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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Tibetan communities across China are undergoing rapid and potentially irreversible social, economic and cultural changes. This book presents new perspectives on the current situation of Tibetans and provides a baseline for assessing the magnitude and direction of future changes. From a range of disciplinary perspectives the authors provide original analyses based on first hand fieldwork and a careful scrutiny of official documents and data as they examine three key aspects of Tibet's development: pastoral production labor and social policy. This collection of essays represents the most up-to-date and comprehensive assessment of development transitions on the Tibetan Plateau, and forms an important contribution to development studies of contemporary societies undergoing rapid change within China.…

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Condition Notes: A little rubbing to the top edges of the dust wrapper. Text complete, clean and tight; ### IMPORTANT: Weighing 2.2kg. overseas shipping will require additional postage . ### First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over matching pictorial boards; Measures 11¼" x 9¼" (2.2 kg); pp 352; Index; Preface by Bernardo Bertolucci; Contains: Black & white photographs; Colour photographs; Glossary; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #182911 ||.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. In zeer goede staat. Hardcover met stofomslag. Rijkelijk geà llustreerd. Groot en zwaar boek.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 435 pages, illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. 'In the past quarter century, Champa scholarship has been seeking ways out of the interpretative framework inherited from Georges Maspero s Le royaume de Champa, which portrayed Champa as a unitary kingdom of provinces ruled by absolute kings. Scholars have since been working to revise this portrait, to develop new thinking about the way the kingdom and its territories were structured, and also to critique Maspero s decision to end his history of Champa with the 1471 capture of the Chà Bàn citadel and fall of Vijaya. Much new data has been produced in recent decades, thanks especially to the access to Champa field sites enjoyed since the 1990s by international scholars under Vietnam s open door policy, and to the resources for research and discussion now available to Vietnamese scholars. Several long-term joint projects have, more-over, brought Vietnamese and overseas expertise to bear on archaeological sites or collections of documents related to Champa.'.…

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Magazine proof. Small octavo. Perfect bound. Illustrated paper wrappers. Rubbed with vertical fold extending through all the wraps, very good or better. The editor's corrected copy for the printer of this literary magazine from Edinburgh Scotland with printed versos and rectos followed by alternating blank sheets, various editorial marks throughout, and taped in poem now loose. Contributors to this issue include Hird, Gael Turnbull, Phyllis Lyth, Edward Mackin, J. Phoenice, Celia Randall, D.W. Broadbridge, Phillippa Berlyn, Frances Harland, Moria O'Donaghoe, Geoff Richman, Martin Haley, Roy MacGregor-Hastie, Paul Callan, Richard Milner, Eric Nixon, W. Sanderson, John Hales-Tooke, Gloria Evans Davies, Carla Lanyon Lanyon, Kenneth S. Kitchin, Paul Greene, Gordon Harris, W.H. Boore, Dorothy Stringer, Maurice Tasnier, R.L. Cook, John Lucas, and Andrew Molloy Carson.…