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Paperback. This much-needed new textbook introduces readers to the development of China's welfare polices since its conception of an open-door policy of 1978. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 172 x 15. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Policy Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861348807
- ISBN
- 9781861348807
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 36.97
€ 38.99
€ 36.97
hardcover. This book examines the contest between local people, state officials, and foreigners to lay claim to urban streets, state institutions, historic monuments, and temples in Suzhou, one of China's most ancient and culturally rich metropolises, as it was transformed into a modern city. Num Pages: 344 pages, 7 figures, 19 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804753593
- ISBN
- 9780804753593
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.38
€ 103.38
hardcover. In the 1930s and 1940s, the prevalent American view of China was that of a friendly, democratic, and increasingly Christian state, in many ways akin to the United States. This is an analysis of how seeing the Chinese as aspiring Americans shaped American attitudes toward Asia. Num Pages: 280 pages, 13 illustrations, halftones, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 561.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804725965
- ISBN
- 9780804725965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.76
€ 135.76
hardcover. This is the first book-length treatment of the political causes and consequences of the Great Leap Famine (1959-61), one of the worst tragedies in human history. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1 map, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; JFFC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 705.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804725576
- ISBN
- 9780804725576
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 159.65
€ 159.65
hardcover. This pathbreaking work attempts to understand China's economic policies by examining the political logic behind economic reforms in authoritarian, command-economy states from the wholly original perspective of property rights. Num Pages: 300 pages, 2 line diagrams 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1DV; 1FP; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 605.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804723886
- ISBN
- 9780804723886
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.52
€ 86.52
hardcover. The story of the bitter political struggles within a factionalized military elite, released in the 1920's from the constraints of the informal but unified system of Imperial leadership which had characterized the military in the Meiji era. Num Pages: 268 pages, 5 line diagrams 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW; JWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804723756
- ISBN
- 9780804723756
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.52
€ 86.52
hardcover. Looking at the history of communist China as a history of consciousness, this book makes an innovative departure from previous studies. It charts a journey that led from utopianism to nihilism and then to the hedonism and consumerism that pervade China today. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 134 x 23. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804723541
- ISBN
- 9780804723541
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.30
€ 124.30
hardcover. This sweeping study examines the law of intellectual property in Chinese civilization from imperial days to the present. It uses materials drawn from law, the arts and other fields as well as extensive interviews with Chinese and foreign officials, business people, lawyers, and perpetrators and victims of "piracy." Num Pages: 236 pages, 1 half-tone. BIC Classification: 1FPC; LNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804722704
- ISBN
- 9780804722704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.43
€ 124.43
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804720748
- ISBN
- 9780804720748
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.52
€ 86.52
hardcover. Here, the author aims to show how the poet Su Shi's complex personality was embodied in his work and traces the evolution of his poems from juvenilia to the poems written in exile in Huangzhou, where Su settled on a farm at East Slope. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GDC; DSBB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 30. Weight in Grams: 629.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804715874
- ISBN
- 9780804715874
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.53
€ 95.53
Hardcover. Num Pages: 348 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBG; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 158. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804715409
- ISBN
- 9780804715409
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.71
€ 97.71
The Ambivalent Consumer. Questioning Consumption in East Asia and the ...
. Ed(S): Garon, Sheldon; Maclachlan, Patricia...
paperback. Editor(s): Garon, Sheldon; Maclachlan, Patricia L. Num Pages: 328 pages, 27. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; JFFT; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801473029
- ISBN
- 9780801473029
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 46.71
€ 46.99
€ 46.71
paperback. This broad comparative survey focuses on five big case studies, starting with the English Revolutions in the Seventeenth century, and going on to the Mexican, Russian, Vietnamese and Iranian Revolutions. Series: Themes in World History. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DVUA; 1FBN; 1FMV; 1KLCM; HBG; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 181.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415224987
- ISBN
- 9780415224987
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.62
€ 50.62
paperback. Following its introduction to Korea in the late nineteenth century, Protestantism grew rapidly both in numbers of followers and in influence, and remained a dominating social and political force throughout the twentieth century. This book charts this stunning growth and examines the shifting political associations of Korean Protestantism. Series: Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, tables, notes, bibliog., index. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 3JH; HRCC9. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295989303
- ISBN
- 9780295989303
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.73
€ 36.99
€ 33.73
paperback. A highly accessible introduction to the history of US foreign policy in the Middle East and why it remains deeply significant in the present day. Num Pages: 242 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBB; JPS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745327099
- ISBN
- 9780745327099
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.34
€ 35.99
€ 28.34
Paperback. Translator(s): Yang, H. Series: Cornell East Asia Series,. Num Pages: 130 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cornell Univ East Asia Program
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781885445179
- ISBN
- 9781885445179
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.05
€ 27.05
paperback. Explores the patterns of marriages of Asian women, including the legendary "mail-order bride." Editor(s): Constable, Nicole. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 341.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812218916
- ISBN
- 9780812218916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.75
€ 36.99
€ 35.75
Hardback. This text focuses on Japanese weddings as a window on contemporary values, analyzing the relation between the commercialization of these services and their symbolic content. Weddings mark the attainment of full adult status in Japan and this book looks at what marriage and adulthood means in Japan. Num Pages: 188 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 28. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804715126
- ISBN
- 9780804715126
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.06
€ 119.06
hardcover. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 149 x 22. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804714495
- ISBN
- 9780804714495
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.75
€ 116.75
Hardback. Of all the countries in the world that are vital to the strategic and economic interests of the United States, Saudi Arabia is the least understood by the American people. This title dissects this central Saudi paradox for American readers, including diplomats, policymakers, scholars, and students of foreign policy. Num Pages: 304 pages, notes; bibliography; index. BIC Classification: 1FBXS; 1KBB; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597976886
- ISBN
- 9781597976886
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.81
€ 37.81