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Paperback. Provides an examination of the production, consumption, and circulation of tea. This book reveals how the female tea-pluckers seen in advertisements came to symbolise the heart of colonialism in India. It exposes how this image has distracted from working conditions, low wages, and coercive labour practices enforced by the patronage system. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 440 pages, 27 b&w photos, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSJ1; JFSL; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 29. Weight in Grams: 658.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822326748
- ISBN
- 9780822326748
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€ 41.99€ 37.58
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Paperback. Chinese cultural and intellectual politics waned after the Tiananmen Square incident. This volume explores their revitalisation in the 1990s. Editor(s): Zhang, Xudong. Num Pages: 408 pages, 12 b&w photos, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPR; JFCX; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 231 x 23. Weight in Grams: 652.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822326489
- ISBN
- 9780822326489
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Paperback. A collection of essays which use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture. It addresses topics such as 20th-century literature produced in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China; film, art, history, popular culture, and literary and cultural criticism and the geographies of migration and diaspora. Editor(s): Chow, Rey. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 568.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822325970
- ISBN
- 9780822325970
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€ 37.99€ 34.32
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Paperback. An interdisciplinary exploration of the connections between the politics of environmental degradation and agrarian life in India. Editor(s): Agrawal, Arun; Sivaramakrishnan, K. Num Pages: 328 pages, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTB; KCN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822325741
- ISBN
- 9780822325741
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Paperback. This special issue seeks to examine the effect of postmodernism on Chinese intellectual and creative activity. Editor(s): Zhang, Xudong; Dirlik, Arif. Num Pages: 464 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 150 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822325444
- ISBN
- 9780822325444
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€ 41.99€ 37.67
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paperback. Offers an interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing on both British and Indian literary texts - primarily novels - produced between 1857 and 1947, this title examines representations of 'native' Indian women. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324904
- ISBN
- 9780822324904
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€ 32.99€ 29.86
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Paperback. Examines writers, philosophers, and political leaders in China and the West, and reveals the extent to which they incorporate ideas about culture" and "aesthetics" in their theories and practices. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DD; 1FPC; HPN; JFCX; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324485
- ISBN
- 9780822324485
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Condition: New
€ 26.52
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Paperback. With a focus on the responses of upwardly-mobile, yet lower-to-middle class urban women to state-sponsored entertainment serials, this title demonstrates how television in India has profoundly shaped women's place in the family, community, and nation, and the crucial role it has played in the realignment of class, caste, religion, and politics. Num Pages: 448 pages, 28 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSJ1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 752.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323907
- ISBN
- 9780822323907
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.23
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Paperback. Considers setting and place as irreducible features of the human condition and sociocultural existence. Focusing on a range of periods in places from France to the Balkans and from Siberia to San Diego, this work concentrates on such subjects as the Lockean landscapes, 19th-century Australian and North American landscape paintings, and zoos. Num Pages: 448 pages, 15 tables, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1DVWYB; 1FPC; 1HFGS; 1KBB; 3JJPR; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 33. Weight in Grams: 757.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822322665
- ISBN
- 9780822322665
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.42
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Paperback. Traces the history of the Jesuits' invention of Confucius and of themselves as native defenders of Confucius' teaching. This book demonstrates how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Western missionaries used translations of the ancient ru tradition to invent the historical figure who has since been globally celebrated as philosopher, and prophet. Num Pages: 472 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRKN1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 34. Weight in Grams: 798.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822320470
- ISBN
- 9780822320470
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.05
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Paperback. Shows what guanxi production, the formation of social connections, reveals about the evolution of village political economy, kinship and gender in Dengist China. Num Pages: 248 pages, 11 b&w photographs, 3 maps, 5 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822318736
- ISBN
- 9780822318736
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.98
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Paperback. Suitable for students and scholars of modernism, Chinese literature and history, film studies, and cultural studies, this book offers both a historical narrative and a critical analysis of the cultural visions and experiences of China's post-Mao era. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 448 pages, 12 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; APF; HBJF; HBLW3; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 32. Weight in Grams: 778.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822318460
- ISBN
- 9780822318460
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.86
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Paperback. Analyzing the first Exposition Coloniale Internationale, held in Paris in 1931, this title shows how the exhibition's display of architecture gave a vision to the colonies that justified France's cultural prejudices, while stimulating the desire for further expansionism. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 216 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1QSP; AB; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822317876
- ISBN
- 9780822317876
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.59
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Paperback. Includes stories of Indonesian women that have often been told by Indonesian men and Dutch men and women. This volume asks how these representations reproduced, transformed, and circulated in history, ethnography, and literature have circumscribed feminine behavior in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia. Editor(s): Sears, Laurie J. Num Pages: 368 pages, 17 b&w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JFFK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822316961
- ISBN
- 9780822316961
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.42
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Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822316695
- ISBN
- 9780822316695
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Paperback. Editor(s): Liu, Kang; Tang, Xiaobing. Num Pages: 328 pages, 12ill. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822314165
- ISBN
- 9780822314165
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.32
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Paperback. Through the lens of modern Chinese literature, this title explores the relationship between gender and modernity, notions of the feminine and masculine, and shifting arguments for gender equality in China. It also features historical accounts of gendered writing in Taiwan and semi-colonial China. Editor(s): Barlow, Tani E. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 576.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822313892
- ISBN
- 9780822313892
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.33
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Paperback. Editor(s): Miyoshi, Masao; Harootunian, Harry. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HPDF; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- SKU
- V9780822313687
- ISBN
- 9780822313687
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.67
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Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GDC; DSB; JFC; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3734 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822313489
- ISBN
- 9780822313489
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.98
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Hardback. Series: War and Society in North America. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; BJ; HBJK; HBWS2; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821422229
- ISBN
- 9780821422229
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.13
€ 87.13