The modern spirit of Asia |
Subtitle:
the spiritual and the secular in China and India
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Book Category:
Humor > Topic > Religion
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Author:
Veer, Peter van der
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Binding:
Hardcover
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ISBN 13:
9780691128153
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Price:
USD 24.95
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Publication Year:
2013
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Publisher Info
Timothy Wilkins,
Princeton University Press,41 William Street,
Princeton ,
New Jersey - 08540,USA
Web: press.princeton.edu Inquiry
Book Description
Van der Veer (Utrecht Univ., the Netherlands) employs what may seem to be simple categories to generate a richly nuanced interpretation of China and India as modern nations that emerged out of a productive encounter with the imperial West in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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