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Tearing Up the Silk Road

Author : Tom Coote
Publisher : Garnet Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1859643027
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Tearing Up the Silk Road written by Tom Coote and published by Garnet Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tearing up the Silk Road is an irreverent travelogue that details a journey along the ancient trade routes from China to Istanbul, through Central Asia, Iran and the Caucasus. As Tom Coote struggles through the often arbitrary borders and bureaucracies of China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Armenia, Georgia and Turkey, it becomes increasingly apparent that the next generations to rise to power, will see themselves in a very different light to their predecessors: in an increasingly interconnected world, archaic conceptions of race, ethnicity and nationalism will come to be seen as increasingly irrelevant. Instead, new forms of identity are emerging, founded more upon shared cultural preferences and aspirations, than on the remnants of tribal allegiance. While rushing through from East to West, Tom Coote meets, befriends and argues with an epic range of characters: from soldiers and monks, to pilgrims, travellers and modern day silk road traders. All are striving for something more and most dream of being somewhere else. By bus, train and battered car - through deserts, open plains and mountain ranges - we find ourselves again and again at the front line of a desperate war for 'hearts and minds'. Through rapidly expanding megacities, to ancient ruins, and far more recently created wastelands, it is the West that is winning the souls while the East grows ever stronger. The real 'clash of civilisations', however, seems set to be not between the East and the West, but between the few who have so much, and the masses now uniting to demand so much more.

Overlanding the Silk Road

Author : Norman Handy
Publisher : novum pro Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3990487094
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Overlanding the Silk Road written by Norman Handy and published by novum pro Verlag. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a journey following the Silk Road, from Europe to China, beginning in London. The real journey starts in Istanbul, winding through the history and countryside of Turkey and over the border into Iran, to experience its rich history and architecture. There are bizarre experiences of the beautiful, modern but empty city of Ashgabat, and much more. A trip to the disappearing Aral Sea, is followed by immense architecture and history, across a land fought over by Alexander the Great, Tamarind and Genghis Khan. There is the enchanting mountains of Kyrgyzstan, with its beautiful mountains and lakes, known as Asia's little Switzerland. The scene slowly changes as the Muslim influence gives way to Han Chinese dominance, the Great Wall of China and the end of the Silk Road.

Old Silk Road

Author : Brandon Caro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1618688707
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Old Silk Road written by Brandon Caro and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norman "Doc" Rodgers suspects he won't make it out of this one alive. He's a young combat medic in Afghanistan, eager to avenge his father's death in the World Trade Center, and make sense of a new world that feels like it's fallen to pieces. Haunted by hallucinatory encounters, his only solace is a barely concealed addiction to the precious opiates he's supposed to dole out sparingly to those beyond aid -- Provided by the publisher.

Take the Silk Road Home

Author : Barry Terenna
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105825760
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Take the Silk Road Home written by Barry Terenna and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two very different brothers, grow up in a close Italian-American family in a small town in Westchester County, New York. The responsible younger brother aids his reckless brother through the trials of his life. The book traces the journey of each brother through the 1960's to the present day, relating their careers, loves, and relationship with one another and the women in their lives. The story begins hundreds of years earlier with a glimpse of ancestors past, revealing very famous ties and ultimately leads to the curious events in the lives of both brothers. The simple life in the old country contributes to the paths both brothers take. There is a strong connection to Asia where one brother faces the horrors of the war in Vietnam and the other travels to China for adventure and inspiration. Cultures and national heritage enrich the human interactions and connections between friends, families and lovers and show that different backgrounds are less important to relationships than human emotions.

The Silk Road of Adaptation

Author : Dr Laurence Raw
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443852899
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Silk Road of Adaptation written by Dr Laurence Raw and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of cutting edge essays on adaptation studies adopts the metaphor of the Silk Road – an historical site for transcultural as well as transnational exchange. The Silk Road of Adaptation puts forward the idea of adaptation as a continuous process in which individuals continually have to adjust themselves to new material: we should not only look at the ways in which texts have been transformed, but the ways in which readers, audiences, and critics have responded to them at different points in time and space. Adaptation is a psychological as well as a formal process: only by coming to terms with others can individuals address issues of human rights, or examine themselves and their existing beliefs. The Silk Road of Adaptation stresses this point through a series of essays written by representatives of different disciplines – film studies, history, literature, communication studies, and English as a foreign language. Contributors include established names in the field of adaptation studies as well as newer names, who together show how the act of adaptation should be approached as a transmedial as well as a transnational act, assuming equal significance in the political and diplomatic as well as the literary and cinematic spheres.

International Trade Regulation

Author : Zhiqiong June Wang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000875385
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book International Trade Regulation written by Zhiqiong June Wang and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international trade regulatory system is a dynamic system that has been evolving throughout its history. Tension and conflict are part of the system. While calls for the abolition of the principal trade regulation authority, the WTO, have failed to understand this nature of the system, proponents for reforms have so far not paid sufficient attention to the evolving nature of tension and conflict. This book examines the evolving dynamics in international trade regulation from the conclusion of GATT in 1947 to the current crisis facing the WTO, from a perspective of emerging powers of developing countries with a focus of China as the latest force that demands reforms of the international trade regulatory regime. There is an extensive body of scholarship on ideological struggles, the rise of developing countries, geopolitical contest, the emerging powers (especially China), the use, misuse or abuse of trading rules and so on. There is, however, a lack of a single concise research book that synthesises these underlying causes and factors into a coherent and precise analytical theme. This book attempts to fill this research gap by building upon the existing scholarship and placing the various tensions and conflicts in a perspective that treats them as dynamic factors that have propelled a continuing process of evolution of the international trade regulation. The book will interest those researching on international trade regulation as well as development studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Silk Road

Author : Kenneth Canatsey
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514405350
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Silk Road written by Kenneth Canatsey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a bohemian odyssey set in the 1960s, a young man just out of college backpacks around the world, sampling hash, sex, and illumination as the Vietnam War rages. . . . A rich, exotic journey that will leave you reaching for your passport. Kirkus Review It is 1966, and the narrator and his roommate are leaving their California college town in order to hitchhike to New York City and join their friends who are already there. So begins what will become a 20,000 mile journey of loss and redemption. Silk Road: The Journey is a tale of travel, adventure, and a young man's coming of age, evolving under unexpected and, at times, the most unusual of circumstances. Here, the changing landscape becomes an active - although not always benign - participant in the story. Above all, the novel is a chronicle of impermanence, in which the narrative - on one level a series of adventures in which places and events change, and bonds between people are formed, developed and severed becomes, on a deeper level, an examination of transience, as the protagonist searches for meaning and permanence to the farthest ends of the earth, but is able to find it only when he returns home. A spirited, free-wheeling and ultimately sobering story of irreverent and reckless youth.

Silk Road: The Study Of Drama Culture

Author : Qiang Li
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9813202971
Total Pages : 855 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Silk Road: The Study Of Drama Culture written by Qiang Li and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silk Road: The Study of Drama Culture is the translated edition of the Chinese academic book of the same title written by Professor LI Qiang from Shaanxi Normal University, China. The book breaks through the concept of regarding Han Drama as the center, yet elaborates the Silk Road drama as an inclusive culture and a prevailing literary art form in human civilization. Relying on his extensive experience and broad vision, the author conducts the thorough study by means of literature, artifacts and academic fieldwork. The book studies the drama culture of all ethnic groups from Asia, Europe and Africa and touches upon the cultural exchanges between China and its neighboring countries, between the East and the West. The carefully presented details in this book are aimed to explore all the related fields such as dramaturgy, philology, phonology, religion, history, geography, archeology, ethnology, and folklore between the East and the West from the perspective of cultural anthropology. The explanations in the book contribute to an in-depth study on the origins of the Silk Road and the drama culture along the Silk Road.

The Chinese in Papua New Guinea

Author : Anna Hayes
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760466409
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese in Papua New Guinea written by Anna Hayes and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papua New Guinean, Chinese and Australian people have long been entangled in the creation of complex histories and political debates concerning the similarities and differences of each group. These debates are fundamental to understanding how a sense of national unity in Papua New Guinea is formed, as well as within analyses of the wider world of strategic power dynamics and influence. The Chinese in Papua New Guinea offers a comprehensive and nuanced examination of the Chinese in Papua New Guinea. Chinese, Papua New Guinean and Australian interactions are analysed in the context of ongoing shifts in colonial power, increased regional engagement with China, and current political instabilities across the Indo-Pacific region. The many ways the Chinese have been defined as actors in PNG’s history and politics are analysed against the backdrop of a rapidly changing global order. The complexity of Chinese experiences within Papua New Guinea is given expression, here, with chapters that stress political and historical heterogeneity, the importance of language for understanding Chinese social relations, and that articulate rich personal experiences of race relations.

Keiko the Fairy, the Silk Road

Author : Lane Rockford Orsak
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1257754882
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Keiko the Fairy, the Silk Road written by Lane Rockford Orsak and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Silk Road, the second book of the Keiko series, is filled with twists and unexpected turns as Red tries to avoid the mob in Tokyo, and the U.S. Navy sends Nick on special assignment. Red is invited to the Imperial Palace where Empress Meiko extends her hand in friendship and gives Red important information about her mother's true identity. Nick is sent to China for its 60th Naval Anniversary celebration, and secretly attempts a dangerous mission to retrieve Red's mother and the Crown of India, with help from a very unexpected ally. Red and Nick learn about the ancient trade routes from China to the Middle East, called the Silk Road, and how powerful philosophical ideas accompanied the precious riches traded. In the face of extraordinary challenges, Keiko continues to share her love and wisdom with the young couple, as they begin to realize they care for one another deeply.

Song of the Silk Road

Author : Mingmei Yip
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0758268165
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Song of the Silk Road written by Mingmei Yip and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly imaginative novel, Mingmei Yip--author of Peach Blossom Pavilion and Petals From the Sky--follows one woman's daunting journey along China's fabled Silk Road. As a girl growing up in Hong Kong, Lily Lin was captivated by photographs of the desert--its long, lonely vistas and shifting sand dunes. Now living in New York, Lily is struggling to finish her graduate degree when she receives an astonishing offer. An aunt she never knew existed will pay Lily a huge sum to travel across China's desolate Taklamakan Desert--and carry out a series of tasks along the way. Intrigued, Lily accepts. Her assignments range from the dangerous to the bizarre. Lily must seduce a monk. She must scrape a piece of clay from the famous Terracotta Warriors, and climb the Mountains of Heaven to gather a rare herb. At Xian, her first stop, Lily meets Alex, a young American with whom she forms a powerful connection. And soon, she faces revelations that will redefine her past, her destiny, and the shocking truth behind her aunt's motivations. . . Powerful and eloquent, Song of the Silk Road is a captivating story of self-discovery, resonant with the mysteries of its haunting, exotic landscape.

The Tropical Silk Road

Author : Paul Amar
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503633810
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Tropical Silk Road written by Paul Amar and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book captures an epochal juncture of two of the world's most transformative processes: the People's Republic of China's rapidly expanding sphere of influence across the global south and the disintegration of the Amazonian, Cerrado, and Andean biomes. The intersection of these two processes took another step in April 2020, when Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a "New Health Silk Road" agenda of aid and investment that would wind through South America, extending the Eurasian-African "Belt and Road Initiative" to a series of mine, port, energy, infrastructure, and agrobusiness megaprojects in the Latin American tropics. Through thirty short essays, this volume brings together an impressive array of contributors, from economists, anthropologists, and political scientists to Black, feminist, and Indigenous community organizers, Chinese stakeholders, environmental activists, and local journalists to offer a pathbreaking analysis of China's presence in South America. As cracks in the progressive legacy of the Pink Tide and the failures of ecocidal right-wing populisms shape new political economies and geopolitical possibilities, this book provides a grassroots-based account of a post-US centered world order, and an accompanying map of the stakes for South America that highlights emerging voices and forms of resistance.

On The Ancient History Of The Silk Road

Author : Chuanming Rui
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811232989
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book On The Ancient History Of The Silk Road written by Chuanming Rui and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Silk Road was a network of trade routes which connected the East and West, and was central to the economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between these regions from the 2nd century BCE to the 18th century. This book studies various aspects of the ancient history of the silk road. The 16 chapters in the book are divided into three parts: Silk Road and The Nomads; The Sogdians, the Special Role on the Silk Road; Silk Road and the Spread of Religious Ideas. It studies the purpose and effects of silk exportation, the intermarriage between China and other ethnic groups, the origin of the Turks, the influence and domination of the Sogdians on the nomads, and the religious ideas, especially the Manicheism, spreading across the Silk Road.

The New Cyberwar

Author : Dennis F. Poindexter
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147662061X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The New Cyberwar written by Dennis F. Poindexter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl Von Clausewitz described the purpose of war as "the compulsory submission of the enemy to our will." Unlike conventional military conflicts of the past, war in the information age is more a battle of wills than artillery, and doesn't necessarily end with decisive conclusions or clear winners. Cyber warfare between nations is conducted not only without the consent or participation of citizens but often without their knowledge, with little to see in the way of airstrikes and troop movements. The weapons are information systems, intelligence, propaganda and the media. The combatants are governments, multinational corporations, hackers and whistleblowers. The battlefields are economies, command and control networks, election outcomes and the hearts and minds of populations. As with Russia's bloodless 2014 annexation of the Crimea, the cyberwar is fought before the infantry arrives. Written by a United States intelligence community insider, this book describes the covert aspects of modern wars and the agencies who fund and fight them.

In the Shadows of the Christian See

Author : Kalman Dubov
Publisher : Kalman Dubov
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadows of the Christian See written by Kalman Dubov and published by Kalman Dubov. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume Two continues the vignettes of my time in the chaplaincy of the United States Armed Forces. In this volume, I review how two Roman Catholic priests were relieved of their ecclesiastical and religious duties at the United States Air Force Academy. The first of these was detailed in the Colorado Springs and Denver media, with extensive coverage of the drama of a sexual liaison between the Deputy Wing Chaplain and an Air Force line officer, whose relationship began while the woman was an Air Force cadet. I also describe how two die-hard anti-Semites, one of whom was a retired Air Force colonel, never ceased in their efforts to have me removed from a leadership position, and by extension, not to have me promoted to higher rank. The last vignette, covering the final months while in uniform, describes a paranoid and obsessive-compulsive senior chaplain, a poor chap who reflected immaturity and obsessive tendencies because of his fears of attack by juniors officers and enlisted staff. His method of leadership was to threaten military court-martial against anyone perceived to be part of the ‘conspiracy’ against him. As noted in the description for Volume One, it was my poor fortune to serve alongside these creatures. They did not earn my respect as I witnessed their foibles and idiosyncrasies, their racism and anti-Semitism. To the last, they personified my resolve never to emulate them. They earned my contempt and my condemnation. I regret that Fate and Providence paired us for even the shortest time. There is a vast difference between the ideal and real worlds. It is the rare life that has no challenges, no ugliness, no moments when there is a desperate urge to leave and not return. These volumes reflect a world I hoped would receive me in fairness and decency. It is only in the hindsight of years that the ugliness of this reality coalesced into a whole. And these vignettes reflect that exposure to, and my time in, the maelstrom of life in the raw. Perhaps there was benefit in staying the course and facing the challenge.

The Steel Woman of the Silk Road

Author : Aqila Khaterzai Karimi
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460216180
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Steel Woman of the Silk Road written by Aqila Khaterzai Karimi and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laila is full of dreams and wonder as she spends her childhood chasing the azure blue skies of her hometown in Afghanistan. But with the onset of womanhood, Laila is forced to flee her hometown and abandon the promise of an education in an effort to survive the emergence to power of the Taliban in post-Soviet Afghanistan. Laila and the women around her must use ingenuity, strength, and a fierce resolve to survive the daily ministrations of a society seeking to keep them in the dark. Can Laila fight the drug abuse around her and find personal autonomy in a setting of forced docility? Through the atrocities committed against these women and the strength these same women must exhibit in order to survive, we see with poetic and searing insight the realities of everyday life: the daily lives, loves, and perseverance of truly remarkable women.

Laughter, Travels, and Tears

Author : E. W. HOWE
Publisher : Page Publishing, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1684563453
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Laughter, Travels, and Tears written by E. W. HOWE and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story came from his wheelhouse of sources and thoughts. There were so many good experiences that offsets a lot of the grief. Hoping that you, the reader, will benefit and gain healthy strength for your families. He will put down these words as nonacademic author.