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East Asia, Far East
Paperback. Connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. This title shows how workers' refusal to be treated "like cattle and horses" (a line from an anonymous worker's poem on poor working conditions) derived from a fresh but powerfully felt sense of dignity. Series: Comparative & International Working-Class History. Num Pages: 384 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; JFSC; JHBL; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 35. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822327936
- ISBN
- 9780822327936
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.82
€ 32.99
€ 29.82
Paperback. Includes chapters that address the diversity and variety of everyday sexual lives and sexual politics in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. This book highlights the gendered and sexual consequences of globalization and rapid social change. It describes the local situations in which women's sexual lives are lived. Editor(s): Jackson, Stevi; Liu, Jieyu; Woo, Ms Juhyun. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FP; JFSJ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 201 x 102 x 21. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781842778890
- ISBN
- 9781842778890
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.04
€ 40.99
€ 34.04
Paperback. Num Pages: 98 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AFC; WFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 196 x 9. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Tuttle Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 98
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 3rd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804832601
- ISBN
- 9780804832601
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.78
€ 19.99
€ 14.78
Paperback. Examines the Buddhist priest Kukai's influence on Japanese culture. This book contends that the importance of Kukai's transmission of esoteric Buddhism to Japan lay in his creation of a general theory of language grounded in the ritual speech of mantra. It explores the rhetorical strategies Kukai employed in his works. Num Pages: 620 pages, 5 photos. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HRAX; HRE; HRLP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 159 x 33. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 620
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780231112871
- ISBN
- 9780231112871
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.49€ 42.35
€ 53.49
€ 42.35
Paperback. Translator(s): Fraleigh, Matthew. Series: Cornell East Asia Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; BJ; DNF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cornell University East Asia Program
- Edition
- paperback
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933947518
- ISBN
- 9781933947518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.58
€ 32.99
€ 29.58
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, Ill.M. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; BGH; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 365.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Kodansha USA
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781568363561
- ISBN
- 9781568363561
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.08
€ 16.99
€ 15.08
Paperback. By making a comparison between Japanese policy reaction to the financial and monetary crisis, American policymakers' reactions to the US Savings and Loan crisis and to earlier monetary challenges, this study puts the Japanese economic problems of the 1990s in perspective. Editor(s): Posen, Adam S.; Mikitani, Ryoichi. Series: Special Report Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJPR; KCBM; KCLF; KCP; KCZ; KFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 153 x 223 x 8. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Institute for International Economics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780881322897
- ISBN
- 9780881322897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.43
€ 26.99
€ 20.43
Paperback. Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, this title reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 420 pages, 8 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; MBN; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 230 x 27. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520283824
- ISBN
- 9780520283824
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.12
€ 40.99
€ 29.12
Hardback. States are inherently and fundamentally geographical. Sovereignty is based on control of territory. This book uses Song China to explain how a pre-industrial regime organized itself spatially in order to exercise authority. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 396 pages, 8 halftones; 9 line art; 37 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3H; HBJF; HBLC1; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 396
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674056022
- ISBN
- 9780674056022
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 45.96
€ 54.99
€ 45.96
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 21. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801486654
- ISBN
- 9780801486654
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.82
€ 34.99
€ 31.82
Hardback. A study of the television dramas about government corruption that became hugely popular in the mid-1990s and their reflection of China's post-Socialist anxieties. Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFDT; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774826310
- ISBN
- 9780774826310
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.10
€ 106.10
Hardcover. This is the first English publication that is a reference book to introduce the essential literature of the Chinese imperial examination system, an important guide for any reader who wishes to better understand China. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GBCR; JNKD; KNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810887022
- ISBN
- 9780810887022
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.84
€ 149.84
Spiral bound. Num Pages: 128 pages, 151 colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; WFL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Spiralbound
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764346804
- ISBN
- 9780764346804
Spiralbound
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 25.34
€ 37.99
€ 25.34
Hardback. The trajectory of Hong Kong films had been drastically affected long before the city's official sovereignty transfer from the British to the Chinese in 1997. The author introduces the "Cinema of Transitions," using examples from the 1980s to the present, to study New Hong Kong Cinema and on- and off-screen life against this background. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; 3JJPR; 3JM; APFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782387039
- ISBN
- 9781782387039
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.55
€ 155.55
Paperback. "No Plays" are a major contribution to Japanese theatre. These lyric dramas evolved in the 14th century from ritual dances associated with Shinto worship, and their form became fixed in the 17th century. This book looks at this Japanese art form and its influences on Western writers. Translator(s): Tyler, Royall. Num Pages: 384 pages, bibliog. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2ADT; 2GJ; 3H; 3J; DSA; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140445398
- ISBN
- 9780140445398
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.62
€ 15.62
Hardcover. Provides a practical assessment of the plants that are either of ornamental merit or botanical interest to gardeners in the West. This work describes some 1,000 different plants in their natural habitat and provides an account of China, its people, and the plants that have enriched the gardens of Europe and North America. Num Pages: 520 pages, 800col.ill. 70b&w. BIC Classification: 1FPC; WMP; WNP; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 308 x 248 x 45. Weight in Grams: 3170. A Plantsman's Paradise. 520 pages, 800col.ill. 70b&w. Provides a practical assessment of the plants that are either of ornamental merit or botanical interest to gardeners in the West. This work describes some 1,000 different plants in their natural habitat and provides an account of China, its people, and the plants that have enriched the gardens of Europe and North America. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FPC; WMP; WNP; WTL. Dimension: 308 x 248 x 45. Weight: 3156.
- Publisher
- ACC Art Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851495153
- ISBN
- 9781851495153
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.66
€ 81.66
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Texas A & M University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603441285
- ISBN
- 9781603441285
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.17
€ 59.17
Hardcover. Num Pages: 233 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295998992
- ISBN
- 9780295998992
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.25
€ 52.25
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, maps, diagrams. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3F; BGH; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Pearson Education (US) United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780321394262
- ISBN
- 9780321394262
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.83
€ 63.83
Paperback. The beauty and essence of Japanese design through 300 objects. Num Pages: 288 pages. Dimension: 271 x 208 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1212.
- Publisher
- Phaidon Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714866963
- ISBN
- 9780714866963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.26€ 50.35
€ 71.26
€ 50.35