Author: Great Britain
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Languages : en
Pages : 1390

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Author: Great Britain
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 786

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Author: Romila Thapar
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ISBN: 9780857428165
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In 1957, renowned Indian historian Romila Thapar visited China, where, together with Sri Lankan art historian Anil de Silva, she worked at two cave sites that were the locations of Buddhist monasteries and shrines from the first millennium CE. The first site was the then lesser known Maijishan in north China, and the second was the famous site of Dunhuang on the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China. Now, decades later, she is supplementing the academic work that emerged from that trip with a captivating travelogue: Gazing Eastward takes readers back to midcentury China, through the observations that Thapar made in her diary during her time at the two archaeological sites and her trips there and to other sites. Traveling by train or truck, Thapar met people from throughout the country and all stations in society, from peasants on a cooperative farm to Chairman Mao himself. An enchanting document of a long-lost era, Gazing Eastward is a marvel, a richly observed work of travel writing that brings a time and a place fully to life.

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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 532

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Author: Harold William Vazeille Temperley
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Category : Paris Peace Conference
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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Author: George Kish
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674822702
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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Presents geographical writings, chronologically arranged, with a wealth of material from non-Western sources. Each section is introduced by the editor.

Author: Great Britain
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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1738

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Author: United States
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1482

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Author: Sri Lanka. Pārlimēntuva. Senate
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1132

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Author: Ceylon. Pārlimēntuva. House of Representatives
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 998

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