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2014
Pines, Yuri et al., eds. 2014. Birth of an Empire: The State of Qin revisited (New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society). Berkeley: University of California Press.Abstract
In 221 BCE the state of Qin vanquished its rivals and established the first empire on Chinese soil, starting a millennium-long imperial age in Chinese history. Hailed by some and maligned by many, Qin has long been an enigma. In this pathbreaking study, the authors integrate textual sources with newly available archeological and paleographic materials, providing a boldly novel picture of Qin’s cultural and political trajectory, its evolving institutions and its religion, its place in China’s history, and the reasons for its success and for its ultimate collapse.
Children, Rights and Modernity in China: Raising Self-Governing Citizens
Naftali, Orna . 2014. Children, Rights and Modernity in China: Raising Self-Governing Citizens. Palgrave Macmillan.Abstract

A timely, original study of the emergence of a new type of thinking about children and their rights in contemporary urban China, which draws on diverse evidence from Chinese government, academic, media, and pedagogic publications, as well as on participant observation and interviews in two primary schools and among elite and middle class families in Shanghai, China. Drawing on rich, ethnographic data, this book debunks many popular and scholarly stereotypes about the predominance of Confucian ideas of parental authority in China or about the indifference to individual human rights in the political and public culture of the PRC. This book also recognizes the complexities and conflicts that exist in Chinese discourses about and practices toward children, as older ideas of filiality, neoliberal ideologies, and the new awareness of children's right to privacy, to expressing their views, and to protection against violence compete and collude in complicated, often contradictory ways.

Innovations and Turning Points: Toward a History of Kavya Literature
Bronner, Yigal, David Shulman, and Gary Tubb. 2014. Innovations and Turning Points: Toward a History of Kavya Literature. 1st ed. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press.
Israel's Foreign Relations: Selected Documents, - Primary Source Edition
Medzini, Meron . 2014. Israel's Foreign Relations: Selected Documents, - Primary Source Edition. Nabu Press.
Japan's Multilayered Democracy
Ben-Rafael Galanti, Sigal, Nissim Kadosh Otmazgin, and Alon Levkowitz. 2014. Japan's Multilayered Democracy. Lanham: Lexington Books.
Meditations on Authority
Shulman, David, ed. 2014. Meditations on Authority. The Hebrew University Magnes Press.
Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors
Biran, Michal, and Reuven Amitai, eds. 2014. Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors. University of Hawaii Press.
Prehistoric Societies on the Northern Frontiers of China: Archaeological Perspectives on Identity Formation and Economic Change During the First ...
Shelach-Lavi, Gideon . 2014. Prehistoric Societies on the Northern Frontiers of China: Archaeological Perspectives on Identity Formation and Economic Change During the First .. London ; Oakville, CT: Routledge.
Translation in Asia: Theories, Practices, Histories
Ricci, Ronit, and Jan van der Putten, eds. 2014. Translation in Asia: Theories, Practices, Histories. 1st ed. Routledge.