The relationship between China and Japan remains among the most significant of all the worldâe(tm)s bilateral affairsâe"yet it is also the most tortured and the least understood. Akira Iriye adds brilliant clarity to the past century of Chineseâe"Japanese interactions in this masterful interpretive survey. Placing the relationship within its global context, he outlines three distinct periods in the history of these Asian giants. From the 1880s to World War I, the two nations struggled for power. Armaments, war strategies, and security measures played pivotal roles, reflecting the importance 0f military calculations in a world dominated by Western governments. In the second period, that between the two World Wars, Iriye illuminates the dominant role of culture and the stress on internationalism. Chinaâe(tm)s continuing literary influence, an exchange of ideas and students reforms such as Japanâe(tm)s Taisho democracy and Chinaâe(tm)s May Fourth movement, and both nationsâe(tm) bid for racial equality in the West profoundly affected these interwar years. The third period reaches from the end of World War II through the present day, and is characterized by exchanges of an economic nature: trade, shipping, investment, and emigration. The author discusses the results of Chinaâe(tm)s civil war, the rise and decline 0f the Cold War in the West, and the cultural and ecological problems brought by Japanâe(tm)s spiraling economic development. But economic ties remain deeply entwined with cultural concerns, and ultimately, Iriye stresses, the future of China and Japan depends on the successful cultural interdependence of what may be the most significant pair of countries in the world today.

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Met opdracht van de auteur tegenover het voorwoord, met z-w en kleurenfoto's.

A charismatic stage and screen actress; a model whose beauty inspired some of the most arresting images of the 20th century; a visionary photographer; a revolutionary with deep commitments to communism; a woman whose life, loves and death were controversial; Tina Modotti (1896-1942) was all of these. Her life was one of almost unimaginable glamour, scandal and turmoil.

The author of "The Female Eunuch" examines parent-child relationships in the West, Middle East, India, and Africa and explores the possibility that Western culture hates its children and takes little pleasure from family life

Between 1973 and 1984, sixty-one countries participated in a ground-breaking survey of human fertility organized by the World Fertility Survey (WFS). By interviewing thousands of women between the ages of 15 and 49, the WFS made available for the first time a survey of this size and scope.This volume follows the cycle of the monumental project--from the design and execution of the survey through the analyses and dissemination of results to the implications for future approaches and government policies.

Details the public and private lives of Margaret Scott Olmsted, revealing her enormous contributions to the expansion of world peace that included the foundation of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and other valiant endeavors.

The diary of an ordinary woman of the early twentieth century documents the life of an outspoken feminist who struggled with the conflicts of career, marriage, children, sexuality, and spirituality

"A contempary anecdote not only confirms that Martha commanded respect in her own right during her lifetime, but also suggests an awkward truth later historians have preferred to ignore-that without Martha and her fortune, George might never have risen to social, military, and political prominence.Toward the end of his life, George Washington, war hero, retired president, and object of universal fame and veneration, was negotiating to purchase a plot of land in the new capital city, to be named in his honor. The seller, an aged veteran of the Revolution, was reluctant to part with the plot, even to so distinguished a purchaser. Washington persisted until the veteran's patience snapped: 'You think people take every grist that comes from you as the pure grain. What would you have been if you hadn't married the Widow Custis!' " -from the Introduction to Martha Washington: First Lady of Liberty From the glittering social life of Virginia's wealthiest plantations to the rigors of winter camps during the American Revolution, Martha Washington was a central figure in some of the most important events in American history. Her story is a saga of social conflict, forbidden love affairs, ambiguous wills, mysterious death, heartbreaking loss, and personal and political triumph. Every detail is brought to vivid life in this engaging and astonishing biography of one of the best known, least understood figures in early American life.

When Helene Stapinski was just five years old, her grandfather tried to kill her entire family. A dramatic memory, yet commonplace in Helene's family - in 1922 her great-grandfather murdered her great-grandmother, and even her daily bread was stolen. These stories are part of Helene's heritage.

Opstellen over de antirevolutionaire politicus (1869-1944), die van 1922 tot 1939 leiding gaf aan vijf kabinetten.

Interviews met mensen die de Vlaamse schrijver (1882-1960) persoonlijk gekend hebben.

The author explores the landscapes and people of her native country, recounts the 1973 assassination of her uncle, which caused her to go into exile, and shares her experiences as an immigrant in post-September 11 America.