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Hardback. This volume's contributors examine the ways the legacies of socialism continue to shape and inform China's capitalist present, contending that contemporary China is shaped by an overlapping mix of socialist and capitalist institutional strategies, political procedures, legal regulations, religious rituals, and everyday practices. Editor(s): Rojas, Carlos; Litzinger, Ralph A. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15 photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHMC; KCM; KCP; RGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822361770
- ISBN
- 9780822361770
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Condition: New
€ 117.62
€ 117.62
Hardback. Doreen Lee tells the origin, experiences, and legacy of the radical Indonesian student movement that helped end Suharto's thirty-two year dictatorship in May of 1998, showing how student activists claimed their rich political and historical inheritance passed down by earlier generations of activist youth. Num Pages: 296 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMN; 3JJPR; JNMF; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 545.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822361527
- ISBN
- 9780822361527
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Condition: New
€ 117.62
€ 117.62
Hardback. Num Pages: 331 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBWQ; JHMC; LB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 331
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822361503
- ISBN
- 9780822361503
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Condition: New
€ 123.83
€ 123.83
Hardback. In The Sublime Perversion of Capital Gavin Walker examines the Japanese debate about capitalism between the 1920s and 1950s, using it as a "prehistory" to consider current problems of uneven economic development and contemporary topics in Marxist theory and historiography. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; JPA; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361411
- ISBN
- 9780822361411
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Condition: New
€ 117.62
€ 117.62
Paperback. In Tourist Distractions Youngmin Choe uses Korean hallyu cinema as a lens to examine the importance of tourist films and film tourism in creating transnational bonds throughout East Asia and how they help Korea negotiate its twentieth-century history with the neoliberal present. Num Pages: 264 pages, 87 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; APFA; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822361305
- ISBN
- 9780822361305
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.27
€ 29.99
€ 29.27
Hardback. In Ghostly Desires Arnika Fuhrmann examines post-1997 Thai cinema and video art to show how vernacular Buddhist values, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring in current struggles over gender, sexuality, personhood, and collective life. Num Pages: 272 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMT; APFA; HBJF; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361190
- ISBN
- 9780822361190
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Condition: New
€ 117.62
€ 117.62
Hardback. The contributors to this major intervention into Indian historiography recover the long history of Dalit struggles against caste violence, exclusion, and discrimination by focusing on the importance of humiliation, dignity, and spatial exclusion to Dalit emancipatory politics. Editor(s): Rawat, Ramnarayan S.; Satyanarayana, K. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361138
- ISBN
- 9780822361138
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Condition: New
€ 123.67
€ 123.67
Hardback. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon studies obesity and diabetes in Mumbai, India, presenting a new narrative of metabolic illness in which it is less about the overconsumption of food than it is about the body's relationship to its environment and the substances it absorbs. Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography. Num Pages: 304 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF; JHMC; MFGM; MJG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360872
- ISBN
- 9780822360872
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Condition: New
€ 123.67
€ 123.67
Paperback. In Motherless Tongues Vicente L. Rafael examines the vexed relationship between language and history as seen through the work of translation in the context of empire, revolution, and academic scholarship in the Philippines, the United States, and beyond. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; 3JJ; CFP; HBJF; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360742
- ISBN
- 9780822360742
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.23
€ 29.99
€ 29.23
Hardback. In Motherless Tongues Vicente L. Rafael examines the vexed relationship between language and history as seen through the work of translation in the context of empire, revolution, and academic scholarship in the Philippines, the United States, and beyond. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; 3JJ; CFP; HBJF; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360582
- ISBN
- 9780822360582
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Condition: New
€ 117.62
€ 117.62
Hardback. Published in China in 2010 and appearing here in English for the first time, Revolution and its Narratives is a historical, literary, and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution that illuminates the complexity of socialist art, culture, and politics. Editor(s): Karl, Rebecca E.; Zhong, Xueping. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 772.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780822360544
- ISBN
- 9780822360544
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Condition: New
€ 136.09
€ 136.09
Paperback. In Sexual States Jyoti Puri uses the example of the recent efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the Indian state. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1FK; 5SG; HBJF; JFSK2; JPA; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360438
- ISBN
- 9780822360438
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Condition: New
€ 28.39
€ 28.39
Paperback. In this book leading Chinese experts review the life, career, and artistic development of the pioneering Chinese artist Zhang Hongtu, whose diverse works speak to China's past and present, the relationship between Asia and the West, and canonical Western art. Editor(s): Lee, Luchia Meihua; Silbergeld, Jerome. Num Pages: 120 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; ACBS; AGB; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 277 x 231 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1905.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360421
- ISBN
- 9780822360421
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.33
€ 50.33
Paperback. In Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Roman Mendoza shows how America's imperial incursions into the Philippines fostered social and sexual intimacies between Americans and native Filipinos, that along with representations of Filipinos as sexually degenerate, were crucial to regulating both colonial subjects and gender norms at home. Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe. Num Pages: 312 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJF; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360346
- ISBN
- 9780822360346
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.33
€ 31.99
€ 30.33
Hardback. In Sexual States Jyoti Puri uses the example of the recent efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the Indian state. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1FK; 5SG; HBJF; JFSK2; JPA; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 239 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360261
- ISBN
- 9780822360261
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.62
€ 117.62
Paperback. In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Bjorkman explores why water is chronically unavailable in Mumbai, India's economic and financial capital. She attributes water shortage to economic reforms that allowed urban development to ignore the water infrastructure, which means that in Mumbai, politics is often about water. Num Pages: 296 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF; JHMC; RNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 409.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822359692
- ISBN
- 9780822359692
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.27
€ 29.99
€ 29.27
Hardback. With an adventurous writing style, Anand Pandian explores the transformative potential of cinema, following Tamil films from the spark of artistic impulse through their production, marketing, and reception to show how cinema recasts the ordinary experience of everyday life. Num Pages: 360 pages, 51 illustrations, incl. 1 in color. BIC Classification: 1FK; APFA; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822359579
- ISBN
- 9780822359579
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Condition: New
€ 124.02
€ 124.02
Hardback. In this ethnography of sexual violence during the 1971 Bangladesh War for Independence, Nayanika Mookherjee shows how the public celebration of the hundreds of thousands of rape victims-called "birangonas" by the state-works to homogenize and silence the experiences of these women. Num Pages: 352 pages, 42 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 613.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822359494
- ISBN
- 9780822359494
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Condition: New
€ 123.83
€ 123.83
Hardback. Designed for classroom use, this book gathers in one volume primary source materials related to the first two wars that Great Britain launched against native leaders of the Afghan region. It is a cautionary tale, unheeded by Western powers in the post-9/11 era. Editor(s): Burton, Antoinette. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 photograph. BIC Classification: 1DB; 1FCA; 3JH; HBJF1; HBLL; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 23. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822356509
- ISBN
- 9780822356509
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.62
€ 117.62
Hardback. Shows how the complex interplay of feminism, nationalism, empire, and modernity helped shape conceptions of the transpacific Filipina Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 photographs. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 2AB; DSBH; GTB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822353003
- ISBN
- 9780822353003
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Condition: New
€ 123.83
€ 123.83
Hardback. Producing Bollywood is an in-depth ethnography of the Bombay-based Hindi film industry, more popularly known as Bollywood. Taking readers inside this hugely popular global industry, Tejaswini Ganti focuses on the social world and professional practices of well-known Hindi filmmakers. Num Pages: 440 pages, 28 photographs, 6 tables, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 744.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822352020
- ISBN
- 9780822352020
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.27
€ 136.27
Paperback. This collection intervenes in key areas of feminist scholarship and activism in contemporary South Asia, particularly India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, while asking how this investigation might enrich feminist theorizing and practice globally. Editor(s): Loomba, Ania; Lukose, Ritty A. Num Pages: 432 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 226 x 15. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822351795
- ISBN
- 9780822351795
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.63
€ 33.99
€ 33.63
Hardback. A textual account of the hallyu (Korean wave) films popular internationally, especially in Asia, from the late 1990s until 2007 08. Num Pages: 280 pages, 57 photographs, 3 tables, 6 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPK; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822350880
- ISBN
- 9780822350880
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.62
€ 117.62
Paperback. A history of the colonial tea plantation regime in Assam, which brought more than one million migrants to the region in northeast India, irrevocably changing the social landscape. Series: Radical Perspectives. Num Pages: 344 pages, 12 photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JFFN; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822350491
- ISBN
- 9780822350491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.46
€ 32.99
€ 29.46