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  • The Solitary Tree

    de Mend-Ooyo Gombojav ...
    Traducido por Simon Wickhamsmith ...
    Series series Central Asian Literatures in Translation
    Set in nineteenth century Mongolia, under the sway of the Manchu Qing Emperor in Beijing, G.Mend-Ooyo’s novel tells the story of the outlaw Tooroibandi, who is charged by the mysterious Mountain Sage with discovering the fate of the Solitary Tree, which has stood for generations in the Ongon Sands before recently being destroyed by fire. Tooroibandi’s quest is complicated by an arrogant local ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921-1948)

    de Simon Wickhamsmith ...
    Series series North East Asian Studies
    Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921-1948) investigates the relationship between literature and politics during Mongolia's early revolutionary period. Between the 1921 socialist revolution and the first Writers' Congress held in April 1948, the literary community constituted a key resource in the formation and implementation of policy. At the same time, debates within the party, discontent ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • Suncranes and Other Stories

    Modern Mongolian Short Fiction

    Over the course of the twentieth century, Mongolian life was transformed, as a land of nomadic communities encountered first socialism and then capitalism and their promises of new societies. The stories collected in this anthology offer literary snapshots of Mongolian life throughout this tumult. Suncranes and Other Stories showcases a range of powerful voices and their vivid portraits of nomads, ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Suncranes and Other Stories

    Modern Mongolian Short Fiction

    Over the course of the twentieth century, Mongolian life was transformed, as a land of nomadic communities encountered first socialism and then capitalism and their promises of new societies. The stories collected in this anthology offer literary snapshots of Mongolian life throughout this tumult. Suncranes and Other Stories showcases a range of powerful voices and their vivid portraits of nomads, ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Socialist and Post–Socialist Mongolia

    Nation, Identity, and Culture

    Edición de Simon Wickhamsmith, Phillip P. Marzluf ...
    Series series Central Asian Studies
    This book re-examines the origins of modern Mongolian nationalism, discussing nation building as sponsored by the socialist Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party and the Soviet Union and emphasizing in particular the role of the arts and the humanities. It considers the politics and society of the early revolutionary period and assesses the ways in which ideas about nationhood were constructed in ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • The Hidden Life of the Sixth Dalai Lama

    de Ngawang Lhundrup Dargyé ...
    Traducido por Simon Wickham-Smith ...
    Series series Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture
    The life of the Sixth Dalai Lama does not end with his supposed death at Kokonor in November 1706, on the way to Beijing, and an audience with the Manchu Emperor Kangxi. This book, the so-called Hidden Life, presents a very different Tsangyang Gyamtso, neither a louche poet nor a drinker, but a sober Buddhist practitioner, who chose to escape at Kokonor and to adopt the guise of a wandering monk, ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

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  • The Wisdom of Mao

    de Philosophical Library ...
    Series series Wisdom
    Beyond the Little Red Book: China's revolutionary leader and his philosophyIn this collection of essays, China's Chairman Mao Tse-Tung explains the interpretation of Marxism-Leninism ideology that became known as Maoism. This philosophy fueled the Chinese Revolution and the massive social and economic changes Mao instituted as the nation's leader. From examining the way contradictions can cause ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin

    de Michel Eltchaninoff ...
    The Russian president's landmark speeches, interviews and policies borrow heavily from great Russian thinkers past and present, from Peter the Great to Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn. They offer powerful visions of strong leaders and the Russian nation: they value conservatism and the Slavic spirit. They root morality in Orthodoxy, and Russian identity in the historic struggle with the West. Today, ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • On Practice and Contradiction

    de Mao Tse-Tung ...
    A collection of the writings that underpinned the Chinese revolution—presented by “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals” (New York Review Books)These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and Mao’s clarion call to insurrection has lost none of its ability to stir the blood and stimulate the mind.Drawing on a dizzying array of references from contemporary ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Russian Cosmists

    The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers

    de George M. Young ...
    In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, a controversial school of Russian religious and scientific thinkers emerged, united in the conviction that humanity was entering a new stage of evolution and must assume a new, active, managerial role in the cosmos. The ideas of the Cosmists have in recent decades been rediscovered and embraced by many Russian intellectuals. In the first account in ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Russia's World Order

    How Civilizationism Explains the Conflict with the West

    de Paul Robinson ...
    Series series NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
    Russia's World Order explores the ideas underlying the undeclared New Cold War between Russia and the West. The first Cold War was a struggle between capitalism and communism; most Western politicians and policymakers imagine the new one to be a struggle between democracy and autocracy. Russia's World Order explains that in Russian eyes, the conflict is about something very different: it is a ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Return of Ancestral Gods

    Modern Ukrainian Paganism as an Alternative Vision for a Nation

    de Mariya Lesiv ...
    Series Libro 53 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion
    As Ukraine struggles to find its national identity, modern Ukrainian Pagans offer an alternative vision of the Ukrainian nation. Drawing inspiration from the spiritual life of past millennia, they strive to return to the pre-Christian roots of their ancestors. Since Christianity dominates the spiritual discourse in Ukraine, Pagans are marginalized, and their ideas are perceived as radical.In The ... Leer más

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