The Search for the Beautiful Woman: A Cultural History of Japanese and Chinese Beauty 9781442218956, 9781442218932, 2012032384

The search for the beautiful woman: a cultural history of Japanese and Chinese beauty 9781442218932, 9781442218956, 1442218932, 1442218959

While a slender body is a prerequisite for beauty today, plump women were considered ideal in Tang Dynasty China and Hei

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In the Search of Beauty

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The Myth of the Modern Homosexual: Queer History and the Search for Cultural Unity 9781474286916, 9781474286923

With careful reasoning supported by wide-ranging scholarship, this study exposes the fallacies of 'social construct

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The Japanese Sense of Beauty 4866580208, 9784866580203

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The Beauty of Ancient Chinese Locks

The Beauty of Ancient Chinese Locks. 古早中國鎖具之美 (The beauty of the old days, Chinese locks). Hong-Sen Yan. Edited by the N

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Japanese Confucianism: A Cultural History 9781107058651, 9781107635685

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Japanese Confucianism: A Cultural History 9781107058651, 9781107635685

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Japanese Confucianism: A Cultural History 1107058651, 9781107058651

For more than 1500 years, Confucianism has played a major role in shaping Japan's history - from the formation of t

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The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History 9780804767989

Based on a wide variety of unusual and only recently available sources, this book covers the entire Cultural Revolution

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The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History 0521875153, 9780521875158

A groundbreaking study of cultural life during a turbulent and formative decade in contemporary China, this book seeks t

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