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East Asia, Far East

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East Asia, Far East

Paperback. That parents in China greatly value higher education for their children is a well-known aspect of contemporary Chinese culture, but the intensity and effects of their desire to achieve this goal have largely gone unexamined. This title explores this universal desire for a college education and its vast consequences. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHMC; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226437552
ISBN
9780226437552
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.01

Paperback. Between 1988 and 2013, the Chinese city of Zouping transformed from an impoverished village of 30,000 people to a bustling city of over 300,000, complete with factories, high rises, parks, shopping malls, and all the infrastructure of a wealthy East Asian city. This is a portrait of the rapid change of Zouping, its environs, and more. Num Pages: 280 pages, 26 b/w, 7 maps, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520289710
ISBN
9780520289710
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.43

Paperback. Editor(s): Salazar, Andres. Num Pages: 60 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1FMN; 1FPKS; 1KLCM; KFFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 153 x 8. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc
Number of pages
60
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781626188631
ISBN
9781626188631
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 100.45
€ 68.88

Hardback. In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state. Based on vast expertise, this book reveals how average North Koreans live, how their leaders rule, and how both survive. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white plates, colour plates. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; JPF; JPS; JPSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 570.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199964291
ISBN
9780199964291
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.03

Paperback. In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state. Based on vast expertise, this book reveals how average North Koreans live, how their leaders rule, and how both survive. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; HBJF; HBLX; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 472.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Updated, Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199390038
ISBN
9780199390038
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.99

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 240. BIC Classification: 1FPC; AJCR; RNP; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 195 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1180.
Publisher
Lars Muller Publishers Switzerland
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9783037782958
ISBN
9783037782958
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 41.51

Hardcover. Celebrates Japanese woodblock prints with a collection of ten original essays by an international team of scholars Editor(s): Marks, Andreas; Quintanilla, Sonya Rhie. Num Pages: 216 pages, 180 color illus. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 261 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1272.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
San Diego Museum of Art United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780937108475
ISBN
9780937108475
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 47.25

Hardcover. Num Pages: 168 pages, 200 woodblock prints. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACBP; AFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 215 x 20. Weight in Grams: 766.
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Hardcover with Jacket
Condition
New
SKU
V9784805313107
ISBN
9784805313107
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 16.93

Paperback. Transnational ethnic identity issues studied through an ethnography of Chinese American visits to Chinese villages organized under a program set up by the Chinese government Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822332633
ISBN
9780822332633
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.15

Hardback. Footprints in Paradise explores how sense of place in Okinawa is transformed as language, landscapes, and wildlife are reconstituted as treasured and vulnerable resources. Series: New Directions in Anthropology. Num Pages: 186 pages, 13 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JHM; KNSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785333866
ISBN
9781785333866
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.02

Hardback. Series: Global Chinese Culture. Num Pages: 296 pages, B&W Illus.: 8,. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; CF; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 532.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231164528
ISBN
9780231164528
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.37
€ 60.96

Paperback. The acclaimed memoir from the bestselling author of Empress Orchid Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; BM; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 210. 320 pages. The acclaimed memoir from the bestselling author of Empress Orchid. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; BM; HBJF; HBLW3. Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight: 210.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747596035
ISBN
9780747596035
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.79

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; HREX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 136 x 24. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1969
Publisher
Red Wheel/Weiser United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780877280644
ISBN
9780877280644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.90

Hardback. Traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, this title describes how the work of selling women transformed communities across the archipelago. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 282 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB; JFMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 534. Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. 282 pages, Illustrations. Traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, this title describes how the work of selling women transformed communities across the archipelago. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB; JFMX. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 22. Weight: 534.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520270909
ISBN
9780520270909
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.91
€ 64.09

Hardback. The Innovation of Globalization proven strategies to out-win disruptive global competition. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KCM; KJC; KJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 239 x 29. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781119274018
ISBN
9781119274018
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.50

Hardback. Num Pages: 168 pages, Full colour photographs throughout. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 191 x 18. Weight in Grams: 708.
Publisher
Weldon Owen
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781681881775
ISBN
9781681881775
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.41

Hardback. This book shows how department stores and marketplaces in China have become important sites where Chinese people understand, and perform, unequal social relations. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 tables, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804758369
ISBN
9780804758369
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.45

Paperback. Explores how social and economic changes to Chinese society create various cultural values and forms of inequality. This book examines changes to a particular set of jobs - service work, in this case salesclerk work - and the nature of the social interactions involved. It shows how change involves unequal relations between clerks and customers. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 tables, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804758376
ISBN
9780804758376
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.97

Hardback. Series: A City Adventure in.. Num Pages: 24 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 5AF; YQG. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 228 x 227 x 9. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
BookLife Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781786370549
ISBN
9781786370549
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.02

Hardback. How developing countries manage their climb to power--with case studies from China, Brazil and India. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FPC; 1KLSB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849040778
ISBN
9781849040778
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 46.91

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