All Outputs (3)

Landscape Change and Resource Utilisation in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History (2018)
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Liu, T.-J., Janku, A., & Pietz, D. (Eds.). (2018). Landscape Change and Resource Utilisation in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351182928

Covering the ancient period through to the 21st century, this book examines how landscapes have changed across East Asia over time. Featuring examples of a variety of landscapes, from the riverine and agricultural to the urban and aesthetic, this boo... Read More about Landscape Change and Resource Utilisation in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History.

Historical Disasters in Context: Science, Religion, and Politics (2012)
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Janku, A., Schenk, G. J., & Mauelshagen, F. (Eds.). (2012). Historical Disasters in Context: Science, Religion, and Politics. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203131626

Growing concerns about climate change and the increasing occurrence of ever more devastating natural disasters in some parts of the world and their consequences for human life, not only in the immediately affected regions, but for all of us, have inc... Read More about Historical Disasters in Context: Science, Religion, and Politics.

Nur leere Reden: Politischer Diskurs und die Shanghaier Presse im China des späten neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. (Only Empty talk: political discourse and the Shanghai press in the late nineteenth century China) (2003)
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Janku, A. (2003). Nur leere Reden: Politischer Diskurs und die Shanghaier Presse im China des späten neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. (Only Empty talk: political discourse and the Shanghai press in the late nineteenth century China). Harrassowitz

This thesis examines the structural transformation of China’s spheres of political debate brought about by the modern press during the second half of the nineteenth century. It argues that the Confucian literati who found employment as journalists in... Read More about Nur leere Reden: Politischer Diskurs und die Shanghaier Presse im China des späten neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. (Only Empty talk: political discourse and the Shanghai press in the late nineteenth century China).