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Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history
To understand the turnaround in Spain's stance towards Japan during
World War II, this book goes beyond mutual contacts and explains
through images, representations, and racism why Madrid aimed at
declaring war on Japan but not against the III Reich -as London
ironically replied when it learned of Spain's warmongering against
one of the Axis members.
'The Art of War' is as relevant to today's warriors in business,
politics, and everyday life as it once was to the warlords of
ancient China. It is one of the most useful books ever written on
leading with wisdom, an essential tool for modern corporate
warriors battling to gain the advantage in the boardroom, and for
anyone struggling to gain the upper hand in confrontations and
competitions.
This book translates and contextualizes the recollections of men
and women who built, lived, and worked in some of the factory
compounds relocated from China's most cosmopolitan city-Shanghai.
Small Third Line factories became oases of relatively prosperous
urban life among more impoverished agricultural communities. These
accounts, plus the guiding questions, contextual notes, and further
readings accompanying them, show how everyday lives fit into the
sweeping geopolitical changes in China and the world during the
Cold War era. Furthermore, they reveal how the Chinese Communist
Party's military-industrial strategies have shaped China's economy
and society in the post-Mao era. The approachable translations and
insight into areas of life rarely covered by political or
diplomatic histories like sexuality and popular culture make this
book highly accessible for classroom use and the general-interest
reader.
It is now recognized that emotions have a history. In this book,
eleven scholars examine a variety of emotions in ancient China and
classical Greece, in their historical and social context. A general
introduction presents the major issues in the analysis of emotions
across cultures and over time in a given tradition. Subsequent
chapters consider how specific emotions evolve and change. For
example, whereas for early Chinese thinkers, worry was a moral
defect, it was later celebrated as a sign that one took
responsibility for things. In ancient Greece, hope did not always
focus on a positive outcome, and in this respect differed from what
we call "hope." Daring not to do, or "undaring," was itself an
emotional value in early China. While Aristotle regarded the
inability to feel anger as servile, the Roman Stoic Seneca rejected
anger entirely. Hatred and revenge were encouraged at one moment in
China and repressed at another. Ancient Greek responses to tragedy
do not map directly onto modern emotional registers, and yet are
similar to classical Chinese and Indian descriptions. There are
differences in the very way emotions are conceived. This book will
speak to anyone interested in the many ways that human beings feel.
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