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East Asia, Far East

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Hermes House
Condition
New
SKU
V9781840385274
ISBN
9781840385274
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.97

Hardback. What makes a work of literature readable? This book asks that question of one of the classics of Japanese literature, the Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness) by Kenko (1283-1352), a collection of brief, fragmentary reflections on a number of subjects. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 28. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804730013
ISBN
9780804730013
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.27

Paperback. Income levels have risen sharpley in China during the last two decades. Although just 2% of all Chinese have hot, running water, virtually all households have televisions. This personal, intelligent book addresses these sweeping changes and how they are forming modern China. Num Pages: 400 pages, 65. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPR; GTB; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871319197
ISBN
9780871319197
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.13

Hardback. Beginning in her grandmother's kitchen in California, the author travels to her family's home in China, and from there fans out to embrace Hakka cooking across the globe. She likens Hakka cooking to a nomadic type of 'soul food', or a hearty cooking tradition that responds to a shared history of hardship and oppression. Illustrator(s): Lau, Alan Chong. Num Pages: 312 pages, 40 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FPC; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 770. Chinese Soul Food from Around the World. 312 pages, Illustrations, maps. Beginning in her grandmother's kitchen in California, the author travels to her family's home in China, and from there fans out to embrace Hakka cooking across the globe. She likens Hakka cooking to a nomadic type of 'soul food', or a hearty cooking tradition that responds to a shared history of hardship and oppression. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FPC; WBN. Dimension: 238 x 178 x 25. Weight: 806.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
312
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520273283
ISBN
9780520273283
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.62

Paperback. Details the experiences of Japanese Americans (Nisei) who served in the U.S. Army during World War II Series: Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies. Num Pages: 360 pages, 34 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBWQ; JWTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 165 x 23. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295992099
ISBN
9780295992099
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.51

Num Pages: 111 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; WBXN; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
BetterLink Press Incorporated United States
Number of pages
111
Condition
New
SKU
V9781602201064
ISBN
9781602201064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.84

hardcover. This book studies identity formation and transformation in twentieth-century China by focusing on women's autobiographical writing. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JJ; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 535.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804750059
ISBN
9780804750059
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.26

Hardback. Editor(s): Johnson, Lionel. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; JPS; JPVH; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 238 x 13. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781634821803
ISBN
9781634821803
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.92
€ 145.73

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.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822320470
ISBN
9780822320470
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.82

Hardcover. This first detailed account of the Denver Anti-Chinese Riot of 1880 tells the complex story of how anti-Chinese nativism in the nineteenth century grew from a regional political issue to a full-fledged national concern. Provides a new way of understanding late nineteenth-century race relations, as well as American sectionalism. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBBWC; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 717.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700619191
ISBN
9780700619191
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.99

hardcover. Series: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. Num Pages: 640 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; APF; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 220 x 150 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1003.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810855205
ISBN
9780810855205
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 217.64

Paperback. Argues that the creation of such "desiring subjects" is at the core of China's contingent, piece-by-piece reconfiguration of its relationship to a post-socialist, neo-liberal-dominated world. Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 235 x 16. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822339472
ISBN
9780822339472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.56

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Monacelli Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580933506
ISBN
9781580933506
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.92

Paperback. Num Pages: 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBWQ; JHMC; LB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361695
ISBN
9780822361695
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.59

Paperback. Explores unconventional texts and dimensions of culture involved in constituting Hiroshima memories - including history textbook controversies, discourses on the city's tourism and urban renewal projects, campaigns to preserve atomic ruins, survivors' testimonial practices, ethnic Koreans' narratives on Japanese colonialism. Series: Twentieth-century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power S. Num Pages: 301 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DSBH; HBJF; HBLW3; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
301
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520085879
ISBN
9780520085879
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.26

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.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
331
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822361503
ISBN
9780822361503
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.33

She explores its role in China's border disputes in the South China Sea and with Russia and India; in diplomacy in the UN Security Council over Iran, Sudan, and Myanmar; and in China's handling of challenges to the legitimacy of its regime from Taiwan, Xinjiang, and Japan. Num Pages: 264 pages, 4, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 564.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421405636
ISBN
9781421405636
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.66

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

Hardback. Chinese Medical Qigong is the first English translation of the only official textbook of medical Qigong, used in universities of traditional Chinese medicine in China. Correlating traditional therapies of Qigong with outcomes of modern scientific research, it is the authoritative introduction to the knowledge system and content of Qigong study. Editor(s): Liu, Tianjun; Chen, Kevin. Num Pages: 672 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; MX; VXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 260 x 186 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1684.
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Number of pages
656
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848190238
ISBN
9781848190238
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.58

Paperback. In his unique sourcebooks, Liu Yanchi not only provides an invaluable reference for the practitioner of traditional medicine, but also an enlightening, readable introduction for anyone interested in Chinese culture or holistic medicine. Translator(s): Fang Tingyu; Laidi, Chen. Num Pages: 479 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; MBX; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 31. Weight in Grams: 722.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
479
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231103596
ISBN
9780231103596
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.41

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