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What is “Chinese” about China’s modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past
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Since its publication in Japan ten years ago, the Origins of Modern Japanese Literature has become a landmark book, play
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What is a bureaucracy, from where does it come, and how does it develop? Japanese have long described their nation as a
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The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100
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Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the
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The Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5 has been seen as the turning point of the development of the modern world. Written by a
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The rise of atheism in the modern world is a religious phenomenon unprecedented in history, both in the number of its ad
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The first edition of this book, completed in 1970, was hailed as a major contribution to scholarship on the development
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