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Paperback. Series: Interp Culture New Millennium. Num Pages: 208 pages, 24 black and white photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JHMC; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 231 x 19. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780252081408
- ISBN
- 9780252081408
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.13
€ 26.99
€ 25.13
Paperback. Chinese Chess, or Elephant Chess, has intrigued game lovers for centuries. The Chinese game requires players to master subtle variations of strategy. This guide introduces Chinese chess to Westerners, discussing the board, and the movement and value of the pieces. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; WDMG1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 350. Chinese Chess, or Elephant Chess, has intrigued game lovers for centuries. The Chinese game requires players to master subtle variations of strategy. This guide introduces Chinese chess to Westerners, discussing the board, and the movement and value of the pieces. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; WDMG1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Tuttle Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KKD0000745
- ISBN
- 9780804835084
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.28
€ 7.28
Paperback. 'Sometimes you just have to do something, don't you? This work explores whether it's possible for an ordinary person to change the world, just a little, and if something so serious can be achieved with joy in one's heart. It celebrates the fact that we can make a difference. Num Pages: 384 pages, col. Illustrations, col. ports. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; HRE; JP; WH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 278. A Beginner's Guide to Changing the World. 384 pages, col. Illustrations, col. ports. 'Sometimes you just have to do something, don't you? This work explores whether it's possible for an ordinary person to change the world, just a little, and if something so serious can be achieved with joy in one's heart. It celebrates the fact that we can make a difference. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FPCT; HRE; JP; WH; WTL. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 25. Weight: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747572855
- ISBN
- 9780747572855
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.19
€ 17.99
€ 13.19
Paperback. Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. This title asserts that discourse on the fantastic was at the heart of the historical configuration of Japanese modernity - that the representation of the magical and mysterious played an integral part in the production of modernity beginning in Meiji Japan (1868-1912). Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822324188
- ISBN
- 9780822324188
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.48
€ 31.99
€ 28.48
Paperback. Departing from earlier studies of kokugaku (which means "the study of our country"), this title considers how three of the more marginalized participants in the movement challenged its principal founder and engaged its fundamental concerns about what defines the Japanese nation and unifies those within it. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822331728
- ISBN
- 9780822331728
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.53
€ 30.99
€ 27.53
Paperback. In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. This book illuminates the birth of a cultural movement that managed to regulate selfish desire and render it innocent - or innocent enough. Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FK; 1FPJ; 3F; 3H; HBTB; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226706276
- ISBN
- 9780226706276
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 40.83
€ 52.99
€ 40.83
Hardback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; AJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 308 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1108.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Hatje Cantz
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783775739696
- ISBN
- 9783775739696
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.45
€ 18.99
€ 17.45
Paperback. Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. Translator(s): Pratt, Leonard; Su-hui, Chiang. Num Pages: 176 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 138. Good clean copy. Showing light shelfwear, remains a nice copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0021764
- ISBN
- 9780140444292
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 11.99€ 10.27
€ 11.99
€ 10.27
Paperback. This study-bridging contemporary theory, Chinese history, comparative literature, and culture studies-analyzes the historical interactions among China, Japan, and the West in terms of "translingual practice." Num Pages: 496 pages, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; DSBH; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 31. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780804725354
- ISBN
- 9780804725354
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.48€ 52.78
€ 53.48
€ 52.78
Paperback. Focusing on the responses of writers in Shanghai to the Japanese occupation, this book corrects the postwar conception of occupied China as a field of conflict between selfless resisters and shameless collaborators by showing a complexity and ambiguity of moral choices that defies such stereotyping. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 half-tones 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJF; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 17. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reissue
- SKU
- V9780804727969
- ISBN
- 9780804727969
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
€ 30.83
Paperback. Presents a narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Tracking one man's descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo, this title unites East and West, tragedy and farce, compassion and detachment, slang and philosophy. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; FA; FM; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099448785
- ISBN
- 9780099448785
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
€ 13.99
€ 10.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 11. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; KCB; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410. An excellent, clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KRS0019537
- ISBN
- 9780801488108
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Hardback. Aims to use the Mongolian question to illuminate much larger issues of twentieth-century Asian history: how war, revolution, and great-power rivalries induced or restrained the formation of nationhood and territoriality. This book focuses on the Mongolian question, which ran through Chinese politics in the first half of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 506 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPM; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. Weight in Grams: 957.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 506
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804754262
- ISBN
- 9780804754262
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.83
€ 91.83
Paperback. Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099448471
- ISBN
- 9780099448471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Translator(s): Wallace, B. Alan. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; HRE; VXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Shambhala Publications Inc United States
- Edition
- Likely 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781559391481
- ISBN
- 9781559391481
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.42
€ 33.99
€ 24.42
Paperback. Tracing Japan's religions from the Hein Period through the middle ages and into modernity, this book explores the unique establishment of Shinto, Buddhism, and Confucianism in Japan, as well as the later influence of Roman Catholicism, and the problem of Restoration--both spiritual and material--following World War II. Num Pages: 475 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBTB; HRKN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 635.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 475
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231028387
- ISBN
- 9780231028387
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.64
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€ 33.64
Paperback. A compilation of case studies about Japanese intellectuals' relationships to modernity in three majors arenas of art (art and aesthetics, theater, and literature) beginning in the 1850s to the 1970s. It discusses how inevitable wave of modernity was responded to, discussed, assimilated, changed by some practitioners of art and intellectuals. Editor(s): Nara, Hiroshi. Num Pages: 284 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACBP; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 227 x 17. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739118429
- ISBN
- 9780739118429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.46
€ 56.46
Hardcover. The author argues that by fostering awareness of membership in an elite group, the native place lodges generated a sense of belonging to a nation that furthered the reforms undertaken in the early twentieth century. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 326 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 180 x 27. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780674019560
- ISBN
- 9780674019560
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 42.03
€ 50.99
€ 42.03
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JFFN; JFFP; JFFS; JKSF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 5. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781503600119
- ISBN
- 9781503600119
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.40
€ 30.99
€ 27.40
Paperback. The Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the golden age of China, was a time of patricians and intellectuals, Buddhist monks and Taoist priests, poetry and music, song and dance. In China's Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty, Charles Benn paints a vivid picture of the lifestyle behind the grandeur of the Tang culture. Num Pages: 344 pages, numerous line drawings, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3F; HBJF; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 339
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195176650
- ISBN
- 9780195176650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.81
€ 24.99
€ 23.81