The fascinating story of the visualized languages, alphabets, and other wriitjng systems, hand-written and block-printed books of the Mongols, Kalmyks, Buryats, and other Mongolian nations is outlined in this study by one of the world's preeminent scholars of the region. The mostly nomadic peoples of the Mongolian language family have a long history of letters. The Khitans had ...(展开全部)

The fascinating story of the visualized languages, alphabets, and other wriitjng systems, hand-written and block-printed books of the Mongols, Kalmyks, Buryats, and other Mongolian nations is outlined in this study by one of the world's preeminent scholars of the region. The mostly nomadic peoples of the Mongolian language family have a long history of letters. The Khitans had ...(展开全部)

We love books. We take them to bed with us. We display them on our bookshelves. We write our names in them. They weigh down our suitcases when we go on holiday. We take them for granted. But there's much more to them than meets the eye. From how books feel and smell, to burned books, banned books and books that create nations, The Secret Life of Books is about everything beyond...(展开全部)

We love books. We take them to bed with us. We display them on our bookshelves. We write our names in them. They weigh down our suitcases when we go on holiday. We take them for granted. But there's much more to them than meets the eye. From how books feel and smell, to burned books, banned books and books that create nations, The Secret Life of Books is about everything beyond...(展开全部)

Cosmopolitanism and friendship have become key themes for understanding ethnicity and nationalism. In this deeply original study of the Mongols, leading scholar Uradyn E. Bulag draws on these themes to develop a new concept he terms “collaborative nationalism.” He uses this concept to explore the paradoxical dilemma of minorities in China as they fight not against being exclude...(展开全部)