Author: Jacopo BenassiPublisher:
ISBN: 9788899058210
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Paris is in Asia
Author: Jacopo BenassiPublisher:
ISBN: 9788899058210
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Asia after Versailles
Author: Urs Matthias ZachmannPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474417175
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Asia After Versailles addresses an important but neglected watershed for Asian nations - the response to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The Conference marked the end of a conflict which, although intrinsically European, had globalized the world on many levels, politically as well as economically, culturally and socially. It also stood at the beginning of a new order that saw the power centre shift towards the US and Asia. Asian countries and people played a significant but so far largely neglected role in this momentous development. Bringing together an international range of experts in the history of China, Japan, India and the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, this pioneering volume demonstrates the importance of Asia in the multifaceted global transformations that revolved around the Paris Peace Conference and its aftermath. Traditional historical analysis focuses almost exclusively on US and European responses to the Paris Peace Conference and the interwar order and often fails to take into account non-western, particularly Asian voices - this is the first book to demonstrate the far-reaching Asian dimensions of the impact of Versailles in an unprecedented way making this an invaluable and interdisciplinary resource for academics and researchers in the fields of politics, international relations, area studies and history
Asia Now
Author: Asia NowThe Roots of French Imperialism in Eastern Asia
Author: John Frank CadyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Asia Now
Author: Asia NowTwo Americans in Paris
Author: Jean-Paul DesrochesPublisher:
ISBN: 9782359061857
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Has Asia Lost It?: Dynamic Past, Turbulent Future
Author: Vasuki ShastryPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811228426
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
''Shastry's polemic cites extensive research from experts and exploits the author's knowledge of Asia and his connections to the region's elite, with whom he rubs shoulders at Davos and other summits. What shows through in the book though is Shastry's compassion for the continent's ordinary people.'IMF F&D MagazineAsia has been the greatest show on earth since Japan's rise from the ashes of World War II, accompanied in successive decades with the emergence of the Asian tigers, and eventually the two giants China and India. The Asian miracle has few precedents in the modern era, with billions lifted from poverty in a generation. The region's openness to trade and investment aligned perfectly with the tailwinds of globalisation. However, in recent years Asia has become a victim of its own success with commentators not differentiating between a utopian high-income Asia and a dystopian middle- and low-income Asia, where a significant majority of the region's population live. Asia today can be divided into countries which have a lot, have a little, and have none. The continent's dream run is also coming to an end as Covid-19 exposes sharp weaknesses in state capacity and structural challenges like the U.S.-China trade war is putting globalisation into reverse gear, jeopardising the region's hard-earned economic success. Asia's growth-obsessed policymakers have also ignored social pressures from the impact of technology on jobs, rising inequality, fabulous wealth accumulation by a favoured billionaire class, a deepening demographic divide, climate distress, and gender disparity, which threaten to destabilise the region's famed cohesiveness. In his penetrating new book, well-known Asia expert Vasuki Shastry argues that while Asia's reckoning may have been the subject of speculation before the pandemic, Covid-19 has made that inevitable. Inspired by Dante's Inferno, Shastry takes readers on a journey through modern Asia's eight circles of hell where we encounter urban cowboys and cowgirls fleeing rural areas to live in increasingly uninhabitable cities, disadvantaged teenage girls unable to meet their aspirations due to social strictures, internal mutiny, messy geopolitics from the rise of China, and a political and business class whose interests are in conflict with a majority of the population. Shastry challenges conventional thinking about Asia's place in the world and the book is essential reading for those with an interest in the continent's future.Related Link(s)
Reinventing the Old Paris of Asia
Author: Poh Im LimArtists from Southeast Asia in Paris, 1880-1960
Author: National Gallery SingaporePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists -- Southeast Asia
Languages : en
Pages :
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Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Author: Ji LiPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004498699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China offers readers an overview of the French MEP’s activities in China and provides insights into the significant and complex cross-cultural encounter of the Catholic Church and Chinese society