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Paperback. Looks at how changes made when medieval Chinese manuscripts were copied influenced a writer's literary reputation Series: China Program Books. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 477.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295991344
ISBN
9780295991344
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Hardback. The 1949 birth of the People's Republic of China divided the nation into many political entities, displacing millions. Examining a body of understudied literary and cultural output in mainland China and elsewhere after World War II, the author investigates how writers responded to these shifts to shape a new Chinese subjectivity in their works. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 228 x 29. Weight in Grams: 674.
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
408
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674726727
ISBN
9780674726727
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.32

Paperback. Editor(s): Chen, Xiaomei. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DD; DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1092.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
abridged edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231165037
ISBN
9780231165037
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.95

Hardback. Editor(s): Chen, Xiaomei. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 1120 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 262 x 188 x 57. Weight in Grams: 2082.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
1120
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231145701
ISBN
9780231145701
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.77
€ 114.41

Hardback. Editor(s): Chen, Xiaomei. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DD; DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 38. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
656
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
abridged edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231165020
ISBN
9780231165020
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.77
€ 109.15

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295992297
ISBN
9780295992297
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. With topics ranging from food to sex education, and from the experiences of British mothers who have adopted Chinese daughters, to whether Chinese people do Christmas shopping or have swimming pools, this book offers a Chinese woman's perspective on the connections and differences between the lives of British and Chinese people. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DNF; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 122 x 14. Weight in Grams: 166.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
First Editiion First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099501527
ISBN
9780099501527
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.91

Paperback. The Li sisters don't have much education, but one thing has been drummed into them: their mother is a failure because she hasn't managed to produce a son, and they themselves only merit a number as a name. Yet when circumstances lead the sisters to seek work in distant Nanjing, the shocking new urban environment opens their eyes. Translator(s): Tyldesley, Esther. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Vintage Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099501534
ISBN
9780099501534
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists. This book examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and defended the legitimacy of their self-supporting wage labor. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 281. Nice copy, with some shelfwear. Good to very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
KST0026905
ISBN
9780807856482
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists. This book examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and defended the legitimacy of their self-supporting wage labor. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 281. Nice copy, with some shelfwear. Good to very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KST0026952
ISBN
9780807856482
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSB; JFFJ; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 188 x 267 x 14. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Nova Science Pub Inc
Condition
New
SKU
V9781634826181
ISBN
9781634826181
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 289.91
€ 216.89

Hardback. This book examines the rise in popularity of fantasy literature in Taiwan and the crucial but often invisible role that translators have played in making this genre widely available. Topics covered include global fantasy fever, Chinese fantasy, game industry, the social status of translators, and the sociological direction of translations studies. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; CFB; CFP; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
180
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137332776
ISBN
9781137332776
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.34

Paperback. This book offers a case study of four of the most influential contemporary Chinese writers and "cultural bastards"--Duoduo, an underground "misty" poet; Wang Shuo, a "hooligan" writer; Zhang Chengzhi, an old "Red Guard" and new "cultural heretic;" and Wang Xiaobo, a chronicler of Rabelaisian modern history. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349538409
ISBN
9781349538409
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.92

paperback. This is the first critical ethnography of bilingual education in Japan. Series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2G; CFB; CFD; CFDM; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2008
SKU
V9781349353248
ISBN
9781349353248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.62

Paperback. Series: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DS; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
227
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349505104
ISBN
9781349505104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.80

Paperback. A comparative investigation of Emerson's Transcendental thought and Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism, this book shows how both thinkers traced the human morality to the same source in the ultimately moral nature of the universe and developed theories of the interrelation of universal law and the human mind. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS; HPC; HPD; HRAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349461967
ISBN
9781349461967
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.56

Paperback. Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; JFFK; JFSJ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 423.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349288823
ISBN
9781349288823
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. 1st edition. Good, clean copy in dust wrapper. DW showing signs of shelfwear with rubbing and minor nicks to spine
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1905
SKU
KSG0004242
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 70.00

Hardcover. This book offers a post-structuralist inspired explication of Conrad's literary vision and its defining feature, the aesthetic principle. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230609860
ISBN
9780230609860
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CB; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
203
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349376353
ISBN
9781349376353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.82

Paperback. Unlike the literary traditions of the United States, England, and France, the first century of Hebrew literature was lacking in women novelists; women tended to write poetry, while prose fiction was mainly the domain of male writers. This book presents a comparative analysis of Israeli fiction by women and some of its Western models. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231111478
ISBN
9780231111478
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.68

Hardback. Num Pages: 229 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611473643
ISBN
9781611473643
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.08

Paperback. Written to entertain, the short informal hsiao-p'in essays reflect the growing individualism in the late 15th century Ming period that evoked censorship in later eras. This unique anthology of 70 of the genre includes English and Chinese language references. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, Translator(s): Yang, Ye. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 13. Weight in Grams: 273.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780295977331
ISBN
9780295977331
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. Yang Lian's most personal work to date draw ins on family photographs from the 1950s through to the 1970s when he was sent to be "re-educated through labour", digging graves in rural China. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780373515
ISBN
9781780373515
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.70

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