance 🏛️ Political Intrigue

Shōgun, Volume 1

An English pilot shipwrecked in Japan becomes the ultimate pawn in a clash of ambitious warlords.

của James Clavell 1975 533 trang

4.50

16.000+ đánh giá

🏯 Feudal Japan 🐟 Fish Out Of Water ⚔️ Samurai Honor 💕 Cross-Cultural Romance 🏛️ Political Intrigue

The Plane That Wasn't There

của Jeff Wise • 2015

No debris. Two conflicting satellite signals. The evidence MH370 went north instead of south.

3.56

1.000+

🛩️ Aviation Disasters 🔍 Unsolved Disappearances 📰 Investigative Reporting 🧪 Tampered Evidence 🐻 Russian Active Measures

The Plane That Wasn't There

No debris. Two conflicting satellite signals. The evidence MH370 went north instead of south.

của Jeff Wise 2015 95 trang

3.56

1.000+ đánh giá

🛩️ Aviation Disasters 🔍 Unsolved Disappearances 📰 Investigative Reporting 🧪 Tampered Evidence 🐻 Russian Active Measures

Muay Thai

của Michael Goodison • 2016

Modern life buries truth in comfort. In a Muay Thai ring, pain digs it back up.

4.24

138

🥊 Combat Sports ✈️ Travel Memoir 🥋 Martial Arts Memoir 🌑 Embracing Suffering 🤼 Fighting Philosophy

Muay Thai

Modern life buries truth in comfort. In a Muay Thai ring, pain digs it back up.

của Michael Goodison 2016 274 trang

4.24

138 đánh giá

🥊 Combat Sports ✈️ Travel Memoir 🥋 Martial Arts Memoir 🌑 Embracing Suffering 🤼 Fighting Philosophy

The Anatomy of Dependence

của Takeo Doi • 1973

Japan named an emotion the West cannot name. That single word unlocks an entire social order.

3.71

319

🔄 Cross-Cultural Psychology 🇯🇵 Japanese Society 🤱 Emotional Dependence 😳 Shame And Guilt 📖 Nihonjinron

The Anatomy of Dependence

Japan named an emotion the West cannot name. That single word unlocks an entire social order.

của Takeo Doi 1973 192 trang

3.71

319 đánh giá

🔄 Cross-Cultural Psychology 🇯🇵 Japanese Society 🤱 Emotional Dependence 😳 Shame And Guilt 📖 Nihonjinron

The Dark Valley

của Piers Brendon • 2000

The 1930s: a single global story of economic collapse, appeasement, and terror feeding the next war.

4.18

500+

🌍 Interwar Europe 🏛️ Rise Of Totalitarianism 📉 Great Depression 💣 Origins Of World War Ii 📜 Narrative History

The Dark Valley

The 1930s: a single global story of economic collapse, appeasement, and terror feeding the next war.

của Piers Brendon 2000 848 trang

4.18

500+ đánh giá

🌍 Interwar Europe 🏛️ Rise Of Totalitarianism 📉 Great Depression 💣 Origins Of World War Ii 📜 Narrative History

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